Assignment 1
This is a group assignment.
This assignment is marked out of 35 points.
Due Date
January 17, 2014, 3:30PM.
Poster Creation
You are to form a team with members in your own lab section and pick one of
the research areas in Computer Science as discussed in the first class. The
purpose of this poster is to describe to highschool students what the topic is
about and the cool applications in it. Specifically:
- Target audience: A group of highschool students between grades 10 and 12
who have taken some computer programming course.
- Poster station: Your poster will be stationed on a table or taped
(temporarily) on the wall of a computer lab (either SCI 234 or SCI 126) near a
computer. A group of 5 to 10 students will be standing around your station.
Someone will be presenting your poster and video.
- Physical dimensions of the poster: See poster board
- Content to include:
- Topic title
- Subtitle if applicable
- Text in point form
- Images, charts, diagrams
- 4 real world applications that we use based on research in this topic
- References if applicable
- Use of colour printouts: Max. 4
- Final Product: A paper poster.
Video Creation
As part of the topic you researched on, create a short, catchy video
that showcases the best of your topic. Specifically:
- Target audience: Same as above.
- Computer station: A computer will be available near your poster. The
video is to be presented either at the beginning before the poster is
presented, or at the end after the poster is presented -- you pick.
- Duration of video: 60-120 seconds
- Proper crediting and IP issues: Your video may make use of audio
and/or images and/or text created by other people. In all of those situations,
you must credit them properly. Certain intellectual property (IP) have
specific licenses that require purchasing. Even if you take something that is
free, those items may fall under a license that requires you to credit them.
Be sure to do this at the end of your video. In the last scene of your video,
you can show a list of scrolling credits that takes care of these issues.
Here, you can also list your own names for putting the video together.
- Final Product: A completed video.
Presentation Script
- Target audience: One of your classmates (possibly someone not in your
team) will be presenting your topic. This person will be given your script to
become familiar with the topic and to give a 5 minute talk about the material
displayed on the poster.
- Content to include:
- Brief background of your topic
- The main areas of your poster to describe - total to 5 minutes
- Order of when to show the video (either before the talk or at the end)
- List of 5 questions to ask students about
- Final Product: A written script in point form.
Evaluation Criteria
- 15 points: Poster, specifically:
- 2 points: Definition of your topic and any terminology
used on the poster in an accurate and understandable way for the target audience
- 2.5 points each: Real world applications illustrated and described
- 3 points: Overall aesthetics: use of graphics, colours, fonts
- 10 points: Video
- 2 points: Accuracy of content (whether it belongs to the topic
chosen)
- 2 points: Breadth of content
- 2 points: Understandability of the content as a stand-alone
video
- 2 points: Overall aesthetics: use of graphics, colours, fonts,
audio
- 2 points: Proper crediting of all external resources
- 5 points: Script
- 2 points: Brief background to familiarize a new audience
- 2 points: Points given for presentation
- 1 point: Questions to ask audience
- 5 points: Student evaluation, averaged based on a short
questionnaire they complete
What to Submit
The poster your team created along with the video in .mov or .m4v format and
the script in PDF (on Connect).
Be sure to include your full names on the back of the posters and in the
credits of the video, as well as the script.
Submit your poster in class.
Submit your video either on Connect or via a USB key to the instructor.
Submit your script on Connect.