My First Project

Our first project presentation is done. It was really stressful and it took a lot of time but we are finally finished. Since it was our first presentation in College and for this course we didn’t know what to expect. The fact that we weren’t the first ones to go up made it slightly easier for us and gave us more time to prepared ourselves. You could see from a distance that everyone was nervous and lost at first but then as they carried on they got better. We all had to go up to the bored and present our project in front of our group.

I think that for our first presentation it went ok. We never went through who is saying what and how we will present it so it was difficult but thankfully it all went along the way somehow. We helped ourselves during the presentation. Whenever one of us was starting to feel uncomfortable another one took over with the reading to give the person a little break and to calm down. Thankfully we weren’t too stress once we went up there so we read out things clearly and no one stuttered. We tried to keep eye contact with our audience and avoided to look down. We were trying hard to be present in the moment and to read things loud and clear. We placed our gifs that we did ourselves into a powerpoint which I think made the presentation more interesting. Our audience seemed to like our gifs which had a positive effect on us during the presentation as it relaxed us. We all took turns in reading the powerpoint and even gave an occasion to ask any questions.

In terms of feedback we were told that we had too much research on the history of gifs which made the presentation very long and not so much interesting. We had placed a lot of information into the presentation which I think was a bit too much. I got the sense of people turning off halfway through the presentation. We all were also notified that all our presentations were loaded with paragraphs which isn’t good. For future powerpoints presentations we should have short sentences or keywords on the powerpoint instead of long detailed paragraphs. We also shouldn’t be just reading stuff of the board or computer. We should all pay more attention to our audience and on what we have achieved and learned.

I myself agree with all that. I do think we all just read things off the board and avoided eye contact with our audience. Most of us were staring at a computer or down at the ground. I think our presentation needed more information on how we developed our gifs and what we have learned by doing this project. I agree that the long detailed paragraphs were boring and many people lost interest throughout our presentation. We should have had spent more time on the layout of the powerpoint together rather than quickly editing by talking on the phone. More work and thought was needed from us. Our paragraphs were too long and we read everything of the computer. We have learned a lot from that day and we now know how to improve in our next project presention.