INTERNET PROJECT CLASS 2017 - 2018

GENERAL PROJECT GUIDELINES AND REQUIREMENTS

The four deliverables to validate your project are:

A learning diary	A written report online	Communication throughout the project	An interactive oral presentation

1)    A learning diary/log. 

Including a summary of your work with an approximation of the number of hours you've spent. Please break it down and itemize your work (if possible by date or by general time period).

A MS Word or Google document with a table with several columns is fine for that (Please, not a spreadsheet). Reading things for the project, watching videos for the project, communicating with others (and me), time spent following and commenting on the projects of the other project students are all fine things to count.

You can add your project links and follow the other links from the class blog, http://projects2016-2017.blogspot.frhttp://projects2015-2016.blogspot.fr/ and http://projects2014-2015.blogspot.fr/  with links to previous projects.

Your total project work should account for the equivalent of 2 language credits, i.e. a normal English course. I'd like to see at least around 20 to 30 hours of work accounted for, but it can be more :-). 

(A semester-long class with 15 sessions of 90 minutes is already 22.5 hours, plus homework, so around 30 hours for one course, but we also have some semesters with only 10 class sessions so that works out to less time for the same credits. 10 times 90 minutes is 15 hours plus homework is about 20 hours... That's the low-end.)

2)    A written report online:

A blog or a simple website is fine for that. But something that we can share with other students that gives an overview of your project work and maybe some examples of what you've done. It may include links to other online sources and embedded videos, but should contain at least about 5 pages of text describing your project and highlighting and illustrating some of your investigations.

This report can also be a video that you make to illustrate your work on the project.  (We want to keep this online so please use a pseudo to create it and not necessarily your real name.)

3)    A 20-minute oral presentation of your project (and then 10 or 15 minutes of discussion):

 Preferably using some slideware (PowerPoint, or Prezi-like) to illustrate your main points.  (It would be good to plan to spend at least one preparatory session/meeting with me before the day of the final presentation. Just to be sure it's not a "Death by Powerpoint" presentation. See: http://www.presentationzen.com )

4)    Communication throughout your project:

 Staying in touch with me, ideally every two weeks, at least 6 or 7 times in a semester… by coming to see me, skyping, or at least sending me an email with a progress report.

Post a description of your project for the other students on the class blog, http://projects2016-2017.blogspot.fr

(label “projects”) and communicating in English with people while working on your project-- skype or email or forums using the Internet, or in real-life.

Looking forward to helping you with your projects and discovering your work.

Sophie Pietrucci – sophie.pietrucci@telecom-paristech.fr