Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Spring 2025)/Community advising report (section)

=== Lightning talk presentation (June 3 upload) ===

; Submit slides as PDF and link to recording [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/assignments/1558680 via Canvas]
; Presentation materials due June 3 (see below).
; Presentation watch-party in class June 4 (optional)
; Peer feedback due June 5 (see below).

During the final week of class, our last session will be dedicated to short (~5 minute) presentations summarizing your (likely not-yet-finished) Community Advising Reports. The presentation is a chance to showcase the same project as the Community Advising Report, so you don't need to do anything different here. The goal is to share what you're working on with the rest of the class, answer questions, and solicit feedback or suggestions that might help you as you refine the written report (due the following week).

==== Requirements ====
For these presentations please create a 5-minute lightning talk that communicates (as much as possible of) the following:
* What is the context (community or crowd) for your project?
* What is the challenge you plan to provide advice on? (if possible, illustrate this with an example, screenshot, image, quote, video clip, or something to make it intelligible for the rest of us)
* What (preliminary) plans do you have for the recommendations you're making? (here, you might help link your recommendations to specific topics, sources, concepts, or cases that inform your thinking).

Your presentation may incorporate slides or similar media. My suggestion is to limit yourself to no more than 2-3 slides (about 1 slide per item listed above). You can create your slides in whatever software you like, but please plan to convert them to a PDF and upload them to Canvas as part of your submission for the assignment.

==== Submission (video recording) ====
Please submit via [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/assignments/1558680 the Canvas assignment]:
<!---* A PDF of your slides or any images. You can create your slides in whatever software you like, but please plan to convert them to a PDF and upload them to Canvas as part of your submission for the assignment.--->
* A shareable link to or file upload a video recording of your talk. In my experience, the easiest and most reliable way to do this is using your [https://northwestern.zoom.us Northwestern Zoom account]:
** start a meeting in your personal meeting room, and record yourself (along with screen-shared slides) in a "meeting" alone (please use the <code>record to cloud</code> setting as it tends to be more reliable). 
** After you stop recording and end the meeting, navigate to the [https://northwestern.zoom.us/recording/ <code>recordings & transcripts</code>] panel, click on the recording (it may take a while to "process"), and then click <code>copy shareable link</code>.
** Paste the shareable link into the Canvas assignment.

==== In-class component (Wednesday, June 4) ====

Please upload your slides and recorded presentations no later than Tuesday June 3. This will ensure that everything is ready to go in class on the day of the watch party.

In class, we will watch the presentation recordings. After each one, we will have time for brief Q&A if the presenter is present. I will also ask you to provide written feedback (via Canvas) to a subset of the presenters (I will announce these feedback assignments on Wednesday, June 4). More on that below. 

==== Feedback ====

For giving feedback, I'd like you to spend 7-10 minutes writing specific, substantive comments, questions, and suggestions for each of the presenters whose work you are assigned to address. You will provide this feedback via Canvas.

'''Feedback is generally better when it is specific, concrete, and detailed.''' Saying you liked the pitch is fine, but focus on giving substantive comments (e.g., identify specific strengths, elements of the slides or ideas that you liked and explain what you thought they added). Critical feedback (delivered politely and directly) can also help each person make concrete changes and improvements to produce a better final project. Feel free to ask questions about things you were unclear about. Feel free to give specific suggestions for course material that might be useful or connections that might be helpful.

There will be no other reading or other assignments due this week, so the 30-40 minutes it should take you to give this feedback should not be a huge burden.

'''All feedback is due 24 hours after the end of class on the day of the presentation''' (i.e., noon on Thursday, June 6). You will also receive feedback from the instructor on your presentation.

==== Assessment ====

I will assess your lightning talks mainly in terms of how clearly and effectively you communicate about your work. The goal here is iteration and improvement, so I'm not looking for finished projects, but whether you convey key aspects of your work-in-progress well. I will also assess the feedback you give to your peers.