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Final Project
Your final project will be a 15-20 minute oral presentation on your research for SIS 495. Your presentation must be supported by a web site, PowerPoint slides, or some other multimedia visual aid. This course will include how to create web pages and PowerPoint presentations. Please consult with me if you prefer to use some other method to create your multimedia presentation.
You will use the same research to support the projects in both SIS 495 and IMT220a, but you must produce separate products. The final project for IMT 220a will include your strategies for finding and using information resources, as well as your reflections on the process of doing research. Your presentation will include a revised concept map of your research process and an annotated bibliography of at least the 20 most important sources you used for your Task Force report. Your annotations must include your rationale for selecting the source.
Projects must be turned in on diskette only.
I will evaluate your final projects in the following two general areas (no particular order):
Content
- Rationale for sources and links chosen
- Quality of the annotations and adherence to Chicago Style.
- Discussion or illustration of your research method and/or process - what were the key elements of your information research activities? how did you prepare or what did you need to do to better understand archival materials? How did you organize your research to assist in preparing your Task Force report, and why did you do it that way and not another? In what ways did the process differ from other information research projects you have done? In what way was it the same, and to what extent can your conclusions be generalized?
- Your final project should reflect your understanding of the differences among sources of important or useful information. Remember the information cycle discussion centering on the WTO in which we engaged during the 1st week of the course. From what sources in a similar flow of information did you draw your materials? Which stages were useful for which types? What databases are useful for primary sources (policy statements, laws, news reports, press releases, etc.?) and which were best for secondary sources (journal articles, books, etc.)? Which handled scholarly and which popular? What differences (ones that would be useful to another researcher) can you note among the finding tools that you used this quarter? ("Finding tools" refers to databases, books, reference resources, bibliographies, and catalogs that identify items of interest based on your subject, author, or other needs.)
Presentation
- Ability to communicate and interact with your audience
- Ease of navigation and/or clarity of layout of your supporting materials
- Use of at least 3 multimedia components - text, scanned images, artwork or photographs, graphic images found on the web (see next bullet), video clips, sound, animations, cartographic information or maps, charts or graphs, others?
- Compliance with copyright and other legal/ethical requirements (don't 'steal' graphics from other web sites without permission, clearly cite sources of evidence or argument that aren't your own, etc.)
- Your creativity!
Due Date(s): March 6-8, 2000
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