Question Two

My assignment two (Presentation Design) meets some of the six aptitudes such as story, symphony and empathy. The presentation design PowerPoint is about how to recycle and so the presentation tells the story of recycling and instructs how to do so efficiently. The PowerPoint also looks at some school children and they tell their story of how they are recycling in their school to help the community and environment. The symphony in this PowerPoint brings together the different aspects of recycling into one story. It includes how to recycle, examples of recycling, the younger age groups and their recycling efforts and also facts about recycling all over the world. With relation to empathy, the presentation looks at a recycling guide through the eyes of children, the main audience of the presentation. This is that the children can be taught from a young age how to recycle properly. The design is simple and there are many pictures and diagrams to make it more visually appealing and to help teach the children in an easy way how to recycle properly. By sticking to the simple three word phrase ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ helps to work with the children in that they can understand things better when explained to them in shorter bits of information rather than an essay about how to recycle. By using an article of other school children who are making recycling efforts in their school helps to get the attention of the children so they know it’s not just the adults telling them what to do, other children are actually getting involved and by taking this side the presentation attracts the interest of the audience. Although my presentation does not meet all of the six aptitudes but is does address these three throughout the presentation.

Activity Two- Assignment Two

Presentation Design

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Question One

Presentation design requires two aspects, the design of the visual aids and the design of the presentation/speech. How a presentation is delivered affects how the audiences absorb/learn the information. A good presentation design gets the point across in the most effective manner and targets all members of the audience and caters to their needs.

Design

• Not only function
• Reynolds explains design as decoration
• A good design is not noticed whilst looking at the whole picture
• A good design covers all aspects of its audience
• Design should draw in the audience through the presentation visual aids

Story

• Not only argument
• Facts, information, data as Reynolds states
• Information that the presenter sends to people
• Humans are programmed to tell narratives
• Story makes the presentation more interesting
• In the business world it is more taboo
• Students learn better with stories they can relate to a subject

Symphony

• Not only focus
• Bringing together bits and pieces in a presentation that would otherwise not work well together
• Seeing the picture as a whole and relationships that we would not have noticed
• Making sense of the bigger picture

Empathy

• Not only logic
• Emotion
• Seeing the presentation through another’s eyes
• Noticing non-verbal communication between the audience and presenter and the audience and each other
• In presentation empathy helps to let the designer think like their audience
• Become connected to the wants and needs of the audience
• Be able to sense the vibe of the audience and grab their attention again if it is wandering

Play

• Not only seriousness
• Making a presentation/design fun and attractive
• Different to the boring norm that people experience every day
• Using humor to get the audience’s attention or to put across a point in a different way
• Laughter in presentation helps to relax the atmosphere for both the presenter and the audience

Meaning

• Not only contribution
• The presentation you are presenting actually means something to you and you are passionate enough about this to want to present it to an audience
• Sharing your knowledge with others is exciting, it gives you meaning
• By putting effort into a presentation the audience will appreciate it that much more

Lidwell, W., Holden, K., & Butler, J. (2003). Performance Load. In Universal Principles of Design (pp. 148-149). Massachusetts: Rockport.

Activity Two, workshop 2

Caricature

Activity Two, workshop 1

Week Two- Experimenting with shapes

Activity Two- Assignment One

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Presumed

This website is credible because it is a well known site that ends in .org

Reputed

This website is credible because it has won awards for best advertising websites and displays these awards

Surface

The Nike site is credible because it looks professional and well designed and is the proper Nike website

Earned

The apple website is credible because it is the official apple site and uploads new and correct information as it becomes available and keeps its viewers up to date

Question Three

The findings of Fogg’s studies conducted in 1999 and 2002 show that people’s perception of Web credibility has changed. For example, people’s perception on non-profit organisation websites has changed since 1999. This is because, nowadays, setting up a nonprofit website is easy, and therefore, the image of non-profit websites has lost its value. In dot points, in your own words, list anticipated issues that may affect the users’ perceived Web credibility in future.

• You are encouraged to use the references collected for this week’s learning portfolio to complete this question/exercise.

 

Issues that may affect users’ perceived Web credibility in future are:

• The person who has created the site
• The age of the person
• The education and expertise of the person
• Whether they have written other credible sources
• If they are referenced by credible sources

Question Two

Wikipedia is not accepted as a resource for study because the information presented on wikipedia is not one hundred percent credible. While wikipedia may be useful in finding out quick snippets of information, anyone can edit the information and so anyone can write whatever they want or think is true. Wikipedia is not a trustworthy source and has many different people contributing to the information that is presented and they are not experts in the subjects that they write about. Wikipedia is a popular website through word of mouth advertising, because of the amount of information it contains and the ease of navigating the site; but because the website can be edited by less than credible sources the information can not be assumed to be trustworthy. When conducting a study for any education level wikipedia does not present credible research into the information and does not source where the information comes from, this should be a warning sign that not all the information that is contained on the site can be believed. As a student wikipedia is not accepted as a resource because it is not credible and some of the information can be plagiarized from else where. When conducting a study at university all of the resources used have to be credible, while wikipedia may be believable, it is definitely not completely credible.

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It is important to evaluate the credibility of websites that you get your information from because using a website that is not credible can give you false or misleading information and not explain what you need to know properly. Websites use persuasion to get people to use their site by advertising that it is the best place to get your information from, this is where we have to be careful in choosing websites to gain information from. Some less than credible websites may be very persuasive in getting a person’s attention, but it is then important to evaluate the credibility of the website so that the correct information is gained. It is important to evaluate the credibility of websites because you want to know where the information is coming from, where the details you enter are going and the money for your purchases. To determine a credible website there has to be a combination of trustworthiness of the source in “that the source is fair and unbiased” (Fogg, (2003). P. 123)); and expertise, this means that the source comes from an expert in the subject. To evaluate a credible website, you should look at the author or publisher, where the information has come from, the amount of sources the author has used, how similar the information is to other credible sources and the amount of other credible sources this website provides. As a student the credibility of websites can affect me by giving false information about a particular subject. If I were doing a research assignment and I used a website that was not credible, I would be getting false information and referencing a website that is not credible and recognized by the university as a satisfactory place to gain information from and therefore will loose marks on the assignment.

 

Fogg, B. J. (2003). Credibility and the World Wide Web. In Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do (pp. 122]125). Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.