About that presentation
Sep. 24th, 2004 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesThe presentation went fine. All the practice paid off, and I sounded smooth and confident. My classmates said it sounded like I knew the subject very well and enjoyed talking about it. (I do; I chose to present an article on Postural Restoration--- a school of thought that I strongly agree with, and will go learn more about on my clinical-- I chose my clinical solely because it's a Postural shop.)
I did enjoy giving the presentation-- it was a real rush to lecture on something I like and have everyone listen to me. At the end, I asked for questions, and the room was stone silent.
"Are you all quiet because I've confused you, or are you quiet because you totally get it?"
"We get it," replied someone in the third row. (Even Miss Inquisitive, who ALWAYS has a question about SOMETHING arcane, was quiet.)
Yesssss!!!!
the bottom line: I was presenting on the professor's pet subject, and I did a good job of understanding and presenting the technical details, and I practiced the presentation a lot, and that showed. I needed a good grade on the presentation to get a good grade in the course, and I think I accomplished that. Hooray!
One final thought, though... I noticed that the need to present with a powerpoint presentation drove my thinking process. If I'd had to give a speech, sans overheads, the development process would have proceeded much, much differently. I'm wondering how the cognitive demands of powerpoint (everything is an overhead with a title and bullet points, it seems) affected what I said and the time to write the presentation and polish it. Hmm.
I did enjoy giving the presentation-- it was a real rush to lecture on something I like and have everyone listen to me. At the end, I asked for questions, and the room was stone silent.
"Are you all quiet because I've confused you, or are you quiet because you totally get it?"
"We get it," replied someone in the third row. (Even Miss Inquisitive, who ALWAYS has a question about SOMETHING arcane, was quiet.)
Yesssss!!!!
the bottom line: I was presenting on the professor's pet subject, and I did a good job of understanding and presenting the technical details, and I practiced the presentation a lot, and that showed. I needed a good grade on the presentation to get a good grade in the course, and I think I accomplished that. Hooray!
One final thought, though... I noticed that the need to present with a powerpoint presentation drove my thinking process. If I'd had to give a speech, sans overheads, the development process would have proceeded much, much differently. I'm wondering how the cognitive demands of powerpoint (everything is an overhead with a title and bullet points, it seems) affected what I said and the time to write the presentation and polish it. Hmm.
