This project ended up serving multiple purposes for me. What began as a project for this class turned into an alternate version that I will be using to give a presentation at the Kick-Off Event during Research Week at USF.
http://www.research.usf.edu/ResearchOne/2010/ro/index.html
For the past several months I have been engaged in the development of a digital archive that contains article citations, data, and more about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and related spills. USF Libraries created the Gulf Oil Spill Information Center (GOSIC) in order to offer students, scientists, and researchers a valuable resource for their information-seeking needs. The front end of this project is a website that I am the administrator of and on the back end is the archive that is currently under development. My part of the archive is the creation of a database filled with about 1,200 citations for empirical research articles about the Gulf oil spill as well as related spills. As I am explaining this in a nutshell, I am leaving out a lot of tedious details, but it is a very substantial and time-consuming project!
Myself and another colleague who is also working on the project have been asked to give a short presentation at the Research Week Kick-Off event on October 11. As I began working on the presentation module for this class, I realized that I might also be able to tailor my PowerPoint presentation and come up with an alternate version for our presentation.
I had a lot of fun creating the version I submitted for the class assignment. Hopefully it gives a broad overview of what GOSIC is and is self-explanatory enough that a viewer can click through the slides and understand the purpose GOSIC serves. Though I obsessed a bit over both presentations, the one that I will be presenting took a bit more tweaking. Since President Genshaft will be in attendance I want it to be very organized and professional. However, I am not completely happy with the final product, but due to time-constraints, I cannot continue tweaking it.
Coming into this course, I knew a bit about PowerPoint and felt comfortable using the program to create presentations. While doing this project, I did learn more about editing images, using custom animations, and more. I really like the free template I was able to find online and thought it was appropriate for the topic.
Overall, I am actually pretty happy with the version I submitted for this assignment. However, I am always open to pointers and constructive criticism! :)
This is my pet project from my job:
http://guides.lib.usf.edu/gulf-oil-spill
http://www.research.usf.edu/ResearchOne/2010/ro/index.html
For the past several months I have been engaged in the development of a digital archive that contains article citations, data, and more about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and related spills. USF Libraries created the Gulf Oil Spill Information Center (GOSIC) in order to offer students, scientists, and researchers a valuable resource for their information-seeking needs. The front end of this project is a website that I am the administrator of and on the back end is the archive that is currently under development. My part of the archive is the creation of a database filled with about 1,200 citations for empirical research articles about the Gulf oil spill as well as related spills. As I am explaining this in a nutshell, I am leaving out a lot of tedious details, but it is a very substantial and time-consuming project!
Myself and another colleague who is also working on the project have been asked to give a short presentation at the Research Week Kick-Off event on October 11. As I began working on the presentation module for this class, I realized that I might also be able to tailor my PowerPoint presentation and come up with an alternate version for our presentation.
I had a lot of fun creating the version I submitted for the class assignment. Hopefully it gives a broad overview of what GOSIC is and is self-explanatory enough that a viewer can click through the slides and understand the purpose GOSIC serves. Though I obsessed a bit over both presentations, the one that I will be presenting took a bit more tweaking. Since President Genshaft will be in attendance I want it to be very organized and professional. However, I am not completely happy with the final product, but due to time-constraints, I cannot continue tweaking it.
Coming into this course, I knew a bit about PowerPoint and felt comfortable using the program to create presentations. While doing this project, I did learn more about editing images, using custom animations, and more. I really like the free template I was able to find online and thought it was appropriate for the topic.
Overall, I am actually pretty happy with the version I submitted for this assignment. However, I am always open to pointers and constructive criticism! :)
This is my pet project from my job:
http://guides.lib.usf.edu/gulf-oil-spill