WEB BASED PRESENTATION

Assignment Title: Web based Presentation.

Participation: Group.

Due dates:
Part 1, Team members and choice of topic (subject to instructor approval): 21 February 2001.
Part 2, Draft presentation: 28 March 2001.
Part 3, Final presentation: 11 April 2001.
(Part 4, Peer critique: 18 April 2001, separate assignment.)

Format: Web based PowerPoint presentation of a title slide, fifteen to twenty content slides, and a few annotated reference slides.

Submission Method: Upload to one of your your GSLIS accounts as PowerPoint Webpages.

Maximum points: 20.

Introduction: Often in their role of information technology professionals, students will find themselves educating others either formally or informally. One tool they will find useful is the overhead slide presentation. Tools like Microsoft's PowerPoint an easy way to create overhead slides to aid in such presentation. In some cases, the professional will not always be available to present the subject and the overhead slides will need to serve as a self-contained tool for presenting the subject. Such a presentation might well be added to a web site to increase its accessibility to others.

Goals: The goal of this assignment are:

• To gain experience in creating "teaching material" on an important IT topic to be shared with and evaluated by your peers as well as by the instructors. In this scenario, the student acts as an educator, presenting a topic in absentia on a Website. Given that responsibility, your finished assignment should demonstrate your group's professional competence in the topic involved as well as reflect good pedagogy, good Web design, and good use of PowerPoint.
  
  
• To gain experience in developing annotated bibliographies.
  
  
• To gain experience in posting PowerPoint presentations to a Website.

Tasks: For this assignment, students will:

1. Based on the total size of the class, form yourselves into small groups of 3 to 6 students. (The TA will help determine the size when the class roster is received.) If possible, each group should members from more than one geographic location so the group will get experience interacting via email. This group may be the same group as in IT problem assignment.
   
   
2. Select a team name from library and information science pioneers (some examples are Dewey, Taub, Eratosthenes, Cutter, Garfield, Callimachus, Tritheim, Bush, Gesner, Maunsell, Shaw, Bodley, Rostgaard, Panizzi, Jewett, Luhn, Otlet, LaFontaine, and Ranganathan). This may be the same name you used in the IT Problem assignment.
   
   
3. Select one of the following topics:
   
   

   Presentation Topics	Availability
   Specific actors and technologies in the history of information retrieval	Available
   Disintermediation	Available
   Rhetoric and information technology	Available
   Budgets and relative allocation of resources to print and IT sources	Available
   Client/server architectures	Available
   Gender and IT	Available
   Usability	Available
   Boolean algebra and logic	Available
   Digital divide	Available
   Cognitive authority of digital resources	Available
   Knowledge management	Available
   Perl/cgi scripts	Available
   Babbage and difference engines	Available
   Alan Türing	Available
   Telegraphy	Available
   Telephony	Available
   Stored program computing	Available
   Telecommunications convergence	Available
   Cryptography	Available
   The Convergence of Library Science w/ IT	Available
   Important groups, specifically ACM.....	Available
   Netiquette	Available

   
   
4. Post your team's name, members, and topic to the discussion board. The TAs will add discussion board topics for each group as they are approved.
   
   
5. Jointly prepare a PowerPoint presentation about the topic. The content of the presentation should occupy no fewer than fifteen and no more than twenty slides; the title slide and any slide(s) devoted entirely to references and/or endnotes are not counted among the "content" slides. Be certain to cite your sources using APA formats.
   
   
6. Jointly develop additional slides that give the complete APA citations to your references and, in addition, to important print and online sources related to the topic that you have not cited in your presentation. You should choose at least ten sources, about 2/3 print and 1/3 digital.
   
   
7. Annotate each citation with a one- or two-sentence evaluative summary of how the source is useful for understanding the topic.
   
   
8. As you progress, upload a draft of your presentation to the account of one of your group members as a PowerPoint. Website. This draft should have a minimum of ten working slides. Post the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of your presentation on discussion board so that all of us may review your presentation.
   
   
9. When completed, upload your final presentation as a a Website in the account of one of your group, under the same URL as the draft presentation.