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Week 9: Presentations (Iteration 2: Processed)

October 20, 2025

Work to turn in
  • A file you'll use as the multimodal prop for your 5-minute presentation (e.g. PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, slides.js, etc)
  • A link to your public-facing project-in-progress (website, GH repo, google sheet, etc)

Plan for the day:

  • Framing: Intro to workshop + peer review plan (~9:00-9:15)
  • Presentations: first half
    • presentation 1 (~9:15-9:40)
    • presentation 2 (~9:40-10:05)
    • presentation 3 (~10:05-10:30)
  • Break (10 minutes)
  • Presentations: second half
    • presentation 4 (~10:45-11:05)
    • presentation 5 (~11:05-11:30)
  • A scheduling question
  • EXT: Work on peer letters
  • Homework for next time:
    • peer review letters
    • reading about digital accessibility

Framing: Intro to workshop + peer review plan

Welcome back to our guest mentors! And welcome, everyone, to the second day of presentations! Today is brought to you by “processing,” meaning I’m especially interested in how you’ve been working with digital affordances to do or see things you wouldn’t be able to without computers.

I’m excited to hear how it’s been going, and especially for you all to hear how it’s been going for everyone else.

Peer review guidelines

Like last time, you’ll each write back to two of your classmates. Remember, I’m NOT asking you to evaluate the success or significance of the project; rather, I’m asking you to help synthesize some formative feedback, oriented toward next steps, assuming that everything is still a work in progress.

For the in-class conversation, we’re going to draw each other out to find the way forward: we’ll ask questions and echo back key elements of your project with a …? to help you say more, to make explicit what might have been implicit. We might suggest tools, tutorials, or scholarship we think would be useful to bring in.

During all these rounds of questions and suggestions, let’s trust that everyone is working to support one another, never to shut anyone down, and let’s all listen and speak with that goal in mind.

Presentation order and peer-review partners
This person Presenting in slot Reviewed *by* And also by
Yanni 1 Rose John
Namrata 2 John Scylla
Amrita 3 Scylla Yuqing
Yixuan 4 Yuqing Tunga
Li 5 Tunga Rose
Tunga n/a Namrata Amrita
Rose n/a Amrita Yixuan
John n/a Yixuan Li
Scylla n/a Li Yanni
Yuqing n/a Yanni Namrata

Presentations: first half

  • Yanni
  • Namrata
  • Amrita

Each presentation should last five minutes, and I’ll help you keep track of time. We should then have about 15 minutes for Q&A.

Break (10 minutes)

We should hit the break at around 10:20 today.

Presentations: second half

  • Yixuan
  • Li

A scheduling question

Our final class meeting is currently scheduled for Monday, December 8. That’s during finals week at both Pitt and CMU, when undergraduate classes don’t meet. There are two complications, which I hope the late timing will help alleviate:

  1. I will be returning from yet another trip to New York, with a family celebration that extends through Sunday afternoon.
  2. Our plan for that day calls for final presentations, and I would love for everyone to be able to share.

So my question for you: do you have the flexibility to meet on Tuesday or even Wednesday that week instead of Monday?

If we don’t have time to figure it out today, I can email everyone.

EXT: Writing

If by some luck we have extra time at the end of class, let’s use it to begin your peer review letters.

Homework for next time

Peer review

There’s feedback for your classmates, assuming we didn’t get to it in class, and there’s a new topic for next week: access + accessibility.

Your writing assignments, now sorted by writer rather than recipient
This person will write to and also to
Amrita John Rose
John Amrita Namrata
Li Yuqing Scylla
Namrata Rose Tunga
Rose Namrata Yanni
Scylla Yixuan Amrita
Tunga Yanni Li
Yanni Tunga Yuqing
Yixuan Scylla John
Yuqing Li Yixuan
  1. You've seen the presentation (though you may want to revisit it); now have a look through the public-facing version of the project. What do you notice? What do you wonder? What does it make you think of?
  2. Be a genuine and generous audience. To help your partner see their work through your eyes, summarize back to them what you see them doing, trying to do, or almost doing. (That last is often a good place for the author to lean into.)
  3. Make connections and ask questions: this may include questions or clarifications about the process; comparisons with your own projects or others you've seen; tools, materials, or scholarship you think would be useful to bring in; and so on.

Above all, be yourselves. Being generous doesn’t mean only singing praises, though by all means do so when it feels genuine! You can be generously critical, as long as you’re critically generous at the same time. Demonstrate your care and investment in each other’s success, knowing that there’s still more to do to get there. Together.

Please post these notes as replies to your partners' discussion forum posts containing the links to projects and presentation files.

For next week: Access + Accountability

In addition to the peer review notes, in prep for week 10 please read / watch the following.

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