This past week was dominated by slide shows. Everyday we spent pretty much the entire hour preparing and presenting our presentations about the different elements of fiction. The presentations were supposed to teach the class what we learned about the different elements. Yet, I feel like this only partially of worked because nothing that was presented changed how I thought of the elements. It definitely made a couple of key things get strongly reinforced but there was not much new. After the first few presentations it seemed more like people just regurgitating the basic information of their elements. However, I don't think this week was wasted since the class got to practice their presentation skills. While I have not seen a greater understanding of these elements of fiction I do feel more confident with the classes presentation skills. It's always good to be able to see so many people try to present so you can see the good and the bad and learn from their mistakes.
Akin the to presentations we spent a lot of time getting ready for them. One of the things that we did was watch a TED talk about the basic structure of a good presentation. The speaker tried to convince us that they had the same shape but I am not entirely won over on that idea. I say this because this past weekend I listened to a speech given by president Obama (2012) that I did not feel like follow the format. He did not really bounce back and forth between the norm and the amazing potential of something new. I felt that rather treating his proposal like they were unbelievably awesome he tried to make it seem like it was silly that we were not already doing these things.
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