Unit 4, Act. 1: Wrapping it Up, the Culminating
Situation:
Students have worked throughout the semester on projects related to engineering robotics that incorporate electrical circuit theory, electronics, prototyping, programming, computer interfacing, with microcontrollers. Throughout this semester students recorded their efforts, process, and learning using daily/weekly report 
and an open wiki/forum based on a HTML wiki template. The daily/weekly report gave students a method to record their daily work completed in class and at the end of the week a summary. The moodle wiki gave students the ability show their learning process through a series of common headings:
- Group Members, Positions, and Responsibilities
- Planning/Steps
- Supply and Materials Chart
- Resources
- Work in Process (weekly progress)
This allowed students to not only report all facets of their learning and progress biweekly, but also share with the rest of the class and others their project efforts and process live.
Problem/Challenge:
For the end of the semester, students are to refine and finalize your wiki for presentation with their completed project(s) showing evidence of their progress, effort, learning, and accomplishments. Key elements/information must show personal added resources directly related to your project such as actual pictures, coding, steps you and/or your group took, trial and error with solutions, etc. Presentation to include a slideshow, showing key elements including project details, progress, steps, learning, process, future plans, and end product to class and instructor. Wiki and presentation should be about 10 minutes, no more than 15 minutes with a live project demonstration with support documentation in wiki.
Each student will also fill in a Individual Work & Group Dynamics feedback paper for individual work in their groups based on:
- Regular attendance at group meetings
- Contribution of ideas for the task
- Researching, analyzing and preparing material for the task
- Contribution to co-operative group process
- Supporting and encouraging group members
- Practical contribution to end-product
Also students will have an in-class online test to complete based on work covered in the course. Check your exam schedule for time and location. This will include safety, electrical circuit theory and calculations, basic electronics, basic programming, microcontrollers, and project refinement and development.
Investigation/Ideas:
At this point you should have a lot of raw progress entries in your wiki and will probably need to clean it up a bit. Once that is done, a PPT presentation reviewing the project, group, initial goals, steps taken, issues and set-backs, learning process, future plans, and end product are to be well communicated both verbally and visually.
- Creating Cool Slides
- Death by Power Point
- Before you give a presentation
- Planning an effective presentation
- Delivering an effective presentation
Create/Construct:
The following points should be followed to complete the requirements for the culminating assignments:
- Review with your group information to support your microcontroller project progress, effort, process and product and add to to your wiki if necessary.
- The wiki should be clear, concise, and to the point with supporting data, images, and steps taken throughout the semester.
- At the top, add an appropriate picture of the groups final picture of your project. Any additional videos can also be added, using Youtube embedding.
- Using presentation software, put a presentation together to compliment the wiki, submit to Slideshare and embed into your wiki at the end ready for show.
- Present to the class, if you have not already done so with a 10 minute presentation and no more than 5 min on actual project. Project may be presented first if group feels this will better support your whole presentation..
- Each student will fill in a Individual Work & Group Dynamics feedback PDF or Doc paper to fill out and return to your instructor using Moodle.
- Review your past work on safety, electrical circuit theory and calculations, basic electronics, basic programming, microcontrollers, and project refinement and development, to prepare for your online in-class exam.
Evaluation:
Presentation order will be randomly selected for presentation order, 3 per period, starting five days prior to culminating cut-off day which gives you two days when come back before start of presentations. If group is not ready on their day, a late penalty of 10% will be deducted, and move to the end of the presentation line. First three who volunteer to go first will receive bonus marks 9, 6, 3% towards, their presentation mark.
| Evaluation Breakdown Component Descriptions For Presentation | Marks |
|---|---|
| Always double check that you have completed all components for full marks. | |
| Microcontroller Project Presentation - wiki-40, slide show-20, and live project demo-10 | 70 |
| Individual Work & Group Dynamics- meetings, contribution, research, co-operative, etc. | 30 |
| Task-Process Report - Filled out - daily and weekly summary sections | 10/d |
| Moodle test - Based on above work covered, log-in here, help with quiz access/process | 40 |
| Total Marks | 150+ |