Counseling Topics Presentations - Inquiry and Analysis

Learning Outcomes

This assignment is designed to address Inquiry and Analysis learning outcomes. These specific outcomes are incorporated into the grading rubrics for the papers.

If you wish, you may click HERE to download the American Association of Colleges and Universities VALUE rubric on Inquiry and Analysis.

Teaching

This particular assignment is going to ask you to do some basic research to learn about a topic related to counseling psychology. Your task will be to explore a sample of the existing professional literature and create an online presentation which explores and teaches others about the topic.

Click HERE for a Wikipedia based list of topics. Select from one of these. (If you click on the actual link for you topic you will be brought to the information page within Wikipedia. Sometimes you can find links to peer reviewed articles right in there!)

Steps in the Process:

  1. Select a topic
  2. Conduct research on the topic that includes information from AT LEAST ONE "peer reviewed" journal article.
  3. Create an online, narrated presentation using PowToon.

Click the logo to visit the PowToon Website

PowToon is an online site that allows you to create dynamic and animated presentations. It also allows you to record a voice-over track and add music to your presentation.

Click here to visit a page that I created that talks about how PowToon works and provides an example that I created.

Your task it to create an online presentation with several slides and recorded voice-over speech!

You will be sharing your presentation with members of the class in a special discussion board and the presentations will become a permanent part of this class!

Below you will find the grading rubric for the presentation:

Grading Rubric

Presentation
 Presentation is completed in PowToon with Audio Voice Over.
Introduction
 Provide a brief introduction to the topic. (this can be accomplished in the first couple slides...make sure you have a title slide as your first one) 10
List of Sources

Provide a list of the sources you have used to develop your presentation

You must list your sources in the slide itself and describe them. You must have at least 4 sources, at least ONE source must be a peer reviewed source.

You may have a separate slide for each source if you wish.

 10
Source Summaries

For each source, provide a summary of the content and its contribution to an understanding of the topic.

For this section you should have at least a separate slide for each source.

 40
Analysis

Provide a summary of ALL of your findings and develop a synthesizing statement that brings all your findings together.

This can be done on one or multiple slides.
20
Limitations and Implications

Discuss specific limitations and implications of your findings to the practice of counseling.

This can be done on one or multiple slides.
20