2019/2020 LE blogs

      Today, I learned about using multimedia to make our presentations look more persuasive. I researched about multimedia and found that there were 5 elements of multimedia (text, image, audio, video and animation). The website I researched said that audio, video and animation were categorized in the dynamic elements. Perhaps if our group enhanced these elements, it would become an impressive presentation.        Then I learned about the "mouth" person catching people's attention. I thought Apple was smart because they didn't call the visitors to come to the council, but made them come. My group thought that just saying "Hello we are going to start our presentation" before the presentation isn't really effective. So we are planning to show a short video before going to the actual presentation to catch the audience's attention. The content of the video is about reviewing the bad points of our classroom.

 Today, we learned about proof of concept. This means that we need to support our ideas by presenting valid examples or information. For example, I have been working on a presentation about the chairs and desks in the classroom, so I need to find good reports or examples of what other schools or universities are doing about chairs and desks. In my presentation, I had absolutely no support for my ideas, only my own opinions, so my arguments were not very persuasive.  To find proof of concept, crowdsourcing is a very efficient way to do that. Students share what they have found on the Internet, so there would be a huge amount of information if we all did crowdsourcing. However, I'm concerned that many people will do their research privately and won't share their information, so there would be no point in looking at the crowdsourcing document. Also, we learned about plagiarism when we were practising crowdsourcing. I was surprised when I heard that plagiarism is actually ve...

 Today, we learned about Google sites. I heard that creating a website was easy, and I was very surprised when I tried to make my own website that it was so simple, but at the same time, looked very professional. Showing a website that I made myself at the end of the presentation really shows that we are putting the effort into the project. Putting a QR code of our website in the slideshow might be a good idea too, because the audience doesn't usually have time to type in the link. If we use QR codes, the audience just have to scan the code using their smartphones. Also, this school's website is very hard to view on smartphones. Perhaps, if we had used Google sites, it could be a much better website. Furthermore, I was very impressed by how much Google is contributing to the dissemination of education combined with technology. We also learned about infographics. I didn't know the word "infographic" but I've seen infographics in many places. Infographics ha...