1. Unit 1 – Improving Productivity Elle-Marie Reid Instructions - 100 words per box

2. 1.1Why did you use a computer? What other systems / resources could you have used? Things you could have used other than a computer: word-letter, publisher-poster/left let, website, game.These would of taken more time but these would have been some more ways to spread the word other then using a computer. If I never had a computer then I could have used pen and paper or I could of made a poster. However if I did not have a lot of paper I could text parents witch will get the parents attention. But then it’s being able to text thunders of parent’s phones also it would cost a lot of money and some parents might not have phones or they could only have house phones.

3. 1.2What skills did you need to learn in order to use PowerPoint? Well all I need to know is how to copy and paste but I only would use that when I need to paste a picture on the PowerPoint and when I need to copy some information. However I didn’t need a lot of skills because its easy to use. However by making loads of slides you need to know how to control how so many you make and how much information you need. Also power point has a lot of easy things to help you with moving on with your work but it is easy to pick up,what you need to do to get what you want.

4. 1.2What resources did you need to make the presentation successful? I used : electric, computer, PowerPoint, internet, videos, images, information. I used electric because other wise I wouldn’t be able to logon to the computer. Also I used a computer because I wanted to make a presentation and I didn’t want to work on paper or a poster so I used a computer. I used PowerPoint because I think its easier and better to use. I used internet to get information and to find out more stuff I needed for my presentation. I used images and videos to make my presentation more interesting.by using images it as successful because some of the year six's might find it difficult. There wouldn’t of been any images to help so that’s why used images.

5. 1.4What factors might have affected how well you completed the presentation? (e.g. time / attendance / knowledge of software) People distracting me made me loose contraction and it didn’t help me finish it.How ever the teacher helped me by taking me through it and helping me understand. I had to wait for help because the computer took time to load. Also I missed out on a couple of lessons.by me not listening it got lot more harder for me to understand without being able to listen. That means I didn’t listen to what I had to do or what the personation was about. Being not able to logon at home has not helped because if I could logon then I could have done more at home. By doing catch up it helps because it gives more time to finish my work and to move on with the power point slides.

6. 1.6Why did you use PowerPoint to make your presentation? What other software was available? Why did you choose not to use them? I used a computer because it is a lot easier to research on computer and the information that I would need would be easy to get and I could research information I don’t know. Also it will be a lot faster on a computer because it isn’t very time consuming because you don’t have to looks through books and its easy to just look it up on the internet. If I needed a lot of the same thing then I can print then very easily. If I wasn’t good at art then it would be harder to draw some pictures also on a computer you can just copy and paste. However it would be more creative if I done it by hand but it is easier to type then to write. The layout is every neat and can be read very easily by using an computer. I used PowerPoint because there's more things to do on PowerPoint. I could of used word because word has a lot of different things to help me with to.

7. 1.7Were there any legal constraints or local constraints that changed the way you created your presentation? (e.g. copyright, file sizes, AUP) If something has copyright on it and you wanted to use it you would always have to ask the original maker to use the thing that you would like to use. Copyright can effect my work because I couldn’t use some photos that I needed. So I didn’t have to check about copyright I used photos from the schools website with permission. AUP is a set of rules that tells you what you can and can not do. By having rules people shouldnt into your computer or your private stuff. Might effected the kind of websites I need to go on.my stuff should be keep more safe also not be damaged. File sizes are controlled because if the size of the film is to big then it wont let you send that file unless you zipped it or you changed your stuff on the file.it stopped me from putting in a high quality video also my video wasn’t that long. Other people had to change there presentations because there files would have been to big.

8. 2.2Which tools within PowerPoint made it appropriate for your presentation? V ideos this means that you can show things instead of just telling people. Hyperlink button is that you can link up the pages so you can click on the pages you need when you need them. Slides made my power point appropriate because you can make as many slides as you would like on the subject you want, Its more easier to read because its set out.Background you can change the background to any picture or any colour you would like. Layout easier to move things around and to get things in line.

9. 2.4What improvements do you think you could do to your presentation? I could of improved it by adding a couple more videos because I only put 1 video into my power point.by using less words it helped because they are only year 6s so if I added more pictures that would of helped me to improve it more.by having the lay out more professional and to make somethings look 3d.by adding more little things to my power point if will look at lot better and I could have more different formats.by cropping some of my pictures so they don’t have a white border around them so It looks a lot more professional.

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 work a bit more harder and faster because it would of gave me more time to look back over my work. Also to check that I liked what I had done. I didn’t know about keyboard short cuts so if I would have used them I would of saved a lot of time that could have been used for something else. I used a template so it was easier for me to know what I was doing. I was a lot faster for me by using a template because I knew what I wanted it to be set out like and what u wanted it to look like. The file names was easy to remember so that didn’t waste any time.