Turn in a great project.

Before you can turn in a great project, you have to make your project great!   What counts as a great project?  Here are the criteria that we use to evaluate the projects, so make sure that you are maximizing your performance on the most important aspects.

Make it Great!

1. The assignment description says: "The instructional aspect is most important."   Here is what that means for all type of projects in the course.
1. Make sure that the connection to the course concepts is strong and clear.
2. Demonstrate how those concepts help us understand the world better, are relevant, or are helpful in getting things done (like helping organize people to join your FB group, for instance).   
3. Ideally, people who watch or read your project will not just learn about ideas from sociology, but will actually experience some benefit from learning about them. 
1. For instance, if we know that the tragedy of the commons often arises in situations that lack 3rd party enforcement of rules, then students living in shared housing could establish rules and resources to make monitoring and sanctioning more effective.  
1. It is better go beyond simply illustrating a concept.  Do something with it.
4. Do no harm.   
1. Consider how your project will be perceived-- go out of your way to avoid causing harm.
1. Sensitive topics (violence, etc.) may require a disclaimer so that audiences can opt out if they want to.
2. Strive also to have a positive impact of some sort.  For instance, if you address an important social problem, connect your project to organizations that address or try to solve that problem.   
2. The project should have intrinsic value.  That means, that videos should be both informative and interesting to the degree that other people would chose to share them.  Or, for blogs and FB groups, be the sort of group that people would honestly suggest to others to join.
3. Take the time to edit and improve your initial version.   
1. The first iteration can surely be improved.  Take the time to make it more effective. 
2. Remember that this project is public-- make something that you will be proud to associate with your name, on the internet, for a long, long time.
4. Share your project with your TA before it is due. 
1. IF you have questions about how to improve your project--  share your work in progress with your TA and get helpful feedback. 

How to turn it in: 

1. Make sure your project is "live" online.  It takes a little while for videos uploaded to YouTube to become available.  Blog posts and FB posts update pretty much instantly. 
2. Update your project google doc to make sure it has the following information: 
1. Group name
2. Contact person's gmail address
3. Link to project
4. Title of project
5. Brief explanation of project that makes it clear how you used the sociological concepts.
3. Copy and paste items 1-5 into an email
1. Address that email to your TA, and to the gmail address of everyone in your group.
2. Send that email.
4. Copy and paste items 1-5 into a comment on this blog post. 
1. Upload that comment.
2. DO NOT  post your group members contact details on the blog. 
1. No oak ids etc.  Thanks!
2. Leave that info on the google doc.  

The deal with presenting: 

1. Ted, Zeke, Krystal, Rebecca and Jarrid are curating the projects for presentation. 
2. Projects that exceed our quality expectations and are in on time will be selected for presentation in class.   
3. Some projects may require editing and improvement before that can be shown in class.
1. Don't despair--   just edit, improve and submit to present on a later day.
2. Work with your TA on how to improve your project.
4. We will announce projects to be presented for each day in a new blog post.  (and email to the group leaders too).
5. Extra credit will be given to projects that are selected for presentation.  
6. Cheers!