Sofia University Positive Psychology for Business Presentation

CREATING AND PRESENTING AN INTEGRATIVE VISUAL MAP

In the Positive Psychology for Business course, we have focused on well-being, flourishing, and striving, and studied many important topics around these central themes, both for individuals and organizations. The purpose of the final project is to give you an opportunity to holistically integrate the related topics, and creatively make a visual to express your understanding of these connected topics and then present your visual to the class via a YouTube video.

Specifically, this final project involves the following steps:

1. Designing and creating an integrative visual. First, please spend some time thinking of all the interesting topics that you have learned in this class; Then creatively design a visual to holistically integrate all the topics together based on your own understanding. You may choose any form of your preference for the visual. It may be a drawing on a piece of paper with necessary labels, or a PowerPoint slide that you create on your computer, or even a short video that you may create by using some popular computer programs, etc. Don’t limit yourself and feel free to let your creativity flow. The purpose of the visual is to let you freely express your understanding of the field. From this perspective, this visual is called an integrative map, which should represent how YOU see the different sub-fields of Positive Psychology for Business (e.g., their core assumptions, core questions, and unique insights, etc.) and how you may connect them based on your own understanding and reasoning.
2. Writing up a one-page narrative to explain your visual.
3. Presenting your visual to class. In this step, you are asked to present your visual and record your presentation. In order to record your presentation, you don’t need a camera, or don’t even have to show your face if you want. What you need to do is screen recording and voice it over. Note that screen recording is a free feature built in Microsoft PowerPoint and it’s easy to use. If you haven’t never used it, simply Google search “screen recording in PowerPoint” or search it in YouTube, and you will find many tutorials. In case if you don’t have time to search, here are two helpful links I have found for you:

https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/721562/pages/screen-record-in-powerpoint (Links to an external site.).

Of course, you may use other screen recording computer programs. Please keep your presentation length within 10 minutes. If you plan to draw your visual on a piece of paper, you may take a picture of your drawing afterwards and then transfer it to your computer to make the presentation video.

1. Upload your presentation video to YouTube. When you upload your video to YouTube, you may choose to publish it either publicly (your video is searchable by other people) or privately (your video can’t be publicly searchable, but others can still view your video if you share the link) of your preference.
2. Upload your (1) visual, (2) narrative, and (3) your YouTube link, to the Canvas discussion board.