Friday 7th October, 2016
Contextual Portfolio
Beginning the lecture, we were run through what we were to expect from the summative and formative assessments. For the formative assessment, the requirement is to make 20 or so slides on the blog posts created through the term.
Following this, we were given a list of what you should and shouldn't do with a presentation, and that was also followed with a small clip featuring an academic talking about the various presentation sins. The list of yes's and no's can be found here;
Yes:
- Keep it simple.
- Keep it clear - imagine that your audience is
intelligent but they don't really know the subject.
- Write notes with exactly what you want to say.
- Calculate how much time you need for each slide.
- Time yourself with a stopwatch.
- Rehearse.
No;
- Too much illegible text.
- Overly complex diagrams
- Reading from your notes (holding the sheet
in front of your face)
Above is the clip that was shown during the lecture.
To follow this presentation rule book esq. we were put into pairs to do an exercise, and the purpose of this was to explain and encapsulate our topics in one sentence. Then to create a strong point and to follow that the title of the essay's subject. My brief was to look into the automation of design. The options for a title vary from 'Automation in Design' to 'Design and Automation'. Something else could be decided on but that is yet to happen. The feedback for my topic is that it's a good idea, there's lots of things to talk about and that there are also wealthy points for each one.
