Thursday, January 21, 2010

Things I learned from presentations this week

1. Students like to be on Facebook when there's a computer in front of them.

2. Oral presentations do not get easier as you get older, they're still just as awful.
a. While they're still terrible, it's very difficult to cover a topic in less than 5 minutes.
b. When you're presenting from a computer, it helps to look at the computer instead of the audience.

3. Someone declared himself the emperor of San Fransisco sometime in U.S. history.



*Reminder to self: Blog about Obama's first year as president

1 comment:

  1. If you go into an oral presentation with the mindset "I don't care what these people think; I know I'm smart and I can show them" then they really are quite easy. It isn't hard to tell an audience about something that fascinates you in five minutes or less. That's why I choose such broad topics; surely there's at least something vaguely interesting about each topic.

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