1. Unit 1 – Improving Productivity Instructions ~ 100 words per box

2. 1.1Why did you use a computer? What other systems / resources could you have used? There are different ways to present: -video=quick and easy. Video does not work sometimes. -verbal presentation=you have to memorise what you have said. -poster=not that colourful. -leaflet= people just throw them. -blackboard / whiteboard= easy to rub off and difficult to read. I used the computer because you can get animation and stuff like that to make it more interesting for the people your presenting it to.

3. 1.2What skills did you need to learn in order to use PowerPoint? Need ICT skills, you need to no what the tools are on personation and what they are used for and use them for the right reasons. Good creativity skills, you need this skill because its really important because you would like to have a good and colourful personation for your audience otherwise they wouldn’t want to know what's going on because the presentation is boring. Organisational skills, you need this because you need to no where you put your presentation and make sure that you don’t lose the presentation. Good time management skills, you need this because you need to be skilful with the timings on the presentation slide and when you need to finish something and you don’t finish it then you are going into the next tasks time and you wont be able to finish the next task.

4. 1.2What resources did you need to make the presentation successful? You need preparation skills, and not to be afraid of presenting things and making a fool of yourself. Also when your giving your personation and somebody asks you what does this mean or whatever else ? You will need to back up your argument and bullet points,so the audience knows that you didn’t copy or paste. You will also need a study guide so you what how to make a successful presentation.

5. 1.4What factors might have affected how well you completed the presentation? (e.g. time / attendance / knowledge of software) My attendance has affected my time completing my personation because I've had loads of days off for medical reasons and my time as well because when I not in lessons I'm mostly speaking to the teachers in the school and when I'm not speaking to the teachers I'm in lesson and its for only about 30 mins (approximate) and I have hardly no time to do my work. And I need extra help off the teachers because sometimes I don’t know what I'm doing and don’t have a clue what the teacher has set me a task to do.

6. 1.6Why did you use PowerPoint to make your presentation? What other software was available? Why did you choose not to use them? PowerPoint is a good and effective source to use at school and its good to get people attention as well because you can make the PowerPoint colourful and full with animations and stuff like that, I choose not to use a word document because its just plain and boring because its only words and pictures it does not have a colourful background you cant fill the paper in not like you can on PowerPoint and plus it doesn’t get peoples attention. The PowerPoint is the most effective software at of the word, excel etc.

7. 2.2Which tools within PowerPoint made it appropriate for your presentation? In my PowerPoint I used hyperlink to help me go back to the pages I want to instead of going back out of the PowerPoint or going back to the page I want so what I done I created a house for the hyperlink and I put it in the corner of each slide of the presentation so if need to go to the home page I can just click that, then I hyperlinked all the other slides to other slides so I can click on whatever hyperlink and then it will take me there.

8. 1.7Were there any legal constraints or local constraints that changed the way you created your presentation? (e.g. copyright, file sizes, AUP) When I used a picture from the internet or the shared area I had to have permition of the teachers and I had to have a reference of where I got it from and I had to out the reference on my notes page. Also I used a video in my personation but I could not put it on the internet because my video was to big so I had to choose a different video that was the right size to put on the internet.

9. 2.4What improvements do you think you could do to your presentation? I could improve my presentation by doing my time on the slides. I would use different tools for different things and also different fonts for the type of language I use in my presentation. I would use more animations on my slides but I don’t have enough space for my animations. Also would use key points more so I have more space to explain things.

10. 3.2What improvements do you think you could have done to improve your work rate? (keyboard shortcuts, file names & locations, backups, work after school, templates, planning) I could of used more planning because I had to use things of the top of my head and I had to think before I out anything down. So if I done planning then it would have been quick and easy because I would of just copied of the paper on the presentation templet. I also could of used the keyboard shortcuts but I only know a few shortcuts. For example ; print screen Ctrl+p = print Alt+ctrl+delete = to turn of the computer F5 = to fresh the page. If I knew more keyboard shortcuts it would of saved me a lot of time and I would have been able to edit my personation more and make it more effective. If I came to work on presentation after school it would have been much more better because it would of caught the audiences eyes a little more and they would of listened what my presentation is about.