Editing Innovation Communities (Fall 2017) (section)

=== Final Project ===

;Presentation Date: December 7<sup>th</sup>
;Maximum presentation length: ~10 minutes (''to be confirmed'')
;Presentation deliverables: [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1115755/assignments/3904753 Turn in slides on Canvas]
;Due Date for Slides: December 7<sup>th</sup> at 3:00pm (Slides are optional. If you miss this deadline, you'll have to present without slides.)

;Paper Due Date: December 15<sup>th</sup>
;Maximum paper length:  4500 words (~18 pages)
;Paper deliverables: [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1115755/assignments/3904756 Turn in on Canvas]

For your final project, I expect students to build on the first two assignments to describe what they have done and what they have found. I'll expect every student to give both:

* A short presentation to the class
* A final report that is not more than 4500 words (~18 pages)

I expect that your reports will include text from the first two assignments and reflect comprehensive documentation of your project. Each project should include: (a) the description of the problem or domain you have identified, (b) the community innovation methods you have used to find a solution and, (c) the results.

You will be evaluated on the degree to which you have demonstrated that you understand and have engaged with the course material and not on the quality of the innovations you have found. If you do not find great solutions to your problem in the communities you've identified, that's fine. Whether or not your proposal is successful, I want you to reflect on why the methods worked (or did not work) and how they might have worked better. What did you do right? What would you do differently in the future? What did the course and readings not teach that they should have?

A successful project will tell a compelling story and will engage with, and improve upon, the course material to teach an audience that includes me, your classmates, and MCCN students taking this class in future years, how to take advantage of community innovation more effectively. The very best papers will give us all a new understanding of some aspect of course material and change the way I teach some portion of this course in the future.