This week, we finally got around to presenting our elements of fiction project. Since we had been preparing these presentations for multiple weeks, I was very nervous to actually show our ideas. It did go very well though. Neither I nor my partner made any major mistakes, and we remembered to say the majority of what we wanted to share. Not only did the presentation go well, but I felt that I quite a bit about how to correctly present. The first thing that I noticed was about myself. I tend to pause a fair bit when I talk. It’s important for me to know that I will stop if I don’t know exactly what to say, so I should try to think a step or two in advance. I also learned by watching others present. I made sure to pay attention to how I felt (as part of the audience) about the presenters’ tactics. For example, I noticed that I really did not like when the presenters gave little to no background information about their stories. I had a hard time understanding how their story in general, let alone how it relates to elements of fiction. Some presenters did explain their stories well though, and I found their presentations easier to follow. I feel that I have a better idea of how much context to give now. The same process of learning about presentations happened with other concepts. I payed attention to the amount of writing that was on the slides, so now I think I know what works. Even watching the presenters’ body language taught me about what I could do to better my own presentations. It also lead me to look more in depth about this idea, and I feel like I learned a bit from this website. While we didn’t close read poetry specifically this week, we certainly had plenty to analyze.
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Josephine
11/3/2016 06:46:56 am
Hi Eric,
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