Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Multimedia/Feedback/2010

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