Math 411: More Presentation Feedback

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

More Presentation Feedback

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Flora, Yolanda & Athena (Visual Perception & body Image)

*good use of cue cards
* does the idea of perception an better pay apply to grades and academics? Meaning, do teachers give more attractive people better grades?
* Timing was good in presentation
* Check out the golden ratio as it relates to the human body
* Check out Dawn Loggins' story
* Is her story supported by your research findings?
* Careful when you explain cosmetic and/or plastic surgery changes to the body. Genetics is pre-determined and has a much broader impact on appearance.
8 well done overall.

Jeremy & Wynnie (justifiable homicide)

* careful when comparing Canadian and US legal systems
* consider good samaritan laws in both countries
* colour code graphs between boys and girls for clarity
* careful using a US case (Trayvon Martin) when discussing Canadian law
* good delivery and presentation
* balance size of graph with information in the key
* how does wartime play into this topic (WWI or WWII)
* avoid using wikipedia as a primary source
* good paraphrasing and not reading slides, facing the audience

Ashwin & Malcolm (fast food crackdown)

* great delivery
* good video clip
* nice comparison of costs, salt & sugar content and percentage of daily nutritional intake
* balance size of graph with information in the key
* "golden brown food" and product marketing
* Fast Food Nation book for your reference
* I didn't see a frequency table in your data
* good paraphrasing and not reading slides, facing the audience

Celina, Melanie, Simona (Teen Depression)

* good paraphrasing and not reading slides, facing the audience
* careful with language like bipolar (clarify when needed)
* balance size of graph with information in the key
* great intro with questions and facts around risk factors - it drew student attention to the topic
* great compare and contrast of the facts and figures
* good use of predictions with your survey results
* The Q&A at the end revealed good understanding of the topic
* Great choice of video clip
* Nice connection between depression, suicide and substance abuse

Jamie, Susan, Lucas (exercise)

* balance size of graph with information in the key
* lots of great info
* try to balance response to Q&A at the end
* reduce distracting animation by group members
* fun video clip but try to highlight the research findings in a slide after presentation
* good paraphrasing for the most part

Feedback Response - What is it?

As we discussed in class today, the last piece of this project is your feedback submission from your group. I would like you to prepare a response to the feedback that has been provided by classmates and me following each of your presentations. The purpose or goal in this feedback is for your group to demonstrate that you understand how you could improve on your presentation in the future. You need not respond to every question and comment but you should have an overall idea of the shortcomings of your work and share them in this submission. While you are not required to submit a feedback response, those received will be evaluated and will in no way reduce your mark for this unit. Please seek clarification from me as needed on this.

3 comments:

AnonymousNovember 21, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Ashwin
I researched the golden brown diet and found it VERY unlike me. Also, I found out my parents usually shop around the edge of the grocery store (yay veggies!)
The fast food nation book looks interesting; I might check it out.
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AnonymousNovember 22, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Malcolm

We edited the presentation and included the frequency table and added the references. I have started to read Fast Food Nation and found it pretty interesting.
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Common types of graph
Graph type	Description	Used for
Line graph	Displays a series of dots connected by lines. When time is on the horizontal axis the plot is called a time-series graph. In such graphs the slope of the line between two points represents the rate of change in that variable over time	Line graphs are used to show patterns or trends in the measured variable (Y) as a result of changes in the size of the independent variable (X).
Scatterplot	(X,Y) points are plotted without a connecting line. A best fit line may or may not be fitted to the data	Used to display or assess the relationship between two variables
Vertical bar graph	Rectangular bars are plotted with vertical height of each bar representing the value of the measured (dependent) variable. Since X represents discrete data, there should be spaces between bars on the X axis. Generally preferred over horizontal bar graphs since the assignment of independent and dependent variables to the X and Y axes then match those used with line graphs.	Used to display the values of two or more different types / levels of the independent variable.
Horizontal bar graph	Similar to vertical bar charts except the categories of the independent variable are assigned to the Y axis and the value of each measured variable is represented as the horizontal length of the bar. Useful when category names are too long to fit at the base of column	Used to display the amounts / levels scores for different types independent variable.
Histogram	Looks similar to a vertical bar chart but Y axis data is always frequency. Also no spaces should be left between bars unless a category has zero frequency.	Used to display count (frequency, number of times something occurs) of data points falling within various ranges within a data set
Pie chart	Circular chart divided into segments (slices) with the size of each segment being proportional to the size (percent) of the quantity being represented within the overall sample. If values are not markedly different, differences may not be easy to decipher. Labeling pie segments with their actual values overcomes this problem.	Compares a small number of categories.