Consider
yourself a member of a team about to make a presentation to the
President's Council of Economic Advisors. Briefing time is
limited. Resources can only be used to fund a single
initiative. During your presentation, identify and present
materials relevant to the most important policy issues the
current administration will face. Convince the president to
refrain from spending monies on less important issues, and to
fund only the most important issue.
The Council does
not listen to lengthy or disorganized presentations. You have
to be very focused to cover the materials on each issue within
the guidelines set forth here for Team Presentation #1.
Get to know one another and choose a team leader(s).
Using The Economics of Public Issues primarily, and
the Wall Street Journal, Internet, and library resources:
Create an electronic presentation by your team about each of the
issues from Part One:
Foundations of Economic Analysis in your supplementary
textbook - The
Economics of Public Issues.
| 1. |
Your team
presentation should be 10 minutes in length, and every
team member should contribute in the following ways:
- have a speaking part; or provide written input, such
as PowerPoint slides, or a handout to the audience;
- offer leadership to the team;
- coordinate the efforts of others via Discussion Group
and email;
- assume responsibility for the projector and computer
technology;
- facilitate in such a way as to make each team member
welcome. |
| 2. |
Your team presentation
should make use of PowerPoint and projection technology
in our classrooms. |
| 3. |
Your
100 point team presentation should contain the
following introduction, body, and conclusion elements:
|
Introduction |
10 points
(1) One slide that
lists the half dozen or so alternative funding
topics from Part Seven,
10 points
(2) the outline to
be followed during the presentation,
10 points
(3) the names of
each team member and their roles in relation to
the outline. |
|
Body |
10 points
(4) background
information and the five most important facts
about each issue chosen from The Economics of
Public Issues.
10 points
(5) pertinent
economic principles for analyzing the issue
drawn from your Bade/Parkin textbook
10 points
(6) relevant
diagrams, or other research possibly taken or
adapted from the Bade/Parkin texts or Study
Guide(s) or from other sources like Internet
or the library. |
|
Conclusion |
20 points
(7) Based upon the
facts in (4) above and upon the economic
principles in (5) above decide upon a single
issue which should be funded, at the expense of
all the others. You should reach a
reasoned conclusion based upon the evidence and
the analysis you have been able to include in
your presentation. |
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| 4. |
In-class team members should provide
both a computer disk and a
hard copy of the presentation to your instructor
before your team begins the presentation during
Module 5 Part I.
10 points Create a
visual aide to to represent the issue whose funding you
are advocating.
10 points After the
presentation, provide a handout for retention by class
members present, and distribute this handout
electronically to distant learners taking this class. |
| 5. |
The team leader(s) establish procedure
for recommending a specific percentage of points to each
team member; use the five criteria in #1 above. Give
your recommendation to the instructor during Module 5
Part I. Two person
distant learning
teams should have one person prepare
the briefing and the second person prepare the
PowerPoint Outline. Submit the presentation
electronically to the instructor during Module 5 Part 1.
Three person
distant learner teams should have:
one person prepare the written briefing;
a second person prepare the PowerPoint Outline; and
a third person record the presentation narrative in
voice technology.
The presentation must play successfully on the
instructor's computer. Submit the presentation
electronically to the instructor during Module 5 Part 1. |
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