We spent most of our time this week finishing up and presenting our Elements of Fiction projects. The TED Talk that we watch on Monday was incredibly informative and I feel like I benefited from it a lot. I thought it was so cool that a lot of the most famous and influential speeches followed the same structure!
On the day of our presentation, Sela and I were very nervous to present. Thankfully, that did not show in our final presentation. We took a deep breath and gave it our all. I was really happy that it went just like we practiced. Additionally, Sela informed me that Mr. Schoenborn wanted to use our presentation as a model. It is exiting to know that all our hard work really paid off. I just wish we could have gotten a 10/10 on it, because I don't really understand what we did wrong.
I learned a lot this week by listening to other people's presentations. I not only learned from the information they were presenting but I got to see real examples of different presentation styles and their affects on the me/the audience. For example, Mr. Schoenborn told Sela and I that it is much more effective to have many large images and few words in our presentation because it draws interest in the audience. I found this to be true while watching other people's presentations. When the presentations were paragraphs of words with a few small pictures it was less interesting to pay attention to what they were saying; but when the presentations used interesting fonts, colors, and pictures, caring about what the presenter was saying was easier. This PowerPoint is a fun guide to keep your presentation really interesting: www.slideshare.net/damonnofar/8-tips-for-slideshare/29-theanswer_isinfographics
On the day of our presentation, Sela and I were very nervous to present. Thankfully, that did not show in our final presentation. We took a deep breath and gave it our all. I was really happy that it went just like we practiced. Additionally, Sela informed me that Mr. Schoenborn wanted to use our presentation as a model. It is exiting to know that all our hard work really paid off. I just wish we could have gotten a 10/10 on it, because I don't really understand what we did wrong.
I learned a lot this week by listening to other people's presentations. I not only learned from the information they were presenting but I got to see real examples of different presentation styles and their affects on the me/the audience. For example, Mr. Schoenborn told Sela and I that it is much more effective to have many large images and few words in our presentation because it draws interest in the audience. I found this to be true while watching other people's presentations. When the presentations were paragraphs of words with a few small pictures it was less interesting to pay attention to what they were saying; but when the presentations used interesting fonts, colors, and pictures, caring about what the presenter was saying was easier. This PowerPoint is a fun guide to keep your presentation really interesting: www.slideshare.net/damonnofar/8-tips-for-slideshare/29-theanswer_isinfographics