EDU Week 3

Stephanie Bellofiore

Prof. Brown and Dr. Okobi

EDU 106-82

31 January 2018 

To prepare for this class, I did research using the references Professor Brown and Dr. Okubi provided for us. This information was helpful to learn what sources are appropriate in order to gather specific evidence. I took the quiz online and received a 100% on it. My theme that I am hoping to use for this course are, conflict diamonds. I found many sources to use to explain conflict diamonds including, videos, magazine articles, and different websites. So far, I have found these sources to be incredibly helpful and I am hoping to use them in the upcoming PowerPoint that is due. I began preparing my resource guide and submitted it on Blackboard. I like that we have started completing our resource guides in order to keep organized throughout this class with the themes we are using. This is called a curate. Over time I will be able to choose the information I found from these sources and how I will use them in the upcoming projects. I also will need to make sure all my sources are reliable. In class, we discussed the importance that clarity is brevity while conducting PowerPoint's.  If the words are few and concise on PowerPoint slides, the meaning may be more clear to the audience. Also, if there are many pictures used verses words, the audience will pay attention more and be able to receive the information provided more accurately. The average persons attention span is very short, so using pictures grabs the audiences attention and get them to focus. I am looking forward to next weeks class and the upcoming PowerPoint.