Presentation Evaluations
Not So Bad After-all
For an assignment in our 602 class, we were asked to give and record a speech as a group to our class and then watch the video as a group. Unfortunately, my group was the only one that had not watched our video (or at least admitted it) out of our class by the second week until the end of the semester and with prodding we finally decided to watch it after that class session.
We gathered in our typical meeting place located in the CICS labs which we have become all too familiar with over the course of the semester and began to watch and comment on the video as a group.
Personally I felt as if I were shaking and stutter stepping through the entire presentation and expected the video to show every flaw I had committed through the course of my delivery. I was surprised that I actually seemed much more composed than I had expected when viewing the footage. I seemed surprisingly calm throughout, and seemed to maintain much better eye contact than I had thought when I was shaking and reading these cards due to being so nervous. The video overall had shown me that I wasn't nearly as bad as I though (especially after receiving a failing grade from a fellow classmate regarding my evaluation).
As a group I felt like everyone did a great job, as I had observed from watching the others give presentations. Given that we did have a few hiccups with the projector and me not asking someone to turn the slides, I think we did pretty well. We could have organized where we stood during other presentations better, but overall we all did a good job and I was happy with the outcome. I could not ask for a better group to give presentations with who were so composed and excellent at organizing powerpoint slides.