Over the course of the last two weeks, I have learned more about the World Wide Web and multimedia presentations than I have ever learned at any other point in my life. As the second project in my ISM 3004 class, the Presentation Project encompassed a multitude of multimedia and Web 2.0 tools. If you follow the link below, you will find my completed presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifsNTeVoIDc
Though you are welcome to critique the project for yourself, I want to outline my own evaluation of how I think I did on this particular assignment. Afterall, we humans tend to be our best critics, so a personal evaluation should prove to be very revealing. First, I can honestly say that the flow of content in my presentation followed the sequence used in my guiding acronym "BMI." Organization has always been very important to me, so I emphasized within the first few slides the overall agenda and sequence for my presentation. I hope my viewers felt the same feeling of clarity and orderliness as I did after seeing my final product. Looking back, though, I would like to be able to improve the verbal explanation of my outline by sharing the outline a little sooner in the presentation.
Something else that I believe could also use some work was the beginning "attention grabber" I used in my first three slides. I attempted to ignite my audience's curiosity and interest with one letter slides and the Superman Theme song. I have always loved that song, but in hindsight, the song and slide design was not the dramatic attention grabber that my viewers may find intriguing. During the course of the presentation, I asked a couple of questions to engage the viewers. However, I realize that there was room for improvement in anticipating questions and answering them beforehand, especially in the video portion of the presentation. In the inserted video, I claimed that being a Walgreens BMI allowed a person to also be a superhero in some respect. I now feel that this claim should have been backed up with more validating evidence beyond the examples I provided. Maybe I could have incorporated another intern's perspective to support my claim.
As for the more technical aspect of my presentation, I strived for perfection in not allowing any typos or inconsistencies. I proofread my presentation several times, so if there is a technical mistake, I will forever consider myself blind as a bat. Another area that I strived to be perfect in is the area of clutter. I chose my graphics and text with the idea of making the presentation slides easy to read and simplistic for easy understanding. I also used large text to ensure easy readability. My biggest mistake in the presentation, however, was in sometimes reading my presentation slides instead of using visuals and audio to explain my topic. From past experience, I would say that this area is my biggest weakness in presentations overall.
For my presentation project, I was also required to complete a peer review for one of my classmates in much the same way I evaluated my own project. The peer review was one of the most helpful learning tools in helping me understand what makes a great, and not so great, presentation. By evaluating another's presentation, I could more effectively judge my own performance and make some changes that I thought necessary.
Overall, as I mentioned earlier, I thought the presentation project was very informative. I learned to more effectively use Windows Movie Maker and PowerPoint 2007. I now have accounts on several Web 2.0 sites such as SlideBoom and YouTube that I would likely never have visited before this project. This project also taught me some very important principles for making an effective presentation, and the experience of creating the project also highlighted some of my presentation weaknesses that I hope to overcome in the future. Now that I have an expanded base of knowledge and resources related to presentations, I know that my future adventures in the presentation filled world of business will be much more interesting and effective. I am especially thankful for this project in that it gave me some of the tools I will need in my quest to enter the sector of nonprofit management.
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