Blog Questions for Week 7
“With hindsight, what advice would you give to next year's students about preparing for the A1W group presentation?”
The advice that I would give to next years students who are preparing for their A1W group presentations is to firstly form a group with the people you are most likely to get on with as soon as possible, don’t wait to be put into groups as you will be wasting valuable time you can be using for the preparation.
When you have formed a group plan out regular meetings, and make sure you tell your entire group in advance as you don’t want members missing on the day of the meeting as this will only set you back. Make sure the meeting times are lengthy as you get to cover a lot more instead of having 1 hour time slots. Roughly have 3 to 4 meetings per week prior to the presentation.
Another thing that I would advise is to not go over the top with printouts as this will only slow you down when you come to putting the PowerPoint presentation together, its good to have a lot of data to work it but its not good to have a bunch of useless data, before you print out make sure whatever you print out will benefit you and your presentation.
make sure you always reference any websites you have visited to extract information from.
Finally make sure you have enough time for rehearsals preferably a week give your self a lengthy period which allows you to master your presentation this means having no notes on you and not keep on looking back at the presentation notes as you will be accused of reading straight of the PowerPoint.
