Here are some super-basic notes (off the top of Maddie's head) as initial thoughts on the first of two Presenting to the Community lessons. There are lots of good resources from 2.00b and 2.009, and other classes and online sites, for presentation skills and designing good presentations, so I will do more research to add info from those. Initial thoughts:
Things to include in lesson:
Goals of presenting
What to include in a presentation (designs, rationale, options, etc.)
About including stakeholders
Presenting skills (public speaking tips, etc.)
Designing a Presentation
What students should cover in a presentation:
Background, what work they’ve been doing (show and tell!) – about the club/program/etc. (introduction to selves, goals, progress), share what they’ve been learning, what small-scale projects they’ve done to prepare (show working projects!), moving on to learning about large-scale installations, etc. Want to install something in the community! (to learn, and to benefit everyone)
Rationale and details for large-scale project ideas (go through design process – (1) brainstorming: where they see a need for electrification / power, where solar makes sense, a few options for places they were thinking that would benefit the community at large and why they settled on those choices, (2) research done on logistics, power requirements, what a system might look like, what safety measures are needed, brief maintenance requirements, etc., (3) introductory estimations on solar cells required, how much power the design might produce, how much time the project would take to completion, etc., (4) what they need from the community, potential pros and cons of proposed projects, start discussion to see what concerns there are, where people are interested in having and supporting this project, if all stakeholders are represented, if others are interested in helping out with labor?, etc.
Community discussion and feedback: Students should come away with a better idea of where the final project will be, what concerns have to be met, who is interested in being involved, etc.
(At least having a community-wide discussion started, if not a definite final project selected. The intro presentation could also be used to narrow down to two project choices or something, and then have groups of students make more detailed designs for those two before presenting to the community again and selecting a final project to collaborate on – 2.009 style)
Presenting Skills
Lots of good stuff about this in 2.00b and 2.009 notes, and probably 2.671, etc.
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