Well done to the eleven students who delivered their unassessed talks today. They were fantastic and I hope you all learned something about your own delivery and the techniques of others. The subject matter was varied, from Ayrton Senna to Santa Claus and from Roald Dahl to Bob Marley. And lets not forget the icons that are Iron Mike and erm, Greyfriars Bobby! The talks were all researched well and I feel we all got a lot out of each talk. So a quick overview of the good and things to improve on then...
Room for improvement - time, completing the talk (something like 'thank you very much for listening, are there any questions'), taking the audience through the structure slide, not standing in front of the screen and having PowerPoint handouts.
The great - natural ability, being yourselves, time and effort put into the preparation of the talks, the variety of content, the use of visuals, the depth of knowledge, working with each other, involving the audience, being in control of the talks, upbeat delivery and many more facets besides.
I am in no doubt that the first assessed presentation on 'how to do something' will be interesting and straightforward for you all.
I am very happy with the performances of the class, so a blooming big slap on the back all round guys!
I will do my best to get through as many of the talks as I can on Monday and will be stopping people who go over 4 minutes to keep things ticking over. We will start off with Steven and Kenna on Monday. If we don't get them all done on Monday, there will be a little time next Tuesday. I should have stopped more presenters today, but hey, we did well and I hope you found the feedback sheet that I gave you helpful as well as the self-evaluation form you filled in.
PS - I am still awaiting (quite) a few Yearbook entries, so please do your best to get this done by November 22nd if you can. Much appreciated.
All the best, Mark
Many thanks Mark my experience was very nerve recking,but good at the same time.I'm looking forward to see the rest of the presentations on Monday
ReplyDeleteThat's great Guillermo and for you being first out the hat it was even trickier, but you did really well. The trick with presentations is practicing, doing more talks, different types of talks and we have that in our units that we are doing. We also get to analyse the presentation techniques of others too which will be interesting I think. The next talk will be different and I will introduce that next Tuesday. Fun will be had, I guarantee you!
ReplyDeleteYeah,thanks Mark, the experience was very constructive and I really enjoy the talks of my class-mates. I have to say I was quite nervous about it but it turn out to be a good experience. I found your comments very helpful and thoughtful. I'm sorry about the timing but I will sort that out for the next one, I promise.
ReplyDeleteI thought the session was briliant. I really enjoyed the talks and the feedback was helpful too. Well done everybody.
ReplyDeleteFor those who are interested, this is the handout that I made but didn't have chance to print: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/202902/Roald%20Dahl%20Handout.pdf
ReplyDeleteLovely touch Ellie. Thanks for this. See you tomorrow.
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