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GROUP PROCESSES
EDP 5285-01
Spring 2009

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CLASS PRESENTATION ON COURSE PAPER TOPIC

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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 7, 14 and 21.

	TOPIC	DATE
Hunter Davis	Deming's approach to groups and organizations	April 7
Garrett Ellanson	Language dynamics and applications	April 14
Kellie Gerbers, Andrea Heflin & Richie Kenney	Multicultural fraternities, sororities etc	April 14
DaBra Lofton	Learning communities at high school	April 21
Max Mendieta	Hospice care & the dynamics of family-hospice personnel interaction	April 7
Gunes Ugras	Collaborative learning on the Web and face-to-face	April 21

Presenter	April 7	April 14	April 21
	Hunter Davis	Garrett Ellanson	DaBra Lofton
	Max Mendieta	Kellie Gerbers, Andrea Heflin & Richie Kenney	Gunes Ugras

TIME GUIDELINES

Class presentations are scheduled for April 7, 14 and 21. Signup days will be available in March. This schedule may vary slightly depending on the number of presentations and how many students form teams for their course project.

PLEASE BRING A CD or a flashdrive WITH A COPY OF YOUR PRESENTATION ON IT. THE MOVABLE STORAGE UNIT WILL HAVE YOUR PRESENTATION IN MS WORD, WORD PERFECT, OR POWER POINT. PLEASE BRING ME FLOPPY, FLASHDRIVE OR CD AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON THE DAY OF YOUR PRESENTATION. THANK YOU.

This assignment is 35% of your grade. It 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 is available under the "Presentations" folder in our Blackboard class site.

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

Make a copy of your handout for you, the entire class, and for me.

Try leaving 5 minutes for questions and discussion (I know, that's only 10-15 minutes for a presentation, but remember, people can scan the handout!)

Include examples in your presentation and handout. Concrete examples are a very helpful way to illustrate concepts.

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!

LOGISTICS 2009

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 CD or on a flash drive. I will scan ALL devices for viruses so please come a few minutes early the day of your presentation. I will upload your presentation into Blackboard before or after you have presented. If time permits, I'll upload from our classroom and return your storage device immediately, otherwise I'll do it from home or the office and return it to you.

If you need to change a date, please check with another presenter about switching and let me know ASAP!

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 already present in our room. 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 key points. PRACTICE your presentation and be sure to time how long it takes. See if you can ad-lib at least a little bit!

IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!

(1) Please remember to give me a storage device (e.g., CD) (formatted for IBM/PC, not MAC) with your summary on it. I will post summaries to our Web site. I can read either Word or Word Perfect document files (and Power Point too).

(2) You may use varied media in your presentation/ discussion BUT 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. I will make sure that the appropriate software is available on our classroom computer. THANK YOU!

Susan Carol Losh
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March 14 2009
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