Thursday, December 4, 2008

Reviewing Presentations 1

So it's now Thursday afternoon and I have two more blogs to post. Yay! Too bad I don't know what to say. From looking at other's blogs about the presentations it seems that I'm supposed to write on what they were about but I would be more interested in writing about how the presentations went. So I propose a compromise. Seeing as how I have two blogs about presentations to post one (this one) will be one how I think they went and the second will have more of the informational focus.

Over all I believe that all of the groups did a fine job (just putting that out there first because I will probably criticize some of them). Some obviously prepared more than others but that's pretty typical.
The first group was really well put together and they had all planned out what was going to happen nicely.
The second group was interesting because the first guy that talked was really into it and very interesting but then after that they spoke less and no one seemed as well prepared as him. When he was talking it was easy to pay attention.
Ooo we've come to the third group. To be fair I think that they did a really good job, it just kind of bugged me how one guy seemed to take control of the whole presentation and it kept going back to him practically after every other person talked. He seemed to know what he was talking about but it just bugged me. It was a Group project not a one man show with his back-up singers there to help out. Sorry! My opinion.
Next up was my group. I think that we did fairly well. We did have some serious mess ups behind the scenes but you don't need to know about those. I just wish that I could talk better in front of people. I never have to worry about presentations being long enough cuz I stutter and lose my place a lot. Oh well.
On the last day there were two presentations. The first group up did the same book as my group. It was good to hear about it when you weren't standing in front of class so that I could take notes for the test but sometimes it was hard. That group didn't do well in my opinion. A few of them just seemed to have written out in front of them a personal summary of what had happened in their chapters. You aren't supposed to get up in front of class and read to us. One guy it seemed like he was going to read us all of his chapters. That took way too long and wasn't very interesting partly because you couldn't even here what he was saying. I'm sure I speak for most people when I say that we were glad that Fry interrupted. I'm sorry dude.
I liked the book that last group talked about. It seemed interesting and I kinda wish we had done that one. Or burn rate for that matter. I think that the presentation would have been better if they hadn't been rushed for time. I tried taking notes but they went too fast so it didn't work to well especially on the Pros and Cons lists on guy did.

I really am not trying to hurt anyones feelings and I'm sorry if I did it's just my personal reactions to the presentations. You all did well though.

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