Rudai23 2017 workbook

Infographics   I'm a bit late with this one and I haven't forgotten thing 7 either I just waiting for access to some photos for the exhibition I hope to make. I didn't particularly enjoy this task. It involves being creative and slightly arty which I'm not so over all I'm not happy with the results. I have used both canva and piktochat before and really like them both and can see the benefit of using them. Reports full of figures are very dry reading and can be very long which may get ignored or skipped over by management. This is a great way of giving facts and figures are dynamic presentation. While I was looking at examples for infographics I came across a few great ones. Photos are rarely used in them but the 12 classic sauses was fantastic it was readable, eye catching, everything was laid out well it was divided up clearly through a use of colour and text.  It can be seen here  The above is my effort not particularly good I not very happy with it too...

Thoughts so far.. contemplation by Rene van Haeften cc by-na-sa 2.0 We are now a quarter way through Rudai23 and its flown by so fast its hard to believe. I signed up to this years Rudai23 course to begin to learn new skills and tools as I have fallen behind in keeping up with new mobile technology developments.  I had engaged with the Gibbs cycle in college and always found it made writing a report easier as it gave a useful framework on which to build your ideas on a topic. I was however always thrown by the "Feelings" portion of the cycle. I have never really had any strong feelings about any task, either could I complete the job or I couldn't. The first task we had to accomplish was to set up a blog. I had set one up before for the last time I did rudai23 but I didn't want to use the same one. I had hoped to keep writing at the time if only for a record of events I attended and courses I took part in. I tried wordpress this time but found it a ...

Presentations I have used screen-cast before for both work and rudai23 in 2015 so I wanted to give powtoon a try. It reminded me somewhat of a flash media creator with the time line and animated options.    There are a few different options to chose from you can start from scratch, you can follow a set story board, or you can choose a template. These give you a great start for your presentation. I had a try of the story board and it was good giving lots of different backgrounds for your slides and allowing you to adapt them. it also gives you what it calls different structures These are various styles to suit audiences education, work or personal.  By using these method you could create a presentation quite quickly. The method I went for though was the create from scratch option. It gives you greater control over your project. As this was my first one I just wanted to create something simple so I went with advice for presentations.  I chose the whit...

Photofunia etc  Until recently I used to own a windows phone. The selection of apps for windows was always poor but when it became apparent that microsoft were never going to compete against Apple or Android developers stopped updating or just never created apps for windows. The whole apps thing because passed me by even yet I only have ones for public transport or texting.  This "Thing" really interested me as I got to explore a few mobile apps that I would never normally have looked at.   The first one I looked at was photofunia I enjoyed using it and thought it was good fun. I created one for my nephew as a Sith Lord as he is a massive Star Wars fan and he loved it.  There was a massive amount of different styles of effects on offer from movies to art galleries.  Though I used for fun I can see how it could be used to promote events with eye-catching visuals ad special effects. Adding a jpeg of a flyer to the worker putting a billboard size ve...