Presentation Follow Up

I did my presentation today. I realized that sometimes, you can't doctor the thing you have always done forever. I keep adding and updating and moving things around, expanding and deleting, but I realized that sometimes you have to demolish what you have and start from scratch.

Overall, I think the presentation was fine - I had fun and I think the students enjoyed it. At the same time, I just felt like I was in a mud hut when I needed to be in a penthouse apartment...I needed a different foundation and structure. What's hard is that I'm not a linear speaker, but I try to have a frame. My frame was wrong yesterday and I felt like I was floundering around.

I have decided that I will be working on it on and off so that the next time I have to present, I will be in the right framework and I can be as unlinear within that structure as I want and I will feel like I did what I needed to do.

I'm not even sure I'm being clear here, but at least I know what I mean. :)

Presentation Tomorrow

I'm working on a presentation for tomorrow at the ASL/English Interpreting Bachelor's Degree program in our area. I'm a little nervous as I'm doing it for a new instructor and working in tandem with another presenter - we haven't met or been able to discuss, so it will be interesting to see how it goes.

These presentations are fun but challenging as there is so much territory to cover, so little time and it is important to make the presentations memorable and accessible. A tall order.

Wish me luck!

Jean