Thordis+Gudmundsdottir unit+4

The Number Zero  By : Þórdís Guðmundsdóttir   INVESTIGATION   Identify the Problem   Many people don't know the history of number zero and they don't know how the ancients used numbers. Explain the Problem I'm first going to do a research so I know more about history of zero and how it came to Europe. Then I'm going to create a PowerPoint presentation about the history of number zero so people can know about zero history.

Research and Analysis

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I did some research about the number Zero. I found out many things about history of number zero. I think I know how the ancients used numbers because I tried to make my own number system. The Romans didn't have the number zero in their number system so they didn't have to use negative numbers or fractions. I did also some research on how to make a good presentation. Some of the information I didn't knew before. I think I can do a good presentation about number zero if I will remember these information that I found.

Design Brief  I'm going to make a PowerPoint presentation that will 6 -10 slides. It will be about how zero came to Europe and zero history. It can be a presentation for my class and other classes. Product Specification  For my PowerPoint presentation My product must: Test Plan Has each slide a title? How many slides do you have? Are your images useful in these slide? Do you have 5 pictures or less? Has your presentation introduction before the program starts? Has your presentation introduction to Europe? Is your extra slide part of number zero? Do you have any useful historical facts? Did you do exactly the same design? Is your design to much? Is your design the same on all of your slides? Are there spelling mistakes? Is there to much writing on each slide? Does your presentation have a summary? DESIGN  Pictures of my designs Analysis of my designs
 * The 6 slides should be titled.
 * Slide 1 useful introduction.
 * Slide 2 useful historical facts.
 * Slide 3 and extra ones up to the student.
 * Slide 4 Introduction to Europe.
 * Slide 5 expansion of math.
 * Slide 6 concluding summary.
 * Only five pictures are allowed on the whole presentation.
 * The same slide transition MUST be used between all slide.
 * Your slides must not have to many writing.
 * Have your presentation interesting and fun to watch.

**Design 1:** It has all the product specifications it has 7 slides. Introduction, historical facts, who invented it (extra one), Introduction to Europe, expansion of math and a summary. It has 5 pictures. The colors in my design are bright and it has transition and animation ** Design 2: ** It has all the product specifications. It has transition and animation. The colors aren't really that bright. **Design 3:** It has all the product specifications like the others. It's colorful and it has transitions and animations. Justification for chosen design I chose **Design 3**. Because it has the most colorful colors and it's not too bright or too dark. I think it is the best one of the others designs that I did. Also people will look at it more because it isn't too bright or dark like the other designs that I did.

PLAN
 * ~ Deadline ||~ Resorce ||~ What to do ||
 * 10 May 2013 || PowerPoint

Google

USB || * Open PowerPoint.
 * Make your heading "The Number Zero" and have it in colorful letters and put a shadow under the letters.
 * Click on New Slide and make the first slide.
 * Write the title "Introduction" and write introduction of your presentation.
 * Go to Google and find a picture of Zero (0).
 * Click on New Slide.
 * Make slide 2.
 * Write the title "Historical Facts" and write some facts about Zero.
 * Use the internet to help so you know if you´re writing the right things.
 * Save and put it on your USB so you can do something at home and in ICT. ||
 * 14 May 2013 || PowerPoint

Google

USB || * Open PowerPoint.
 * Click on New Slide.
 * Make slide 3.
 * Write the title "Who Invented It?" and write about the man who invented it.
 * Go to Google and find a picture of that man.
 * Click on New Slide.
 * Make slide 6.
 * Write the title "Introduction to Europe" and write how Zero came to Europe.
 * Go to Google and find a picture of Europe.
 * Click on New slide.
 * Make slide 5.
 * Write the title "Expansion of Math" and write how Zero expanded math. ||
 * 17 May 2013 || PowerPoint

Google

USB || * Open PowerPoint.
 * Click on New slide.
 * Make slide 6.
 * Write the title "Summary" and write your own conclusion.
 * Click on View and click on Slide master.
 * Change your font on the title.
 * Click on transition that you're going to use. ||

CREATE  Final Product media type="file" key="Unit 4 - Thordis TG.swf" width="360" height="270" Changes made to the original Design I changed my original design to this because my original design was to plain and I didn't really like the colors, background anymore and I didn't really use master-slide much. I didn't put pictures on the same page like I was going to. So I made my final design more colorful and I used the master-slide more. Changes made to the original Plan  I didn't exactly follow my plan. Because I didn't finish on the deadlines because I made my plan go faster then what I was going to do. But I followed the steps but not the descriptions. I made plan little bit short. EVALUATE  Results of tests  ** Test: **  Has each slide a title? Yes How many slides do you have? 9 total but the last one is my bibliography  Are your images useful in these slide? Yes  Has your presentation introduction before the program starts? Yes  Has your presentation introduction to Europe? Yes  Is your extra slide part of number Zero? Yes  Do you have any useful historical facts? Yes  Did you do exactly the same design? No  Is your design to much? No   Is your design the same on all of your slides? Yes very similar  Are there spelling mistakes? No  Is there to much writing on each slide? No  Does your presentation have a summary? Yes  Does you master-slide work like you wanted to? Yes  Can you see the letters properly? Yes **Test for Lowitta:** Has each slide a title? yes  Are your images useful in these slides? yes  Is my design to much? yes, but pretty  Is my design the same on all of your slides? yes  Are there spelling mistakes? no  Is there to much writing on each slide? no there isn't  Does my presentation have useful writing? yes there is and it goes to the main point of the title  Do I have many things on my master-slide? no you have only changed the color of the font and the you have only a the skull and cross bones picture  Can you see the letters properly? yes  Are the colors to bright or to dark? they are all in the middle so i say 50% 50%  Do you like the transitions? yes because there not all different and they are the same for every slide which makes it interesting  Do you like the animations? yes because there all the same and its not confusing and that's what makes it interesting  What do you like about my presentation? i like it because all of the slides got to the main point  What don't you like about my presentation? what I don't like about it is that it has got a bit of information  What could I do to make it better? you could of made the colors a bit lighter and a bit more writing ** Test for Chantelle: ** Has each slide a title? yes Are your images useful in these slides? 50-50 Is my design to much? no Is my design the same on all of your slides? yes Are there spelling mistakes? no Is there to much writing on each slide? no Does my presentation have useful writing? 50-50 Do I have many things on my master-slide? not really Can you see the letters properly? yes Are the colors to bright or to dark? you can see but you could do it all in bright colors or dark Do you like the transitions? yes Do you like the animations? yes What do you like about my presentation? I like the information and the background it is very eye catching if someone had to see the presentation they would be interested What don't you like about my presentation? there is nothing really bad about the presentation it actually looks good What could I do to make it better? you would make it more better if you named the pictures so no one misunderstands what is happening **Test for Shama:** Has each slide a title? yes Are your images useful in these slides? 50-50 Is my design to much? no Is my design the same on all of your slides? yes Are there spelling mistakes? no Is there to much writing on each slide? no Does my presentation have useful writing? yes Do I have many things on my master-slide? it's okay Can you see the letters properly? yes Are the colors to bright or to dark? you can see but you could do it all in bright colors or dark Do you like the transitions? yes Do you like the animations? yes What do you like about my presentation? I like the information and the way you did one transition so it wouldn't be confusing. What don't you like about my presentation? the background and the two colors on the historical facts  What could I do to make it better? Make the background one kind of color. Maybe put one transitions and not one on each slide

Recommendations for improvement Chantelle said that I needed to name the pictures. Shama said that I needed to make the background brighter and make more transitions. Lowitta said that I needed to write more and make the background brighter. In my design there were no spelling mistakes and you can see the letters properly. The background color wasn't to dark or light it was 50-50. The transitions were all on each slide and my animations were many but they didn't make you get confused. My presentation got straight to the main point, but it had not much information. I could next time make the background color a bit lighter, name the pictures, use the slide master more and have more information to make it more interesting for my presentation. Self-evaluation of your execution of the design cycle  In my Investigation Stage I took too much time on my research and analysis and I had to be quicker doing the product specification and the test plan. I tried to make my designs different, clear, colorful and not to hard to do for my Design Stage but it took more time then I thought because I had to draw them then scan and put on my wiki-spaces. I didn't take much time to do my plan because I didn't have much writing on that part and I could have take more time doing that so I could follow it more and now what more of what i'm going to do more. I didn't really hand my things on the deadline because I took much time on some parts of my Design Cycle. Next time I could take more time to do each part of the Design Cycle and be finish before the deadline or on the deadline not after.