Challenge 4 Solomon's Seal Plants
Here is our challenge 4. It's on Solomon's Seal Plants. Check out our website and our powerpoint & audio at: http://www.freewebs.com/unitedchallenge/
Each page has a little information on this special plant! Check out the portfolio for specifics, the powerpoint slideshow for the narration, the gallery for some awesome pictures of the different species of the Solomon Seal, and fill in our guest page!
Hope you enjoy, and learn about an interesting plant grown here in Beautiful B.C.
http://www.freewebs.com/unitedchallenge/
(I totally signed your
(I totally signed your guestbook! =) )
Like I said there, I think it was such a good idea to use a website as your medium. It's the original information resource!
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Reáchtáim Brianna pobal na héireann in cumann na nóisean.
(Brianna [despite her ill-formed Gaelic] represents Ireland in the League of Notions.
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I hear books were around
I hear books were around before the interwebs. :D
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Allison represents Britain in the League of Notions
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Solomon's Seal of Disapproval.
First off, the website is a great choice for this kind of presentation. I'm surprised that more of the groups didn't choose this seemingly obvious delivery mechanism (seeing that the web was basically designed for this exact purpose). It was a nice, clean layout and the information was very easy to access and navigate. Huge bonus marks from me for that.
I was left a little confused by some of the art design choices though, namely the butterfly theme and art-nouveau styling. And purple? I've never claimed to be an artist though, and I appreciate the variety of people's tastes, so I won't judge too harshly.
Where things fell of the rails for me was in the Powerpoint file. Seriously, one horribly fuzzy slide of a map? And 3:45 of tortuous, scratchy audio? Whoah. I would have honestly preferred to have just read the script (which was the same way I felt walking out of the theater after Waterworld).
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reply to your disaproval
Hi there,
I just wanted to point out and remind you that our group members came into this course not knowing how to do technology-based things, such as voice thread, putting audio onto a powerpoint, or even how to start a website. So for what we were able to accomplish, putting audio onto a powerpoint slide is pretty amazing for us I think. I'm all for constructive criticism however, I think you need to remember that some people were put into this challenge, who didn't volunteer, and who don't know how to do all the fancy things that it seems like most other people in this challenge know how to do. Constructive criticism is one thing, being outright mean is another.
Danielle Radford
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Its great to see so many
Its great to see so many teams branching off and trying new things in this challenge. A web page was an excellent idea! As one who is html/java deficient, I marvel when people can pull stuff together and make it appear on the web. Just like magic! There are some really good web pages that have guides to layout and design that would make this submission even stronger.
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Je représente la France dans la Ligue des Notions
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It's clear you put a lot of
It's clear you put a lot of work into your webpage. A job well done.
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good work, solid progress
United Students, you are obviously working hard at this & I'm impressed at your progress. There are a couple of very positive aspects to your presentation. First, you chose a unique plant for unique reasons. I had no idea that Solomon's Seal (the original Midol?) had so many applications for women's health. Second, YOU INCLUDED A GUEST BOOK!!! Very nice attempt at generating some feedback & obviously it worked. I gave you bonus points for that.
Room for improvement... yeah. I understand that you are struggling to compete against teams whose technical skills are stronger than yours. I admire your persistence & hard work on that. So I will try to limit my critique to the less-technical issues that could be addressed on your next attempt. When including a PowerPoint, it's a nice touch to include a link to a PowerPoint viewer so your non-Powerpoint endowed viewers can watch too. PowerPoint is OK & it's good to use the technical tools that you know, but watch for things like making your title fit the WHOLE presentation (your title says that this PowerPoint is about the plant's distribution in BC but in fact your map does this badly. And the narration that's included in the PowerPoint has little to do with distribution. More slides, better images would help a lot). When doing your audio recording, choose an ultra-quiet room & speak clearly, maybe a bit more slowly. One last littel thing: just before hitting SAVE one last time, try to con a friendly English major to proofread your presentation to catch those few but annoying spelling & grammatical mistakes.
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Narration
We we looked at the many details for challenge 4, and noticed that it had to be narrated for 2-3 minutes. Hence, we used a powerpoint presentation with voice narration, rather than simply using voice thread to follow directions. We would have rather done a complete write-up for our plant rather than using a voice thread presentation, but thought we would have been crticized for lack of following the rules. I would just like to applaude my team and say thanks to those of you who have appreciated our progress since challenge 1, it has definitely been a challenging experience. Your "constructive criticisms" and "Simon Cowell/American Idol" type attitudes only make us chuckle, so keep the laughs coming.
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good job
Nice website, easy nav, good layout, cool stuff