Week 13 - May 2

10AM and 1PM Lab sessions:

Personal and Group project time.

1:45PM - 3:10PM Personal Project presentations:

You will give a Personal Project Presentation for 5 minutes on Wednesday according to the schedule below.Your Personal Project Presentation will serve a multitude of purposes. It will:

  • allow the teaching team to go into grading with context about what we'll find in your Personal Project Google Drive folder.
  • bring your classmates up to date on how each of you took what you've learned in different (and similar) directions for a diverse set of deployments.
  • give you practice for talking about this sort of work.
  • prepare artifacts that can be used in a personal portfolio.
  • inform any guest(s) about the state of work you're doing that they're admiring from afar (I talk to a lot of people about you all when I am at events, and I have an invitation out to a person who might attend the presentations)

 

You have already produced a lot of useful content for this presentation. As you have filled out your Personal Project Process Google form, you have been generating information that you'll now re-use in the intro part of your presentation.

 

After saying who you are, summarize the early questions from your form, which were:

  • Who are the people and/or programs you expect to work with?
  • What are the primary types of disempowerment that they are facing?
  • What obstacles have they identified that people they work with face, and how have they charted paths around them?
  • What do you expect to offer as an activity that can help the target group feel more empowered?
  • What types of making is involved?

 

Then, tell the audience what the end of the project looks like - whether you've already deployed a prototype or have plans to in the coming days. Work backwards from there.

 

If you deployed to MITxMake, or online already:

  • explain the making process you went through to get there.
  • Share something that did not go as you expected, what came as a surprise during the process?
  • What did you learn that will serve you well for doing a project like this moving forward?

 

If you are working toward your deployment:

  • Discuss what you have learned about the type of making you are doing.
  • Mention difficulties that you anticipate during deployment and how you're addressing them.

 

Preparing the last portion of your presentation will enable you to answer the final Personal Project reflection prompts (that you will fill in on the Personal Project Google form)

  • What did you learn about yourself, about making, about people you interacted with?

Have your presentations linked in your link to the Personal Project Google form prior to 1:45PM.

 

Wednesday 5/2 Personal Project Presentation schedule

  • 1:55 Katie
  • 2:00 Liz
  • 2:05 Athmika
  • 2:10 Emma
  • 2:15 Alison
  • 2:20 Griffin
  • 2:25 Zack
  • 2:30 Niyi
  • 2:35 Melissa
  • 2:40 Sabrina
  • 2:45 Camillo
  • 2:50 Alli
  • 2:55 Shy
  • 3:00 Ray
  • 3:05 Jane