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Presentations for AS 103 Fall 2018 |
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Wednesday
November 28, 2018 |
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Friday November 30, 2018 |
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Monday December 3, 2018 |
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Wednesday December 5, 2018 |
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Friday
December 7, 2018 |
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There are ten groups for presentations shown above. The presentations will be held during the last two weeks of the semester as indicated. The topics are milestone space missions, pretty much United States Missions. Your talk should provide the high points of the missions, and how they were important to the goals of space exploration. You need to decide how much of each mission to provide, you still have ten total minutes, so be judicious in your choices. |
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Avoid being bogged down in personal biographies of astronauts. Focus on why the missions were planned and attempted. Do not try to give degree listings, etc. of the individuals. |
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The email provided is the NMU email. Students may of course provide each other with other email addresses if they prefer. The above groups were randomly chosen and will not be changed. If there is a strong reason why one or more members of a group cannot work together, contact the professor and explain this. If a member of a group fails to do any work or does not contribute, the other members should report this on the grading scorecard, all members must fill out. There is the potential that one or more group members may have already or will drop out of the course before the presentation. Should a group be reduced to a point that they cannot produce the presentation the remaining members should contact the professor. |
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Each group is to produce an approximately 10 minute PowerPoint Presentation to the class about their topic. Each group member is to prepare and present part of the presentation. This does mean that all members of the group must be present during the presentation and must speak for an approximately equal share of the 10 minutes. |
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Note: if a member of the group does no work and shows up for the presentation, the group is not obligated to provide any material. The group may inform the professor at the start of the presentation that the individual did no work and therefore will not be presenting. However, the professor should have been made aware prior to that day that this possibility might occur. |
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After the presentation is completed, a single final copy of the PowerPoint Presentation will be copied onto a jump drive provided by the professor so that he can review the presentation later as he considers the grades for the project. Note: it is most likely that he will not give final grades until all presentations have been made. |
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You must compile and include in a summary slide or two all references used for creating the presentation. If you use internet sources, complete URL’s are expected. Keep in mind the professor might actually check these. |
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While the 10 minutes is not a firm time limit, presentations differing significantly from this will be penalized in points. Part of this assignment is considering what the most important elements to present are. Remember there will be two presentations during a class period and the professor is allowing about 25 minutes total for this, so have at least one complete run through to ensure the timing of your presentation. Finally be proactive, if you realize that you are taking more time than you thought you would or that your presentation is going to run past |
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the time, shorten it on the fly. Prepare your talk with slides that you can go more quickly through or even abandon if needed. A good rule of thumb is one slide a minute. That means for a ten minute talk about 10 may be 12 slides can be realistically shown. As a guide the professor averages about 25 to 30 slides for a 50 minute lecture most days. Do not think you will quickly go through 30 slides in ten minutes (Actual past experience here). The professor will stop a group mid talk if necessary. |
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You may not use large amounts of video from other sources as part of your presentation. If the video is critical to your presentation, you may use up to about 2 minutes of time for this. But you cannot use 5 or even 10 minutes of other video to make up your 10 minutes of presentation. |
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After the group has presented their presentation, each group member must email the professor a score card for the other members of the group. Failure to email the scorecard within 24 hours will result in a lowering of your own grade as grading other members is part of the requirement for this project. The professor will not base his grades solely on the other group members’ scores, but will consider them. You are not grading your own work, only the other members of your group. The scorecard is a second attachment to the email that had this file attached. The scorecard is also located http://physics.nmu.edu/~ddonovan/classes/as103/GradingRubric.doc , please fill-out in WORD. Save it with the appropriate name, and then again email as an attachment to the professor. Please use the following to name your document. Donovan_grading.docx Obviously replace Donovan with your last name. Otherwise the professor gets a large number of repetitious attachments all with names something like grading rubric(74).docx in my mailer. |
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Students are expected to be present for all presentations! These presentations are part of the course and if the professor chooses to, he may ask questions on quizzes and/or the final exam about any of the presentations. Students in the audience will not have any laptops open during the presentations. Students will give the groups presenting their complete attention. Talking or other distracting behaviors may result in your grade for the presentations being lowered. |
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Students are expected to treat each other with respect as they work together on this project. Bullying, belittling, or any other unprofessional behavior will not be tolerated. In the working world, people engage in group assignments all the time. You should consider this practice for such a time. If a group member is causing problems, the professor does wish to be contacted about this. If a student is not participating the professor should also be contacted in a reasonable time frame |
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