The Brief Steps Of An APDD Investigation
Welcome back, class! Today we'll be going through the brief steps of an APDDI. Please do not expect much, as this is one of your first proper lessons and you are just beginners to this course. Alright, let's get started!
1. Brainstorm ideas for a subject for a flowchart! You may not remember, but from the previous course we briefly went over how to think of ideas for a subject for a flowchart. There are many methods to do this, but the main one you should use as a beginner is scribbling down anything that you think is interesting, such as your hobbies: football, basketball, colours, whatever! Whatever you think is interesting and deserves more statistics about.
2. Create the flowchart! This is possibly one of the most fun steps in the process of an APDDI. Remember to make the flowchart make sense in the way that the words are laid out and the sentence structures. The presentation also matters; the colours and shapes should look orderly so it appeals to the individual who is taking the flowchart.
3. Share the flowchart! Show it to friends and/or family, or share it on social media and websites to promote your flowchart so other people can take it too.
4. Make a poll for the flowchart! Make a poll for the people who have taken the flowchart, so they can pick which end task they got. A website I recommend for polls is https://strawpoll.com/. You could include the link to the poll in the description of the flowchart. Remember to set the poll to only people who take a direct link to the poll can take it.
5. Make a chart out of the results! Before doing this, you should wait a week or two for the results to come in and settle. You don't want to make a chart out of a poll which only has a few votes.
6. Make a conclusion! Make a conclusion from the chart by writing a few paragraphs about outliers, gaps, frequency, etc.
We will be going through all of these steps in detail, which equals to at least seven modules in this course (including this one and the 'Welcome Back' module). Please revise these steps and topics at home as you will need to know them for the end of term test(s) which may seem some way away, but are still approaching very fast.
1 - Brainstorming Subjects
Welcome back, class! Today we will be looking at the first step of five in the APDDI process: Brainstorming ideas for a subject.
First off, what is a subject?
Well, you should know as you revised for it for the Introduction to APDD Exam. However, a subject is the main idea of a flowchart; the starting task. As you may remember, my example flowchart from the first course had the title 'What Colour Are You?'. That was the subject of the flowchart!
So how do you brainstorm ideas for a subject? We went over it in the last module, but now I'll explain it in a lot more detail.
1. What are your hobbies? Interests? [Extra-curricular] activities that you do? All of these things you could include in your flowchart subject.
2. Scribble them down. As you write them (for example, drawing) the words may link to other activities (for example, animating). This is how we APDD students develop ideas for a subject, originated from a hobby or something they enjoy.
3. Try and find your best ideas for a subject. Ask yourself these questions while sorting them out: Will my flowchart subject benefit people in a positive way? Will my flowchart subject appeal to other people, or the majority? Try and ask your subject ideas this and corner them down to three or four until you have a rough idea of your flowchart subject.
4. Find your flowchart subject! Rough ideas could be: What type of personalities enjoy football? Do more women or men enjoy golf? These are all rough ideas, so clean them up to produce a flowchart subject that seems interesting enough to build up on.
Finally, you have your desired flowchart subject! The next step will be making the flowchart...
