Evaluation
We made our presentation ppt slides on powerpoint with combined help of my group. Everyone Contributed on making slides and I made 3 slides which were part of my presentation.
Figure 1: Topic IntroductionThis was the third slide after the title and overview slide and here I described what cloud computing is with a small paraphrased definition. I used Arial font for the heading and also for the body. I chose black color for heading with white outline to make it more Visible. I also added a free to use picture with a source link above the picture as you can see on the screenshot.
Figure 2: Description of Models
I used the same font and sizes for the heading and the text below and remained consistent with the style. In this particular slide I made clouds to link the three different deployment models to cloud computing as it looks more interesting and attention grabbing. I chose different colours for the clouds and the text inside to make it more colorful and attractive. I added arrows to show that the clouds are connected. Everything in this slide had an automatic animation that would occur after the set time I chose with breif text defining what these models are and where they can be used.
Figure 3: Types of Service Models
This slide was very simple as i did not wanted alot of information on the slides and we decided to explain it in our own words by just showing the full forms of the short abreviation. I had to choose white color for this slide as the template design looked much more better with this colour. I inserted 3 stock logos related to cloud computing and gave them different colours. This slide also had animation which was automatic and I just had to press once.
Overall, I find the process of making powerpoint slides very easy for me as I have made powerpoint slides in the past so it was not really difficult for me. Infact, It was more challenging to decrease the amount of information we had to put into the slides.
Furthermore, I made a Gantt chart to show our milestones achieved:
I made this chart on MS Excel and took help from a video and I chose the bar colors to match with the template of our presentation. The chart above shows our different stages of the process on different dates. It shows that we started on 16th of October and we were made to choose 3 topics and the class teacher gave us the final topic choosing from those 3 topics. We got the topic Cloud Computing and after that we started to plan everything. With the time mentioned in the chart we did our primary and secondary research on the specified time and it took us a long time to perfectly diliver our presentation. This gantt chart helped us to look at our performance and time took for each task we did to make our presentation. I learned that time management is key and how to complete a task in a given time.
To summarise, It was an amazing experience to work in a group and make a powerpoint presentation. Gathering all the information we could I can assume that the future of this technology is very bright and individuals using public cloud will increase and big companies will shift fully to Private Cloud Models as it is much more secure for their data and they can tailor made the software as per their company needs I also observed that there are huge investments being made into cloud computing business. In my primary research I noticed that not many people knew what cloud computing actually is and how it works so this blog will make it easy for them to understand with the sources i have cited. I learned a number of new things while investigating about this topic, Cloud computing is a whole field itself and it is not so easy as it gets much more complex as you go deeper. Secondly, It is currently expensive for companies and users as well.
If I had to do this project again I would certainly try to be organised as this time I was really doing most of the things at the same time. Time management would get better next time and I will also try to put latest new Pictures to attract the readers attention and maybe improve my powerpoint skills even further by watching videos on youtube. I will work on finding the key information and put it into the presentation.
Reference List:
BB Agency, info@bb. agency and Slingerland, C. (2023) 101 shocking cloud computing statistics, CloudZero. Available at: https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-computing-statistics/ (Accessed: 02 December 2023).
TechTarget (2023) The capabilities of cloud computing in 2023, ComputerWeekly. Available at: https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Ahead-in-the-Clouds/The-capabilities-of-cloud-computing-in-2023 (Accessed: 02 December 2023).
Basic Gantt Chart (2013). YouTube. 7 June. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oD50HSBBBI&t=421s (Accessed: 03 December 2023).
