Capstone Reflection Presentation
This week’s presentation assignment is an opportunity for personal reflection on the course project, the capstone course, and your entire General Education program experience. That reflection allows you to look forward to how the experience transfers to life beyond your college program.
Why is this assignment valuable? As discussed in this week’s lesson, it is a final opportunity to practice, improve, and demonstrate your
- presentation skills
- critical thinking skills
- metacognitive (thinking about your thinking) skills
Be sure they are on full display in this assignment!
Content and Structure:
Use these questions to guide your presentation development. Each bullet contains related questions that could be the general topic of one or more slides in the body of your presentation.
- What went well in your course project development? What did you enjoy or find interesting? What do you think is the best part of your project? How will this be useful in your future?
- What challenges did you face, and how did you address them? How might you continue developing skills to prevent or resolve such challenges in the future?
- Beyond details about your selected technology’s history and application, what did you learn about society and culture, politics, economics, and ethics as impacted by this or other technologies?
- Looking back at your progress through English, Sociology, Speech, Ethics, History, Humanities, Maths and other General Education program courses, what do you perceive is their value as preparation for success in your personal and professional life?
- Considering the General Education Common Learning Outcomes, what are your current strengths and opportunities to develop further? How will you need these skills? How will you continue developing in these areas?
The assignment requires no research, though to help inspire your reflection, you may wish to review your program to see which courses you took, course descriptions, and the Gen Ed program goals and objectives (GECLOs), all of which can be found in the DeVry Academic CatalogLinks to an external site..
Success Tips:
- Be engaging and interesting. Do not copy the questions into your PowerPoint and talk through them as though you are filling out a boring worksheet. Instead, demonstrate your public speaking skills and use the questions as a guide to a more conversational approach.
- Be aware of your role and your audience. Picture yourself sharing your insights in a fairly relaxed but professional meeting with a professor or workplace mentor who has guided you through the course and your college studies. Your audience is interested in you and your continuing personal development.
- Be concise, clear, complete, and correct. Use key words and phrases on your slides, not sentences. Include personal and specific details to provide a complete and accurate understanding of your message. Check spelling, layout, citations and all other aspects of your work. Be sure your narration is audible.
- Balance spoken and visual elements. While what you say is most important, the slides provide a concise textual outline and enriching illustration of your spoken message. Would charts, graphs or other illustrations complement and enhance your spoken message? Might you show artifacts from your project or from other courses? Be professional and creative. Avoid silly stock photos that merely distract.
- Be ethical. If you include information or graphic/visual elements from any sources, acknowledge them with in-text citations where they appear and with full reference entries on a final slide.
- Be prepared. Carefully review the expectations and grading rubric provided below.
Assignment Requirements:
- Visually appealing presentation slide deck with about 8-10 slides (including title, intro, body, conclusion, and references slides).
- Engaging recorded narration about 7-9 minutes long responding to the provided questions.
- Citations of any sources used in the presentation.
