It's been an exciting week, of research. The editing got intense this week with revised papers. Everyone had to go the extra mile to give good feedback. Sad to see some teams NCAA bracket, Calais Campbell is gone from the Cardinals. Also the presentation is in 2 weeks, so that's creeping up on us.
The meme of the week is an old one, Supa Hot Fire. It is a character in a series of satrical YouTube videos, parodying battle rap. The videos consist of rapper Supa Hot Fire battling multiple rappers. The videos revolve around the crowd biasing around Supa Hot, overreacting to the extreme when he finishes his verse. Here's an example.
The meme of the week is an old one, Supa Hot Fire. It is a character in a series of satrical YouTube videos, parodying battle rap. The videos consist of rapper Supa Hot Fire battling multiple rappers. The videos revolve around the crowd biasing around Supa Hot, overreacting to the extreme when he finishes his verse. Here's an example.
This week we were tasked with slides and scripts, and understanding the presentation rubric.
The first rubric row talks about the research question and the reasoning behind it. Being worth only 3, it is not a hard row to knock out of the park. I feel like my script adequately responded to this row. Row two is about the implications and limitations of my results. By conveying my results and discussing significance, implications, and limitations, I can attain the 6 points here. It is important to notice that the lit review has very little importance in this section, and that my focus should be on the methods and results.
The third row connects the hypothesis from the lit review to the conclusion arrived by the paper. I need to explain what I thought at first, what I arrived at in the conclusion, and what from my findings confirmed the hypothesis or not. Using Swint-Kruse as my hypothesis and initial thoughts will help me out in the presentation. I did a decent job of row 3 when arriving at my question and discussion. At a meager 3 points the row should not be difficult to achieve.
Now row four is my battle ground. The ability to present, speaking style, and presentation tools give this row a 6 point evaluation. As a veteran debater and public speaker, running my ideas past in a confident presentable way is not very difficult. My slides are simple and easy to understand.
I placed a lot of confidence in my ability to explain the graphs. It will be a lot easy to point and interact with tables and graphs as opposed to explaining things in a painstaking manner in my paper.
Till next week,
Ashwath V.
Blog is looking a little sparse, my friend. Time to beef it up.
ReplyDeleteHi Ashwath! So with this blog post i thought you generally seemed really confident, however I felt like there was still some missing pieces to both your script and slideshow. I think you were repetitive in your "lit review" section and that info could be integrated more smoothly. I also would like to see more about the analysis and conclusions of your research. i felt like the conclusions were really rushed and I did not quite get the meaning of the results. So can you reference the things you talk about in the beginning more specifically like clearly answering your question and talking about the greater implications?
ReplyDeleteAlso I think you need to make the script and slideshow correspond more. I felt like there were often times when the script sections really long and it might be too much to have just one slide. So make sure you are still being active when explaining some big sections.
Hey Ashwath!
ReplyDeleteI really agree with what Grace said, so basically I'm seconding all of that feedback so that you're not stuck reading the same feedback over and over. Just to add to the conclusion part though, not only was it rushed, but it didn't conclude your paper and only added a "why is this important" question to your presentation. It would work great as a transition, but not as a concluding sentence.
As for some other stuff, and I think this is a problem that everyone (including me) will have in their initial scripts. We are so used to writing papers that its easy to forget that all of this will be spoken in about 15 minutes. Because it is spoken, there is no way for your audience to go back and re-listen to whatever was just said. This means that if anything confuses your audience, then they will be lost for that entire part. I tried in my comments to point out places where it might be difficult for your audience, but I'm positive that you can do a great job conveying everything. In the part written for Slide 7, you did a fantastic job of conveying everything really clearly and effectively, and I thought it was really well tuned to the audience and for a presentation! If you can carry that throughout, you will have an awesome overall presentation!
Hey ashwath!! I feel like the biggest thing you're going to have to worry about is making sure that your audience doesn't get lost, which means explaining everything in a relatively simple manner while enhancing what you're saying with visual aids. Since your topic is really technical and it's difficult to make it super simple, you really have to make sure that what is on your slides helps your audience understand what you're saying, instead of confusing them even more. I think you really need to add more descriptions or at least titles to your slides. You also had a problem of either putting too much or too little on a slide. Slides 20-23 were kind of ridiculous lol and slides like 12, 15, and 18 definitely needed to be explained more.
ReplyDeleteOnce you fix your slides, I'm sure you'll have a great presentation!! Good luck