Video Project

Doing the video project made me realize how important my project  really is. To do the video I used a tool named Prezi which I did not know existed. Prezi is such a great tool to use for presentations or just simple videos. The moral to this, was that creating a project always cause people to find new tools and ideas.

Below is a link to my video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZFWjkMc--Y&context=C4f7bd35ADvjVQa1PpcFMNoC55-8z1lJERhGofrnjEmN3ZWF8bVA8=

Brief Proposal Presentation to Class

1. Theme 
Obesity has been increasing in a great amount of numbers in the past decades. There is a need for this young generation to improve their health in order to lead this country in the future. A way to fix this problem would be by increasing physical education in schools. To full fill this idea, the curriculum that is being used at the moment will be edited to increase more time for physical activities. The overall point of this project would be to encourage parents and teachers to act for more time of  physical education classes in schools.

2. Props and other assets, food, photographs, building material. 
Props and other assets are essential to provide visual aid for the judges. However, for my project I will not be using many props. Nevertheless, I am going to be showing the audience a PSA, a poster and some statistical graphs that show the increase of childhood obesity over the years.

3. Production Timeline

I am done with my poster,  but I still need to work on my website and PSA. For my PSA I just need to fix the voice over and add some background  music to attract the audience's attention. I am still in the process of finishing my website, I need to upload some pictures, videos and the edited curriculum that I am working on. I hope that by the end of next week with the help of God I will be done.

Website Experience 2

At the beginning I thought it was going to be easy to make a website, but I was wrong.  Everything at the beginning seemed fine,  I had decided I was going to use Photoshop in order to be more creative. However, when I began to link the pages I was just really confused. In addition to that  my website did not match with my poster therefore I decided I was going to start all over. Now I am using Wix.com and it is a lot easier. I like working on Wix.com but I have not managed to finish my website. Below there is a link of what I have done so far.

http://www.wix.com/cristhianisamarperez/actnow

Website Experience

Sadly I have not been able to finish my website. Even though it is a long process I have been learning a great amount of information that I did not know existed. It may become frustrating when my page does not look the way I imagined it but I know that I will be able to finish.

Website Prototype

I would like to make my website really creative in order to attain the attention of people.  Therefore I would have the following:

•    an introductory page with some stunning facts about obesity and then  they will be able to go to the home page within this page I will have my research paper

• another page will be the comparison of the new and old physical education curriculum, within this website there will be some activities, so that the public can the improvements of the curriculum.

•  a page dedicated to physical activity ideas for teachers and staff
•  a page filled with links to websites of obesity facts
• a page about the increase of obesity rates
• a page of how physical education helps improve learning skills

Thinking Ahead - Presentation

Visual aids are great tools to obtain people's attention. People also like short summaries of what the whole project or presentation is about. For instance the judges or the audience will come to a point of frustration if the presenter does not get to the point, and simply just goes on  and on without going straight to the main idea.  Therefore, I would like to use animated graphs that provide information and I will add some facts that parallel with the graph. Using the graph and providing facts at the same time, helps the judge both to visualize and analyze the bottom line of the project.

Below are some tips and ideas that I found online on how to give a presentation:

1. Give the a Souvenir: Provide your audience with something that will help them remember the key terms of the presentation for future reference.

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/juice-analytics/8-ideas-for-presentations-with-more-zing-10422

2. Use a Metaphor;  This helps the audience understand the main idea of the project or presentation.

http://www.presentation-process.com/creative-presentation-ideas.html#.TzAhztVVVIE

3.  Change of  Pace (Transition) :  After a few slides or after a few minutes of talking break the ice by showing the judges a video, music, or pictures in order to wake up the audience.

http://lindenwooduniversity.web.officelive.com/creativepresentationideas.aspx

4. " And one more thing" : Leave a surprise at the end of your presentation so that the judges can walk way thinking of the presentation.

http://lindenwooduniversity.web.officelive.com/creativepresentationideas.aspx

5. Use a human voice : Do not make long wordy sentences just simply go to the point.

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/juice-analytics/8-ideas-for-presentations-with-more-zing-10422

This suggestions have been of great aid to my understanding of how to present a presentation, causing the judges to be interested in my project.

Below is a  link to a video from the TED website. This video does not really relate to my project but it has the same end product as mine.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jamie_oliver.html

This video has also helped me see how to use visual aids without ruining my presentation and keeping the audience interested.

Poster

It took me a great amount of time to think of an idea of how to get my point across through a poster. However I was able to recruit my ideas and I began working on my poster.  As I was working on my poster I had some trouble putting my ideas on Photoshop but with the help of my friend I was able to work it out.  Because of this experience I learned that ideas do not just come up in seconds they take time.