Monica's Personal Blog #5

Personal Blog #5

My group and I presented today and honestly it went well. It is hard to compare yourself to the other groups because all of their focuses were so different so I cannot say if we did better or worse than a certain group. From an individual standpoint I feel like the one thing we could have improved on is making all of our parts a more fluid in terms of connecting all of our topics together. We all presented in a very engaging manner and feel like we had a lot of information about our particular part of our topic. The project I think reflected our process very well because it did not come together as a group. It was four to five parts of a certain topic that we all brought to the table. I say that because our group dynamic was not a very concise one and it showed very clearly in the way we presented. In my personal presenting I think I did very well. I have a tendency whenever I do a presentation such as this one or even any public speaking to trip over words and that happened, but I put my own personal quirky spin on the information. I thought we definitely had the most comedic elements in our presentation, but I am unsure if that helped the information of our presentation to be more memorable or that it made us seem less credible because there were so many laughs with our presentation. Overall if given the chance I would not do this project again. With our group at least there were so many problems with scheduling times to meet due to everyone's schedules and health which really affected our work and a lot of putting the pieces together were done very last minute which is why I personally think that the final product came out so disjointed. The point of this is not the final product or aiming toward a certain grade, it is about the scholarly findings we encountered on our journey. In that aspect, I feel like I did not realize that until now. However the findings about the imperial games I researched to get to the final project I enjoyed learning about. Whatever grade I get for this project I really enjoyed the information and the presentation, but I would not do it again.