Assignment 3: Presentation
Word/time limit: Five minutes (+/- 10%)
Weighting: 15% (Presentation + reference list)
Assignment details
For this assignment, you are required to consider those who work in the following sectors and describe the key responsibilities of a professional communicator in a particular context—including types of audiences, key messages and delivery modes. You will be required to explore these responsibilities in the context of one of the following environments:
A major public hospital.
A large retail department store.
A large international bank.
A large government state high school.
A large music store.
The following points will assist you to complete this assignment:
Plan, write, create and record a five-minute video presentation.
When recording your video, you may use any appropriate device you are comfortable using i.e. webcam, camera or mobile device. You will upload your video to Canvas Studio.
Ensure your presentation is well-researched and supported. You must use Swinburne Harvard style referencing throughout and submit a reference list in addition to your video submission.
Your video presentation must be clear, audible and complete with you appearing on camera for the majority of the presentation.
If you choose to incorporate props into your presentation, they must be appropriate and used effectively. Refrain from creating organisational signage (please refer to copyright information in the Assignment Declaration).
Follow the instructions provided in Submission details overview and by your eLA to upload your video
You will need to submit your reference list separately to the Assignment 3: Reference list submission point.
Canvas Studio video submission
Navigate through the following presentation to learn more about Studio. Select the icons to move between the sections then access the information in the section menus by selecting each item.
If you require further support using Canvas Studio, contact your eLA or reach out to your Student Advisors (contact details can be found in the HelpHub). There are also excellent resources available at Canvas Studio (Links to an external site.) (Instructure 2022).
Note: The videos that you share in this unit are restricted to this LMS. Information that you provide through generated content will not be shared to any other platform or be accessed by anyone external to Swinburne Online without your permission.
Supporting resources
Referencing
Note that this assignment requires you to use Swinburne Harvard Referencing. See the Swinburne Harvard style guide for guidance on how to reference correctly.
Remember that you need to submit your reference list separately to the Assignment 3: Reference list submission point.
Effective presentations
For tips on effective oral presentations, refer to Chapter 13: Oral presentations (pp. 382–407) of your eText.
On the Academic writing and presenting page in the Student Hub, there is an area called ‘Presentation skills’. In this area, you will find two videos to help you with your presentations:
Engage an audience: online and in-person
Presenting from home.
Video presentation tools
In addition to Studio where you will submit your presentation the following resources might be useful to enhance your presentation:
The Video editing and recording page in the Student Hub will show you a variety of video editing and recording tips that you can apply when producing videos.
Build your own teleprompter with PowerPoint (Argawal 2012) some tips on how to use a PowerPoint presentation as a teleprompter.
Teleprompter Pro Lite (Apple 2020) is a free teleprompter system for iPad users. You can also find other teleprompter apps in Teleprompter apps for the iPad (AppAdvice 2020).
Student exemplars
The following student exemplars are to be used as a guide to direct you on your assignment. Please do not share these videos outside our unit.
COM10007 Assignment 3: Presentation – ANZ Bank (Melissa Lowery 2019).
COM10007 Assignment 3 Presentation – Hospital (Jiyeon Hong 2019).
COM10007 Assignment 3: Presentation – Children’s hospital (Anthony Dinola 2019).
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