Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Multimedia/Feedback/2010

General feedback about the
multimedia presentation exercise

This page provides a summary of feedback about the Motivation and emotion student multimedia presentations.

Marks

The mean mark was 72/100 without late submission penalties and 69/100 after late penalties.

Example presentations

One good way to get further feedback about the multimedia presentation exercise is to watch some which attained a high grade. Also note that feedback about each presentation can be found on the respective talk pages.

Here's a list of some very good presentations:

1. Motivation and dementia
2. Overeating
3. Ekman's basic emotions
4. Motivation and aggression in the workplace
5. Neurobiology of aggression
6. Happiness
7. Depression
8. Motivation and mate-seeking behaviour
9. Emotion and facial expression
10. Paraphilias
11. Dieting
12. Motivational toxicity

Marking criteria

Below are some general comments about this exercise.

Overall

1. Overall, the standard varied widely, however none of the presentations submitted on time failed. Presentations ranged from simple bullet-point text and a monotone reading of a script through to highly creative and engaging interview-style presentations.

Structure and content

1. The best presentations focused on presentating a smaller amount of carefully selected content.
2. Many presentations tried to present too much in too little time.
3. In the general introduction, at the beginning establish what is the topic? Why is it important? What will I learn by watching this?
4. Image attributions wer often not included. Most presentations violated copyright by using non-free images and used them without acknowledgement.
5. Several presentations did not indicate a copyright license.

Communication

1. Engage the listener by establishing why the topic is important.
2. In some presentations the sound was too quiet.
3. In many presentations, the narration was too fast.
4. In many presentations, the narrating voice could have used greater tonal variation to help arouse and maintain interest.
5. Presentations that "took a risk" were often some of the better ones (e.g., by taking a creative approach - e.g., the presenter of the happiness chapter dressed up as a clown).
6. Slide animation can be used effectively particularly to reveal bullet points one by one.
7. Font colour could be different for key words
8. Best to use font types such as Arial to aid clarity and readability.

Production quality

1. Production quality was generally good.
2. Avoid clashing background music with voice and vision - it's hard to concentrate on the key point. Some presentations used a short musical intro and conclusion which worked very well.
3. Animation of bullet-points can help to focus viewer attention on each point
4. Presentations were in the following formats (from most to least): screenr, youtube, archive.org. Youtube was an excellent platform for viewing and disseminating.

More info

1. Some of the commonly repeated feedback is available here: {{Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Multimedia/Feedback/2010}}

See also

• Marking criteria
• Marking dispute process