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Final presentation starts next week, and we'll use two sessions (week 6 and 7) to finish it. The order is as follows:
Week 6
Group 7 - 7161920
Group 1 - Nameless
Group 5 - I generation
Group 2 -Water conservers
Group 3 - Pinky
Week 7
Group 9 - Steam failure
group 4 - Flawless
Group 6 - Lucifer
Group 10 - FTW
group 8 - Still thinking
Each group has exactly 8 minutes to speak, and all the materials are to be sent to both Ms Hu (hu_yingjue@moe.edu.sg) and Ms Lin (lin_rui_qi@moe.edu.sg) by 24 April, Sunday, 23:59 (this also applies to groups presenting in week 7 to be fair to all). You should have at least one copy of the material with you on the presentation day, too.
You may make use of the good old powerpoint slides, or try something new like prezi.com.
Tips for giving an engrossing presentation
Use striking visual elements. It can be pictures, graphs, short videos or animations, words or short phrases. Avoid making your slides into a script projected for everyone to read.
Have good composure, speak loudly and clearly, and make frequent eye contact and scan with the audience.
Link up your key points, i.e. make smooth transitions from one section to the next with clear explanation.
TED.comhas a rich resource of elite speakers from all over the world speaking on a wide range of subjects. Go and find one that interests you, and pay attention not to the content, but how the presentation material is prepared and how the speaker composes himself/herself. Like:
Every group will have 3 minutes (exactly) to speak. Every member needs to speak about 1/4 of the time.
Give a PREVIEW (like a movie trailer), do not try to cram everything into 3 minutes.
We are looking at 1) your progress and how you are putting things together for a coherent, interesting presentation, and 2) your presentationskills (speech, composure, humor, etc).
You can choose conventional platforms (i.e. (boring) slides) or unconventional ones.
We'll give 1~2 minutes of feedback at the end of each presentation.
28th Feb
Answers to the water quality monitoring workshop can be viewed here. You are encouraged to use what you learned about parameters and testing procedures in your overall report.
23th Feb
It seems the majority of you are still far from being the master of web search. You enter long, full sentences as search queries and then complain about getting little useful results back. Maybe your query is one of a kind and few people have posted about it, maybe you are not doing it right. I am compiling a Google Search Tips and Tricks page for you, do read and use them!
I've done up a Sample Written Product Layout for your reference, hope this clears up some anxiety about how to structure the final product.
Project Guideline has been updated to reflect the latest direction... Do read the purple parts before you go further.
Project Planner Template is up. Create a copy of this file for your group, and update weekly. IMPORTANT!
Buy plants for your group and keep in a member's home. Nutrient solutions will be made available to you from the lab, but you can also choose to concoct your own potent potions to water your plants--just let me know your rough proposal before I greenlight you to go ahead.
Some groups barely have a couple of pages under the group folder (for reference of what you should have at this point, look at Group 2), and about a quarter of the class haven't been logging into the workspace for over a month. I am aware that due to the limitation of wiki, you can't simultaneously edit a page, and some of you choose to sit it out during PW lessons. However, the point of using a wiki is such that you don't have to sit down in the same place at the same time to collaborate. The majority of PW should be done in your own time, and curriculum time is meant for checking in with teachers and taking stock of progress. So a stern warning to the idle ones--log in and contribute, your work--or lack thereof--is very evident. If you haven't heard: freeloaders do not get any credits, period.
What should be in your group folder by next Friday: Group Main Page (update continuously) Planning Investigation (complete) Reflection x 4 (complete) Project Planner (update continuously)
Read up on 'wetlands' and update your group wiki with relevant info.
Start on your experiment on nutrient solution's effect on plant growth, and start to update your group main page with your experiment objective, method, results, analysis, and conclusion.
Go to Reflections from "your name", create a copy and rename it to 'Reflections from John Smith', for example, and put it in your own group folder. Reflect and update according to the given headings.
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YiXing said
at 2:28 pm on Feb 9, 2015
HI!! 8=====D
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