Lesson 8 Making Presentations

Presentations have 3 goals:

Inform: tells info about a topic

Educate: telling information to get the audience to do something about it

Persuade: to convince someone to do something

People learn in three different ways:

Seeing: using pictures and visuals (get info from screen and not speaker)

Hearing: using sounds and voices (get info from speaker and not screen)
Doing: using hands on activities, actions, Q&A's, etc. (get info from actions and not really speaker or screen)

4 things that make a up a PowerPoint Presentation:

Text: Words on a pp slide

Charts and Graphs: Data on a pp slide (math, money, science, timeline, etc.)

Photos and Graphics: Pictures and objects in the pp slide for visual people

Audio and Video: Videos and sounds that teach the read info, can give a more broad topic of info with videos for visual and audio people.

Presentation Rules:

Slides simple and easy to read 7-7

State your purpose

Add image to support purpose

Relax when you speak

Don't read the slides directly to the audience

Make eye contact with the audience

Practice your presentation

Colors:

Light colored backgrounds with dark text

Dark backgrounds with bright text

Font Size:

Use large font size so it's easy to read

Limit how much text on each slide

Make text clean and big

Make multiple slides if you can't fit all the text on the 1 slide

Organize your presentation:

State purpose

Present in multiple ways

End with a summary

Supporting Images:

Keep people interested

Reinforce key messages

Help visual learners understand

Avoid Cluttering with slides and images:

Avoid slide clutter

Don't use to many colors

Relax and be Friendly:

Don't read slides word for word or don't talk to fast

Add info and example in own words

allows time for note taking

answer audience questions

practice presentation

POIT Lesson 6 Peripherals

• Peripherals: Devices that provide the computer with input or output.
• Mouse - Input= Optical or laser, wireless or wired, trackball, USB mouse.
• Keyboard - Input= Input device that sends a signal of keys or key combinations to the computer as to what to do.
• Monitor - Output= CRT and LCD, Monitor can be an input device when it's a touch screen, pixel is a small colored dot that is displayed on a screen.
• Printer - Output= Scanner = reads the image that is a document or photo and sends it to a computer, can't save it as a processing document. Multi function = scans, prints, copies, faxes, etc. would have one at work.
• Flash Drive - Input= CD Drive, Floppy disk drive, Blu-ray. External Drives: Things that hold information as storage for you, can go into your computer, have bigger ones, 
• Tower Cases: have one bay for optical drive, different sized and types can be loaded into the same case
• Dream Computer: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, Printer, Scanner, Storage Devices, Game controllers/joysticks

First 9 Weeks

What is your impression of the first 9-weeks of high school?
High school is insanely better than middle school. It's a lot more chill and i really enjoy it.
What has been difficult about the transition from middle school?
Nothing has really been difficult. Everything is running smoothly.
What has been easy about the transition?
The teachers have helped me transition better. Also i know people from my past school so i know some people and they could help me.
What have you learned about yourself?
I have learned that i can work well with others around me.

ID Theft Faceoff

1)The names of three nationwide consumer reporting companies are Equinox, Expericorps, and TransAmerica. The actual names are Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
2)Use random numbers and letters rather than info people can find out.
3)Identity theft refers to a broad variety of criminal misuses of your name.
4)You can place an alert of your Social Security Number by calling one of the 3 nationwide companies.
5)Take action immediately once your info has been stolen.
6)If you aren't getting anymore bills your account still might be hijacked.
7)The best way to get a free copy of you credit report is to file a Freedom of Information Act Request. The Fair Credit Reporting Act allows you to ask and receive a free credit card every 12 months.

Trends and Factors

Q: What 3 trends do you see in computer evolution? AND Why?
A: Computers are getting smaller because the parts used to build the computer are getting smaller as well, because of the knowledge we have now. Internet speed is getting faster and faster because the people want faster connection because they are impatient, so they have to create faster internet because of the demand. Video games are taking up a lot more space on drives and such because the better looking the game (which people want), the more it takes to run the game.

Q: Name 3 factors that drive technological innovation?
A: The demand for better computers from the consumers, the hunger for more power and knowledge, money has a huge factor as well.

True or False

• The first computer programmer was a women.
• True = Ada Lovelace
• The first computer was built in 1975.
• False = 1910
• Apple made the world's first user friendly personal computer.
• True
• Binary numbers are counted by 2's.
• False = 0's and 1's
• A notebook computer is the same as a laptop computer.
• True
• Computers come in only 3 sizes: Desktop, Notebook, and Tablet.
• False = As well as Mobile and Super
• All PC's use the Microsoft windows operating system.
• False = Linux
• People with a lot of data often own there own mainframe computer.
• False
• Most modern super computers are made up of clusters of computers.
• True

Anticipation Guide

• As long as I can check my e-mail and surf the web I am computer literate.
• Disagree
• All computer systems are basically alike on the inside.
• Agree
• Peer to peer networks are a great way to share all kinds of files.
• Agree
• Open source software is the wave of the future. Soon it won't matter what kind of machine a person has because everything will be open source and easily translatable from one operating system to another.
• Disagree
• Although computer programmers should focus on learning the very latest programming languages, older programs written in languages like C are still important to learn.
• Agree
• Unrestricted access to technology is a fundamental human right.
• Disagree
• If I get a job in the computer industry I will never have to worry about being unemployed.
• Disagree