These couple of past days in e9, our class learned about presentation skills. We learned about what makes a good presentation and how we could achieve that. Each of us got handed a packet that had the different characteristics of what can help us do well during a presentation. Some of the main things were posture, eye contact, voice, facial expressions and professional appearance. For posture, it's best to not be pacing back and forth during your presentation or have your leg bouncing and such. It distracts the audience. With eye contact, if you're looking at your audience while talking, they'll know that you're trying to really get your point across. Your voice during your presentation is a big thing. Having a loud, lively voice makes your audience more interested in what you're talking about. Those characteristics and many others can make a great presentation.
After learning about presentation skills, we watched three Ted presentations of Bill Gates, Bjorn Lomberg, and Jamie Oliver. We rated their performance based on their professional appearance, facial expression, eye-contact, and posture. With these three men, they all showed different characteristics as they presented and got their points across. After rating each person, our class would discuss why we rated them a specific number; one to five where one is the worst and five is the best. This discussion certainly helped each of us really understand how to present properly.
Finally, the whole class each presented their sketchbook blog. We all first showed the class our design and then read our blog. For my presentation, I was really nervous. Though I practiced reading my blog many times, when I went up there, my voice was shaky and I kept repeating "um" and other nonsense. I wished I could have done better, of course. I really liked the sketchbook project and presenting my design confidently would have changed the whole experience for me.
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