03-08-2023, 10:06 AM
If you are anxious about the presentation, I agree with the advice above, script it. I did not and now that I see the idea to script it, I don't know why I tortured myself with trying to do an 'extemporaneous' presentation. I've always prepped for live presentations and you pretty much have to be extemporaneous live because you're interacting with the audience, and scripting it never occurred to me. Doing it recorded without a script is a nightmare because it is time boxed and since it is recorded small mistakes bothered me. But definitely reach out to their disability center before writing off the program for this requirement. The presentation is worth 10% of the overall grade and the 5th discussion forum starts with a post of your presentation. If you comment on others I imagine you'd at least get partial credit for that discussion, which should be worth 4% of the overall grade.
As far as the research paper you will most likely not be allowed to build something or even do a 'technical' paper. You will have to use social science applied to a technology topic essentially. Also, not much discussed, but anyone ever take the alternate capstone? https://www.tesu.edu/aci/projects/restoring-trenton This one may allow you to do some technical work, possibly some back end development, warehousing some data and building some interactive data viz stuff for the front end. I considered doing this, but decided it was more flexible for future ambitions for me to do a research paper.
As far as the research paper you will most likely not be allowed to build something or even do a 'technical' paper. You will have to use social science applied to a technology topic essentially. Also, not much discussed, but anyone ever take the alternate capstone? https://www.tesu.edu/aci/projects/restoring-trenton This one may allow you to do some technical work, possibly some back end development, warehousing some data and building some interactive data viz stuff for the front end. I considered doing this, but decided it was more flexible for future ambitions for me to do a research paper.
Working Toward: ME-EM, CU Boulder (Coursera)
Completed: TESU - BA Computer Science, 2023; TESU - AAS Applied Electronic Studies, 2012; K-State -BS Political Science, 2016
Completed: TESU - BA Computer Science, 2023; TESU - AAS Applied Electronic Studies, 2012; K-State -BS Political Science, 2016