So we're getting closer to the end of the semester, which means there should be a lot of student presentations going on. In my GLOA 605, which is an MA-level interdisciplinary research method class, this is a big deal. For two weeks, students present their research projects. Having taught this class before, I noticed (and found it somewhat inconvenient) 1) that they have very different styles of presentation which sometimes undermines fair grading and 2) that many students had never presented their work in a professional manner (!) and thus messed up with time management due to poor structure of the slides. That led me to make a template that everybody in class has to adhere to. It might sacrifice their creativity a little bit, but it's a formal training through which everybody is expected to garner certain types of skills.
