Planning and Presenting (wk4 – wk6)

Here I am again, a day after the presentation of my idea, It did not go well at all.

I worked hard on the report, spent a little too much time on my presentation slides and ultimately not enough time on writing a good presentation. I mumbled, paused too much, did not effectively cover what was important in the time set for the presentation and I am pretty sure I conveyed how SH%$T scared I was. What annoys me about this is that until recently I have always held myself fairly well in presentations. I am usually knowledgeable in what I am presenting and show at least some confidence. I have begun to get lazy with these presentations, where in the past I would write a script, memorize it and practice speaking; I now tend to wing it with a mediocre script.

I feel the script is what let me down, it wasn’t well structured and wasn’t well known. I knew the subject/project of which I was talking about (I had just written a report), but I didn’t know the script and I panicked when I lost my place and the tutor gave me the 2 minute mark. I am positive that if I had have just written down titles of what I was going to discuss and just presented my idea, I would have done a lot better. I need to trust in myself more and ‘just do it’, not caring so much about what people will think or what will happen if I fail. That or write a half decent script and learn and practice it, this however is not always possible when swamped.

I have lost a lot of interest in this degree. Multimedia design has taught me a lot and I think this broad education has its good points, letting me experience a lot of areas of design; however I am feeling frustrated and want to just focus on areas I genuinely enjoy, certain subjects just aren’t connecting with me and I feel its a waste. This frustration seems to be showing in other subjects that I do enjoy such as this one.

I need to better structure how I work and separate work and leisure. When I sit down to work, I need to just focus on work rather then, getting side tracked and distracted by something more fun. The amount of time I work on an assignment is surprising, I could do it in more than half the time but I just don’t seem to be able to just concentrate and work. Maybe if I set specific times to relax and specific times to work I wont blend the two into an unproductive nothing filled waste of time.

Comments and suggestions of the report draft and presentation will be given out tomorrow, so the next step is editing the report and presentation slides for resubmission.

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~ by s4098426 on August 28, 2007.