Overview
Persuasively communicating the results of a planning process is essential in encouraging its implementation. In this assignment, you are asked to summarize your team’s approach and findings from assignment 3 part 2 and deliver a presentation designed to convince an audience to adopt your proposed approach. Specifically, you want the design-makers in your audience to dedicate the human and financial resources required to undertake your proposed process, including the engagement activities that you recommended. This is an individual assignment that builds on the team-based work to hone your skills in producing informed, insightful, and convincing presentations.
Instructions
Building on the work that you completed as part of assignment 3, this assignment involves producing a 10-minute recorded presentation.
- The audience for the presentation should include plausible decision-makers from the sector/setting that you explored in assignment 3.
- For the presentation, use as many slides as you think appropriate to succinctly summarize the approach you are proposing, to demonstrate the value to the organization/decision-makers, and to ask for a commitment of resources.
- Record your presentation using Zoom or similar software and submit a link to the file along with your presentation.
Requirements
- A slidedeck for the 10 minute presentation you will record, complete with speaking notes if necessary
- A recording of you delivering the presentation, ideally with the slides and your face visible.
Associated Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate competence in translating and mobilizing climate adaptation knowledge for use by multiple stakeholder groups (Learning Outcome 5.2)
- Facilitate multi- and trans-disciplinary discussions and collaboration (Learning Outcome 4.3)
- Use evidence-informed climate adaptation strategies to develop or select feasible solutions, recommendations, and action plans (Learning Outcome 1.2)
- Apply lateral, creative, and future thinking to the field of climate adaptation (Learning Outcome 6.3)
Assessment Criteria
In addition to the learning outcomes, assessment criteria will be based on the writing assessment rubric found on the MACAL program website or a customize rubric developed by the instructor.
Weight: 10%
Submit: A link to your video to Assignment 4 Moodle drop box. Refer to the technical tips below for submitting your video using the Moodle My Media feature.
How to create and upload a video to Moodle
For this assignment, you will be submitting a narrated presentation, or a webcam recording (or both) using Moodle MyMedia and Kaltura Capture.
If you want to record a slideshow presentation, you will first need to create your presentation slides using Powerpoint. Once you have created your PPT presentation you will then record your presentation in real-time following the steps below. Note: Even though Microsoft Powerpoint has the ability to record voice-over narration IN Powerpoint, please do not do this for your narration, because it isn’t compatible with all devices, and may exceed the file size limit in Moodle.
Step 1
Royal Roads Moodle has a free software plugin called Kaltura Capture. Download Kaltura Capture and:
Option A) Record your presentation using these instructions. This allows you to record your narrated presentation as a video. Kaltura Capture will record your Powerpoint slides on screen, and record your voice-over in real time.
Option B) Record your screen and/or webcam . This could be for a ‘talking head’ video, or a screen sharing recording.
Tips for success: Do a short trial video first, then stop and play it back. Was your microphone working? Did you capture the video you wanted? Make any adjustments, and try again.
Step 2
Option A) When you finish recording your video in Kaltura Capture, your video will upload directly to your MyMedia.
Option B) If you created your video in your phone, or using other software, you can upload it directly into My Media without using Kaltura Capture. Note: Do not try to upload a .ppt file directly to MyMedia, it will not work.
Step 3
Almost done! Now you have to ‘submit’ your video assignment to your course. It’s important not to miss this step; your instructor does not have access to your MyMedia folder, and cannot retrieve it for you.