Blog #2 Zuming Zhang

 

               This second presentation was one of the most interesting one as it was the one filled with the most issues for me. As the overall planning and preparation for my portion of the PowerPoint wasn’t too bad. As me being a sucker for history and how things piece together was the perfect choice for the electoral college history. Overall, the process of the transitions and learning my own lines and stuff of that sort just came with the job. Despite the clear planning and process for everyone that got their jobs and roles there was a bit of issues here and there. From confusion towards the process and over addition of words and text of the slides it all has a lot of headaches. Although most of the group did quite well and I don’t have too many issues with them and only hope they really memorize their lines for the future. This presentation has helped quite a lot out in my own personal life and speaking is a vital part of life. As a EMT having a better ability to speak to my patients allows me to perform my tasks better than the rest. With Chris and Ivanna’s portion of the presentation they were very on point with that the had to do. Chris had a one slide concise of all of his information that he was going to go over further on in the future. While Ivanna has great pictures and information to share that was quite insightful. While David and his partner has quite a lot of info on their voting system of other countries which was quite insightful as the other members of the group.

               Furthermore, with other groups such as group 2 there was a great understanding of their own presentation that I hadn’t never known to this point. As certain government programs that allow people to come to the states without any other costs. The overall presentation of it has gotten better but same as before with the clutters still being there as too much visual noise. But the speakers themselves did go over the information quite well and I was captivated by their topic and information quite well. The only huge problem I really had was the skipping of speaker as during the presentation there would be moments in which the speakers would get skipped over and people would go on for a while until the next speakers. The information is quite useful but does skips over the general people or people like me who didn’t live with programs like DACA which almost everyone in the classroom knew about and didn’t explain it in further detail until asked. A very slight mis step, but when explaining and wanting the classroom to want to truly understand to truly understand your presentation it really makes others lost. Overall, most of the speakers spoke with a clear voice and understanding of their topic, but at times had moments where a bit more explanations would be very useful for others, which is something to remember and use on my group’s presentations.

               Next up is group 3 which overall had the best presentation in the class as most of the speakers really had the knowledge on their subject and the enthusiasm needed to display and convey that information towards the classroom. The slides were quick and concise without much visual noise and had at least me listening throughout the presentation and remembering most of the information. And the subject of the Say no Gay law in Florida was brought up with a lot of class and sensitivity towards the subject. The information and nuance of every information brought up in the PowerPoint was very different than one would expect and goes over a lot of very good information. Also bonus points being their brochure which I haven’t brought up in this blog, but it was very pretty and had the information in a neat format which allows the listeners to follow along with a visual guide, but also allows them to od further research on the subject in their own time as the brochure has the main words and stuff laid out. Overall, one of the best presentations by far.

               Lastly, is the group 4. This group had by far the most speaker and they all have a good understanding of their stuff. But it does have a bit too much information on screen that doesn’t really help for audiences’ retention. Despite that slight con most of them had a great concentration and remember their subject and the addition of an interview was interesting. As just merely by just asking the person they are interviewing their questions allowed for more understanding. Just as the audience hears the interview, they can hear answers to questions they might have and also possible different perspective from people from different regions of the world and background. The information going over the female rights and voting rights was well researched and had given a new perspective besides the usual woman’s suffrage. The new information has really allowed me to look from a new perspective and learn more about history and advancements towards equal rights for the opposite gender. The speaker has really given me a new view on this very important subject and was helped by the speakers clear and fluent speech during the presentation going over their subject with very great efficiency.

               Overall final thoughts are that this presentation has gotten a lot easier in terms of myself. As the research portion of the presentation is greatly easier as I have gotten more and more information with more reliable websites. What’s more the actual presenting portion of the presentation is a bit better I would feel despite my slight tired tone I feel that helped my flow and confidence in the presentation. I would like to have a bit more energy towards having such a presentation though despite the low energy being better for presentation as it doesn’t have the Zhang touch.