5-Minute Presentations

Submit: Turn in your presentation (in any format, PPT, movie, webpage, Breeze audio files, etc.) and a write up of your lesson rationale before your presentation.

What to do:

Develop a 5-minute lesson on a topic of your choice. This should be an interactive lesson guided by a particular theory or model. You will use PowerPoint (or any other computer-based medium) to aid in presenting this lesson. For online classes, you may just include an activity but are not expected to carry it out online.

In addition to presenting the lesson during a class period, you will also turn in a rationale for your lesson that explains the instructional objectives, the necessary preparations, and how the lesson is guided by a learning theory or model ( it 's time to go beyond the 9-events ) . For example, relating the objectives and topic of your lesson to Bloom's taxonomy. Here is the reference online book for theories and models.

Grading:

	80-86%	87-90%	91-100%
Rationale, including Topic and Objectives	Not clearly stated	Clearly stated	Clearly stated and appropriate given the context of a 5-minutes presentation. The lesson is an example of good instructional design.
Presentation Skills	Minimal or no interaction with presentation media	The presenter generally interacts well with the slides, but has some awkward moments, audience interaction, or pacing problems	The presenter interacts very well with the slides (provides eye contact with the audience, avoids reading slides, goes at an appropriate pace, stays on topic)
Media Used	Minimal or no interaction with presentation media	Media used exhibits some of the characteristics of good visual and/or presentation design, including consistency, appropriate amount of content, simplicity, and visual design and presentation standpoint. If PPT is used, slides are not cluttered, consistently designed, and contain an appropriate amount of content. Text is easy to read. Slides have a well-balanced look.