(WK7)
Here is a link to our introduction video about the origins of Halloween by Timothy Dickinson.
I found last class to be fun. I actually had fun for once with a presentation. YES! Of course I was nervous but I began to relax after our presentation started. My group and I did something very daring and different from the regular weekly power points. Our topic was on informative speech with Halloween as an example of the technique. My teammates were so calm and there I was slowly freaking out as people started to walk in for class. We were there at 1:20 pm preparing and doing any last minute changes we had to make for the presentation. We wanted everyone to have fun (knowing that we were not getting graded) we decided to include activities and other things we probably wouldn’t do on a graded assignment. Our ideas and speeches should have been pushed further with more information and content to support our individual topics. As everyone knows, our presentation was WAY TOO SHORT. It was about 32 minutes long when it was supposed to be 75 at most. THIS WAS A BIG PROBLEM. Eric made a good point about how bad we would look to a company if we ended earlier then we said and so on.
Our speeches should have been more elaborate but at least I had fun presenting for the first time ever. Our Halloween concept was solid but as everyone said, our games and facts needed more explanation. And even though we had everyone read off the vocabulary list for the jeopardy game, it could have been connected more. Our intention for the games was to get peoples attention and engage them through activities and participation-which we did but we lacked connecting the entire thing to the presentation and ideas. We thought the activities would take longer then they did, so the presentation went even faster then originally planned. It was difficult to find a balance between the facts and Halloween because all of our examples were so focused on Halloween concepts.
The simple fact that we were not graded on this, led us to making such a drastic change in this assignment. If we were graded, I don’t know if we would have taken the same approach. However, with al the preparation and ideas behind the presentation It’s weird to actually not receive a grade even though it was a nice break and helped me relax a little. Overall, I had a great time with our presentation and got really good feedback that I will carry on with me when presenting again. (426)
I tried to post a video and I can't :( I will try again.
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