Group Project Essay & Presentation Guidelines
1.
Group Essays due on class list between October 20 - 22, 2000
Each essay is to have a title, the original name the group has
given itself, the list of participating
group members, and the essay itself (with any web sites, references,
footnotes, bibliography, etc.).
The length of the essay is to be between 1250 - 1500 words.
Each group's project topic is due to the mentor no later than Oct. 5th.
2.
RULE OF EXCOMMUNICATION:
This group work is to be enjoyable as well as valuable and that requires
the full participation of ALL
members of the group.
Each group has the power to excommunicate a member who does not
really participate equally with
the others. The mentor's final approval for the excommunication is needed.
Any excommunicants will
receive a "0" for the Project.
3. Presentations
begin on Tuesday, October 24th, with each group to give a presentation
of
20 minutes,
not much
briefer nor much longer. There will be a time for the class to ask questions
or make comments
to the
presenting group following each presentation. Presentations will also take
place on October 26th.
In order to have a topical sequence to the order of presentations, they will be as follows:
Tuesday, Oct. 24: Groups
Thursday, Oct. 26: Groups
The essay and the presentation
are encouraged to be both critical and creative, with enjoyment in the
doing
of it all. Presentations
can be via the showing of an original video tape the group has made, a
dramatic
enactment, role-playing,
etc.
* A presentation that is merely a reading
of the group's essay or a reading from notes by group members
will not be considered to have fulfilled the minimum requirements for the
presentation..
4.
RELATION BETWEEN THE ESSAY AND THE PRESENTATION
The essay is to be an introductory look at the group's topic, explaining
the essentials to the class via
each posted essay. The presentation is NOT to be simply a rehash
of the essay, not a reading of it,
but an additional step beyond the essay to explain further, or enact the
meaning of the topic.
In other words, the essay is to serve as an introduction to the presentation
and the presentation
is to serve as a conclusion to the essay. They are to be two
separate, but connected aspects of one project.
5
. No class on Tuesday Oct. 3rd and Thursday, Oct. 19th, so
that each group can have times when all
members can meet, whether in HH 445 or elsewhere.
6.
POST-PRESENTATION ESSAY
Everyone is to write a 300 word essay as a necessary part of this
project that is to be sent to the
mentor's email address only, not to the class list, between Oct. 26 - 27
(no later than Oct. 27th).
This essay is only to be written and sent AFTER one's group has completed
its class presentation
so that the whole project can be reviewed. This essay is to address
the following:
Explain your participation in and evaluation of this collaborative project,
from its
beginning through the presentation. Did it go well, or not?
Why? What were the
negatives and positives of your experience? And, evaluate the
participation of
the group (including any lack of participation).
7. SUMMARY OF DATES
Sept. 26: Project Groups
formed & Guidelines given
Oct. 3:
No class - groups meet to work on project essay
Oct. 5:
Project topic due to mentor
Oct. 19: No
class - groups meet to work on project presentation
Oct. 20-22: Group essay posted to class
discussion list
Oct. 24, 26: In-class group presentations
given (20 minutes each)
Oct. 26-27: Individual essays evaluating
the collaborative process (300 words) to be sent to mentor's
email (not to discussion list)