Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

• I'm proud of how strong my content section was, and how my PowerPoint just helped visually support what I was talking about, rather than just relying information to the audience. I made sure to focus on understanding the content I presented today and not read off what was on the slides, so that way I interacted more with eye contact and engaging the audience.

2a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

• I would give myself an AE or a P+. I met P requirements, and felt that I went above them. I included a lot of examples, both of what helped me formulate my answer, as well as examples I had created for the presentation itself. I made sure to refer to my mentor, my sources, as well as experiences that regarded the content multiple times. My PowerPoint was also interesting, so it really helped in keeping everyone engaged throughout the entire time.

2b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

• I had definitely met all P requirements in professionalism by keeping things fun, interesting, and interactive. I made sure not to just read off slides, and spoke nice and casually, so it wouldn't sound like a typical formal presentation. For organization and creativity, I went out of the box with my PowerPoint by adding a lot of relevant photos, graphics, animations, the props I brought which were the yearbooks, my activities, and so on. I really enjoyed how people participated in my activity, not just because of the candy prizes, but also because of how everything I had taught before was made clear by having actual yearbooks to find things in. My justification and answer also met P consideration, but I went more in-depth with referring to my two sources and mentorship throughout the presentation, almost on every slide. Finally, for audience involvement, I went above P consideration by having my hook activity be an attention-getter and point out a problem, and answered the problem we saw in that activity with my other activity. Everyone use what I talked about in my lecture to understand the purpose of the hook activity, as well as understand why my answer of designing a spread that portrays content is prevalent in my EQ and topic.

3. What worked for you in Lesson 2?

• What worked was the templates we had to do beforehand, because it really helped me organize and put together the presentation itself.

4. What didn't work?

• I guess what didn't work was how much time I spent on the lecture content section. It was difficult trying to keep time of myself while I was actually presenting, when all my focus is diverted to talking and whatnot, so I feel like I went a little over time on that, resulting in reaching about 30-32 minutes overall. To better state that, I would say the timing of my presentation.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

• This time I think it would be "having emotionally compelling copy about the student body." Still not too sure at this point.