How to Investigate

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Your Name+Your Class Letters...............The Project Name ............your_email@something.com

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INVESTIGATION

Answering some or all of the Questions below will explain your project and create A Design Brief

1. Who will I be talking to?

2. What will I talk about?

3. Who has asked me to give the talk?

4. What is the best software to use?

5. Where do I find information on the subject?

6. How long should the talk last?

7. Where can I find good pictures?

8 What are the limits on this Project? ( Deadline, Computer system, skills)

DESIGN BRIEF ---------Explain what you are doing in this project.

I will be talking to the students in 6FRC, I will be talking about the life and times of Steve Jobs. Mr Cosgrove has asked me to give this talk to my fellow students and I will be using presentation software called Powerpoint. I will go to the Internet, the Library, Magazines and asking my friends or teachers. The talk should last about five minutes so that nobody will get bored by it. It will contain text, pictures, music and videos. The limits of my project are, the deadline for completion is Friday 8^th June, the school computers that use Windows Network. I have already created some powerpoints in PYP but I need to learn more about the program and go on to bigger and better presentations.

Start your Research

DEFINITION --------Define the subject of the project i.e. a slideshow

A slide show is a display of a series of chosen information or pictures, done for artistic or instructional purposes. Slide shows are conducted by a presenter using an apparatus, such as a carousel slide projector, an overhead projector or in more recent years, a computer running presentation software. The term "slide" originates from the use of slides which have been around for many years. Slides originally were projected on a screen, for example in a theater by magic lanterns, a practice that later evolved into moving picture shows. Even after the advent of motion pictures, slides continued to be employed for a time between showings of the films, especially to advertise local businesses or maintain theater decorum—for example by requesting that gentlemen remove their hats and refrain from smoking, and urging mothers to remove crying infants from the auditorium.

The earliest slides were pieces of glass carrying photographic images, and later, pieces of photographic film sealed between two thin sheets of glass. Projectors had a frame mechanism which accommodated two of the sealed photos and was moved from left to right to left, bringing one slide between the lens and the light source, while a "next" photograph was inserted into the frame, alternately from the left or right side of the projector. The image medium itself came to be called a "slide." The black-and-white images were sometimes hand-tinted. With the widespread availability of color film in the 1940s the large, cumbersome and fragile glass slides were replaced by individual pieces of 35 mm color film bonded between two thin 2-by-2-inch cardboard frames. The Kodak Carousel projector accommodates some 80 of these frames in a doughnut-shaped slotted plastic container and has a motorized mechanism to drop and retrieve each slide sequentially on an electronic command of a "remote" button device held by the projectionist as the circular carrier advances above the lamp and lens of the machine.

A well organized slide show allows a presenter to fit visual images to an oral presentation. The old adage "A picture is worth a thousand words" holds true, in that a single image can save a presenter from speaking a paragraph of descriptive details. As with any public speaking or lecturing, a certain amount of talent, experience, and rehearsal is required to make a successful slide show presentation.

Presentation software is most commonly used for instructional purposes, usually with the intention of creating a dynamic, audiovisual presentation. The relevant points to the entire presentation are put on slides, and accompany a spoken monologue.

Slide shows have artistic uses as well, such as being used as a screensaver, or to provide dynamic imagery for a museum presentation, for example, or in installation art. David Byrne, among others, has created PowerPoint art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_show

The above research is taken from the Internet you must not claim it is your work that is Plagarism and will mean you cannot get a grade for it but if you change the font and colour and reference it either in text or a Bibliography with referencing then it is research from ACKNOWLEDGED SOURCES

Next you analyse the research and make your own comments on it This is CRITICALLY RESEARCHING and DISCUSSING from sources.

Each question below will give you sources and research. Some (not all) if typed into google.com will give answers but you have to think and examine the information before you use it in your research.......it will not always be the first results so you might need to refine the search. Some questions can be answered without researching.

1. What is a slideshow?

2. What is Powerpoint?

3. How do I create a slideshow using Powerpoint?

4. How can it help me to show 2011 to 7-8 year olds?

5. Where can I find out about giving a talk ? - Research methods of creating a slideshow talk

6. What would be a possible solution using the software and computer

system in St Dominic´s?

7. What level of computing skills do I need to have?

8. How can I learn these skills?

Use the research to create a DESIGN SPECIFICATION by looking at the information you have found and decide what is going to be ESSENTIAL in your project and what is going to be DESIRABLE in your project. Essentials and Desirables can be separate lists or just one.

Creating a Design Specification

A design specification is a list of bullet points saying what is essential and desirable for your project i.e:

• My project should be a Powerpoint Presentation slideshow lasting up to 5 minutes.

• Continue by explaining this statement giving reasons i.e:

• I will use Powerpoint to create a 5 min slideshow on my subject, I will need to learn the program and I will do this in class by practicing and reading the manuals watching Youtube instruction videos and asking my teacher for help if I need it. It should contain Pictures, Text and sound to make it interesting. I will also talk on the subject and it should not be too long so my audience does not get bored.

• Continue with at least 5 more bullet points.

Once you have created your Powerpoint Presentation you need to Evaluate it and in order to do this you must TEST it. The best way to test your Powerpoint when finished is to use Two Tests

First test is a QUESTIONNAIRE make a list of questions one for each bullet point of your specification. The questions should be written in a way that gives a useful answer NOT YES/NO but one that can be graded. Such as

`` In a grade of 1 - 5 how interesting do you think my Presentation is ?``

The second test should be a user test, ask your audience to tell you what the think of the Presentation, tell them to be honest and write down exactly what they say.

DO NOT BE AFRAID OF CRITICISM IT WILL HELP YOU EVALUATE. For this part of the investigation you only need to outline the test saying what you want to find out.

The last two parts of your Investigation is to link your project to the UNIT QUESTION by saying exactly how the project you are going to do answers the Unit Question.

Then you need to choose an Area Of Interaction A.O.I. and explain how your project links to the A.O.I. i.e.

Human Ingenuity - how does it help to understand why we create.