Your group gets to choose what you would like to do for a final project to demonstrate that, as a group, you have read your book and researched your question. Here are several possible options:

• Create a short movie, answering your research question
• Give a short “Lessig Method” presentation on your research question
• Create and maintain a blog, with regular, multimedia posts
• Design an art project that illustrates your research findings
• Create and maintain a podcast, with regular posts
• Something else your group creates, with instructor approval

We are not interested in written papers for the purposes of this class. Much of this class will deal with how information distribution forms are changing, and how new media is changing information availability. For this reason, the type of final project you do is as much part of the learning as the content that contributes to your final project.

Presentation and Display:

There are three parts to the final project. One is the final project, itself, one is the advertisement display you will create for the fourth floor of the library, and one is the presentation you will give to the class showing the display and the final project.

Due Dates:

Jan 13: Groups formed, begin choosing topic, book, and final project
Jan 20: Milestone 1 due
Jan 20: Choices on book/project/research question/timeline due to Kevin and Lauren
February 5: Milestone 2 due
February 19: Milestone 3 due
March 3: Final project due, display due, presentation to class

Grading:

• Your group’s selection of a book/project/research question/timeline is worth 5 points
• Milestone meetings are worth 5 points each, 15 total points
• Display/presentation is worth a total of 5 points
• The final project, itself, is worth 25 points