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Provide an overview of the topic you have selected. Why have you chosen this topic? Which key ideas about this topic do you want to present to your audiences? Write a topic statement and question for use in your presentation and debates. Conduct further research on you

Assignment Task

Activities

This project requires you to facilitate a discussion and debate on ideas with at least two different audience types. In doing so, you need to demonstrate that you can establish a communication framework, develop your ideas for communication and then debate and discuss those ideas. You are required to communicate your ideas in a persuasive manner to encourage a response, reaction, and critical discussion.

You will need access to a physical audience which can be your classmates, colleagues or other group of people made up of family and friends as is relevant to your specific situation.

You will also need access to an online platform (e.g. a forum like Reddit, Twitter, Whirlpool etc.) where you can post a blog or other written communication to initiate a conversation that will turn into a debate. You will need the relevant digital tools to participate in the forum such as a device and online user account.

Objective

The first step is to select a topic of interest to you. This could be industry-relevant or of recreational interest to you. It needs to be a lively topic that generates a range of ideas. It may be one that compares popular brands, new and emerging technology or approaches, be slightly controversial, or encourage strong opinions by others. It could be related to IT, politics, education, religion, sports or something completely different. It may be a topic that helps you raise awareness about a certain cause. Whatever it is though, it must be something that you are interested in and that can encourage debate and idea generation by those you are communicating with. You will need to conduct desktop research to complete this section.

Section 1: Planning

  1. Provide an overview of the topic you have selected. Why have you chosen this topic?
  2. Which key ideas about this topic do you want to present to your audiences?
  3. Write a topic statement and question for use in your presentation and debates.
  4. Conduct further research on your topic and key ideas and include some statistics to use during your presentation and debate.
  5. What is the purpose of the communication and what are you trying to achieve?
  6. How can you use storytelling to get your idea or point across?
  7. What types of critical discussion are you hoping to achieve?

Physical Audience

  1. All of the information in this section must be researched and completed with your physical audience in mind.
  2. Where will you hold a presentation and debate session?
  3. Who will be involved?
  4. Why have you chosen this platform?
  5. How will you communicate with this audience? Outline the presentation strategies and communication methods you will use.
  6. Which persuasive techniques will you use with your audience and why?
  7. How will you encourage idea generation?
  8. What questions can you ask your audience to do this?
  9. How do these communication methods meet your objectives as outlined in Section 1 above?
  10. Evaluate the advantages and the disadvantages of communicating via this platform.
  11. List at least two advantages and two disadvantages of the communication methods you will use.
  12. What organisational and/or legislative frameworks must be considered for a presentation and debate with this audience?
  13. Include links to relevant research conducted and attach any policies that are relevant.
  14. Consult with at least two other people either in person or via an online method and discuss:
  15. Summarise your discussions here and attach evidence that you have done this if your assessor has not observed the discussions. You can attach emails, screenshots of discussion or an audio or visual recording.
  16. What types of diverse perspectives are you anticipating from this audience?
  17. How can you respond to and use these perspectives in the debate?

Online Audience

  1. All of the information in this section must be researched and completed with your online audience in mind.
  2. Where will you hold a presentation and debate session?
  3. Who will be involved?
  4. Why have you chosen this platform?
  5. How will you communicate with this audience? Outline the presentation strategies and communication methods you will use.
  6. Which persuasive techniques will you use with your audience and why?
  7. How will you encourage idea generation?
  8. What questions can you ask your audience to do this?
  9. How do these communication methods meet your objectives as outlined in Section 1 above?
  10. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of communicating via this platform.
  11. List at least two advantages and two disadvantages of the communication methods you will use.
  12. What organizational and/or legislative frameworks must be considered for a presentation and debate with this audience?
  13. How will you deal with offensive behavior and trolls?
  14. What are the forum guidelines around negative behavior?

 

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