Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Week 5: "Clear" Presentations

I say clear because I remember all the rules to giving a good presentation at work and school. I had to take a speech class when I was going for my Associates degree at Palm Beach State College. I remembered all those key points from that class and I have applied them here at my job. I get to go into the training department a few times a year and give presentations on life, health, and annuities.

Below is a video on you tube that has some great tips on speaking, you see his power points on fears and this is how they should look with all the right elements. With permission standard youtube license.

The one thing I do not do is create the power point slides. This is where it gets a little muddy. I had to put a power point presentation together for my writing class last semester and I ended up getting a 65% on it. It was a group project and I thought we had at least a B on it. I still have a lot to learn when it comes to making presentations I guess.

Hopefully with all that I have learned this week I will do better than a 65% on this presentation. I will put the extra time into figuring out the best way to make my presentation capture my audience. I had no clue about the copyright laws and that even pictures need to be cited. I will definitely cite everything for this project so I can avoid getting points taken off of my grade. My presentation is about donating money to the JDRF, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. My younger cousin Joey has Type 1 and I believe in the JDRF and hope that one day they find some break through cure or something to make this life threatening disease go away. It is so hard for my family to deal with this and just to know that there is a foundation to try to over come this is amazing.

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