I am sorry things were confused in class on friday.  I thought the sample presentation was posted and everyone would use that as a model.  Fortunately, we have time to pull things together.  Oral presentations will begin on APRIL 3.

After our discussion in class, I have decided that there will be two grades, one for the WEB posting and one for the presentation.  Requirements for each are as follows:

WEB PAGE.  This is a self-explanatory reference site that can be used by people who have not heard your oral presentation.  It will be available for anyone who a) is absent on the day of your presentation, b) wants further information, c) wants to review to prepare for the final exam or d) simply finds it in a WEB search.
The WEB page can be either an outline such as my Internet Fiction presentation, or it can be longer with more text as several of you have already prepared.  Heather Anderson's presentation on Travel is useful as an example;  it is short and I think it could be used for the Oral Presentation as well.  It begins to get into the difference the medium makes (people can consider more options, put them into categories, make decisions themselves). Tamika Drinks' presentation on Online Communities is much longer, and especially good for its comparison of virtual and real communities.  Mandy Namimi's site has a good list of points, they only need to be arranged into three groups.
Your WEB PAGE should include references, which can be hyperlinks to sources on the WEB or printed sources in the library, in which case you should give the full bibliographic information so people can find them.  You should have at least five and at most ten references.  Be selective, give good references that will be useful to people.

ORAL PRESENTATION.  This will last ten minutes, and will be graded by Jason and me using the evaluation form for presentations that we have used in evaluating faculty presentations.  How you give this presentation is UP TO YOU!  You do not need to put bullet points on the screen if you do not want to.  However, it is more likely that your "residual message" will stick in people's minds if you give it to them in writing as well as orally.  You MAY prepare bullet points and have them posted as a file on your WEB site, in which case we will put them up on the screen.  If you prefer, you can write them on the board with a magic marker.  If you feel you must, you can write out the whole presentation and read it, but my experience is that this doesn't work very well for most students.  I think the best thing is to have the key points written out on a sheet of paper.  These should be the same points that you put on the screen or on the board. Your goal here is to Communicate Your Residual Message.  If you prepare your WEB Page in outline form, you MAY wish to use it to illustrate your presentation.  You may also wish to link to selected WEB sites that illustrate your presentation.  How you do your presentation is UP TO YOU.  I realize people have different styles and are comfortable with different ways of presenting.  You can read it if you wish, but it should not sound as if it was being read.

On monday, we will meet in 117 BSB and work on having the WEB Page posted.