Four Down, one to go!
I must say I had the most fun with this assignment. Everything from the beginning to end was not only interesting to me but entertaining. It also seemed to be the most successful speech; not only for me but also out of all the other speeches of the day. I felt we were the most successful because we seemed to get our message across with the most information including facts and statistics which also made it the most interesting and visually effective.
As I stated, our speech seemed to be the most successful speech of the day. I enjoyed the reactions, questions and comments that we received during and after our speech. That always makes me believe that we got the job done.
As for the topic chosen, as you know, we got the idea for our topic from you and may a say that You Are A Genius! Had you forgotten, it was on the violent video games. The topic was not only fun but brilliant for this type of project. I really enjoyed getting the research done, especially putting together the PowerPoint, even though the final presentation slides weren’t shown correctly, they still worked. As far as for the actual information, we chose to address a range of areas involved with our topic including the benefits and social issues of the violence in video games. We chose to address these in a way in which they would be viewed as a positive for the video gaming industry and in which we would be gearing the whole argument toward it being an educational influence. I am very pleased with the way the presentation turned out. I think the information was well researched and well put together and it was an overall success.
In relation to the other presentations I made, I think this presentation and experience was great. Not to say that I thought the other presentations were bad, but I think this one was one of the best. That’s funny isn’t it, the first and the last turned out to be my favorites. Anyway, one of my favorite parts of the whole thing was the inclusion of the PowerPoint pictures as a visual aid. I know a couple of those pictures were a bit obscene, like the sexual education pictures, but I think they were also realistic and needed to be included for that reason exactly.
As for working in a partnership, I thought it was great. At first I was a little worried because I didn’t know who I was going to be working with or even what I was going to be doing; but after Rachael and I got together and got our idea from you, and a couple of pointers, we were set and we knew exactly how we wanted to propose our “Modest Proposal”. Rachael was great too! The ideas she had just kept flowing, especially when it came to the conclusion. I think the conclusion was one of the most effective parts of the whole presentation, you know when I listed what we needed to get rid of and what we needed to replace it with, she came up with that part; and she had no problem doing her share of the work. The work was distributed equally. We both did the research in all areas, and backed each other up whenever we needed help or weren’t finding the information we were looking for.
I’d say some pros and cons of making this a partner project would be:
Pros Cons
- More ideas to work with -Providing constructive criticism respectfully
-Help with the research -Finding the time to get together to get work done
-Help with putting every-
thing together
-Sharing the presentation of
the final project
And those are just to name a few, but just to let you know, the pros do highly outweigh the cons!
Nevertheless, if I were to do it over again I would choose to have a partner over not having one. I think it always helps to have a partner, especially if they don’t believe in social loafing and are committed to getting the job done, which my partner was. I would also try and fix those slides so they would come out the way we wanted them to. I mean, the problem wasn’t that big of a deal. It was just that some of the slides were supposed to have a title to them, and I wanted them all to be in equal size to each other, but in the end it didn’t seem to be too much of a distraction, so that’s okay.
In preparing for the speech we went over it a couple of times separate and a couple of times together. Most of our meetings were over the phone due to our schedules, but it worked out because we were looking at the same thing. The delivery went almost went as smooth as can be. I know I definitely felt a lot more put together and comfortable up there, so it was cool. The only thing was probably the switching of the slides that was a bit delayed since we had so many, but like I said the PowerPoint wasn’t too much of a distraction, was it? Anyway, the delivery went well. We both did well in presenting our parts and it all tended to flow from what I heard. Also I think we were right on time as far as ending the presentation. The questions comments are a whole other subject.
In conclusion, I thought it was a great project. I loved the fact that I could have fun with it. Like I said in class, I never had a project that I could remember having fun with. By having fun I mean it was kind of funny the way our argument was posed and it was fun putting it together. I think you should continue with this one!
As I stated, our speech seemed to be the most successful speech of the day. I enjoyed the reactions, questions and comments that we received during and after our speech. That always makes me believe that we got the job done.
As for the topic chosen, as you know, we got the idea for our topic from you and may a say that You Are A Genius! Had you forgotten, it was on the violent video games. The topic was not only fun but brilliant for this type of project. I really enjoyed getting the research done, especially putting together the PowerPoint, even though the final presentation slides weren’t shown correctly, they still worked. As far as for the actual information, we chose to address a range of areas involved with our topic including the benefits and social issues of the violence in video games. We chose to address these in a way in which they would be viewed as a positive for the video gaming industry and in which we would be gearing the whole argument toward it being an educational influence. I am very pleased with the way the presentation turned out. I think the information was well researched and well put together and it was an overall success.
In relation to the other presentations I made, I think this presentation and experience was great. Not to say that I thought the other presentations were bad, but I think this one was one of the best. That’s funny isn’t it, the first and the last turned out to be my favorites. Anyway, one of my favorite parts of the whole thing was the inclusion of the PowerPoint pictures as a visual aid. I know a couple of those pictures were a bit obscene, like the sexual education pictures, but I think they were also realistic and needed to be included for that reason exactly.
As for working in a partnership, I thought it was great. At first I was a little worried because I didn’t know who I was going to be working with or even what I was going to be doing; but after Rachael and I got together and got our idea from you, and a couple of pointers, we were set and we knew exactly how we wanted to propose our “Modest Proposal”. Rachael was great too! The ideas she had just kept flowing, especially when it came to the conclusion. I think the conclusion was one of the most effective parts of the whole presentation, you know when I listed what we needed to get rid of and what we needed to replace it with, she came up with that part; and she had no problem doing her share of the work. The work was distributed equally. We both did the research in all areas, and backed each other up whenever we needed help or weren’t finding the information we were looking for.
I’d say some pros and cons of making this a partner project would be:
Pros Cons
- More ideas to work with -Providing constructive criticism respectfully
-Help with the research -Finding the time to get together to get work done
-Help with putting every-
thing together
-Sharing the presentation of
the final project
And those are just to name a few, but just to let you know, the pros do highly outweigh the cons!
Nevertheless, if I were to do it over again I would choose to have a partner over not having one. I think it always helps to have a partner, especially if they don’t believe in social loafing and are committed to getting the job done, which my partner was. I would also try and fix those slides so they would come out the way we wanted them to. I mean, the problem wasn’t that big of a deal. It was just that some of the slides were supposed to have a title to them, and I wanted them all to be in equal size to each other, but in the end it didn’t seem to be too much of a distraction, so that’s okay.
In preparing for the speech we went over it a couple of times separate and a couple of times together. Most of our meetings were over the phone due to our schedules, but it worked out because we were looking at the same thing. The delivery went almost went as smooth as can be. I know I definitely felt a lot more put together and comfortable up there, so it was cool. The only thing was probably the switching of the slides that was a bit delayed since we had so many, but like I said the PowerPoint wasn’t too much of a distraction, was it? Anyway, the delivery went well. We both did well in presenting our parts and it all tended to flow from what I heard. Also I think we were right on time as far as ending the presentation. The questions comments are a whole other subject.
In conclusion, I thought it was a great project. I loved the fact that I could have fun with it. Like I said in class, I never had a project that I could remember having fun with. By having fun I mean it was kind of funny the way our argument was posed and it was fun putting it together. I think you should continue with this one!
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