Multimedia
Project on Organic Chemistry
You are required to make a Multimedia presentation on a
topic related to your chemistry course that links Chemistry with Technology,
Society or the Environment. This will be done in groups of 2 or 3 students.
Listed below are some topics one of which you may choose for
your presentation. You may also choose a topic of your own that is not in the
following table, provided that it can be linked to one of the chemistry course
units.
Topic:
- Air
Conditioning coolants and the environment
- History
of TNT and its chemistry
- Toxicity
of Organic Halides
- Mustard
Gas, then and now
- Methanol
as a fuel
- Non-systematic
names of common organics
- Diabetes
and Ketosis and Acidosis
- Animal
Skin Tanning and tannic acid
- Optical
Isomers especially in medicine (example: Thalidamide)
- Propane
refrigeration
- Aniline
Dyes, chemistry and uses
- Lactic
acid buildup in athletes and its chemistry
- Aspirin
and the Stomach Wall chemistry
Your presentation must conform to the following guidelines:
- The
presentations should be made using Microsoft PowerPoint
- It
should comprise of text, graphics, animation and sound
- A
voiceover can be incorporated in the presentation.
- The
presentations must run on their own – team members will not be allowed to
manually play the presentation. You would need to time the slides for this.
The maximum time limit of the presentation will be 3 mins.
- You
should include a title ‘page’, with your topic title and the names of all
group members
- There
should be one slide that contains a short one paragraph description of
your topic (this is often called an ‘abstract’).
- The
presentation should have a minimum of 10 slides that contain the
information for your topic. Use the slides to
organize your information into sections.
- A
final slide that acts as a reference section/ bibliography that lists all
of the sources of information you used.
Your presentation will be assessed on the basis of the following
parameters:
- Content
and factual knowledge of the topic
- Use of
software features and the effective use of Multimedia features
- Aesthetics
of the presentation
- Communication
skills