Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Multimedia

Motivation and emotion
Multimedia - Creator guidelines

Online multimedia presentation to accompany the book chapter

Summary

Online multimedia presentation up to 3 mins; Record and share an online presentation about the key problem(s) and answer(s) for a unique, specific motivation or emotion topic. Address the same topic as covered in the book chapter. Worth 20%.

Overview

Create and share an online multimedia presentation which engagingly explains the problem and possible solutions suggested by psychological theory and research for the motivation or emotion topic covered in the book chapter.

Guidelines

Follow these guidelines in preparing a Multimedia presentation (and address the marking criteria):

Overview: The presentation should explain the motivation or emotion problem, key points (related to theory and research), and emphasise practical, take-away messages.
Style: The style is open - for example, the presentation could be in third person, second person, or first person narrative point of view.
Format: The format is open - for example, the presentation could be a screencast, slidecast, animation, or video. The emphasis is on demonstrating effective use of basic online multimedia tools to communicate key ideas.
Professionalism: Better quality productions tend to be scripted beforehand and involve at least a few takes
Location: The hosting location for the recording is open - it should be available for public viewing online, using a web browser, and without having to download and play locally. Possible hosting spaces include:
1. Public archive - e.g., Wiki commons or archive.org
2. Slide-hosting with audio - e.g., slideshare, prezi
3. Screencast recording & hosting - e.g., screenr, jing, myBrainshark, screencastomatic
4. Video recording/hosting/streaming - e.g., youtube, vimeo, ustream
5. Animation - e.g., animoto, goanimate, muvizu
Equipment: To create and share a multimedia presentation, you will need access to a recording device (e.g., computer, tablet, or phone) connected to the internet and a microphone (better sound quality will be achieved with a plug-in microphone).
Length: 3 minutes (max.). No minimum. Beyond 3 minutes will not be counted for marking purposes.
Copyright: Indicate a copyright license (e.g., in the description). Preferably put the recording in the public domain or apply a Creative Commons license (e.g., Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) so that it can be re-used.
Attribution: Acknowledge sources in a list of references (at the end of the presentation and/or in the description field). Make sure you have permission to re-use any copyright restricted content, such as images, and acknowledge the sources of such content.
Links: Provide a clickable, working hyperlink from the multimedia presentation to the online book chapter. Also provide a link from the book chapter to the multimedia presentation (by adding {{MECR|1=the website address}} underneath the title). However, do not include repeated mentions of "my book chapter" etc. during the presentation. The presentation should serve as "stand alone" piece of work (i.e., be entirely self-contained without the viewing needing to read the chapter).

Marking criteria

Multimedia presentations will be marked against three criteria:

Structure and content (30%): Well-designed and -organised content which overviews a specific problem and explains the application of motivation or emotion theory(ies) and research.
Communication (50%): Clear, well-paced, engaging style of visual and audio communication.
Production quality (20%): Informative title, description, license, and other meta-data. Clear picture and sound quality. Evidence of permission to re-use material which is copyrighted by others.

Structure and content

Structure: Well organised, with logical and integrated flow between concepts
Content: Well-selected focus on key theory and research concepts

Communication

Clarity: Clear communication of ideas using sound and image
Pacing: Well-paced communication of ideas using sound and image
Engaging: Engaging presentation style (e.g., use examples)

Production quality

Meta-data: Title, description, link to and from chapter
Picture quality: Picture (e.g., text and images) are clearly visible.
Sound quality: Audio is clearly audible (e.g., use a microphone)
Licensing: Copyright ownership and license clearly indicated as appropriate for the hosting platform

Rubric

This marking rubric describes typical characteristics of multimedia presentations at each grade level:

Grade	Description
HD (High Distinction)	An excellent, professional multimedia presentation which effectively shows how key concepts from motivation or emotion theory and research can be applied to a specific, applied problem. The presentation is well-paced and clearly structured. The presentation is well-scripted and practiced. Audio and video quality are excellent. Engages the viewer and retains interest. Production quality makes effective use of simple tools.
DI (Distinction)	A very good multimedia presentation. Key concepts are well covered and summarised. The presentation is scripted and practiced. These presentations may be more pedestrian or lacking somewhat in quality of insight or production compared to HD presentations. Nevertheless, these presentations provide valuable and useful summaries of key relevant theory and research about the topic.
CR (Credit)	The presentation does a competent job of informing the viewer about key theory and research about a specific topic. Unlike higher-grade presentations, this presentation has some notable flaw(s) or omission(s) in either content and/or style (e.g., coverage may be unbalanced or an aspect of production quality (such as audio) may be somewhat difficult for a viewer to follow). Nevertheless, the presentation successfully communicates the main ideas and information.
P (Pass)	The presentation is sufficient as a basic recorded presentation of main psychological science theory and research in relation to an applied problem. However, these presentation are typically rudimentary and/or pedestrian (e.g., rapid, monotone verbalisation of dot-points) and may exhibit technical problems (e.g., poor sound quality). The presentation may lack depth of insight and examples, or be overly detailed, but nevertheless succeeds in communicating the main ideas in an understandable manner. Pass-level presentations often aren't particularly well planned or scripted and may be too long or short.
F (Fail)	The presentation does not provide a sufficiently indepth or watchable overview of the problem and what is known from a motivation or emotion theory and research point of view. There may be little or poor preparation of material and/or poor production quality. Such presentations may attempt to compensate for a lack of adequate content by overly focusing on a narrow aspect of the topic (missing the target). Technical problems may include poor quality picture, audio, or both. The presentation is typically frustrating for a user to watch because it is difficult to understand the presentation's purpose and/or to learn from the presented material.

How this assessment exercise addresses the learning outcomes

Learning outcome	Description
Be able to integrate theories and current research towards explaining the role of motivation and emotions in human behaviour.	The multimedia exercise requires concise communication about key psychological theories and research for a specific topic. Visualisation of ideas and examples are encouraged, to help illustrate how relevant theories and research apply to understanding human behaviour.