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Communication 2zero7 Project Management Fall 2002
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Online Courses in the Department of Communication
"most teams fail to achieve their potential, not
because of lack of
knowledge or skill, but because of lack of planning"
FULL CONTENT OUTLINE AND POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
For a variety of reasons,teams would rather talk about their project, rather than invest the hard energy and effort asking: 1) what needs to be done; and 2) who is going to do what?
One student last semester remarked "I find that the main resources our team needs is a detailed explanation of the actual project. It seems that though all over our work is geared toward the mysterious project, with no substantial understanding of what that project is."
Although the project requirements are clearly laid out on the course web site. I have elaborated the requirements again in somewhat of a sequential order so that each group can develop a project calendar.
KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION
1. Read any material in the textbook which is relevant to your chosen topic.
2. Become archaeologists, head for the library and the Internet.
3. Collect a resource file of at least 20 articles and a book chapter on your topic. Do not just collect any article which happens to be tangentially relevant to your topic. This will result in a large collection of articles which you will ever use again.
3.1. One of your main points should focus on skill development.
Hence, your articles should focus on what the skill is, why it is important, and how do you develop the skill. For example, what is trust, why it is important in teams, and what rules, strategies, or communication behaviors can one engage in to build trust when working in teams. For example, what is computer-mediated collaboration, and what behaviors can one engage in or should one adopt to enhance the chances of effect and appropriate collaboration in computer-mediated environments.
4. Photocopy the best 7 articles so each member has a copy.
Follow the following links for a discussion of the process which should be used to construct your full content outline ("full metal jacket").
BUILDING MESSAGE STRUCTURE
Must have at least THREE main points (Theory And Application)
Must have at least three major subpoints under each main point.
Main points must ask concrete questions. Subpoint must furnish concrete answers to these questions.
5. Generate 10 how, what or why questions on your topic.
6. Submit questions to instructor for review.
7. Narrow to five key questions and generate three answers to each of your questions.
8. Decide what skill you are going to
teach the class. This usually necessitates answer a
What or How question
For example, How do use communication to enhance and build trust in teams?
Remember
Skills, by definition are behaviors that when practiced lead to goal attainment..
What communications behaviors can you engage in to establish and build trust?
A. behavior, strategy, messages, or rule 1
B. behavior, strategy, message, or rule 1
C. behaviors, strategy, message or rule 1
8. Summit to instructor for review.
DEVELOPING THE MESSAGE (WHERE'S THE BEEF?)
10 Quotations To Enhance Credibility
9. Integrate quotations from
book which help develop the
answers to your questions
10. Integrate quotation from your resource file into your emergent
outline
which develop the answers to your questions.
Quote should be between 30-50 words long.
The complete citation from which the quote is taken should be integrated into the body of the outline.
11. Must have at least two quotations for personal interviews (take it to
streets)
The full content of the quotes from interviews
should be integrating to the body of the
outline under the appropriate concept of idea
which it develops.
12. Must have at least two stories (war, heart, personal, horror, mythic)
13. Must have at least three "The research suggests......" (results from research studies)
14. Must have at least two ideas developed with numbers of statistics.
15. Must use at least two dramatic or humorous one-liners.
16. Must use at least one strategic role play (simulated conversation
17. Must use at least two instances of humor.
18. Must establish at least four instances of establishing common ground
with
the audience.
19. Each presentation will contain at least three emotional hits, where they
touch
the audience's emotions of get the audience emotionally involved in the
presentation
20. Each presentation will have a transition between main points, the
transition will contain
a internal summary, a spotlight or what should be remembered, and a
preview of what
is to come.
CONVERT EMERGING OUTLINE TO HTML DOCUMENT
1. Each outline will contain at least TEN hyperlinks which furnish additional
information
which is tightly integrated with and develops content contained in the
outline.
AT THIS POINT THE MAIN POINTS SHOULD BE FULLY DEVELOPED, LEAVING ONLY THE INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION TO BE COMPLETED
WHILE COMPLETING THE INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION WORK SOME MEMBERS CAN SIMULTANEOUSLY BEGIN DEVELOPING THE PRESENTATION
AT THIS POINT YOU CAN DIVIDE AND CONQUER, THAN COMING BACK TOGETHER
TO INTEGRATE WORK PRIOR TO THE FINAL PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION DEVELOPMENT - FLASH AND SIZZLE
1. Each presentation will contain a video clip of a interview with an
authority on the
Subject from academics
2. Each presentation will contain a video clip
interviews with an authority
from business and industry.
Quotations from these interviews will be
integrated into the outline
3. Each presentation will contain of a video clip taking it to the streets. e.g. students in leadeship positions on campus. Quotations from these interview will be integrated into the outline.
4. Each presentation will contain at least one film or television clip.
5. Each group is expected to interact with the audience and involve the
audience
in the presentation. Under no circumstances is this to be one of those
boring panel presentations.
In Communication 2zero7 we remember"Del Griffith Does Not Live Here Anymore"
PRESENTATION DEVELOPMENT - POWERPOINT
1. Each presentation will have at least
FIVE slides which carry the structure of the
presentation to the audience. These slides will include
the central questions
which are being asked in the presentation. This is usually a "what,",
"why,"
or "how" question.
2. Each presentation will include at least three "build slides"
Slide 1 Question and Answer 1
Slide 2 Question and Answer 1 and 2
Slide 3 Question and Answer 1,2,nd 3
3. Each presentation will contain at least THREE 15-20 word quotations from
the textbook or from the group's resource file..
4. Each presentation will contain at least 10 images creatively borrowed from
the Internet.
These will be displayed in the presentation as full screen
images. The full screen images
are used at cues and talking points to guide your
speaking.
5. Each presentation will use at three examples of word art to emphasize key
ideas
or
concepts in the presentation .
6. Remember to search
"your topic" .ppt, to see if you can find some existing PowerPoint
presentations on the WEB which you could "creatively
borrow" from"
DEVELOPING THE INTRODUCTION OF YOUR FULL CONTENT OUTLINE
1. Each introduction will employ two or more attention-getting strategies within their introduction.
Challenge
Common Ground `
Definitions
Emotional Contact High
Dramatic Statement
Using The Headlines
Narrative Or Story
Powerful Quotation
Rhetorical Questions
Visualization
2. Each introduction will offer two reasons why the audience should listen.
3. Each introduction will establish a relationship with the audience through
personal
self-disclosure on the part of group members and by
establishing common ground
with the audience.
4. Each introduction will attempt to involve the audience emotionally.
5. Each introduction will contain a thesis sentence, which is underlined and
points
direction to the main points in the outline.
6. Each introduction will be written in compete sentences.
7. Develop the PowerPoint slides for the introduction.
DEVELOPING THE CONCLUSION TO YOU FULL CONTENT OUTLINE
1. Each presentation will contain an conclusion which summarizes the three
key
ideas. Pound the main ideas into the mind the audience.
2. Each outline will contain a conclusion written in complete sentences
3. Each conclusion will utilize at least three strategies which are typically
used to
end of close messages.
Request Audience
Action Challenge
Emotional Quotation
Personal Story
Powerful Quotation
Prophesy,
Pledge,
Promise
Rhetorical Question
Visualization
4. After the summary each conclusion the substance of the conclusion will
work on the affective level to evoke in the audience an
emotional response.
5. The conclusion will end on an emotional high point, with a bang not a whimper.
6. Develop the PowerPoint visuals for you conclusion.
FINE-TUNING THE FULL CONTENT HTML OUTLINE
1. Integrate the introduction and conclusion with the main points.
2. Integrate the images that will be used the PowerPoint presentation into
the hypertext outline.
3. Public the completed hypertext outline on the Web.
FINE-TUNING THE PRESENTATION
1. Merge the PowerPoint graphics develop for the introduction and conclusion
with those developed for the main point of the presentation.
2. Make decisions regarding who will speak when during the presentation.
3. Make final decisions on how and when you will dialogue with the audience,
and how you will involve the audience i.e. let the audience help you give
this
presentation.
4. Develop any handouts which will be furnished the audience.
5. Develop five transparencies, each containing one of the key questions you
will ask and answer in this presentation.
6. TOTAL, MONKISH, SLAVISH, PREPARATION AND PRACTICE.
7. "BRING US THE AUDIENCE, WE CAN NO LONGER BE ALONE"