(Reflection written 10.30.18, and just didn't manage to upload until 10.8.19!) Reflection on Presentation One I always feel good about my confidence and stage presence when I am presenting, and this continued to be true for this presentation. I was passionate about my topic, and enthusiastic about sharing the information with my peers. I was surprised that I received feedback that some of my science was difficult to understand. I had thought I broke down the science behind my topic into very manageable pieces that would be clear for a general audience. However, I also took three years of high school biology, so perhaps things that I thought were obvious were actually more confusing to a layman than I assumed. But I hadn’t received this feedback prior, when I was practicing, so receiving it during the final presentation came as a surprise. One thing I would do differently next time is the organization of my presentation. I thought of two other ways after the presentation was complete that I could have presented the information that would have made the story I was trying to tell more engaging, and hopefully would have clarified some of the science behind the ideas. One tactic I could have tried was to go through the timeline of the life of my brother, explaining health problems and treatments at different stages. For the next presentation, I plan to experiment more with the structure of my presentation early on, so I have time to decide which format fits my purposes best. I personally found both the Topic Proposal and the Four Storytelling Elements very helpful. The Topic Proposal forced me to commit to an idea and start doing research on it, which became the backbone of the rest of my presentation. The Four Storytelling Elements pushed me to think outside of how I was used to structuring presentations and discover more about my topic and the story I wanted to tell. However, outlining my presentation for the final assignment is where I think I went astray in terms of structure. I was focused so much on demonstrating my use of ABT and assertions that I think I lost the thread of the story I was trying to tell. This impacted the structure of my overall presentation, as I mentioned above. I think that I should have tried to write my presentation out as a story with science in it, then split it into assertions and slides, rather than trying to cobble together a story out of the assertions I had developed. Similarly, I found it difficult to produce slides for the Slide Design assignment before I had fully figured out the structure of my presentation. I think I would have appreciated more time between those assignments, so I could have gotten feedback on my overall presentation structure before diving into more final details like appearance of slides. I particularly would have liked a chance to sit down with a partner or a group and receive feedback on the clarity of my assertions (so that my science would be easy to understand) and the thread of my story overall (so that I could be sure to have a clear beginning, middle, and end.)
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