Individual Presentations (1)

For class this week, we had our individual presentations conference. It was a good experience to practice presentations where we are heavily graded on how we give the presentation as opposed to what we give the presentation on. I really had to remember to be more aware of what I am doing because there are a lot of things that factor into a presentation besides just the content. It’s good practice because all of those things of how we give our presentations is what can make it successful or not.

I do wish that I could have gone the second day though, because I feel like I could learn a lot about presenting from watching my classmates. There were so many good presentations! I loved all of the creative hooks and interesting ways to remember the topics. I think that a good hook is one of the most important things of the presentation because if you don’t hook your audience, then they aren’t going to pay attention to you and it doesn’t matter what you do during the rest of the presentation if they aren’t listening. But overall, I feel like everyone did such a great job at doing that. Because even though some of these topics are not the most interesting to talk about, I was still engaged during all of the presentations.

Next time I give a presentation, which will probably be in the class, I want to makes sure that I am sending out all of the right nonverbal cues to keep the audience interested. It is an important part of presenting that I don’t usually focus on, so I’m glad that we do that in this class! 

Here is a link to a blog that has some good tips for non verbal cues during presentations. Enjoy!

http://24slides.com/blog/communicate-non-verbally-presentations/