Creative Presentation of Research Findings Create and present a digital presentation of your Capstone Paper. You may use PowerPoint or any other digital presentation software, but I am not looking for slide after slide of bullet points. This is a creative assignment. Use color. Use pictures. Use bubblegum. Use whatever you want. Present your information in whatever creative format you choose. Please know that this is an important assignment. Give yourself permission to celebrate your success. I look forward to seeing your imagination soar! ——————————————————————————————————————- Hello everyone, Here is a little guidance about the creative assignment. First of all, please know there is an extremely broad canvas to accomplish this assignment. There is a pedagogical intent behind this assignment. It is included in the course to provide opportunity to assess another aspect of creative problem solving. In other words, you′ve been given a task with few direct instructions. What are you going to do? The idea is rooted in self-directed learning and problem-based learning, which asks students to think creatively to solve real-world problem. Now, the real-world problem here is not earth-shattering, but it is connected to learning styles, communication skills, interpersonal skills, presentation skills, technology acumen (potentially), and above all else growth mindset. Maybe you are extremely creative, and this assignment excites you. If so, you may have struggled with the minutia of the actual research paper, and you are thinking, ″Finally. This is something fun!″ Maybe you are detail oriented and structured, and the process of writing the research paper never gave you a second thought. You just rode through each aspect until you got to the end–but now, faced with an assignment that asks you to tap into a part of yourself you feel much less confident about, and the result is a mental block about how to actually manifest this assignment.How can you create something if you can′t see what it′s supposed to be? These are very logical questions. I′m sure that each one of you have a personal variant of these two ends of the spectrum. My response, is, ″Outstanding! The assignment is already accomplishing its goal!″ I want to gently nudge you outside of your comfort zone and ask you to ″interpret″ this assignment in anyway you want to. Capitalize on any expertise, interest, or talent you had coming into the class. You can do a skit, write a blog, create a video or podcast, do a PowerPoint, write an essay, produce a video essay. . . or you can do any of thousands of things I haven′t even thought of. My only caveat is that it must be connected to your work this semester. Now…think about what I just said. Part of your work this semester was also the reflective journal entries. Maybe, you would rather focus on the process of having created the Capstone paper than on the actual findings of the paper itself. I will accept that as an alternative ″content″ for this assignment. The grading rubric has four indicatorsPreview the document • Creativity: The assignment submitted must be an original piece expressing student vision, informed by independent choice, perspective, and/or values. • Knowledge: The assignment submitted reveals student knowledge of the content, concepts, and/or contextual interpretation. • Tools/Techniques: The assignment submitted demonstrates awareness of and ability to use the tools and techniques for completion of creative piece. • Reflection: The assignment explains or is presented in a way so that the creative piece and/or the process/findings demonstrate a meaningful result. To paraphrase: • Did you create it yourself based on the content of the course, or did you “borrow” something from someone else? • Did you demonstrate an aspect of what you learned or is there a disconnect between the piece and the content of the semester” • Did you take care to do a good job, or did you just throw something together at the last minute? • Did you demonstrate a sense of meaningfulness, or do you have absolutely no personal connection to the piece at all?