Communication Skills & Integrate Diversity
Overview: In Final Project Part Two, you will develop a multimedia presentation in which you will have a chance to reflect on what you have learned about your issue or event, yourself, and diversity through analyzing its impact on society. You will also be able to apply your communication skills and integrate multimedia elements to communicate your message to an audience.
This milestone is due in Module Five. In developing this presentation, you will be able to use your analyses from the first part of this project as a starting point. The reflective nature of this activity prompts you to dig deeper and consider the implications posed by the critical analysis of your issue or event in diversity. How does studying diversity affect how you understand yourself, as well as the world around you? You’ll also be challenged to incorporate a dash of creativity to enhance your message.
Multimedia Presentation: For the second part of the project, you will create a multimedia presentation that incorporates audio narration and visuals to articulate how critically analyzing your issue/event in diversity impacts your own framework of perception and ability to constructively engage in society.
PowerPoint: You are required to include a combination of text and visuals in order to support your PowerPoint presentation. Use the Check File Compatibility
With Earlier Versions and Are You Having Video or Audio Playback Issues? resources to help you check compatibility between versions of Office. Also, follow the
instructions on the Microsoft Support page to compress your presentation as a zipped file. You may upload a zipped file when submitting this assignment.
Reducing the size of the PowerPoint presentation file by compressing it makes it easier for your instructor to download and grade.
Microphone: While it is not necessary to purchase a microphone for this project, you will need to have access to a microphone to record the narration of the presentation. This could be the external microphone of your device, a set of earbuds, or equipment borrowed from a friend. This assignment is graded on the content of the narration, not the quality of the recording.
Prompt: First, review the module resources you have encountered so far and create a presentation draft (PowerPoint with speaker notes) that analyzes the issue/event under study (the one you selected in Module Two). Specifically, the following critical elements (which align to the critical elements required of the presentation in Final Project Part Two) must be addressed: I. Issue/Event: For this section of your presentation, you will introduce the issue/event and how it relates to issues of diversity and any of the topics that
have been discussed in the course.
A. Using appropriate research strategies, describe a social or global issue/event that is related to issues of diversity.
- What is the origin of the issue?
- What is the issue about?
B. Using appropriate research strategies, describe the impact of the issue/event on society.
- Who is impacted by the issue?
- What is important to know about them?
C. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess how society impacts the chosen issue.
Yourself: This section of your presentation explores how studying diversity influences your individual framework of perception with respect to your discipline of study or profession.- How has critically analyzing your issue/event in diversity informed your individual framework of perception? Consider how it has altered the way you perceive the world.
- How can critically analyzing diversity influence your field of study or profession? How can studying diversity inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in your field or profession in the next five to ten years?
- How does critically analyzing diversity add value to how you interact with people and understand social or global issues/events? Supplement your reasoning with examples.
- Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals. What might this look like in your everyday life? Consider how diversity can be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by practitioners in your field or discipline.
- Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess the benefits and challenges of addressing issues in diversity.
- Explain how critically analyzing diversity adds value to interactions with people in personal and professional contexts.
- Construct your presentation in a way that ensures the audio and visual elements are logically organized in order to convey your message to your audience.
- Provide supporting evidence in your presentation that supports the importance of the chosen issue/event and its impact within diversity.
- Develop the audio narration to logically flow with the presentation to articulate the importance of critically analyzing the chosen issue/event
and its impact within diversity