This document provides instructions for students to prepare and present their PS1 presentations in tutorial groups. Students will present on a social or environmental problem they previously investigated, explain their proposed solution, and argue why their topic merits further study. They will receive peer feedback using marking rubrics and improve their presentations based on this feedback before uploading them to NILE Journal. The tutor will then grade the uploaded work using the rubrics. Students are asked to record preparation work in their PS1 journal.

1. FDN016
Week 2
Briefing on PS1 Presentation
Assignment
Tap into SEATs
Sign the Google Register
Record all your prep work in your PS1 Journal
[not in Journal A, because that is for AS1 work]

2. Starter
• From last weeks workshops note down
• 3 things that you remember
• 3 questions or things that you want clarified
• Share these with a neighbour on your table
• Compile a common list
• Share these with the next table
• Compile these into a class list
• You have 15 mins

3. Issues and challenges
• Timing of classes and attendance
• Class starts at 10 past the hour prompt
• Email me if you can’t make class, or add a note in the register
• I do workshops, attendance and participation is mandatory
• You can’t just ‘read the slides’ afterwards- you need to help colleagues in class
• Editing Journals and using comments
• This is switched off so that we can see your editing and improvements
• Don’t worry, making mistakes safely and improving your work is part of the
design of the module
• Personal Communication devices
• When in class, step away from the devices

4. Recap so far
• We have started Phase A, and you should be
working on Task A1
• Right now we are going to start the PS1
presentation assignment
• I will brief you and catch up with students who
are starting late for the next 2-3 weeks
• The assignment preparation and presentations
will be in your tutor groups ONLY
• We will restart with Session TC3 on week 5 or 6,
depending on how quickly we get PS1 finished
AS1

5. THE ASSIGNMENT
Prepare a presentation
• Presentation must contain information on:
1. The social problem that you worked on in the previous module
2. A summary of the investigations you did to prepare for that
3. What you proposed to solve the social or environmental problem at the end
of the module
4. Why you think your social or environmental problem is worth your whole
team investigating in more detail
• Enough material to present and engage with an audience for a
maximum of 10 minutes (between 5-20 minutes).

6. Prepare a presentation (do this at home and
with tutor support)
• Presentation must contain information on:
1. The social problem that you worked on in the previous module
• This can be an environmental problem
• This can be something you have encountered in your own experience
2. A summary of the investigations you did to prepare for that
• You need to keep a note of what you did to find out about that problem/issue
• Do you experience this issue yourself?
• Have you searched the literature on NELSON?
• You can prepare for this in your tutorial time
3. What you proposed to solve the social or environmental problem at the end of the module
• This can come directly from the module work from the previous module, or your previous experience
4. Why you think your social or environmental problem is worth your whole team investigating in more detail
• Make your case why you think your topic/issue is worth further investigation- is is widespread, urgent, particularly relevant to students?
• Enough material to present and engage with an audience for a maximum of 10 minutes (between 5-20
minutes).
• You are not actually going to progress with this investigation, you are only practicing making the case for a project. We will
stick with ‘student food poverty’.
• You present on your OWN topic to the team

7. Scheme
of
Work

8. Workshop Procedure
• In groups of 5, present to each other using your prepared
presentational material
• Have a discussion/debate about whose social/environmental issue
could be taken forward for further investigation in a module like this,
at this university, by you, over 26 weeks
• Discuss and agree whose proposal would be most viable
• Use the Marking Rubrics forms provided by your tutor to propose a
grade for each other’s work
• Make sure the forms are carefully and correctly completed, and hand
them in

9. Your actual full name and student number, not nickname or a scribble
The name and ID of the student you are marking
This is what should be in the presentation
Talk about and agree what POSITIVE feedback you would want to get
yourself, and therefore what you would want to give
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10. Submission
• After the workshops you are free to improve your presentation work,
but write notes in the presentation ppt about what you have done to
improve your work.
• Upload your presentation to the NILE Journal before 8th November
2019
• Your tutor will use the Marking Rubrics forms to inform their grading
of your uploaded work

11. Preparation work
• Agree the members of your team- preferably with DIFFERENT topics to talk about
• Have a look back at your previous FDN work
• Decide on a social or environmental problem topic that you would like to present
on
• Make sure you still have enough material from last year to use
• Look at the assignment brief (red notes): do you all understand it?
• Look at the marking rubrics: do you understand how you are going to be marked?
• What help do you need from your tutor?
• Which week/session would your team like to present?
• Record some notes in PS1 journal

12. Questions?
• PLENARY: In PS1 journal note down 3 things that surprised you from
today’s workshop, and three things that you want to learn more
about.
• NEXT: If this briefing goes well, we can recap and review Task A1 and
progress to TC3 Root Definitions