Day 7 - Information Science and Presentations.

Day 7 - Information Science and Presentations.


Today we learned more about what a information scientist is and what they have to do, we also learned about presentations and how to do research on a presentation topic.

The day started out with us having a information session on what an information scientist is and what they do exactly. We where taught about the different roles an information scientist can have and the importance of joining a union, as it presents you with opportunities to network with other information scientist. 

The morning session was pretty short, but the afternoon session would be a longer session and require more hands on work from our part. The afternoon session started out with us receiving a lecture on how to do presentations and how to gather information for those presentations. We where then divided into groups and each group was tasked with gathering information on a specific topic. We then had to compile the gathered information into a PowerPoint presentation that each group will have to present at the end of the day.

After the presentations each group received feedback on there presentations on what they did right and what they did wrong. All in all the day was an eventful day and what we learned about presentations will always be useful in the future for our careers. 

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