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February 27, 2005
Presentation Recap
Well, since Christopher asked for it, here's the recap of my big presentation. He said there had to be a story in there somewhere, but I haven't found one...
Our professor told us (we presented as part of our class grade) to prepare materials for about 20 people per presentation. My partner was very worried about the presentation and decided we would prepare for 30, just to be safe.
Well...Jim (my presentation partner) and I are the first scheduled group. After we set up our room, we went over to the auditorium to hear our professor's keynote speech. We were amazed to find a roomful of people. Certainly more than 20, certainly more than 40. We both did a head count and came up with between 80 & 90 people. So, when the large group split up for the 2 conferences at that time, Jim and I knew we were going to have a huge group. And we did--we had 47 people at our presentation.
Jim and I (though mostly me because I'm the early childhood person) had decided we would do a make-and-take kind of thing where the attendees got to make the things we presented about. We had purchased supplies for 30. We scrimped though (and explained our predicament to the group) and made it through with enough supplies. People were very kind; I guess they decided they wouldn't be so greedy with the free stuff when they discovered we truly didn't have enough.
We had no glitches anywhere in the presentation. PowerPoint was fine, projector worked fine, the room was set up fine, and even the room temperature was adequate. I thought it went great. People had lots of compliments for us (I made sure to direct them to my professor who was deciding our grade for the presentation) and I was even asked by someone from the State Board of Education if I would be interested in presenting this summer. (Who knew the state officials would be there?!?!)
So, like I said, really no story there. I had more middle-aged people than I'd anticipated (I had figured it would be mainly people my age considering the nature of the seminars), and a few that made me think, "They don't look like a preschool teacher at all."
My semi-jokes got the laughter I'd hoped, everyone was considerate after we got started (though I did have to do my "1,2,3, eyes on me" thing to get them quiet), and they all acted like they'd learned something they could take with them.
And that's about it.
I'll post some pictures of my house-sitting experiences later.
Posted by Anna at February 27, 2005 05:32 PM
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