Aim: To identify the advantages and disadvantages concerning a topic that you want to research; technology – icloud
Method instruction: to search sites concerned with a comparison. The terms used for comparisons change, for example, when we talk about diet (health related subject) we often use good points/habits and bad points/habits. Another example terms are often separated by ‘pros’ and ‘cons’, or commonly separated by advantages and disadvantages.
Teacher instruction A: Searching component (part or step)
- do an exact search using the comparison key words: pros and cons of icloud technology
- chose two websites; and label site one [S1], and site two [S2]
[S1] https://blog.bemopro.com/cybersecurity-blog/what-is-the-cloud-pros-and-cons
[S2] https://www.comparethecloud.net/articles/6-pros-and-cons-of-cloud-storage-for-business/
- Make a Title [S1]: What is the ….
- Make a Title [S2]: 6 Cloud ……
- Read the information, and highlight the main points to identify the similarities and differences. To do this is a lengthy procedure; due to reading all the information.
- If you can not easily identify the main points, or understand the similarities and differences – select another website
Teacher instruction B: Taking notes and linking together the similarities and differences. There are many methods for recording this data, but I recommend PowerPoint.
- Slide 1 Paste your URL for [S1] and [S2]
- Make two Title slides; slide 2 and slide 3
- [S1] identify the main points (Slide 4) – type them
- [S2] identify the main points (Slide 5) – type them
- Begin to read all the information; paraphrase the text by adding a new slide for each main point
- Paraphrase means to take a chunk/block of text (paragraph) and in your own words write the content in 1 or 2 sentences.
Teacher instruction C: create slides for every new (additional) content of information which is similar and different
- Make titles: Similar content 1; Similar content 2… and so on; in adition you make Similar points due to different reasons.
- Make titles: Different content 1; Different content 2… and so on
- Rule: maximum of 5 Similar slides of content and 5 Different slides of content – Total maximum slides is 10
- Each slide 1 or 2 sentence explanation