Motivation is an important part to help you through your studies. Are you participating in the right study for you and why? You have seen and done a lot these past few days. What's your impression? We would like to know and so the following exercises will help you with your HOME page.

<aside> đź›  Exercise 7.1: Update your home page according the following:

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  1. Describe first what your motivation for ICT is, use your who am I form
  2. Then argue as to why ICT is the right study for you.  What is to be concluded regarding your motivation?
  3. Support this with proof. For instance, you have done preliminary coding work or a former education, projects, hobby or your showcase website speaks for itself, information gathered the past few days, etc.

<aside> 🛠 Exercise 7.2: Watch the TED talk below. Make notes about Dan Pink’s views and ideas. According to him, what is motivation? What determines someone’s motivation? How can you influence and manage your own motiviation? Look over you motivation page and update your home page if needed.

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https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

<aside> đź›  Exercise 7.3: Make your page visually more attractive by adding images, etc. and the layout of the text blocks.

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Poster Preparation

Friday says "Pitch Day" in the schedule. This is done by presenting your website on a poster in combination with your laptop.

Your job is to convince the teachers and fellow students of your creativity, professionalism and motivation. You can become creative here in creating a poster however the combination of your laptop with the poster needs to give a good view of your portfolio website and your development environment. To be prepared you:

  1. Know what you will be evaluated on - You study the feedback forms that are used during the evaluation.
  2. Know how you will be evaluated - you study the presentation procedure
  3. Finish your portfolio website so that it complies with the assignment specification and supports your pitch in the best possible way.
  4. Prepare and practice your presentation. You find some general tips here even though it’s about a research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSaFUrk-FA

<aside> đź›  Exercise 7.4: Download the feedback form of your language from learn here. The forms are located in a folder on the main assignment page. Open the form and find out where the teachers and fellow students will pay attention to during your pitch.

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The form consists of numbered rubrics. A rubric is a row where each cell represents a higher level of complexity (reading from left to right). Sometimes it's just a number (scale) and sometimes each cell contains a description. Each rubric will be scored by marking one of these cells. If a cell is marked it means that the teacher is convinced that you have met the entire description in that cell (mostly including all cells on the left).

By studying the form you have an idea of what to do to get a good result. Next, you need to know what you need to do during the pitch days in order to enable the teachers to evaluate you and keep the procedure efficient so you don't run out of time.