At work I encourage pupils to take 5 minutes to think about the task they have been asked to do, to come up with a plan of action for their research and task over all. I would have done well to have taken more time to explore the SlideShare site before launching into my review for Thing 17. While not wrong at the time, the area of most frustration to me - the lack of a notes section, was indeed there all the time, I just hadn’t noted it. The notes held in the notes section of PowerPoint Presentations do transfer with the file, which means I can continue to make use of the notes section in PPT when putting together my presentations which is a great relief. This doesn’t mean all faults are gone - interactive elements don’t transfer and there doesn’t appear to be a section to upload a text document supporting a PPT. Further website exploration may reveal these options yet. But it has become eminently more useful, though taking five minutes to think about whether I want to share a file and where at the start of the creation process, will allow me to decide how to continue with my presentation, depending on if I want to put it in SlideShare or use another file sharing website. Take five and reflect.
Here is my first attempt with Piktochart. I thought in advance it would have been a case of changing a bit of text on a template and in minutes an infographic would exist. It took a little more time and ended up going back to look at the help videos. Even using an existing template don't underestimate the time that is required to put together an infographic! However I do think infographic visuals are very effective in making statistics you want to highlight stand out and draw peoples attention to them. I am going develop more for work and to try starting from scratch.Once I have the templates I need then it will be so much easier to just alter the data and publish. These will be very effective especially for end of year reports to highlight what I would like management to see first, and highlighting things like survey results to staff and students. One thing I will have to do is work out how to get better information and reports out of my Library Management system. I know what ...
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