Terroir FWS, TESC 2015-16
Presented in class 11/17/15
Fall Quarter Case Study Group Presentations: Guidelines and Evaluation Rubric
Overview.
Week 10 class time is dedicated to peer-teaching and learning via Case Study Group
Presentations. The overall goals of the presentations are to convince the audience that you
have creatively engaged learning about Terroir, and have made your learning useful and
visible to others via content examples that you created for the Wordpress case study web
pages.
Guidelines.
 Each group has 20 minutes to present, followed by 10 minutes of answering
questions from the audience.
 Each group member should have an audible role in the presentation. Everyone
speaks and nobody should dominate the presentation.
 How you assign presentation topics to individuals and how many minutes you give
each topic is up to the group. Practice with a timer! If someone is suddenly
unavailable to present make sure you have a plan for who will cover that material in
the presentation.
 Presenters should utilize some form of presentation software such as Powerpoint,
Keynote, or Prezi. The Presentation software, and any other media used in the
presentation, should serve as a way to organize and show highlights of your
learning, not dominate or distract from the presenters explaining their learning.
 Presenters are responsible for ensuring that any electronic hardware or software is
compatible with itself and with the classroom facilities. Check this beforehand.
The Challenge. Simply showing examples from your three web sites won’t meet the
expectations of this presentation. Imagine that you are isolated from the internet and won’t
have access to your websites. Create a presentation with key parts abstracted from the
websites and integrate these into your presentation. Key parts to include are detailed
below. With 20 minutes, consider the introduction and roles should take 1-2 minutes, with
the following six categories taking about three minutes each. Note that this is good practice
for job interviews, as you are often given about three minutes to answer each question in an
interview.
Presentations topics and evaluation rubric:
Topic
Group Introduction and
Roles
Details
What did each person take
leadership for during the case
study projects?
Terroir definition
What is your group’s preferred
definition of “terroir”? Answer
in under 50 words and cite
who you borrowed ideas from.
Evaluation Criteria
Each person introduces
themselves and very briefly
states what roles they took
on.
Clear definition?
Under 50 words?
Citations?
Tasting Terroir
Show an example of how you
expressed tasting terroir.
Logo
Show one logo your group
designed.
Explain its aesthetic appeal and
significance to Terroir.
Within the permaculture
section, what “other” category
did your group add and how
did this enhance your holistic
understanding of permaculture
and chocolate, wine, or coffee?
Explain what you learned
about conducting interviews.
Explain what you learned
about audio file management
using an audio example your
group used (max 1 minute
recording).
Explain highlights in learning
new media technology.
Any challenges and
workarounds you would like to
teach the audience?
Permaculture and Terroir
Field Study - interviews
Media Studies:
Wordpress, Instagram,
Audacity, Zotero
Clear descriptions and/or
media work from any of their
3 case studies that directly
address tasting terroir.
Content? Aesthetics? Citation
if modified?
Clearly stated the “other”
category added to web pages.
Demonstrated a relationship
to these “other” categories
and overall permaculture
understanding.
Adequately explained
learning both interviewing
skills and audio file
management.
Demonstrated a recording
used on a webpage?
Included specific examples of
learning new media
technology.
Any challenges and
workarounds are relevant to
the media skills everyone was
introduced to.
Faculty evaluation of presentations will be incorporated into individual student narrative
evaluations under Terroir Field Projects: Applied Media Studies. Individual evaluations for
this section will include a statement about individual contribution to case studies and their
role in the group presentations. Carefully review the presentation evaluation rubric while
thinking about designing your group presentation.