Lighting Talks
Purpose
As we have already completed invention exercises, which will be the basis of your lighting talk as you work towards your short topic proposal. A lighting talk is very short presentation about the essence of your ideas and your motivations for pursuing this topic.
Instructions
- Complete the “Finding Your Topic: Invention†and “PRACTICE IT: Your Interest Web” assignments and review the feedback.
- Compose a lightning talk about your research topic ideas. You should prepare notes to be practice consider the following questions:
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- 1. What are your core topic ideas?
- 2. Why do you want to pursue this topic?
- 3. What knowledge and/or interests are you drawing on to pursue this topic?
- Here are two resources on crafting successful discussion posts and responses: