Guidelines for Group Work and Presentations

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Guidelines for Group Work and Presentations

• Hiroshi Toyoizumi
• Toyoizumi_at_waseda.jp

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Schedule

• WEEK 1 Introductory Lecture
• WEEK 2 Group Work
• (WEEK 3 Group Work)
• WEEK 4 Presentation day!

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Before Presentation

1. Select a topic of your group.
2. Register the selected topic via the mailing list
   or a group-ware. No groups share one topic.
   First-come-first-serve basis.
3. Prepare your presentation.
4. Upload your documents somewhere on the internet.
5. Send the URL of your documents using the mailing
   list by the midnight of the day before the
   presentation class.
6. At the beginning of the presentation class,
   Toyoizumi will pick up to 4 groups for
   presentations. Sorry!
7. At the beginning of your groups presentation, if
   you are lucky enough, you might be assigned to
   the speaker of your group.

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At the Presentation

• You have total 13 min.
• 10 min. presentation
• 3 min. Q A
• Notes
• Help call.
• If you really get stuck in a question, you may
  ask help from your teammates.

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Peer review at the presentations

• Listen carefully at your peers presentations.
• Rank them according to your own criteria.
• Submit your evaluation (the best group other than
  your group) via waseda-net portal On-demand
  Internet Class.
• Your group will be rated according to the
  results. Those groups who failed to make their
  presentation will be evaluated by Toyoizumi.
• Remember, your evaluation will be made public!
  Be responsible for your evaluation.

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Register your evaluation

1. Login to Waseda-net portal.
2. Click On-demand Internet Class.
3. Click Introduction to Information Processing.
4. Select ?? at Peer Review.
5. Answer the questions. Then click ??

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Go to On-demande internet class
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Select Peer Review
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Evaluate Presentations

• You can view the result any time!

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The result of your vote
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Evaluation

• The top group will gain the score 100.
• The groups who made the presentation will obtain
  70 - 90.
• The groups who failed to make their presentation
  will get 0 - 70.
• Those who made a good question or comment will
  get additional points up to 10.

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Awards

• The champion of group work will be decided at the
  end of the course according to the result of
  three presentations.
• The champion group will be given (unofficial,
  secret and precious?) rewards.
• The worst groups (the losers!) will be given time
  to express their excuse for the poor performance,
  if requested.