News Presentation Videos

Activity Overview (Lessons 3–13)

Each student is required to present one news presentation by video during the course of the semester. Depending on the number of students in the course, it may be necessary to have multiple students present during the same lesson.

The presentation should be focused on the global economies/markets or industry events/developments impacting engineering and related to one of the countries that we are studying during the course (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico, Colombia, Japan, and Saudi Arabia). Your presentation should include 1–3 PowerPoint slides and should be sourced appropriately.

Students will sign up using the Canvas Group space. Based on the news presentation signup schedule, student(s) post their “news presentation” video along with their questions for discussion during the beginning of the week that they have signed up. The rest of the class must respond to the questions posed by the presenter(s) and respond to at least two different students' replies to the posed questions.

Signing up for a Presentation Week

To sign up for a presentation week, select People (from the course navigation menu), then Groups, then select News Presentation Sign-up. There must be at least one news presentation each week, so please fill all the dates before doubling up on any of them. Please start with Lessons 3–6 to ensure that we have a presenter for the lessons that occur over the next few weeks.

Timeline

Please choose and sign up for a presentation week as early as possible. Posts for each week are due as indicated in the following table.

Weekly Posting Deadlines

Day and Time (ET)	Task
Wednesday, 11:59 p.m.	Presenters: Post video presentation and questions
Saturday, noon	Non-Presenters: Review presentation(s) and post responses to questions
Sunday, 11:59 p.m.	All Students: Post 2+ replies

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Presenters

You will post your presentation in the News Presentation Discussion for the week you sign up (e.g. post to the Lesson 3 News Presentation Discussion if you signed up to present in Lesson 3). However, you will be graded for your presentation in this space using the rubric below.

News Topic

You should be regularly reading The Economist (Links to an external site.), Bloomberg Markets (Links to an external site.), or other quality sources of information. Your presentation should be based on a recent (i.e. last 3 weeks) news story that directly relates to global economies/markets or industry events/developments with a potential impact on engineering related corporations/industries within one of our studied countries (listed in the Activity Overview).

Presentation

• Develop an outline and/or rough script for your presentation.
• Prepare a summary of the article that you present, in your own words.
  • Discuss the three main points of the article, (i.e. “This issue/article can be boiled down into three points: 1, 2, and 3.”). Include supporting information from the article about each of these three points.
  • Clearly relate the topic of the article to global engineering.
• Use the recording software of your choice to create a 3–5 minute video of your presentation.

Preparing the PowerPoint Slide

• Keep the PowerPoint slide image rich and text lean (i.e. use lots of pictures/diagrams/graphs and very few words). Remember you do not need to include every piece of information that you want to talk about on the slide itself.
• Include your source citation on the slide.
• While not necessary, assertion evidence based design can be very helpful in creating an informative and visually appealing slide. See slide templates at The Craft of Scientific Presentations for more information on how to use the assertion-evidence approach.

Preparing Questions for Class Discussion

• Student presenters must also prepare at least two thought-provoking questions for class discussion; these should be at a level that students could contribute based on the information presented and not require additional knowledge/experience on the topic.
• Include your discussion questions on a second slide in your PowerPoint presentation in your video and in your discussion post.

Discussion Posts

• Post your video and questions to the discussion.
• Presenters should follow up in the discussion and comment on at least two students' responses to their thought-provoking questions.

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Non-Presenters

• All students who are not presenting for the week must first watch the presentations posted to that lesson's News Presentation Discussion by your classmate(s).
• Then respond to at least one of the news presenter's questions, clearly indicating the question to which you are responding.
• In addition to responding to the presenter's question, reply to at least two peer responses to earn full credit.

News Presentations Rubric

Criteria	Excellent	Satisfactory	No Points Awarded	Possible Points
Choose a news story from the past 21 days that relates to the course content	4.0 pts Timely and related to course content	2.0 pts Timely or related but not both	0.0 pts Neither timely nor related	4.0 pts
Create a video presentation on this topic	11.0 pts Video made and posted to the appropriate discussion	Not applicable	0.0 pts Missing the video	11.0 pts
Include a Powerpoint overview of your topic	5.0 pts Powerpoint slide complete and included in video presentation	2.5 pts Powerpoint slide included but missing at least one key element	0.0 pts Slide was missing from presentation video	5.0 pts