Hi all Dr. Clark here again and the
purpose of this video is to introduce
you to your new large assignment and
natural resources this is a natural
resource documentary it's two parts one
is a video documentary that needs to be
around ten minutes okay give or take a
minute or two is completely fine so
eight minutes to 12 minutes is perfectly
fine anything over ten minutes is going
to require you to go into some settings
in YouTube and change the settings so
you can have a longer video if you're
under ten minutes you're good to go but
if you're over it's just a little toggle
button it's not a big deal but um you
might have to watch a YouTube video to
figure out how to do it but at any rate
so you have a video documentary and you
have a written paper okay so let's talk
about the video documentary first this
video documentary is going to be over a
natural resource that you choose the
first portion of the video documentary
the first save five minutes of the video
documentary is going to be about that
natural resource what is the natural
resource how is it collected how is it
utilized who manages it how is it
managed what's the equipment that's used
if there's a chemical process that's
needed to make it utilized or you don't
make it usable for the general public
what is that chemical process okay all
kinds of things go into that front end
of the natural resource basically what
is it how's it captured what's the
equipment used you know all this okay
information now that information is
going to be come come from literature
research you're going to have to
research
Natural Resources okay.what natural
resources can you do
well there's gobs of them tons of them
okay you could do Forest Products you
could do fish and wildlife products you
can do trona oil gas solar wind
hey water I mean really there's there's
tons of natural resources out there we
we utilize them constantly you can find
a company a group a state agency a
government agency and that manages it
and and then you can do the second
portion of the video documentary so the
first front half is about the resource
and how is it utilized etc the second
portion is going to be interviewing an
individual that works with that natural
resource the interview is going to be
roughly half the video documentary and
you're going to ask the individual about
that natural resource things that maybe
you couldn't find in the literature or
things that you just want to be
confirmed that you found in the
literature so you can talk about
equipment you can talk about the
economics of that resource the
environmental impact of that resource
you can talk about what does that
individual do on a day to day basis how
does their job change throughout the
year okay questions about their work
what they do etc what I don't want to
see is questions about their personal
life no questions about you know how
many kids do you have what church you go
to what school do your kids go to what
athletic events you might like what's
your favorite baseball team nothing like
that okay
because that has nothing to do with the
natural resource this is not an
interview of an individual per se but
rather an interview that you're using
individual to back up or to conflict
what you found in the literature that
video roughly 10 minutes needs to be
uploaded to YouTube by the last day of
the semester okay so the last day of the
semester is when it's due I'll post a
due date um and and give you guys
reminders that when it's getting close
okay but last day of the semester that's
when it's due has to be uploaded to
YouTube I have to be given the youtube
link to your video I will review the
video and then you can take it down off
of youtube if you like you can leave it
up if you like it doesn't really matter
but you have to give me a week to review
the video right and give you a grade for
the for the material that you've created
that's the video documentary the paper
portion or the literature portion is
going to come in a paper format an
actual document that you're going to
provide to me it is also due on the last
day of the semester this will be due
through the Turnitin link and needs to
have the following pieces again this is
about the natural resource that you're
interested in that you've chosen but
it's also about the process of your
interview your video work okay and then
what did you find between the
information that you looked up through
literature and the information that the
individual you interviewed provided do
they contradict each other
did they complement each other does you
know some of it contradict and some
compliment etc alright so how are you
going to do that well you're going to
follow this rubric
and you know you you can see here
exactly how many points each one of
these sections is worth so if you decide
not to do a title page
you're gonna miss three points so you're
gonna need a title page and abstract and
introduction and that introduction
should have background on the natural
resource you chose with referencing okay
referencing meaning you need the
literature reference or the material
where you found that material and I'll
show you in a second how that's going to
look okay you also need to come up with
a benefits and costs analysis okay
what's the benefit of taking that
natural resource what's the cost okay is
the cost economic is it ethical what's
the cost excuse me that needs to go into
the introduction okay materials and
methods this is where you're going to
talk about your video method okay like
the equipment you use the location you
use how you videotaped it did you have
someone else video it while you were
asking the interview questions what
interview who was in individual you
interviewed where did you interview them
at and what questions did you use okay
this is all going into the materials and
methods other materials and methods
could be the literature searches that
you used or if you talk to someone else
about the materiality you're not
confined to a single interview you can
do multiple interviews okay they only
one can be on record on video because
you only have so much time in the video
okay you then use that material and
methods and to provide with me with
results so what was the findings from
your video what is the findings from
your literature okay do a cost-benefit
table that's based on these two okay the
original cost-benefit is just based on
literature but what's a cost-benefit
based on the video unlettered
and the literature and then what are the
environmental and ethical effects of
this natural resource finally you're
going to end with a discussion where
you're going to utilize all the
literature all the interview material
etc to come up with a a conclusion or
discussion on whether or not utilizing
this natural resources good or bad
what's good about it what's bad about it
maybe it's neutral and then you need to
provide scientific backing for your
explanation it's not just backing coming
from the individual that you interviewed
okay often you'll interview an
individual and they say well of course
it's good because I want to keep my job
okay you also need to bring in other
sources so you can bring in their
sources and that's one vote for good
bring in science sources maybe they're
voting it's good also and overall it's
it's good okay but maybe the science
sources say it's bad okay so you need to
discuss the material that you've
collected you have to have greater than
three references okay and three of them
must be peer-reviewed journal articles
okay so you have to have more than three
and three of them have to be
peer-reviewed journal articles okay
total points 100 okay now if we come
down here you can see what each section
should include right and one of the
pieces that I want to talk about is this
literature cited so in the body of your
paper when I say that you need
references that means that you need to
include the last name and the year that
the individual published that material
that has to go in
and that corresponds to a full citation
so you're going to have a literature
cited section okay where you'll have all
the information about that article about
that book about that interviewee
in a full citation form at the end of
the paper but you have to have it cited
in the text so I know where you're
getting that information from all right
so that's really in a nutshell what the
projects about now there's one really
important piece to the entire project
and that is the second document that
you'll find on canvas what this document
is is a consent form okay and I need you
to fill out two copies of this okay so
one copy you will keep as the
interviewer and then one copy will be
sent to me that basically tells me you
have confirm informed consent from the
individual that you're interviewing you
need the date that the interview is
going to happen on where so the city and
the state that is going to be recorded
at and then the individuals name they
will need to print their name sign their
name and date it you will need to print
your name sign your name and date it and
again this is just saying that they are
giving you consent to do the interview
and that this interview can be housed
and used at other times okay it's going
to be housed as a miniature documentary
at Western Wyoming Community College in
the Department of Biology so I keep them
okay and the consent basically says I
can use them for other projects also but
in general they need to know that
they're going to be on record for
whatever they say okay and so two forms
of consent or two form filled out and
in homes and one you keep one you scan
in and email it to me and then you're
ready to do the interview you're ready
you can to you know do the video and and
conduct that information now I have to
preface the consent form a little bit
you might find individuals that refuse
to fill this out if they refuse to fill
it out you cannot interview them you
need to find someone else to interview
okay so find someone that's willing to
give you informed consent to utilize
their words or use their words at a
later date to publish miniature
documentaries or whatever keep it on the
record in the Department of Biology
forever but you have to find someone
that is going to consent to that process
okay you might find some that won't you
just have to move on and I know that can
be frustrating at times but just move on
you'll find someone that's willing to
put their words on record it's not a big
deal for most people because they're
just telling you their side of the
natural resource management or natural
resource extraction or whatever they do
as a job all right so again the last day
of the semester the video needs to be
uploaded into YouTube
I need the link and the paper needs to
be turned in through Turnitin if you
have any questions concerns etc you know
how to reach me
so feel free to and enjoy should be fun
you'll get to meet someone hopefully you
don't know and chat with them about
their job and what they do and the
natural resource that either they like
or at least they work with and so with
that being said I hope you enjoy it take
it serious it's worth 200 points 100
points for the video 100 points for the
paper this can be a make or break for
the you know you're great in the
semester
if you don't do it it's hard to pass a
class so I highly suggest going through
the little bit of work with consent
forms etc to start diving into this
research project and get a good product
from that that being said I'll talk to
you guys later
