In the communications class last year, we had to do a 5 minute presentation on front of the class, while being videotaped!
The thought of this made me sick.
I am pretty competent at computers so designing the Power Point presentation was fine. I enjoyed the arty element.
We could choose whatever subject we liked. I stupidly picked a subject that was new to me. I was trying to pick a subject that was related to the course.
The morning of the presentation I was a bag of nerves, nearly fainted while brushing my teeth! I had practice the night before but thinking about it was making more nervous, so I gave up and went to bed.
I botched it up! I was shaking, stuttering, blushing and sweating, it was very embarrassing.
They say you learn from your mistakes and I thought my lesson was to never do a presentation ever again, but oh no there had to be communications on the syllabus in third level too! Needless to say I wasn’t at all impressed. However this time I knew what to do.
Choose a topic I knew really well. So I choose to do my presentation on my dog. Why, because I know everything there is to know about my dog, so there is nothing to be nervous about. Now saying that I was a bit nervous about the topic as others in my class had picked to do their presentations on social topics, but I stuck to my guns.
I have to say I was a little nervous and reluctant to do the presentation on the day, but it went really well. I spoke for the set amount of time and I spoke confidently. I really pulled it off and was proud of myself and I was marked well too.
So my recommendation is to always stick to what you know.
