Presentation Day. (19.01.12)

On Tursday 19th January, our group gave the presentation which we had planned and researched for the past few weeks. We had put all of our ideas together and created an informative piece which was full of statistics, findings and examples, such as one group member incorperated the fact that her mother was very involved with 'twitter' and had many 'followers' on the site,who were interested in the things she liked to post about for example, conspiricy theories and aliens.

I feel as though the presentation ran smoothly as we had a good knowledge and understading of the topic due to the amount of research that had been conducted prior to presentation day. The slides used within the presentation were detailed and relevant to what was being said and contained enough information to act as prompts rather than lists of information. The one thing which i felt could be changed or improved was the way in which our group presented the slides. I feel as though we could have incorperated a system which gave each person the opportunity to speak individually rather than whenever there was something to say. This would have helped the flow of the presentation and stopped us speaking over each other,which can sometimes be difficult to listen to when presenting back to other people.

Planning and Research. (07.01.12)and(16.01.12)

On saturday 7th January 2012 i soent the day planning my research and writing out what i was planning on reading out at the beginning of the presentation and the contents of the presentation itself.  i planned on starting of with useful statistics such as the use of internet based on age; 18-29years = 77%, 30-49years = 75%, 50-64years = 58% and 65years+ = 4%. These statistics were accurate from 2005. As well as this, the American Life Project2 estimated that more than 93 million adults are currently using the internet to locate information about general health topics, specific chronic diseases, treatments and procedures, diet, fitness, physicians' credentials, and the efficacy and safety of taking a specific medication. The UK Older Adults Servey also states that; ‘problems are often caused by applications and their documentation being too complicated, with too much jargon and inadequate support, both during learning and on-going use’.

On Monday 16th January our group met up and put together our pieces of research to create a good presentation which included as much research as possible. we ran through our presentation several times so as to be as ready as possible for the presentation day.