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Please review these guidelines by this week’s class meeting and bring any questions you have! Remember that these slides will illustrate the short presentation each student gives on the final day of class (Nov. 30).
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Due: Sunday 11/27, by midnight…
What: a digital file (Powerpoint, Keynote, OpenOffice, or PDF format) that contains 1 slide
This slide should have 1 image (representative of your field guide subject) and no more than 3 bullet points (representing key aspects of your research). You will have approx 3 minutes (final math on this is pending…) to present during our symposium on Nov. 30, so the slide should act as a visual prompt for your field guide rather than as a summary. I will group presentations into smaller sessions, with question periods in between those sessions. The metaphor we’ve used to describe this symposium in the recent past is “speed dating” (though I’ve only actually heard this described to me in a second-hand manner…). The point is, you’ll each have only a few minutes to articulate both the topic and a point or two about your field guide!
I am going to leave about 45min of class time in the last hour for a special guest, musician and scholar Vijay Iyer. He will be on campus as the Trotter Visiting Professor up at the School of Music and Dance, and I am imagining that he will bring a different perspective to some of the issues and questions we’ve been discussing this term. As such, I amnot providing him with any prompts or topics to discuss, though I’ve pointed him toward the course site so that he has some idea of what we are up to here. Please visit his web site prior to our meeting on Nov. 30 (linked to his name above), and here is a short video to get a sense of his approach to music making/art:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvvq37tnDpc[/youtube]
