READINGS

GROUP PROCESSES EDP 5285-01 Spring 2005

OVERVIEW

Each student (or paper team) will lead one class discussion (MAXIMUM  30 minutes) centered around their course paper topic. Class presentations are scheduled for April 5 through April 19.
 

Below are presentation times.
Please let me know if any of these are in error.
 

April 5	April 12	April 19
David Edmonds Kevin Winship Hong Gao & Margareta Pop	Connie Qun Guan Youngrack Park Crissie Reisner	Shiffany Broughton Laura Hamilton & Hadyn Krudop Dom Lausic

  TIME GUIDELINES

Class presentations are scheduled for April 5 through April 19. Signup days will be available in March. This schedule may vary slightly depending on the number of presentations and whether students form teams for their course paper.

This assignment requires:

preparing a two to three page synopsis for class distribution, summarizing conceptual and empirical literature on your paper topic. The synopsis outlines the topic, discusses major concepts and findings, and highlights directions for future research.

leading a brief discussion on the major points about your paper topic.

most students also prepare a Power Point presentation. Access to prior Power Point presentations for the Group Processes course will be provided later this semester.

PLEASE ALSO PLACE YOUR SYNOPSIS ON DISKETTE OR CD (PowerPoint, MS Word, or WordPerfect format). I WILL POST THESE SYNOPSES AND PRESENTATIONS TO OUR CLASS WEB SITE.

Generally, I emphasize a conceptual summary:

• extract what you think are the main concepts for your topic
• describe and define each of these concepts
• give one or two research examples of the concept and
• give some everyday examples of your research and how it may apply to different types of groups
• if you are planning an empirical study describe how you will operationalize concepts and what your study design looks like
• if you are analyzing data, describe your data set
• if you will do a focus group, describe your topic, why a focus group is important, your focus group questions, and other study design features.
• Remember to put references at the end for anyone who would like to follow up on this topic!

I am assuming that everyone plans to present using Power Point (this isn't a requirement but it does seem to work out this way...)

• Please bring your presentation on a 3.5" diskette or on a CD. ALL diskettes or CDs will be scanned for viruses so please come a few minute early the day of your presentation. I will upload your presentation into Blackboard before or after you have presented. (We can't upload Power Point to Web-MC, only to Blackboard.) If time permits, I can upload from our classroom and give you back your diskette immediately, otherwise I'll do it from home or the office and return the diskette to you.

• The FSU computers take 100 meg zip cartridges. The one in our room takes DVD  but not a 250 zip cartridge.

• Please bring a 2-3 page handout that is a synopsis of your presentation. That way, we can follow along in your handout during your presentation. Please include references. Many do so as the last page of their handout.

• Feel free to have fun! I have seen and heard sound effects, animation, video clips. Of course, these are NOT required, but if you haven't used Power Point before, you can have a lot of fun with it so give it a try. I really do adore Power Point and enjoy putting together presentations with it (the anxiety is for the presentation, but the creating part is great).

• Presentations from this year will be placed under COURSE DOCUMENTS in our Blackboard WEB site.

• Please let me know ONE WEEK beforehand whether you need any equipment OTHER THAN an overhead projector, computer for Power Point, a VCR or some other audio-visual aid. These are included with our "techie" equipment; I will need to check on anything else. I will make sure that the appropriate software is available on our classroom computer. We should have Word, Excel, Power Point, and Adobe Reader already installed. THANK YOU!

• Your presentation will go better if you don't read your Power Point slides. Memorize the keep points. PRACTICE your presentation and be sure to time how long it takes.

Susan Carol Losh March 9 2005
This page was built with Netscape Composer
600 X 800 display resolution.
And is best viewed with Netscape Navigator.
 

READINGS

OVERVIEW