Reflection
This slideshow summarizes and portrays the "People and Empires in the [Ancient] Americas," which is Chapter 16 of the World History textbook I am currently studying.
By looking at my friends' work, I had an idea of how long the information in each slide should be, which is just a sentence or two that goes straight to the point. I also referred to their designs of the slides. This helped with my texts being short but concise and my slideshow being appealing in overall.
The challenge here is to compact paragraphs from the book and various outside sources into a single sentence, without having the information distorted. This is where I spend most of my time on. Every time I open my slide show, I always find the sentences being still quite long, so I kept on revising them until I am satisfied with what I have right now.
By doing this project, I learned significantly on how to make good summaries and how to convey messages in a brief yet concise manner. I definitely also learned a ton about the first Americans, their culture and lifestyles, and how their legacy influenced America and the world today. We must never neglect history just because it is the "past."
If I were to do this work again, I would probably make the sentences even shorter, but still allowing it to hold the initial meaning, because I am finding the sentences long again! I would also try to base less on information from the textbook and use more of what I found outside so that the audience will be opened to something completely new.
This slideshow summarizes and portrays the "People and Empires in the [Ancient] Americas," which is Chapter 16 of the World History textbook I am currently studying.
By looking at my friends' work, I had an idea of how long the information in each slide should be, which is just a sentence or two that goes straight to the point. I also referred to their designs of the slides. This helped with my texts being short but concise and my slideshow being appealing in overall.
The challenge here is to compact paragraphs from the book and various outside sources into a single sentence, without having the information distorted. This is where I spend most of my time on. Every time I open my slide show, I always find the sentences being still quite long, so I kept on revising them until I am satisfied with what I have right now.
By doing this project, I learned significantly on how to make good summaries and how to convey messages in a brief yet concise manner. I definitely also learned a ton about the first Americans, their culture and lifestyles, and how their legacy influenced America and the world today. We must never neglect history just because it is the "past."
If I were to do this work again, I would probably make the sentences even shorter, but still allowing it to hold the initial meaning, because I am finding the sentences long again! I would also try to base less on information from the textbook and use more of what I found outside so that the audience will be opened to something completely new.