Starter: Reflect for a few minutes on where you are in this project and what you might need feedback on. Write a focusing question for today’s “tune.”
PROJECT TUNE PROTOCOL: Help each other move forward with good questioning and feedback! Share ideas and talk through struggles!
THE GOAL is to leave today with a clear sense of your path forward on your project!
Starter 11.6: Reflect for a few minutes on where you are in the project and what you might need feedback on. Write a focusing question for today’s “tune.”
Project Tune Protocol
1. Project Share/Focusing Question (1-5 min)
Presenter articulates the nitty-gritty of the project details. Share the perspective you are trying to convey with your project. –AND/OR—Group members read the draft of the project in its written form—AND/OR—Presenter reads the project aloud to group members.
Presenter shares out the focusing question from the starter and shares any areas they feel they need feedback on.
2. Clarification (1-2 minutes)
Participants ask questions to get information they may need about the concrete details of the project.
These questions are matters of fact, and should not delve into deeper issues.
Examples:
What is the ideological bias of the project? What genre will you use? How will you edit the video?
3. Probing Questions (4-5 min)
The purpose of probing questions is NOT to give suggestions, but to help the presenter think more deeply about their project and what they are trying to do with it.
Probing questions should be big open-ended questions. (think: seminar questions)
Examples:
Why is it important that you communicate this message to your audience?
Why did you decide on this topic?
How will you connect emotionally to the audience?
What rhetorical impact do you want the audience to experience?
4. Participant Discussion (5-7ish minutes)
- Participants share feedback with each other while the presenter is silent and removed from the circle.
- Start with WARM feedback. What is strong about the project?
- Move into suggestions/ideas for improvement. Discuss the presenter’s focusing question! Think about ways the project could achieve its desired effect, incorporate rhetorical strategies, and generally get to the next level of awesomeness. Continue to discuss questions that you have about the project.
- Presenter is silent and takes notes.
5. Reflection (2-3ish minutes)
Presenter speaks to comments/questions that were posed in the discussion while participants are silent. This is a time for the presenter to reflect aloud on those ideas or questions that seemed particularly interesting or helpful or to ask questions about the comments of the group members.
6. Open discussion (if time allows…try to keep it to 20ish minutes per project)
1. Group openly discusses the ideas for revision that came out of the critique. This is the time to help each other troubleshoot the project!
