Wrapping

Wrapping

The information I gathered on the four questions focusing on my topic of using environmentally friendly products in my home can be used in at least a couple of ways.  First, it can be used to educate consumers on the dangers of mass-produced cleaners and the options available to them to use.  Secondly, the recipes included can be used by consumers as well.

I am going to use the four separate Word documents for each question on my topic,  I created from my Sticky Notes as a basis for my Power Point presentation.  I divided my Power Point presentation into four different sections based on the following four questions:  The first question: History of the Environmental movement; the second question: Why I should use environmental friendly cleaners; the third question: Why are mass produced cleaners bad? and the fourth question: What materials do  I need to make my own environmentally friendly cleaning products?  In addition, I included a reference page and “Some recipes to get started” section that was an extension of my question on what products I needed to have to make my own environmentally friendly cleaners.

In these slides, I conveyed my ideas in written form.  If I ran out of space, I would include additional information in the ‘notes’ section of the slide.  I used visuals in the form of ClipArt to distinguish the sections from one another so the viewer could remember and easily reference back to each distinct section in the Power Point presentation.

It is important to me because I want to completely eliminate mass-produced cleaners and start to use environmentally friendly cleaners for the sake of the environmental as well as my family’s health.  

The people interested in the information would be my husband and myself, parents of children of all ages, people who have compromising immune systems due to diseases such as Cancer, Lupus; people who are starting a family and are looking for alternative ways to clean in the house.  Also people who want to make a change in their life by going “green”.  Lastly, people who want to know some more information about using environmental friendly products in their household. 

Since Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process doesn’t have a step that is remotely similar to Wrapping, I looked at another model.  The other model was Eisenberg and Berkowitz’s Big6 and this model has a step, Synthesis that “5.1 Organize information, 5.2 Present information.” (Callison & Preddy, p. 44). 

Reference

  Callison, D & Preddy, L. (2006).  The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy.  Westport:  Libraries Unlimited.