Group Presentations

To be given in class on December 10th

As your group’s research and data will feed your own work in the final weeks, it will be important for you to present your own work as a group as well. This assignment will help you think about your work as it would fit with other recommendations from the city to gain a more complex understanding into the city’s future around housing, infrastructure, and public space. You will also be able to get and give feedback on other’s work.

Your presentation will take the highlights from your research and recommendations up to this point in the semester and present them with your research group. What would it mean for these recommendations to be implemented at once? Where does your work come together? How is it different, not only in topic but audience, approach, cost, use of technology, and impact? Overall, how will these recommendations support the growth of Portland as a smart city with an eye toward the common good? Be able to speak fluently and with detail and knowledge about your idea.

The group presentation requires:

  • A title slide with group names
  • An overall approach or framing slide
  • An individual slide (same background, font, layout throughout) for each student’s research with visuals and text (as needed on the latter)
  • One or two slides that discuss the overlap, distinctions, and overall
  • Convey your ideas in 15 minutes total, no more
  • Allows for five minutes of discussion time and questions

You will be graded on your presentation skills as a group in terms of:

  • Clearly conveying your idea
  • Showing a clear understanding of how your fit works together
  • Creating a well-designed (i.e. easy to read, not too much text, focused) series of slides