CALS 183 Lab 5 outline Wedsday 21 September, 2011, 3-4pm CRS Conf Room

For Dramatic Readings/Informational Presentations Labs Monday Sept 26 - Friday Sept 30.
 

Review and critique an Informational Presentation (Elephant Seals).

BEFORE your next LAB:

-Update the Speaking and Lab Roles Schedules for the semester: generally 8-9 speakers max per lab and Post on web.

-Assign four or five speakers to Teams for the Group Critical Analysis assignment.  Gender and speaker strength balance. SCHEDULE GROUP PRESENTATIONS FOR THE WEEK OF OCT 17 - 21.

Bring to lab:

-Your laptop!

-Cameras from BH-Library Media center.  Go 15 minutes EARLY to get Camera pack (two flip cameras, & inside battery pack)  bring your UVM ID when you pick up the camera from the Media Center in BH Library.

-Names Tents and materials for new ones: cards, pens

-Dramatic Reading Critique Sheets and pencil with eraser

-Informational Presentation Critique Sheets

-Graded Dramatic Reading Critiques and student comments

-Timing Sheets

-Stop watch or something to keep time.

-"Master of Ceremonies Checklist"

-"hat" with all students names on slips of paper

-Lab Roles sheet with who is doing what when (print from web)

-Speech schedule sheets of who is speaking when (print from web)

-Attendance sheet for attendance taker
-Extra Student "Critique of Presentation" Templates (one per student)

Go to lab early:
-Leave enough time to get cameras, & set up laptop, name tents, critique sheets, checklists, etc. 

The Lab itself:

Hand out Student Name Tents, make new ones if necessary.

Return Graded Dramatic Readings with student comments/critiques.

Show, Go over, and Explain the Reflection Folder and Contents with your students.  This is due the week after the Informational Presentation.  If late -10% first week, -20% following week, any later NO CREDIT (big fat zero!).

Display and go over Speaking Schedule and Lab Roles Schedule (use document camera or computer projected, or hand out).  Have students check to make sure they do not have a lab role when they are scheduled to speak, and that they are not speaking two weeks in a row.

Ask if anyone needs Student Critique templates.  Students don’t write on these, they use them as templates for the sheets they write on.

Have Master of Ceremonies write the speakers on the board, along with

            their reading choice, and choose first speaker from the “hat”.

Go over the Master of Ceremonies tasks with them (make sure speaker ready, timer ready, camera ready, introduce each speaker, facilitate questions at the end, have speaker choose next person from hat, wait until all critique forms are back to speaker before introducing next speaker).

Give Timer the timing sheets.

Give Attendance taker the attendance sheet & have them take attendance.

Make sure the critique forms manager is ready.  After presentations give critiques to TAs.

Make sure the students' have given their flash thumb drive to the TA with the laptop

Critique the dramatic readings first, then go on to Informational Presentations (TAs should sit apart from each other and use pencil).

Informational Presentation critiques GO TO THE STUDENT, NOT THE TAS!

Flip Camera Instructions http://www.uvm.edu/~cals001/fall2010/LabNotes/FlipCamerInstructions.htm

When first speaker is finished, camera goes to TA with laptop.  TA transfers and names the file (JaneSmith14SeptDramaticReading) from the camera to the laptop.  Copy the file from the laptop to the students' flash-drive, safely eject the thumb drive and give it to the student. Erase the video from the camera using the computer, before recording another presentation.

Remind students who are speaking next week, and who is doing what lab role next week. 

Remind students who did their dramatic reading they will get their grade and the critiques from their peers, next week.

Remind students who did their Informational Presentation that their pocket folder is due AT THE BEGINNING OF LAB next week (if late -10%, more than one week late -20%, more than two weeks late: big fat zero)

Collect name tents.

After lab:

-Erase any files from Camera (keep a copy of presentations on your laptop for a week)

-Immediately Return Cameras to BH Library.  Gently remind them to recharge the batteries.

-Meet with lab partner and reach consensus on the grade for each dramatic reading and Informational Presentations.  Staple dramatic reading student critiques to dramatic reading critique sheet.

-Record attendance and grades on excel template and save it in at least three different places.

-Email your students who will be giving an informational presentation or dramatic reading the following week (8-9 students per lab) to remind them to be prepared.

-Update the Speaking and Role Schedules on the web.  Upload edited schedules and replace old files in your public_html. 

-Read examples of Poor/Good/Excellent Reflection Papers, and Excellent Outside Speech Critique: http://www.uvm.edu/~cals001/fall2010/ExampleReflectionAndOutsideCritique.pdf  in a week we will be grading students' papers.

-Have Fun!