ITECH1001 Communications and Technology - Federation University Australia

Objectives

The assessment tasks specified in this document address a number of the objectives of this course; these being:
- use a range of effective communication strategies;
- deliver effective oral presentations to an audience;
- write professional letters, memos and reports using correct grammar and spelling;
- work independently and in teams; and
- adapt a communication strategy to suit the audience.

Topics

Choose one topic,either of your own interest , or it could be from the following list:
1) Cyber Security
2) Wearable IT
3) Natural Language Processing
4) Artificial Intelligence
5) Data Mining
6) Software Engineering
7) Virtual or Augmented Reality
8) Games Development

The intention is to provide the audience of the presentation with an introduction to the chosen topic, through a series of synthetic slides and accompanying discussion. The slides will only contain a few bullet-points and images, and will be a summary of what is being spoken, and so the voice-over by the presenter will convey the larger information.

Group Presentation

You will be placed into groups of size 3-5 - how this occurs will be decided by your campus lecturer - it could be random, or you may be invited to form your own groups. Groups will be provided with the opportunity to work on this assignment within the normal tutorial and laboratory time. It is expected that students will also have to work outside of class in order to complete the tasks.
Each student is required to contribute four or five minutes to the overall presentation to the class on the chosen topic of their group. Marks will be awarded for clarity of voice, presentation during the talk, use of slides, engaging ideas and timing of the presentation.
*Each member of the group needs to upload the presentation materials to Moodle.
The presentation will consist of the following:
• Introduction slide
• Conclusion slide
• Additionally at least one slide per member.
Slides will contain:
• Good quality image(s), with appropriate resuse permissions

• A few short bullet-points (e.g. 4 or 5)

Kaltura video

The final product will be in Kaltura video format. Each person will do a voice-over for their slides, and all of these movie files will be combined into a single movie. Try and ensure that transitions/hand-overs between speakers is as smooth and seamless as possible.We will provide information on Kaltura in later classes.

Collaboration
Groups will be expected to decide early on how they intend to collaborate and share ideas and content. This could be as simple as using mobile phones and email to communicate, and Dropbox to share files. There are many other alternatives, for instance using Trello (highly recommended) to keep on target with tasks.

You are advised to early on decide on a leader for your group, and any other management structure or responsibilities.

Individual Reflection

Each student should also submit an individual reflection (Word document) for assessment via Moodle detailing:
- Their contribution to the presentation
- A discussion on the group performance and dynamic with reference to group theories discussed in class.
- A discussion of the groupware used to facilitate the presentation

Attachment:- Reflection.rar