CHI Note

Presentation

Group 1
Verachat Thamsoontorn
10:00am - 11:00am

-Research process
-How You Develop
-What did you read?
-My personal view and read other person's view.
-1500 words

Good Or Bad Presentation

Good Presentation:
-Talking to audience- knowing the subject
-Handout
-Humour
-Bullet point/ key ideas
-Confidence in subject matter
-Multiple sources of info
-Eye contact/ clear
-Refer back to main point/ Key issues
-Fonts/Sizes
-Visual Clarity/ Information clear
-Confidence/Eye contact-Judging formality/ informality
-Information Communication
-Active audience
-Eye Contact.

Bad Presentation:
-Nerves, Forgetting/confidence
-Too much information - only text
-Turned away
-Fidgeting - distracting
-Reading only what is on the screen
-Body language
-Unplanned/ no structure.
-Colour/ information literacy
-Brief
-Too little content/repetitive
-Lack of clarity between visuals & reading
-Gimmicky use of technology/presentation
-Language/ Acronym

SP InDesign Task

This the task I've done on Tuesday by using InDesign. I felt very comfortable using InDesign but I think I still got a lot of thing to learn more. For designing leaflet, book cover or magazine layout you need to be accurate and so many thing going on in the page but using InDesign make it more easier and I feel by learning InDesign will be useful for my work in the future.

Academic Skills

Source for Research:
-Books
-Journal & e-journals
-Periodicals & Online Periodicals
-Exhibition catalogues & support materials
-Reputable websites
-Archives
-Documentaries, podcast & other AV material
-Well Documented (semi) structured interviews

Methods....
-Empirical
-Literature Review
-Qualitative
-Quantitative
-Validity, reliability and hypothesis testing

Documenting research:

There are many different ways to document different type of research, but the following point are worth nothing
-Your method should be transparent to someone who as never met you (i.e. an external examiner):
-Any imagery or text collated.

Academic Writing: Features

Academic writing has certain conventions, because it is based on models.
Arguments and opinions that are logical.

To encourage people to read and understand it all writing also need:
-Clear presentation
-Accurate spelling grammar and punctuation.

Bibliography:

-Must include all the sources referenced in your essay/text.
-Must be alphabetised by authors.

Books1 Where detailing a referenced book you must:

-Name of the author(s)
-The title of book
-The year it was published
-The edition
-Where it was published
-Who published it.

Journal Articles:

-Include author's name
-Year of publication
-Title of article
-Title of journal (in italics)

Web Page, website, e-book
if no author, reference by title.

Films/Av Sources:

Referencing:

When do you reference?
-A direct quotation?
-A particular theory/idea.

The Harvard System:
-One of the simplest forms of referencing
-Larger quotations should be indented in the text.

Research Issues:

You must consider Ethics in the way that you carry out your research, particularly if you are planning to use any human participants.

Relevance of research to Creative Practices.

Research Design:

Research Plan:

Working title (preparatory reading might be required before being able to confirm this)

Reminder:
-Hand-in requirements (format and condition)