Students working in pairs will lead seminars (workshops, not static lectures) of approximately 15 minutes covering a tool or technique that can be used for activism. Each seminar should have a corresponding handout that will be submitted to the instructor as an emailed attachment for distribution in the Notes section of this course website. The seminars' purpose is to explain how class members can use the associated tool or technique for activist purposes, so they should focus specifically on our needs. Also, seminars must incorporate some form of interactive class activity. Seminars should follow the following general structure:

1. An overview of the tool or technique
2. Specific information about how class members might use the tool or technique for activism
3. An interactive class activity that reinforces the seminar's content

Topic choice is open, but each topic can be covered only once. Examples of topics from previous semesters include:

• Twitter
• Periscope
• conducting a petition drive
• Facebook Groups
• canvassing
• Meerkat
• Google Drive
• YouTube Live Events
• Vine
• public speaking
• flash mobs
• Instagram
• SMS texting
• blogs
• RSS feeds
• podcasts
• smartphone apps

The instructor station (computer and projector) will be available to presenters. Pairs will determine how to divide the workload. Students are not expected to be experts with their chosen tool or technique; delivering the seminar is a means for students to gain experience with it. Excellent seminars will provide productive information in an engaging and readily-comprehensible way, be on time, and be rehearsed and polished.