 Hi, and welcome to the lecture for the Photo Voice presentation. In the next couple of minutes, briefly I'm going to walk you through the assignment guide for the Photo Voice presentation. I do encourage you to read the actual assignment guide where I give far more details. All right, let's go ahead and dive on in. So, first things first. What is Photo Voice? Photo Voice actually started out as a qualitative research method. There were a series of researchers that were doing some work in rural China that wanted to gain access to at-risk communities. That said, they had a very difficult time gaining access, so they came up with a new way of doing research where they would give people cameras and say, just go take pictures if you're everyday life, then they would get those cameras back, sit people down in focus groups, and as groups they would come together and tell the story of the photos that they took to kind of give them life. As a result for that, that method has since expanded off, and those of us in communication studies used this. It's been used in public health and studies of community organization and a variety of other things, so the ability to give voice to actual photographs and enhance understanding of others' lived experiences. So, let's talk a little bit about how we're going to use this methodology to put together your first oral presentation that you're going to give inside this class, as well as a little brief introduction to some of the technology that you will be using. So, let's break it down step by step. The first step is having just recently formed your groups, you're going to get together and go on a mini adventure. Now, a couple rules here. The adventure needs to be at least an hour long. It just needs to be you and your group members that are going on this, and you need to spend that time. Now, there's a whole bunch of things in our local community that would work for this, right? I've had students go to different areas in Bidwell Park. I've had students take the hike at the Butte College Wildlife Refuge right here in our backyard. I've had people go to disc golfing or go to the community observatory. Students of mine have taken tours of Bidwell Mansion and gone up to Honeyburn Covered Bridge, a whole wide variety of things that you can do. And of course, please do not be limited by this list. It is just some ideas. Once you and your group members have decided where you want to go, go ahead and take that trip. Now, while you're on this mini adventure, I want you to bring your phones and digital cameras along with you. And as you see things on this trip, go ahead and take pictures of them. Take a bunch of pictures so that you have some choices in the next step to make some selections for. But just document the things that you see. This does not necessarily have to be pictures of your group members, but of the things that you come across on the trip. That said, if you want to take pictures of each other, by all means, just be careful of taking pictures of other people without asking their permission. All right, step two, after you completed your mini adventure, you and your group members get together at a separate point and discuss the photos that you captured. So take them all together, put them on one laptop or one computer. I even had students like upload all their pictures to a group Facebook page and then vote with likes on the ones that they were into it. And once you've decided the pictures that you like the best, put those together into a little slideshow and figure out what story is being told from these photos. So you want to kind of thread them together and tell the narrative of your group adventure. Some prompts that are kind of helpful if you're getting stuck. It's like, how do I tell stories of a picture? Start to think about like, what does the photo tell you, right? When you look at this picture, what is the story that you kind of connect based on your experience? You might want to tell us like, OK, what's happening outside the photo, right? What's the background? You're showing me this picture of Tom, who is in the middle of a pool with his clothes on, maybe give some context as to how and why this happened. Another thing you can do is maybe tell us the theme that the photos falls into. So I've had groups that have occasionally had difficulties on their many adventure and you might have a theme of and everything was going right until and have all of the photos that kind of represent that until moment inside that theme and put them together inside of this and explain why that that is. So once you have the photos and you've created these narratives, you want to go ahead and create a very simple slideshow. Now, that said, you should use PowerPoint to do this and you want to make sure that you turn all of those fancy animations off. Really, you're just using PowerPoint as a way to show your pictures. Take your slides and make them full text so they take up the entire screen and do not put any words on them. Do not have multiple slides for a picture, but just one slide, one picture per slide. I'll show you a couple of examples of what I'm looking for. So if you had taken a trip to one mile, this might be one slide in the slideshow. You can kind of see what I'm talking about. No text, no fancy animations, just very basic slides that you can move through. All right. Once you have this together and you've created this PowerPoint, you're going to create a voice thread to practice. Now, what voice thread is is an online tool that is accessible at voice thread.com that will allow you to upload your PowerPoint to it and then using that microphone that you have on your computer you can actually record comments over the pictures. What I want you and your group mates to do is to use the tool of voice thread to do a practice run through of the story that you created in step two. And so you're going to actually tell your story without having to worry about the whole being in front of an audience thing. Once you've created the voice thread, you need to share it with me by making it public and posting the link inside the assignment module on Blackboard. The final step of the presentation is to give the oral formal presentation. This means coming to class on the day that it's due, practicing good style and delivery, giving the presentation with the use of effective notes and eye contact and not being distracted by the audience. Particularly the way that they should kind of work is one student should come up and they should tell their arc of the story, hand it off to the next student. They tell their arc and so forth and so on as you go throughout that. It would be good to have a little bit of an introduction and a little bit of a conclusion, but nothing as formal as we'll do in future presentations. All right, a little bit about the gradient side of this. The presentation itself is worth 50 points. I'm looking for your organization of how you put things together. I'm looking for the good narrative and the content. I'm primarily looking at good delivery, that you're doing things like make eye contact, having good movement and vocal variety and use of language and that you're kind of sort of dressed up in your business casual. And then finally, I'll look to make sure that you have uploaded a complete voice threat assignment inside of that. All right, well, that wraps up the assignment. I highly encourage you to check out the assignment guide and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.