Tasks Due Last Week

  • Review New Paradigms activities
  • Review Research Project Prep
  • Contribute to Discussion Week 13
  • Submit Week 13 Agenda Checklist

This Week’s Topics

Check-in

Who wants to share their Research Project Presentation (In Progress) for feedback? If you’re not sharing, suggest a track for the playlist on the COMD3504 playlist post.

Also. This! https://g.co/doodle/5hnb7pf

Review Discussion Week 13 – WORK IN PROGRESS

Let’s review the work presented on the Week 13 Discussion Post.

Outcomes this Week

This Week’s Agenda is brief. This week you will be completing your final coursework and reflecting on your learning experience.

  • Your Research Project & Presentation post is due on December 12 .
  • Your Grade Survey is due by December 15. Your learning reflection and the grade you believe you have earned for this course will be factored into your final grade.
  • Your Research Journal, comments on your classmates’ presentations, and any additional work you’d like to submit or revise can be submitted until December 19.

If you want to schedule any last-minute meetings about your research project, contact me to meet on Monday or Tuesday or email me with any questions or concerns.

Are you missing any assignments or discussion posts? Take a look all of the coursework for this semester on the Schedule and the Assignments pages.

Activities

Below find the information covered in this session. Complete all of the following activities and assignments.

1. Research Project Presentation & Comments DUE

You have [4 days] left to complete your Research Project & Presentation. Your final post is due on December 12

Review the project guidelines to make sure you are clear about what the expectations are for the Research Project & Presentation. Specifically, take note of your Annotated Bibliography and Your Presentation Format requirements.

Some students had issues with copyright when uploading their videos to YouTube. You can upload your video to Google Drive or Dropbox and link to it in your post if that happens to you. See the Research Project & Presentation > Tools & Tips.

Here is an example Research Project Presentation Example Post for reference!

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/spevackcomd3504fa22/2022/09/14/research-project-presentation-example/
Example Post

Milestones

Review the following milestones. Your next milestone is Dec. 12th.

November 3: Finalize your topic and start collecting supporting media and sources in an annotated bibliography
November 10: Complete presentation outline and script
November 17: Assemble all graphics and text in a slideshow
December 5: Share in-progress slideshow presentation with voiceover, give and get feedback from peers and professor, finalize annotated bibliography
December 12: Post your finished Presentation to OpenLab site – follow the guidelines and the Example Post.
December 15: Review Research Project Presentations in class.
December 19: Submit one comment on each of your classmates’ presentations

2. Give Research Project Presentation Comments

Starting December 12, begin adding comments to your classmates’ Research Project Presentations posts. View all the posts by navigating to Student Posts > Research Project.

Give at least 1 comment per presentation. Your comment should be supportive AND helpful!

This is NOT a helpful comment:

“Great presentation, I like it”

A helpful comment is one that offers support, a critique of the content, and delivery of the research material, as well as suggestions for improvement:

“Great presentation, NAME. I enjoyed your exploration of XXXX and XXXX. I was especially excited to learn about XXXX and XXXX. I was intrigued by your discussion of XXXX because you presented it by exploring XXXX and contrasted it with XXXX. However, I would have liked to have learned more about XXXXX. Have you considered expanding on XXXX and XXXX? Here are some links about XXXX that I think would be helpful for your future research.”

3. Research Journal

Your Research Journal is a place for collecting ideas, freewriting, images, links, videos, and other media to help you develop your ideas and formulate your research topic. It can be organized or sloppy or anywhere in between, but it should demonstrate who you are as a creative, curious individual and your research process in this course.

December 19 is the last day to contribute to your Research Journal. If you have notes and ideas in other places, take photos and/or copy them over to your Research Journal. These could be photos of your sketchbook, other notebooks, etc. Show your work and your creative/research process.

No need to create a new post; simply make sure the link in your Midterm post is still working.

4. What did you learn? Grade Survey

Take a moment to review the grading policy and Your Learning Plan. Look over your Research Journal, the Assignments you have submitted or plan to submit, and the Weekly Class Agendas. Consider all of the ways in which you have, over this semester, engaged your sense of curiosity about Communication Design Theory.

Consider the following:

  • Do you now look at advertisements, social media, or your favorite video games with a critical eye for connotated or denoted meaning?
  • Do you see the types of signs used in the world around you? Can you pick out the signifiers and signified?
  • Are you able to identify influences from design history like Constructivism, the International Style, and Post-Modernism in subways ads or product packaging?
  • Do you think more about the photographic, illustrative, color, or typographic choices in your work, and consider how they will be received, what meaning they might convey to your audience, or how they might persuade your audience to think or feel a certain way?
  • Do you feel like your reading and writing skills have improved?
  • Have the skills of close-reading and annotation given you the confidence to read more challenging texts, if you choose to in the future?
  • Will you apply the research and analysis skills used in this course to your creative practice?
  • Through class discussions, did you make any new friends or collaborators in this class?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, hey, that’s good news!

What grade do you think you have earned in this course?

Based on the competition of Your Learning Plan and the work you have completed thus far, use the Grade Survey to submit the grade you believe you have earned in this course. This may not be the final grade you receive, but your evaluation of your own learning experience and effort is extremely important and will be considered.

Week 14 Agenda Checklist

Below are all of the tasks, big and small, for this week. Submit your Weekly Agenda Checklist below, indicating the tasks you’ve completed.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Tasks from the Week 14 Agenda
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