Doing Peer Review through In-Class Presentations

Emily Bouza - English 100

In Emily Bouza’s ENGL 100 class, peer review was incorporated into in-class presentations. Students presented their work on multimodal infographics (much like this example) and ended their presentations by stating the feedback they hoped to receive . Each class meeting, after presentations were done, presenters received feedback from their group members and from two additional classmates through a discussion board. This two-part feedback process allowed for more peer feedback and also kept all students actively engaged during presentations as they were taking note of what feedback they could give their peers.

Presenting the Infographic

Everyone will be presenting their infographic to the class, and this will count as the formal presentation for the semester. This means that you should definitely practice the presentation ahead of time as you will be graded on this presentation. I will give you short feedback after your in-class presentation. You will then have a section of your memo for portfolio two where you describe what went well and what you would change about your presentation, and that is what you will be graded on.

Here are the goals for the presentation:

  • The presentation should last at least four minutes and no more than five.
  • Describe the main message of your infographic and how the different aspects of your infographic support this message.
  • Describe your infographic in detail. Even though this is a highly visual format, we are working on making our presentations accessible to everyone, even if they are color blind or even completely blind, so describe your infographic imagining someone like this in your audience. This helps everyone even if we do not have these difficulties with seeing because the projector sometimes distorts color and sometimes people sit at angles that make it harder to see the screen.
  • As you describe your infographic, explain your design choices.
  • Finish with at least one question that you would like feedback on for your infographic.

Peer Feedback

After presentations, we will be giving feedback in groups so that everyone can make final revisions for their portfolios.

  • Presentations will take four days of class
  • Each day, presenters will sit in a group of four with three people not presenting that day
  • When not presenting, you will be responsible for giving extensive feedback to your presenter group mate after presentations are over that day of class
  • After class, presenters will post their infographic and a brief note of what they want feedback on to a class discussion board
  • Each day you do not present, you will be required to post to at least two discussion threads with additional feedback

The learning goal for this presentation format is to get targeted feedback for your infographic from multiple people in this class and learn to give specific feedback to others. I also hope that this format makes a more accessible, less stressful presentation because it is doing presentations as a way to receive feedback rather than as a final product. This also mimics the way that many presentations are a way to both share work and receive feedback in the professional world. This is also meant to be a highly collaborative process where you ask for the feedback you receive and actively work towards sharing feedback with peers, disrupting the power hierarchy often associated with in-class presentations.

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