Well I'll be presenting tomorrow. On the good side of things on Monday the presentations done by a few of my classesmates were pretty much awful. I'll throw this in here now,
we have known about this project which is worth 40% of the grade since September. Two of the people who went were good but the rest....well.....4 people didn't even show up and you cannot reschedule this, as for the other two....
One uncharismatic fellow just stood in front of the class and read from his paper. Now there is nothing wrong with a read presentation but if you don't have floor/stage presence just give up (I along with most of the class still have no idea what his idea was because we were so damn bored after about 1 minute.....) The real kicker was the last person who was scheduled to present. First he flat out said that he wasn't ready and needed another week. The teacher refused stating again that you cannot rescedule your time slot which we signed up for a few weeks ago. He had some sort of powerpoint half done (I saw his laptop screen as he walked passed me at one point) Well after a little class encouragement we said that he should go with what he had and the teacher gave him one last chance. All he needed to do was get his presentation from his laptop to the schools computer (For the projector) I don't know what he was doing but after about ten minutes of waiting someone said "Can I go home now?" and the teacher, no completly fed up, sent everyone home. Needless to say the professor was absolutely pissed which was a shame cause he's a really nice guy. (It was the first time we had ever seen him that angry) Its so sad that yesterday I wasn't ready to present but I still could have done an even better job then these last two kids.
So the good thing about all this? Even if I completly suck I'll still look better by comparison
. I do have to say that the first person who did present properly pretty much talked numbers and suppliers for most of his presentation. If theres one thing i've learned when doing something like this is that it's a damn good idea to keep presentations bright, quick, humorous, and interesting. If you stand there reading off your slides people will loose attention. I say try to include the audience, ask them questions and keep them involved. Also I have a few quick videos so i'm going to really go all out with my presentation and bring my computer speakers and subwoofer into school to use in place of the craptastic units that the school supplies.
Here are a few of the photos that i'll be using.
