Turek Stand Alone Presentation Nov 20 2011

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INTE 6710 ~ Creative Designs for Instructional Materials

Project 3: Stand-Alone Presentation Design DocumentDawn Turek

November 20, 2011

1. Significant PurposeTrash is a major environmental pollutant, with many types taking hundreds ofyears to properly decompose when thrown away. I want to inform the viewermore about the facts about trash and some tips for ways of reducing yourgarbage, recycling it and helping the environment. We put out an amazingamount of trash and waste. Some products take years to decompose such as"disposable" diapers which take 550 years and an aluminum cans which takebetween 200-500 years. Lets not forget about the evil Styrofoam and plasticcontainers which take one million years to fully decompose. On the other endof the scale we have waste that is often recyclable or reusable but also doesn'ttake as much time to decompose such as a wool sock which takes one yearand a paper bag which takes one month to decompose.

This problem effects everyone and our future generations. It is not goingaway and the amount we are doing now is not enough! Without extremeaction we will not see much results. We will trash this planet and not be ableto raise future generation here if the rate continues. Estimates suggest that

up to 90% of the contents of our bins could actually be reused or recycled.Take a look at your trash can. What did you not need to use, can you useagain or what can be recycled. Be conscious of what you are throwing awayand using on a daily basis. Don't use Styrofoam or disposable diapers. I knoweasier said than done. Being a mother of a about to be two children in diapersit is really hard to not use diapers. But there are alternatives. There are manyalternative to disposable diapers that are better for the environment. as far asStyrofoam bring a cup with you to places you know only use Styrofoam. Didyou know that in some states like California Styrofoam is banned? I think wein Colorado should follow this trend!

A large amount of garbage is either incinerated or buried in landfills. About aquarter is currently recycled, but if we were more careful and spent timesorting and separating different types of materials, we could significantlyincrease our recycling abilities. For food scraps and yard waste try a compostpile, they have many nice compost pails and tumblers on the market for youto choose from. Pick one that works best for you. Find out what recyclingprograms are in your area and what they take. Here in Denver we have afairly good recycling program that takes Plastics (with in guidelines),

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Corrugated Cardboard, Paperboard, Glass Bottles & Jars, Steel Cans & AerosolCans, Office Paper & Junk Mail, Newspaper, Magazines & Catalogs, AluminumCans, Foil & Pie Plates, phone books, and paper bags.

Many people have a vague idea of how much we waste and try in small

amounts to do their part. But with a little more facts and knowledge of thesubject they will hopefully know A lot more about waste and try even harder todo their part! I will show charts and facts about waste growth and disposal. Iwill also show what can be recycled and reused and describe more ways wecan help reduce the amount of waste put out.

The facts are shocking and unreal but if we all are more informed we can helpby using compost buckets for food and some paper waste, recycling andreusing many products. I will inform the viewer/learner on what items can beused again or recycled and what products to avoid all together. With thisknowledge we can all help our planet from becoming a trash dump.

2. A Picture of the Future

I picture a future where trash is reduced to minimal amounts. Where thewhole world bans items that are not decomposable or that wont decomposefor millions of years. I picture all household using compost and reducing theamount or food and yard waste in our landfills.Do you recycle? Does your community have a recycling program? If not makeit happen. Many items can be recycled. I will inform the viewer learner of all

the items that can be recycled with text and pictures to help them along.

With this presentation I hope to get people more aware of the waste theyproduce. By becoming aware they can do there best to reduce the amount ofwaste and reuse, and recycle. Even creating personal bans and not usingproducts that don't decompose fast will help future generations. By reusingitems such as plastics and paper bags and even better switching to reusablecloth bags. Did you know that between Thanksgiving and the New Year,Americans throw up to 25% more trash, amounting to a massive five milliontons extra. Of this, about four millions tons is believed to be made up ofwrapping paper and shopping bags. Why create all this trash!? Re-Use

newspaper comics or brown paper bags to wrap your gifts! Decorate themwith a child's drawing or your own create coloring!?

Many people do not use compost pails or tumblers. Some do not even knowwhat they are. The process of composting requires simply piling up wasteoutdoors and waiting for the materials to break down from anywhere between6 weeks or more. Through my presentation they will learn about thisawesome alternative to throwing food and yard waste in the trash. Not only



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do you save from throwing it all away but you can then use the compost inyour gardening to provide beneficial nutrients to your outdoor plants, treesand gardens. Benefits of compost include soil conditioner, a fertilizer,addition of vital humus or humic acids, and as a natural pesticide for soil.

Learning Objective Measurable OutcomeLearners will become more aware ofthe problem with trash.

Learners will be aware of what theythrow away and where it goes whenthey do.

Learners will have a better idea ofhow they can reduce the amount theythrow away.

Learners will know some creative andeasy ways to reduce the amount theythrow away.

Learners will know which items can berecycled and some fun ways of doingit.

Learners will know what can berecycled and how they can avoidthings that cant be recycled.

3. Clear Design Values

Design Decision #1. Simplicity is my first design decision. I thought of taglines and quotes to get this presentation started but then I realized thatsomeone has already done that. Someone created the three R's. Reduce,Reuse and Recycle. I did need to find the core it was already out there. Thisstatement says it all in a nutshell. Its straight to the point and simple."Finding the core" (Heath & Heath, 2008, p. 29). I also incorporated simpleinto my theme. I used a monochromatic color scheme which features only one

color in different shades. "This is a very effective way to create harmony sinceusing the same hue gives your slides an overall unified, professional look."(Reynolds, 2009, pg. 73)

Design Decision #2. Presentation Flow was important to me. In using a newprogram to me Prezi and a lot of information I wanted to make sure all theinformation flow well together and I didn't want my learners to "have to thinkat all, which means you need to answer every potential question at the exactlyright place" (Reynolds, 2009, p. 56) I wanted the learner to flow nicelythrough the presentation at his/her own pace and not to do multitasking which

we have read really is hard to do in the world of learning. Multitasking in theway of looking at my presentation and thinking about the why's and what's. Ihope I am answering those within presentation so again the learner doesn'tget sidetrack thinking off track. "The Brain is a sequential processor, unableto pay attention to two things at the same time." (Medina, 2008, p.93)



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Design Decision #3. Emotion is another design decision I included. This is animportant topic that effects our life's. Sadly many people do not see ithappening directly to them so they do not care. For this reason I includedpictures of animals and children. Most people think of animals and or childrenand tend to get more emotional than with a picture of a trash can. "The

standard antilitter message is emotional...also appeals to our feelings forcuddly wildlife..." (Heath & Heath, 2008, p. 196). I also achieved an emotionalconnection by choosing to use the color green as my background. Bychoosing green I have created a "natural, balance, harmony, the environment,earth, ..." feeling and emotion to my presentation. (Reynolds, 2009, p. 79)

Design Decision #4. Using a lot of images was a design decision of mine. Witha topic that can be very wordy and lengthy I wanted to keep the viewerengaged and entertain with many visuals. "...images have a unique power notjust to convey information, but also to build unity and consensus around that

information to promote action and decision making..." (Reynolds, 2009, p.95)Vision is a sense used more than any other sense as said multiple times in thiscourse by many different people. I wanted to tap into that sense by havingmy presentation mostly of visuals including pictures and a few graphs. Byusing pictures information is better retain and placed into memory. "the morevisual the input becomes, the more likely it is to be recognized-andrecalled...the pictorial superiority effect, or PSE." (Medina, 2008, p.233)

Design Decision #5. I paid close attention to spacing of text , images, andedges. I tried to leave an invisible frame along the edges of each slide. Also

making sure the text did not get too close to either the edge or the pictures. Idecided not to fill the frame with picture but instead placing picture next tothe text. Leaving everything with room to breathe. "A consistent boarder actsas protection around the photographic element. White (or in this case green)is clean and dramatic". (Reynolds, 2009, p.167) With paying attention tospacing brings me back to simplicity. By keeping a space between items in aslide it creates a balance and simple ness to the presentation. Keeping themessages compact. "Our messages have to be compact, because we canlearn and remember only so much information at once". (Heath & Heath,2008, p.51)

Design Decision #6. Concrete. I used this idea in that my subject has a lot ofconcrete evidence and material which can help people understand the subjectmatter "Concrete ideas are easier to remember" (Heath & Heath, 2008,p.106) My presentation is full of concrete words and images that people canremember. To help explain some of the concrete evidence of this topic I usedline graphs. "Line graphs are good at showing trends over time. Use a line



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graph if the x-axis is an interval scale such as days, weeks, or months".(Reynolds, 2009, p. 141)

Design Decision #7. "Learn to love constraints" (Reynolds, 2009, p. 174) With

so much information out there on this subject I had to be conscious of howmuch information I was giving the learner. I did not want to overwhelm thelearners with so many facts and statistics that they are bored or overwhelmedtherefore losing interest. "we all know this, but still we battle with theunnecessary". Also comes to mind is "the curse of knowledge" (Heath &Heath, 2008, p.20) Since I have researched this topic extensively I alsowanted to be careful not to leave out information that is important that I mayassume everyone already know because I know it. So this was a balance actof giving just the right amount of information. "People are tempted to tell youeverything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be givingyou just enough info to be useful..." (Heath & Heath, 2008, p. 57).

Design Decision #8. Attention please. I wanted to get people attention so Iused many pictures that would hopefully stand out in the learners mind.Whether its attention to the animals and children or attention to the massivepiles of trash that are in landfills. The landfill pictures are quite unreal and gotmy attention to do this project. My curiosity of the subject of landfills is whatgot me going. I had never seen a landfill only heard of them. By viewingthese pictures I want the learner to feel what I feel and want to know more. "Ifcuriosity arise from knowledge gaps, we might assume that when we knowmore, we become less curious because there are fewer gaps in our knowledge.

But Loewenstein argues that the opposite is true. He says that as we gaininformation we are more and more likely to focus on what we don't know."(Heath & Heath, 2008, p.89) I hope to create attention by the learnersinterest in the information and topic I am presenting. "...novel stimuli-theunusual, unpredictable, or distinctive-are powerful ways to harness attentionin the service of interest." I added the unbelievable pictures of landfills alongwith unusual such as the man in a newspaper dress. These pictures areinteresting and provoke the learner to find out more!

4. Formative Evaluation Response

Peer Review Question #1. Does the presentation 'flow' well or is it wellorganized? Please explain why or why not and if not what parts should I fix orwork on? I asked this question because it was my first time using Prezi and itseems kind of chaotic when creating the presentation. So I wanted to makesure that the presentation was easy to flow and made sense chronologically.



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Cindy answered with "It was very easy for me to follow. I like the way Prezitransitions the slides, giving the viewer the ability to zoom in and out". Jasonsaid "I like Prezi but the big question I had was whether or not its better to beable to click through a presentation or to have it play out automatically. In thecase of you presentation I liked being able to click through at my own pace, so

in that regard I think it flows well. You dive right in at the beginning but youmay want to consider one guiding paragraph at the beginning that kind ofoutlines what your presentation is about, it might make it a bit more clear".Overall my reviews thought the presentation had a nice flow and like theability to click through at thier own pace. As for Jason idea to make an introparagraph I decided against it because I believe the words Reduce, reuse, andrecycle are enough and I wanted to keep the big chucks of text to a minimum.

Peer Review Question #2. As always I am a bad speller and typist so PLEASEtell me of any spelling or grammar errors you see. Prezi had no spell checkthat I could see. I have trouble seeing my own grammar, punctuation andspelling errors. So it is always nice to have a couple more eyes look at it.

Prezi did not have a spell check that I found? Cindy replied with "I didnt catchand spelling, just a few missing periods". Jason answered with "In the slidethat's says "Did you notice the cup" you have a exclamation point andquestion mark together. In the slide that says "You can then use the compostin your gardening" I think it should say garden. Get rid of "a" in front offertilizer. Some people may not know what a soil conditioner is or how it isdifferent than fertilizer. There needs to be a space between "component" and"of" in that slide that begins with "Organic materials". Reduce is spelledwrong in the slide that begins "Another way to". You need an "a" in front of"LONG". That leak into our water not drinks. One person's trash IS anotherperson's treasure". Cindy did not see any mistakes and I fixed all the thingsJason saw and recommended.

Peer Review Question #3. Do all the pictures go well with informationdiscussed? Any that needs to be changed? If I had more time and I wasn'twith child and having a two year old I would have driven around and taken myown pictures. But with these obstacles I unfortunately had to take them fromflickr.com so I wanted to make sure the picture made sense with what I wastalking about. In some cases the picture I pictured in my head could not befound on flickr.com so I settled for one that was the closest fit. Cindy said"You had some very compelling images that spoke for themselves. The slidewith the deer had a little too much content in comparison to the rest of your

presentation. I might keep the content about the deer with that image andmake a new slide for the content which begins talking about discarded food".Jason replied with "The text on some of the charts is small and I found it toughto read. The Be Creative slides could use a little more explanation, explainthat you can create arts and crafts from trash but you need to be concernedabout sanitation. You might want to explain the slide with the three differentrecycling bins, just some supporting text. All the other images seem to fit verywell". I have taken all recommendations and changed them adding text where



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Jason thought it may be helpful and making the deer slide into two slides asCindy recommended.

Peer Review Question #4. Is there anything you feel that I left out or that Icould talk about more? There are about 45 slides but I feel as if I leftsomething out. With such an extensive subject and so many direction it could

go I wanted to make sure that I covered the basics and didn't leave anythingof importance out. Cindy answered with "You did a great job of covering thisimportant issue. Some of the text got a little lengthy. The presentation mighthave moved a little better if you could condense some of the content to themost important ideas". Jason said "There are so many positives to using thethree R's, maybe focus on some of those, such as keeping your favorite openspace areas free of garbage, the sense of community that is built aroundtaking care of your neighborhood. Find more ways to appeal to the emotionalaspect of this information, ask the viewers about their favorite places and howthey would feel if those places were covered with trash". I tried to shorten afew lengthy text areas. As far as adding more slides regarding open spaces

etc. Great Idea! I tried to do a quick search for pictures to use for this but theywere hard to come by and with a minimal amount of time I couldn't get intothis.

Peer Review Question #5. Is the presentation interesting and memorable? Irealize it is an old topic but it still needs to be addressed! That is why I choseto make it in Prezi instead of a power point. But how else can I make it moreexciting and memorable? I chose to use prezi because the subject matter mayget a little dull with just a power point. Also wanted the viewer to be able toclick at their own speed and zoom in when necessary. I asked this question tomake sure the subject didn't bore anyone. Cindy said "Prezi makes a

presentation such as this very engaging. The school I teach at has become aGreen school and my kids would love some of your images. It is an old topicbut one that needs to be revisited often. The only other suggestion I have iswith the background color. I cant remember how that works in Prezi, but ifyou can change the background to a color other than white, it might add tothe design. I wouldnt want something that jumps out at the viewer butmaybe something like a subtle green. If nothing seems quite right, than Iwould stay with white". Jason said "Can you do music on Prezi? Thispresentation would go great with music, it has such an emotional appeal andmusic can really deliver that human element. Also, many people may notknow that you can pan in and out with Prezi to see the big picture. When you

pan out your image is random, maybe when you pan out your presentationcould show a an exclamation point or something, use this tool to create animage". Great ideas! I was limited by Prezi in that I could not add musichowever I did take Cindy's idea and changed my background color to green!



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BibliographyHeath, C., & Heath, D. (2008). Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Die and Others

Survive. New York: Random House.

Medina, J. (2008). Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work,

Home, and School. Seattle, WA: Pear Press.

Reynolds, G. (2009). Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and

Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations. Berkeley, CA: New Riders.


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