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Class Presentations

InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
edited 2011-05-13 07:21:57 in General
Diet NEET

These waste too much time. Learning to present information, making a coherent story, working on your body language and clarity of voice and overcoming nerves in front of a crowd are all well and good, but if half of the classes get clogged up with listening to the presentations of others when the class itself isn't even focusing on presentation skills, something's gone wrong. Why not give a mandatory presentation in front of a real crowd(composed of parents) at the end of the year, on the topic of any class you found interesting enough to warrant it?

Comments

  • ChagenChagen
    edited 2011-05-13 08:54:33
    [tɕagɛn]
    Thank god you made this thread, because I might have a presentation today in English. Fuck. I'm scared out of my life. It's supposed to be next monday, but we may get through enough of them to bump it up to today.

    And it sucks, isn't finished, and wasn't even done correctly. If my grade wasn't a 70, I'd rather take a zero than have to present this thing.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    What's the subject, Chagen?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    We were reading To Kill A Mockingbird, so my teacher decided to have us research a discriminated minority and present a powerpoint presentation on them.

    Some people chose broad groups (smokers, names discrimination, obese people), others chose more concentrated times (Apartheid, American Internment camps for Japanese in WWII).

    I chose the occupation of Korea by Japan from 1910-1946.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    A few images, introductory slide, 5 or so topical slides(broad historical situation at the time, Japanese perception of the Koreans, actual treatment, after-effects, current situation regarding acknowledgement and recompensation) with general comments of your story while you mention interesting factoids from a paper in front of you, ending with pointing towards an organization that's still struggling for the rights of Koreans in Japan(which I'm sure exists). Maybe have a Youtube clip showing Japanese wartime propaganda as an intro.


    As for nerves, go to the bathroom beforehand, and remember that body language and tone don't matter shit if the content is interesting enough.

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    That would useful if I hadn't had to turn it in 2 weeks ago.

    There's an oral part as well--that's probably my best chance to get a passing grade.

    But this was all caused by my laziness--I barely worked on it at home and whenever we worked on it at school, I'd goof around on this site instead of actually working. We were given nearly a month to work on this, and I only worked on it the last week.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Shit, I'm almost certain that I will have to present this today. Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK.

    I think I might just tell my teacher to give me a zero. I'll fail the year and have to take summer school, though...
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    "I think I might just tell my teacher to give me a zero. I'll fail the year and have to take summer school, though..."

    Come on, you can't even pretend that that's a good idea.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    To you. But I can't seriously present this in front of people. It's embarassing and unprofessional.

    I don't have to present today, anyway. But I can't edit my presentation at all during the weekend.

    Fuck this. Fuck everything.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    You'd really rather fail a class and spend months more at school than talk about a subject that you actually know about for five minutes?
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET
    Describe the war crimes in such terrible detail that the presentation has to be cut short because of shocking content.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    That might almost work, given that I talk about an event where Japanese soldiers cooked a Korean women alive and then fed her flesh to these other Korean women they took as sex slaves...
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Do your presentation through interpretive dance.

    "That might almost work, given that I talk about an event where Japanese soldiers cooked a Korean women alive and then fed her flesh to these other Korean women they took as sex slaves..."

    Especially this part.
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