Tuesday 30 October 2007

Reading Week

First thing on Monday, I emailed Steve to identify the reading week task. In response he revealed, my reading task would be to research the colour ‘Yellow’. Through the means of a short presentation, I am required to communicate the cultural affects, psychologies interpretations and symbolism associated with the colour yellow.

I feel all colours have both positive and negative meanings that are subjective to personal interpretation. Identifying several interpretations should allow me to generate facts for the handouts and presentation. Since I am not sure what version of PowerPoint is on the computers at college, I will avoid incompatibility issues and create a pdf from Adobe InDesign instead. Designing my handouts around the objects associated with the colour will hopefully create a fun memorable experience. I am really looking forward to learning about the other colours from my fellow students.

In conclusion, my tasks this week include:
  1. Researching my chosen colour
  2. Preparing a pdf presentation with associated handouts
  3. Practising my presentation against the clock, start and finish strong, speak clearly, make eye contact
  4. Implementing communication guidelines to all future journals
  5. Get hosting set-up and working
  6. Printing off production schedule and copy the new assignment for Monday

3 comments:

James Bell said...

I think that you have make a good point about using the handout to make the presentation a fun and memorable experience

This will ensure that when people think of the presentation they will remember it as good experience.

Anonymous said...

Date stamp and time zone test.

Richard said...

Creating a .PDF is something I picked up on in the first year and it is good that you are doing this so early on.

I had to do the colour Yellow last year (although I did use PowerPoint) I used things like bio hazard warning signs and the Tour de France leaders jersey as visual references in my presentation if this is any help.