Presentation Rubric Score For chapter 5 Team

Chapter Presentation 50 pts.

Name: Minatullah Amer Teacher: Roger Geyer

Date of Presentation:  5/13/2012 Title of Work: Chapter 5 System Software: Operating Systems and Utility Programs

Criteria Points 1 2 3 4 Organization Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence of information. Audience has difficulty following presentation because student jumps around. Student presents information in logical sequence which audience can follow. Student presents information in logical, interesting sequence which audience can follow. 5/5 Content Knowledge Student does not have grasp of information; student cannot answer questions about subject. Student is uncomfortable with information and is able to answer only rudimentary questions. Student is at ease with content, but fails to elaborate. Student demonstrates full knowledge (more than required)with explanations and elaboration. 4/5 Visuals Student used no visuals. Student occasional used visuals that rarely support text and presentation. Visuals related to text and presentation. Student used visuals to reinforce screen text and presentation. 5/5 Mechanics Student's presentation had four or more spelling errors and/or grammatical errors. Presentation had three misspellings and/or grammatical errors. Presentation has no more than two misspellings and/or grammatical errors. Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors. 1/5 Delivery Student mumbles, incorrectly pronounces terms, and speaks too quietly for students in the back of class to hear. Student incorrectly pronounces terms. Audience members have difficulty hearing presentation. Student's voice is clear. Student pronounces most words correctly. Student used a clear voice and correct, precise pronunciation of terms. 2/5 Video 8/10 Wiki 10/10 Questions 5/5 Total----> 40/50

When a team gathers to do one specific project, it definitely creates a work-creative atmosphere. I (as a part of the team who presented chapter 5) have enjoyed working together with my colleague. I did however, wished more effort was put in it by the team members. For a first, i think it worked out as well as it can be. practice makes better, of course. For improvement, i believe a few tips can come in handy in dealing with presentation speech and performance, such as:    - Students should try rehearsing in front of the other members in advance so that others can evaluate the tone and form of speech with comments or advices. - The capturing of the video could be improved if it was not shot by only one angle. Hence, create a wider range of view. - By the end of the presentation, if other students started to ask questions, ALL members of the team should try to answer it, not only the last member who ends the session. It should be a team effort till the end.

Review on "The Ballad of Joe and Nina" Digital Story

 

"The Ballard of Joe and Nina" is a story told by the point of view of the father of Joe, Jim Roessler who is demonstrating the childhood relationship of his son with Nina. Joe once told his father that he had kissed a girl, and at the time Jim thought it was cute, but paid it no attention and soon forgot about it. But that girl was Nina. The slideshow pictures and videos shows that Joe and Nina continued to hang out together in the same school and participate in children activities. 

Even though the display of pictures continues on Joe and Nina as kids, Jim describes in his own voice how Joe and Nina have grown up as a couple who shared in interests and love at the age of 25. The background music is of a classical jazz love song that is played through the entire video. It most certainly gives the feeling of romance and happiness. We can quite understand why Jim and others would say they are soul mates who found each other at a young age. well.. let's hope they don't break up in the future. Amen to love.

Review on "Postcards for Kate" Digital Story

"Postcards for Kate" is a digital story made by Leigh, who tells the story from her own point of view. her story is about how she made 52 postcards for her daughter Kate who went away to Japan. Those 52 postcards were hand-made and created by the mother (Leigh) who started using different patterns and colors in those postcards. The postcards had mainly fabric materials inscribed with shapes and colors and figures and patterns. Leigh describes the development process of creating those 52 postcards and how intricate and precise they are. And you can see (in the video) that Leigh puts so much effort and care in it to make her daughter see and feel her handiwork. We can clearly see the love Leigh has for her daughter Kate. 


Kate, being the receiver of those cards in Japan, has kept all of those precious pretty postcards, and in her return, she brought them back with her from across Japan. As Leigh says: "52 postcards that have been on the other side of the world, that now, through my daughter, have finally come back home."

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Summary for Flatteners 4-7 of "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas Friendman explains the concept of resourcing spreading on a global level in 3 periods in which the world goes into the "Flattening" process.
In Flatteners 1,2, and 3 he discusses the how the Berlin wall comes down and Netscapes and wrokflow softwares.


In Flattener 4 "Uploading" that focuses on the forms of internet uploading software communities such as Wikipedia and blogging/podcasting.
Friedman considers the phenomenon "the most disruptive force of all."


In Flattener 5 "Outsourcing" Friedman says America and India had a relationship and started "dating" to create a huge flattener that demonstrates different businesses through the internet and cables and such to collaborate together.


In Flattener 6 "Offshoring" China's entrance in the WTO (World Trade Organization) allowed for greater competition in the playing field that "Runs with gazelles and eats with lions.".


In Flattener 7 "Supply-Chaining" Friedman compares the modern supply chain exchange to a river, and as consumers he admits that we love supply chains for the variety of goods they deliver to us.


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Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us in the future

"Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness."


 How will technology develop and change our lives in the future of 2020's? Ray Kurzweil explains that it has proven since the beginning of computer invention that, with time, technology always seem to move forward with the a more faster paste over the years. from Radio to Television to Mobile to Computers, not only did science keep developing those machines, but it also experienced computing new tools into significant importance to human life. Technology is by no doubt moving forward, and soon not only will we be users and consumers, but we will also have the ability to create a possibly new generation of highly productive brainstorming through the neuro-technology. It is very predictable to imagine in the future, we will reach a new phenomenon of advancing with new scientific aspects of modern life.

In my opinion, the most interesting human trend Ray Kurzweil discussed, is definitely the mind-minipulating (or mind-developing as scientists call it) through the neurotic cells improvements in the terms of changing the biological order of human life. It will simply, in my opinion, create a whole new definition for the origin of life on earth. We can quite easily predict that, in the 2020s, we will reach a permanent evolution of no return. We might even be viewing our present time as an old historical recollection of how we used technology and how we came to use it differently in the new future. It is inevitable. therefore, It is predictable and soon will be functional.

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