Unit 1 - Popular Culture and CHAT - Spring 2012

For Project 1, you'll be preparing a presentation on a work of popular literature of your choice. In preparing your presentation, here are relevant links you'll want to review.
Quick Checklist
For this unit, you will need to:

• Register for HubPages.
• Note on the Moodle which Pop Culture Text you'll be presenting.
• Create a Hub with your presentation.
• Workshop your presentation in small groups.

Project 1 Requirements
These links explain the goals of the project and the grading guidelines.

• Unit 1 Presentation Checklist
• Unit 1 Rationale (a rather long article - skim, then use as a reference)
• Semester Schedule (so you know when to prepare)

Research Resources

Success in this project requires the use of CHAT:

• CHAT: Cultural Historical Activity Theory
• A Film Director describes the making of Monsters

Technology Resources

Here are links to technology resources to help you as you put together Project 1.

• Uploading PowerPoint to Facebook
• HubPages.com (where you'll be posting your slides)
• HubPages Tutorial and Community and Help for New Hubbers

Example Presentations

• Creating a Proposal with PowerPoint (example on Facebook from Fall 2011)
• Writing Science Fiction with Narrative (an incomplete presentation on HubPages)
• Student Projects - Spring 2012

The Workshop Process

Here's a visual description of how the workshop process works:

• Small Group Workshops (with penguins - also a good example of an online presentation)
• The Importance of Feedback from Peers
• How to Provide Progressive Feedback

In-Class Activities
We'll use these activities to develop the mindset and skills to help you better understand CHAT and prepare your presentations.

• Design the worst PowerPoint slide ever.  Make it as terrible as possible.  Your goal is to suck the out souls from your victims (er, audience...) through their eyeballs.
• We'll be doing a "write your favorite color" activity as a way to consider how our outlook and perceptions change the ways we express ourselves through writing.