Week 7

Materials

📕 Class slides

🗂️ Presentations shared folder

🔄 Feedback grid for Block 1

🔄 Feedback grid for Block 2

Final presentations

📗 Final presentations logistics slides - Jamie Montgomery, MEDS Program Director

📙 Final presentations schedule

📗 Ten ways to improve presentations - Dr. Alexandra Phillips, Asst. Teaching Professor

Schedule

Today the class will be divided in two blocks from 12:30 to 2:10 and from 2:10 to 3:30. Each team will present and provide feedback to other teams as follows:

Your theam should work on their project outside of their “presentation block”. The following rooms are reserved for you so you have a dedicated workspace during our usual class time. You’re welcome to use other places to work.

Upcoming deadlines

Reminder

Have you let clients, external advisors, friends or family you want to invite know when your final presentation is?

To do by next week

1. 📥 Submit final abstract and acknowledgements

Due when? Due on Friday 5/15.

How to submit: Upload to this shared Google drive as Word (.doc) or Google doc format, not PDF.

Instructions

Abstracts and acknowledgments will be posted to the Bren website on your individual project pages and linked to the digital event program.

  • Upload your abstract and acknowledgments in a single file to this shared Google drive.
  • Include your group name in the file name.
  • Word (.doc) or Google doc format please, not PDF (must be copy & paste-able).

Abstract instructions:

  • The abstract is a one-paragraph brief summary of the Capstone Project, meant for a non-technical audience. The length of the abstract should be roughly 200 words. It can be the same as the one in your Technical Documentation.
  • If your project title has changed, please include the new title in the abstract.
  • Your advisor must approve the final abstract and any title updates before submission.

Acknowledgments instructions:

  • The acknowledgements should include advisors, professionals, organizations, funding sources, etc. that assisted the Capstone Project.
  • Each acknowledgment should include the person’s name, title (if known), and affiliation or organization.
  • You should obtain authorization from each person or party being acknowledged that their names can be included in the abstract.
  • Be consistent when listing your acknowledgments. You can list several people within an organization. Alphabetical order is preferred if listing several people in the same grouping.
    • Example 1: Joan Dudney, Assistant Professor, Bren School
    • Example 2: Bren School: Max Czapanskiy, Assistant Teaching Professor; Roland Geyer, Professor; Ruth Oliver, Assistant Professor
    • Example 3: The Nature Conservancy: Kelly Easterday, Heather Gately, Moses Katkowski, Diego Ortiz, Dr. Mark Reynolds, and Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

Tip: You can view Bren faculty titles here. Also, if you have an email from someone, you may find their title in their email signature.


2. 🎤 Prepare v.2.0 of final presentation

Due when? Due by next class Monday 5/18.

How to submit: Add slides to shared Google drive.

Instructions
  • Assess or incorporate the feedback you received today and streamline your presentation.
  • Iterate with your faculty advisor, TA, instructor, as needed.
  • You’ve got this! Practice makes progress!


3. 📊 Initiate data archival (if you haven’t already)

Due when? Friday 5/22 is the final due date to archive your capstone project data. This is an academic requirement.

How to submit: Submit data’s DOI or explain why there is no data archival using this Google form.

Instructions

Use this week and next to:

  1. Discuss with your advisor or client what data (if any) should be archived as part of the project deliverables.
  2. If necessary, make an appointment with the RDS team (rds@library.ucsb.edu) to discuss archival of data associated with your capstone project.

Before contacting the Library RDS team or archiving your data, please read through the Archiving and Preserving Your Data information for detailed guidelines about what to archive and the submission process to Dryad.


4. 💥 Keep implementing your project!


Schedule for next class

The class will be divided in two blocks from 1:00 to 2:30 and from 2:30 to 4:00. Each team will present and provide feedback to other teams as follows:

Your theam should work on their project outside of their “presentation block”. The following rooms are reserved for you so you have a dedicated workspace during our usual class time. You’re welcome to use other places to work.