Wednesday, April 4, 2007

What to write for IT Presentation proposal

You can use the template, Page 3 of the IT Project Rubrics sent to your email earlier.
Alternatively, you can just write on a piece of lined paper.

Objective of proposal: Tell me exactly what you want to look at in a 40-minute lesson.

Names and Roles of Team Members
- All of you will be researchers and presenters. The rest of the roles you can select from the list given to you.

Topic
- Write your topic name
-Define the key terms related to your topic
Show an understanding of the topic
Eg. Class discrimination - Obviously, you have to define class discrimination. Other key terms related to class discrimination might be classism, structural classism, individual classism, elitism, etc.

Issue
- Identify at least TWO issues which you will be focusing on.
Provide the scope of the topic
Eg. We will be focusing on the upper, middle and lower classes of Singapore society and ways in which the lower class is being discriminated. We will also look at the caste system in India and its effects.

- What aspects of these issue would you be covering? Cause-effect? Indirect/ Direct measures? Govt policies etc?
You can also approach it in terms of concept/ topic areas. [SPERM]
S - Social/ Socio-cultural/ Scientific (Technological) / Sports
P - Psychological/Physical/ Political / Philosophical/ Personal (Individual)
E - Environmental/ Educational/ Economic/ Ethical/ Ethnic/ Emotional/ Entertainment
R - Racial/ Religious/ Rights
M - Media/ Military/ Moral/ Multinational (Global)/ Medical/ Mental

Others include Artistic/ Historical/ Geographical/ Ideological/Legal/ Communication/ Government. This list is by no means exhaustive. You can add more topic areas.

See Categorizing: Page 10 -12 of Essay Writing (Pre-writing skill) document.

Activity
- Briefly tell me what activity would be conducted.
Your IT presentation is to be supplemented with an activity to engage the class in active participation. It can be a quiz show, games, mini-debate, role-play, article-sharing, pair discussion, crossword puzzle - any activity that can aid your classmates' understanding.
Sample lesson plans are available online.

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