General principles

Speak clearly, and loudly enough to be heard.  Half the battle in getting your audience's attention is (a) establishing your credentials (which you don't need to do in the context of an end-of-quarter presentation to classmates) and (b) showing your interest in the subject and confidence in what you're reporting.

Introduce yourself;  who is on your team?  What were the responsibilities of each team member?
(In a non-classroom context, this is when you (or the person who introduces you) makes clear the type and level of background and expertise you brought to the project you're reporting).

Provide context:

• What is the specific scenario?  ("Our store, named ABC, sells ...  We want to ...")
• What is the general kind of problem?  ("Essentially, this is a retail location problem (or a target marketing problem, or...)"

• What type of approach (from among the approaches learned in class:  analog market area analysis, searching for geographic market segments that meet a priori criteria, etc.)?
• What was your specific research design:  what region?  what data (sources, date, geographic scale)?  what sequence of tasks and analyses?  what software and extensions?

• What should the actor (the store manager, the delivery router, the retailer) do?
• Was your project conclusive?
• What further work would need to be done to yield a robust conclusion?

Suggestions for using presentation software

• It is acceptable to use the software to show a set of static slides (rather than a multi-layered, "zooming, swooshing" presentation).
• Take care in getting figures from one software (e.g., ArcView^TM) into another (e.g., PowerPoint^TM).  The whole presentation should be in one software (the presentation software).  (If you have trouble with this, ask Fred Dent).
• Put relatively little text on each slide;  make notes about what you want to say orally while each slide is being shown.
• More specifically, you'll probably want to produce hard copies of the slides, on which you write the notes that each presenter will speak orally.  It's important that each presenter knows what's going to be on each slide, and knows when to mention what information orally.  (How many times have you heard someone say, "Oops, I should have mentioned on the last slide that ..."  or "Oh, here's the slide I should have been showing when I told you about..." ?)

A single report from the group.  Its outline should essentially be the outline of the presentation (above), but include in writing the text that you presented orally to the class.  See detailed assignment page for more information.

For Geography 367, Winter 2004, turn these in (to Jon Glick) by 4:30 p.m. Friday 12 March.