1. Final schedule for the reporting on Sept 26-30 can be found in the previous blog entry. Check the time slot where your group signed up and make sure to show up.
2. The 30-minute time slot is devoted for: 1) reporting, 15 minutes; 2) question and answer, 10 minutes; 3) transition between reporting groups, 5 minutes.
3. It is recommended that groups use powerpoint presentation (or any similar software application) for the reporting. It is the responsibility of the groups to assure that the presentation as well as videos, audio files, etc. is operational. It is also the responsibility of the group to come on time for setting up and other concerns (i.e., uploading of ppt to the laptop, and others).
4. Dressing up for the reporting is optional. You will be graded according to the content and clarity of your research and presentation, not according to how you comply with corporate etiquette. Check the class syllabus for the criteria for grading.
5. Also, you will be graded as a group. While it is ideal that all group members are present in the presentation and reaction, an absence will not affect the grade of that group member, provided that other group members are informed about the absence and they are amenable to it. After all, it is the responsibility of the group to make sure that the time slot they signed up for is agreed to by all members.
Best of luck to you guys! Here are some parting words from the Italian historian Benedetto Croce (History: Its Theory and Practice 1921, p. 12) about his pursuit of historical knowledge:
"(If) it really is history, that is to say, if it means something and is not an empty echo . . . the condition of its existence is that the deed of which the history is told must vibrate in the soul of the historian . . . it is evident that only an interest in the life of the present can move one to investigate past fact. Therefore this past fact does not answer to a past interest, in so far as it is unified with an interest of the present life."
