Week 3

In this weeks session we started off by looking back at the Web Development and Evaluation tools, available ( here ) introduced to us in week 2. At the end of week 2, we were asked to look at these tools in our own time. I looked at the WAVE tool. We all did a presentation, briefly going into what development/evaluation tool we each looked at in our own time.

We also had a look at what other web development and evaluative tools we could add and extend to the list of tools, such as the WayBack-Machine, which is a tool that stores archives of websites dating back many years in the past. For example, one could see how the Google search engine looked like back in the year 2004.

Finally Rob Stevens gave a talk about presentations, i.e. guidelines and best practices. This coupled with research I conducted in my spare time will be very useful in giving presentations, which we will have to do as part of our coursework for this module. There are various steps one can take in order to give a successful presentation. These steps include:-

Preparation/Organization

• know the material and content being presented in detail - (Highlight on key points that will draw in your audience.)

• Know your Audience - (Your presentation needs to be tailored to your audience. I.e. presenting to an audience of engineers would be vastly different than presenting to an audience that doesn't know anything about the subject matter.)

• Practice and rehearse -(Practice all the time, at home, school, work, in front od a mirror, on friends or family, record video/audio of you doing the presentation and evaluate yourself.

Content
The presentation it self must consist of four parts, i.e. an opening, body, summary and an ending. People usually combine the ending to the summary part of the presentation, so really it is 3 parts.

• The Opening -(The opening of the presentation sets the stage for what is to follow. This section should be reserved for introduction, who you are and purpose of presentation. A very brief summary or an outline of the points you will be covering should also be presented in this section)

• The Body -(This is the section where the bulk of the subject matter is presented to the audience.)

• The Summary -(This section should be used to summarize and emphazise the main key points of your presentation)

The best way to think of these parts, is best summarized in the old axiom "Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them".