Question 4: Evaluation
Emaze
What is emaze?
Emaze is an online presentation builder, it is free to use and creates a sleek and professional presentation.
How did this benefit us?
Emaze was a simple way to present the use of technologies in the research an planning. I was able to set out the information clearly and concisely. It is also easy to imbed, so we can upload it to our blog. Emaze also uses cloud technology so I wouldn't have to worry about loosing my work, and I could update it at anytime from different devices, making it very convenient.
What skills did we learn?
This helped us to acquire skills such as how to put together a professional looking presentation, which is a skill that can be applied to a variety of fields.
We also had to make our points concise so they worked in the presentation
Pros and cons
| Pros: | Cons: |
|---|---|
| Professional looking | Overly Complicated Layout and controls |
| Gives a set layout, giving you ideas as how best to present your work. | Site can often crash and takes an internet connection to use, compared to PowerPoint which does not. |
| Allows you to easily convert PowerPoints. | Has very long upload times. |
Youtube Annotations
What are youtube annotations?
Youtube annotations are concise pieces of text you can add to a youtube video.
How does this benefit us?
These let us annotate our work and the construction that went into it as the video is playing, so as you read the annotation appears there is a video example of that piece of construction.
What skills did we learn?
this took a lot of organisation to decide who was doing what and splitting up the amount fairly.
As well as this we had to learn how to use the YouTube annotator itself.
Pros and Cons
| Pros: | Cons: |
|---|---|
| All features are set out in an easy to understand manner. | Annotations on screen can be cluttered and it can be difficult to achieve significant detail in such a small space. |
| The colour coding makes it much easier to tell who said what. | The system itself finds it difficult to handle a large amount of annotations so buffers a lot for this task, so it takes longer to complete task and can even loose progress. |