For this third milestone, you will reflect on content that will inform your multimedia presentation,

IDS 404 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric
Popular Culture, You, and Society

Overview: In Final Project Part Two, you will develop a multimedia presentation in which you will have a chance to reflect on what you have learned about your
artifact, yourself, and society through analyzing its impact on popular culture. You will also be able to apply your communication skills and integrate multimedia
elements to communicate your message to an audience. This milestone is due in Module Five.

In developing this presentation, you will be able to use your analysis from the first part of this project as a starting point. The reflective nature of this activity
prompts you to dig deeper and consider the implications posed by the critical analysis of your artifact. How does studying popular culture affect how you
understand yourself as well as the world around you? You’ll also be challenged to incorporate a dash of creativity to enhance your message.

Multimedia Presentation: For the second part of the project, you will create a multimedia presentation that incorporates audio narration and visuals to
articulate how critically analyzing your popular culture artifact impacts your own framework of perception and ability to constructively engage in society.

PowerPoint: You are required to include a combination of text and visuals in order to support your PowerPoint presentation. Use the Check File Compatibility
With Earlier Versions and Are You Having Video or Audio Playback Issues? resources to help you check compatibility between versions of Office. Also, follow the
instructions on the Microsoft Support page to compress your presentation as a zipped file. You may upload a zipped file when submitting this assignment.
Reducing the size of the PowerPoint presentation file by compressing it makes it easier for your instructor to download and grade.

Microphone: While it is not necessary to purchase a microphone for this project, you will need to have access to a microphone to record the narration of the
presentation. This could be the external microphone of your device, a set of earbuds, or equipment borrowed from a friend. This assignment is graded on the
content of the narration, not the quality of the recording.

Prompt: First, review the module resources you have encountered so far and create a presentation draft (PowerPoint with speaker notes) that analyzes the
artifact under study (the one you selected in Module Two).

Specifically, the following critical elements (which align to the critical elements required of the presentation in Final Project Part Two) must be addressed:

I. Artifact: For this section of your presentation, you will introduce the artifact and how it embodies the mediated nature of popular culture and any
topics that have been discussed in the course.

A. Using appropriate research strategies, describe the relationship between your artifact and popular culture. What is the origin of your artifact?
B. What is the relationship between popular culture and your artifact? How does one influence the other? Using appropriate research strategies,

describe the impact of your artifact on society. In your explanation, consider who is impacted by the artifact and what is important to know
about the attitudes, behaviors, and choices of those who are impacted by the artifact.

C. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess how society impacts your artifact.

II. Yourself: This section of your presentation explores how studying popular culture influences your individual framework of perception with respect to
your discipline of study or profession.

A. How has critically analyzing your popular culture artifact informed your individual framework of perception? Consider how it has altered the
way you perceive the world.

B. How can critically analyzing popular culture influence your field of study or profession? How can popular culture inform your understanding of
the next big topic of study in your field or profession in the next five to ten years?

III. Society: This section of your presentation explores how studying popular culture enhances your ability to engage constructively in society.
A. How does critically analyzing popular culture add value to how you interact with people and popular culture artifacts? Supplement your

reasoning with examples.
B. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals. What might this look like in your

everyday life? Consider how popular culture can be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by practitioners in your
field or discipline.

IV. Conclusion
A. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess the benefits and challenges of addressing issues in popular culture.
B. Explain how critically analyzing popular culture adds value to interactions with people in personal and professional contexts.

V. Presentation: Throughout your presentation, you will be assessed on your ability to use effective communication skills to deliver your message to your
audience.

A. Construct your presentation in a way that ensures the audio and visual elements are logically organized in order to convey your message to your
audience.

B. Provide supporting evidence in your presentation that supports the importance of the critical analysis of popular culture and the impact of your
artifact.

C. Develop the audio narration to logically flow with the presentation to articulate the importance of critically analyzing popular culture and the
impact of your artifact.

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Milestone Three should be approximately 10 to 12 slides. You are required to include a combination of text and visuals in order to
support your work. Support your presentation with relevant resources cited in APA format and noted on a separate slide. If you require alternative
accommodations for completing this assignment, reach out to your instructor directly for more information.

Note: TurnItIn, the originality report feature used in the course, is not able to check PowerPoint submissions for plagiarism. Thus, you should submit your
speaker notes in a separate Word document. Both files (PowerPoint and Word) can be submitted through the Milestone Three submission form.

Please note that the grading rubric for this milestone submission is not identical to that of the final project. The Final Project Part Two Rubric will include an
additional “Exemplary” category that provides guidance as to how you can go above and beyond “Proficient” in your final submission.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Artifact: Popular Culture
Artifact

Describes the artifact and how it relates
to popular culture, using appropriate
research strategies

Describes the artifact and how it relates
to popular culture, but description is
cursory or research strategies are
inappropriate

Does not describe the artifact and how
it relates to popular culture

9

Artifact: Impact on Society Describes the impact of the artifact on
society and uses appropriate research
strategies

Describes the impact of the artifact on
society, but the description is cursory
or the research strategies are
inappropriate

Does not describe the impact of the
artifact on society

9

Artifact: Society Impacts Assesses how society impacts the
artifact, using relevant research or
diverse perspectives

Assesses how society impacts the
artifact, but explanation is cursory or
the use of relevant research or diverse
perspectives is inappropriate

Does not assess how society impacts
the artifact

9

Yourself: Individual
Framework of Perception

Explains how critically analyzing
popular culture artifact has informed
your individual framework of
perception

Explains how critically analyzing
popular culture artifact has informed
your individual framework of
perception, but explanation is cursory

Does not explain how critically
analyzing popular culture artifact has
informed your individual framework of
perception

6

Yourself: Field of Study or
Profession

Explains how critically analyzing
popular culture can influence your
discipline of study or profession

Explains how critically analyzing
popular culture can influence your
discipline of study or profession, but
explanation is cursory

Does not explain how critically
analyzing popular culture can influence
your discipline of study or profession

9

Society: Interact Explains how critically analyzing
popular culture adds value to
interactions with people and popular
culture artifacts

Explains how critically analyzing
popular culture adds value to
interactions with people and popular
culture artifacts, but explanation is
cursory

Does not explain how critically
analyzing popular culture adds value to
interactions with people and popular
culture artifacts

9

Society: Strategies Recommends strategies for using
critical analysis for meeting personal
and professional goals

Recommends strategies for using
critical analysis for meeting personal
and professional goals, but
recommendations are inappropriate

Does not recommend strategies for
using critical analysis for meeting
personal and professional goals

9

Conclusion: Benefits and
Challenges

Assesses the benefits and challenges of
analyzing popular culture and uses
relevant research or diverse
perspectives

Assesses the benefits and challenges of
analyzing popular culture, but analysis
is cursory or utilization of relevant
research or diverse perspectives is
inappropriate

Does not assess the benefits and
challenges of analyzing popular culture

8

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Conclusion: Adds Value Explains how critically analyzing
popular culture adds value to
interactions with people in personal
and professional contexts

Explains how critically analyzing
popular culture adds value to
interactions with people in personal
and professional contexts, but
explanation is cursory

Does not explain how critically
analyzing popular culture adds value to
interactions with people in personal
and professional contexts

8

Presentation: Organized Constructs the presentation in such a
way that ensures the audio and visual
elements are logically organized

Presentation is constructed with audio
and visual elements, but the
organization is illogical

Does not construct the presentation in
such a way that it is logically organized
in order to convey its message to the
target audience

6

Presentation: Evidence Provides supporting evidence in the
presentation that supports the
importance of critically analyzing
artifact and its impact within popular
culture

Provides supporting evidence, but it
does not support the importance of the
artifact and its impact within popular
culture

Does not provide supporting evidence
in the presentation that supports the
importance of critically analyzing
popular culture

8

Presentation: Flow Develops the audio narration to
logically flow with the presentation to
articulate the importance of critically
analyzing the artifact and its impact
within popular culture

Develops the audio narration, but it
does not logically flow with the
presentation to articulate the
importance the artifact and its impact
within popular culture

Does not develop the audio narration
to articulate the importance of the
artifact and its impact within popular
culture

6

Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related
to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,
or organization

Submission has major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact
readability and articulation of main
ideas

Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent
understanding of ideas

4

Total 100%