Giving
presentations has not always been one of my strengths. In the past, I
was always the one in charge of the presentation, while my partners
would do the speaking portion of the project. After preparing and
presenting for this presentation, I learned how difficult it was to
work with partners and how to improve our presentation from receiving
feedback.
As my
two partners and I prepared for this presentation, we found it
difficult work together because we had different schedules. We could
not meet as much as we had hoped, so we had to work everything out
online. This was problematic because we could not share our thoughts
and opinions on certain ideas for our presentation. Although our
final product turned out well, I think we could have used more group
time to express and talk about our thoughts on the assignment.
Once we
presented our presentation, the feedback we received should us areas
where we could have improved on. There were some images that could
have been changed to fit the setting of the play. I felt the same way
about this as well but I did not want to tell my partner. who was in
charge of that slide, that it did not fit. We also were told that one
of our slides could have been presented better, but while we were
speaking about it, we saw that we could have zoomed into the text. If
we had met and practiced with the presentation, we would have thought
about this before class.
Overall,
I was able to gain more expertise on presenting from going through
the complications of meeting with my group and from the feedback we
received. Even though we had our issues, we worked around them to
complete our assignment. I look forward to working on other projects
with my group after this experience because we now know what we need
to change for our next presentation.
