We’ll use the blog to post our recorded research presentations. While record them? Because you get to review, edit, and update if things don’t go right the first time. And this skill, of recording a research presentation, has become vital in our WFH environments.
Scholarship Presentations identify, research, and present to the class (as a narrated video with slides) a work of scholarship (articles from scholarly journals, chapters from scholarly monographs or edited collections, or other approved works) that uses a methodology and/or methods you’d consider employing in your own research project. You’ll complete two presentations on separate works of scholarship during the semester.
As part of work on your research project proposal, you’ll be reading scholarship on your topic. Select a work of scholarship that implements a methodology and/or methods that you’d consider using in your research project. Create a video presentation in which you include the following:
- Provide publication information (author, article or chapter title, journal or book title, and other bibliographic details)
- Summarize its contents
- Identify its research question(s)
- Describe the method(s) and/or methodologies that appeal to you
- Speculate how you might use them in your own research
Tasks Required
- Identify a work of scholarship as the focus of this assignment.
- Develop a slide deck for the presentation; using Powerpoint or Keynote (Apple) will make this easier.
- Write a 5-minute script for your presentation that addresses the requirements listed in the overview.
- Narrate the presentation and save as a video.
- Upload the video to a file or video sharing service (a YouTube unlisted video is ideal).
- Use the embed code from YouTube (or your selected video sharing service) to embed the recording into a blog post.
For each presentation, create a new post in which you embed the video, provide a correct APA-formatted reference entry for the work of scholarship, and write a paragraph-length abstract of the article’s findings. In addition, please provide a permalink to the resource so others can access the article. Be sure to add the correct category, either Research 1 or Research 2, to your post so it populates the correct page in the blog.
Here are some resources that may be helpful as you prepare this video presentation.
General Guidelines for Presentations
Recording a Presentation