Define Project Concepts

Announcements

• Safelink Phones
• Whitney’s Presentation

Design Notebooks

Let’s take a few minutes to review your Design Notebooks.

Team Pages

Gather with your team & let’s take a few minutes to set up our team pages.

Once you’ve created your team page, add sections (using Heading 2’s) for the following:

• Partner
• Team
• Project Concept

Partner

Identify your partner organization and include links to their website, contacts and any other partner resources.

Here are the partners:

• ISLES, Inc. – Brandon Ritter, britter@isles.org
• TASK – Paulash Banerjee, paulashb@trentonsoupkitchen.org
• NJ Partnership for Healthy Kids – Trenton – Whitney Hendrickson, whendrickson@trentonymca.org
• One Project – Amman Seehra, seehra@gmail.com (USDA)

Team

Identify your team name, and list your team members and their roles.

Project Concept

What are the key elements of a solid project concept?

Project Concept Rubric

• What problem(s) are you solving and what existing alternatives address it/them?
• Who is your target audience? This could be your partners constituencies, but will also likely include your partner’s employees. Consider both.
• What’s your solution?
• Finally, how is your solution unique relative to other existing solutions?

Concept Presentations

What makes a good presentation?

• How to sound smart in your TedX talk
• ReadWriteThink Oral Presentation Rubric

Assignment

Reading

• Presenting Design
• ReadWriteThink Oral Presentation Rubric

Design Notebook (Individually)

• Create a new slide in your Design Notebooks and title it with your team’s name
• Include a link to your team’s page on the class blog
• Make sure your team’s Project Concept Document is linked to your team page on the blog
• List all the members of your team and what their role will be on your team
• Write a brief paragraph describing your specific role in more detail

Project Concept Presentations (Team)

• Your team’s Producer will create a new Google Slide document and title it with the name your team has chosen for your project
• Working together as a team, using the project concept rubric above, create a slide for each element of your project concept
• Once complete, post a link to the project concept Google Slide document to your team page on the class blog – make sure you set the sharing permissions on the document so “anyone with the link can view” it
• Next week your team will present your project concept in class
• Each team member will present at least one slide

*Submit the link to your Design Notebook to Canvas before we meet again next week