Multimedia Presentations

This semester, you will be responsible for a 10-minute multimedia presentation.

Requirements:

• The presentation must be no more than 10 minutes in length.
• There should be 10-12 slides (including introduction and conclusion) and should contain least one video clip—absolutely no more than two minutes in length.
• On the day of your presentation, email your presentation (or a link) to me at dhdelao@gmail.com.

Also:

• You must provide your own laptop.
• You may utilize any presentation program you like (e.g PowerPoint, Keynote). However, please sort out any technical issues BEFORE your presentation date (our room's projection system can be found throughout campus).
• Macs will require an Apple-specific adapter to connect to the university’s projection system. Newer model PCs with HDMI-only connections will also require special adapters. 
• You must present from a downloaded version of your presentation (e.g. PowerPoint, Keynote); DO NOT present directly from Google Docs online.
• Presentations without an introduction and/or conclusion cannot score higher than a C You may be docked for a lack of preparedness

Topics:

1. What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? 
2. "One Country, Two Systems": On China and Hong Kong
3. A Culture in Focus: The Maori
4. The Great Barrier Reef: System Collapse 
5. Just a Country Girl (from Aichi Prefecture): The Tomi Fujiyama Story
6. World Cryptids: Orang Pendek, Champ, and Mokèlé-mbèmbé
7. How it Works: The Ivory Trade 
8. Eurovision 101
9. Understanding Blood Diamonds
10. Cricket 101
11. Mind Your Manners: Etiquette Around the World
12. Four Places to Visit—Before They Disappear 
13. Striking Terror: Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, and ISIS
14. Jack the Ripper's London
15. Blood in the Water: Inside the Taiji Dolphin Trade
16. All About Eco-Tourism
17. Divorce Proceedings: The Secession Movements of Quebec, Sicily, and Chiapas
18. Dark Tourism: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Aokigahara Forest, and La Isla de las Muñecas
19. What to Know About Vladimir Putin
20. If You Have to Ask How Much it Costs ... : Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Resorts 
21. A Brief History of Anime
22. What Happens in Davos?
23. How it Works: The Heroin Trade 
24. Understanding the Arab Spring
25. The Alternative Paris: What Most Tourists Don’t Do or See 
26. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Why We Need It
27. In Too Deep: What is the Mariana Trench?
28. Inside Global Sex Tourism 
29. What to Know About Kim Jong-un
30. Lost Cities: Derinkuyu, Angkor, Pompeii, and Palenque
31. All About the FIFA World Cup
32. How it Works: Human Trafficking 
33. Access Forbidden: Snake Island, Poveglia Island, and North Sentinel Island
34. World Festivals: La Tomatina, Holi, Il Palio di Siena, and Burning Man 
35. Hip Hop Goes Global: Three International Acts to Watch
36. Strange Places: Hoia Baciu, The Mapimí Silent Zone, and The Waverly Hills Sanatorium
37. Buyer Wanted: Why Nobody Wants the  Olympics Anymore
38. Take Us to Your Leader: The Plans for Making Alien First Contact
39. The Hunt is On: 21st Century Treasure Hunters
40. The Great Canal Cities of the World
41. Hoof!: All about the English Premier League

Schedule:

Week 6: Mon 2.25/Wed 2.27                                    

1. Shadeh S. - What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? 
2. Isabel O. - Dark Tourism: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Aokigahara Forest, and La Isla de las Muñecas

Week 7: Mon 3.4/Wed 3.6                          

1. Emily Li - Eurovision 101
2. David C. - World Festivals: La Tomatina, Holi, Polio de Siena and The Electric Daisy Carnival

Week 8: Mon 3.11/Wed 3.13

1. Chien L. - Jack the Ripper's London 
2. James D. - The Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Why We Need It

Week 9: Mon 3.18/Wed 3.20

1. Marco M. - Strange Places: Hoia Baciu, The Mapimí Silent Zone, and The Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Week 10: Mon 3.25/Wed 3.27 

1. Albert T. - World Cryptids: Orang Pendek, Champ, and Mokèlé-mbèmbé
2. Tommy T. - If You Have to Ask How Much it Costs ... : Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Resorts 

Week 12: Mon 4.8/Wed 4.10

1. Alyssiana H. - How it Works: The Heroin Trade

Week 13: Mon 4.15/Wed 4.17

1. Peter L. - All about the FIFA World Cup 
2. Nav D. - Buyer Wanted: Why Nobody Wants the  Olympics Anymore

Week 14: Mon 4.22/Wed 4.24

1. Andrew C. - What to Know About Vladimir Putin
2. Sarah N. - Inside Global Sex Tourism 
3. Michael N. - Striking Terror: Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, and ISIS

Week 15: Mon 4.29/Wed 5.1

1. Ryan R. - Cricket 101
2. Fidel N. - Take Us to Your Leader: The Plans for Making Alien First Contact

Week 16: Mon 5.6/Wed 5.8                        

1. Kelly P. - How it Works: Human Trafficking 
2. Victor N. - In Too Depths: What is the Mariana Trench? 
3. Eric L. - Hoof!: All about the English Premier League

Week 17: Mon 5.13

1. Quang N. - The Hunt is On: 21st Century Treasure Hunters