Previewing what needs to be done

After a good, long break we had a small group today (thanks to those who made contact who weren't here).

The presentations will be taking place two weeks today (6th May). I asked those who were in today to draft up a plan for the presentation. If you weren't here today, can you email a plan by next week?

The following will give you some idea of what your plan should cover: what is the presentation about?; how will you structure your presentation (ie. what will come first, second, third etc.) Some folk may structure their presentation around a chronology of the photographer's life - but there are other ways of doing it. Look at the post above for a suggestion of a presentation structure which you guys came up with. A plan should also mention something about the technical aspects of the presentation - are you using PowerPoint? How will you display the images if you aren't (you don't want to spend lots of time fiddling with different files on the computer).

The folk who were in today put their plans together in less than ten minutes - so you don't need to go into a lot of detail. We just need evidence that you have thought through how your presentation will be delivered.

I also mentioned that, after the presentation, there are two other tasks to complete. One is a written piece of about 600 words. We have some degree of flexibility with this, but the simplest option would be to write up your presentation (or part of it).

The second thing that needs to be done is a reading assessment which needs to be done in college. The evaluations you have been doing on websites will have prepared you for this. This can be done at any time between now and the end of the course (3 June). It will consist of answering a series of questions on a magazine article on the photographer Bob Carlos Clarke. Click here to get a flavour of his work.

As for next week, that will be the last week before the presentations and some people will be coming in to run through at least some of their talk in preparation for the week after.