Your Presentation

When I started to plan my presentation, I had a hard time deciding what, exactly, I was going to say. I had started with the idea that I would just basically go over the main points in my paper in the order I wrote them in. I had a hard time getting anywhere with that idea. Then I did the Exhibition Fair. I realized that one of my more common talks that I did during the fair would be a good order for me to cover things in my presentation. So away went my old order and in came my new idea that worked very well in my PowerPoint presentation. After I decided what order I wanted things in, I had an easy time planning everything else. I sweated a little when I had a hard time finding the Dateline video, but I found it so I didn’t have to look up more info about retailers again. Like I said before, the only really hard part of preparation was figuring out what I wanted in what order. I believe that I prepared well enough for my panel presentation. I had finished my PowerPoint well before the panel presentation and had my notes on what I was going to say and had the video that I wanted. The only thing I believe that I could have done better was to practice more that I did. I was nervous when I did the first presentation. Again I didn’t really have the presentation criteria with me when I planed the presentation. I had a good idea of what the criteria said. Reasonable length, engage the audience, talk for at least twenty minutes. Having those ideas in mind, I tried to make an interesting presentation. I believe that one of the strengths of my presentation was that I had given the listener a lot of information so that when the Q&A time came around I was able to have a discussion with the people who had paid attention throughout the presentation. My PowerPoint also didn’t have everything I talked about on it. It just summarized my points while I elaborated in my speech. I’ve also been told that the way I ended the