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Rydia

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Do you like to give presentations in front of your class?

Me, I personally hate it and it is one of my least favorite things to do at a school. The anticipation before is just awful and I feel very nervous when I am in front of everyone.

However, it is nice that teachers grade them easily. And the feeling when you are done is wonderful. :busta:
 
I hate them too! Its just so scary when you know everyone is staring at you and will laugh so much if you make one mistake. And with those lovely thoughts in your head *SARCASM* you always muck up D:
 
For me it's always kind of depended on how confident I am in the research I've done or how well I've put the presentation together. A lot of times in school I would leave projects to the last minute, and in those cases I knew they were bad so it did make me kind of nervous, especially when other people would have elaborate posters to go with their reports and I had one measly black-and-white flyer to pass around the room :ffs: But other times, if I'd done a ton of research and I knew the subject really well, it was not as much of a problem for me, unless I could tell that no one else in the class cared about the subject I was talking about. Whenever that happened I would kind of just look at my display materials and notes and keep going without making eye contact with anyone, just to make sure I got a good enough grade. Needless to say I always stayed out of speech classes :lew:
 
I actually like them to be honest. Ever since my last year of high school my best marks have come from my presentations and I actually have fun while I'm doing them. They also require a lot less research and preparation than essays and tests, so that's another reason why I like them. As long as I have prepared everything and practiced a few times I can generally do them without the need for notes or cue cards.

To be fair they used to scare the hell out of me until I had to deliver a speech about Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech in year 12. After watching how he delivered his speech I decided to deliver my speech in a similar manner with elaborate hand movements and yelling. Ever since then I try to do my presentations in an overly passionate manner regardless of what I'm actually talking about and the truth is that it is actually really fun to do that way (plus the audience generally stays attentive when I do it).
 
I thought it might be appropriate to post here as I'm due to give a presentation out on Thursday. Even though it's for an English Language lesson, the topic I am stuck with is a political one. It's a presentation on the UK general election coming up this May and the strong possibility of a hung parliament.

In general, I'm normally a confident speaker and presentations are no real concerns to me. I chat a lot - to the point that teachers give me that I'll-hang-you-to-the-wall kind of look all the time. I rarely tend to be really nervous in front of other people. I guess it depends on how you think the presentation is going to turn out. At the moment, my presentation preparation is going smoothly (it can't be any worse than the others in my class xD), so I have no real worries.

In the event that I know I've done little preparation and that the presentation could possibly be as successful as throwing Simon Cowell on stage to sing opera, I tend to just waffle with loosely related crap. Usually I go overboard with hand gestures.
 
Well, whenever i was always nervous my dad would tell me: "The rest of your classmates are in the same boat as you." >_> I guess it depends on who was in room and what my presentation was over. I usually would worry about it before hand but during it, it wasn't as bad as i made it out to be.
 
I used to try and avoid them as much as I could, because was never a confident public speaker. I've come to not mind them now, especially in my class now because we're all quite relaxed around each other.
I've got to give one on postmodernism in film on Thursday and I'm kind of looking forward to it.
 
I liked doing them in school, but in college it was a whole other matter entirely. -_-

In college we had this competition where we had to make a USP (Unique selling point) to a "Dragon's Den" styled judge panel.

I froze and could not get the facts out about our idea so I had to take a backseat from it. :(

Surprisingly though, a laid back guy from another class did it better then the guy who learns about this stuff in general! So we all had to rely on him to win it for us. XD

Unfortunately, we came 3rd/4th.
 
i do a lot of prestations :) i love talking about something i like :)

my last one was about final fantasy, i did a history on it for key skills communications.

i did a slide for each main game from 1 to 13 and then i did dissidia and the kingdom hearts series

loved every minture of it :)
 
I hated them when I was younger. I would always get stage fright and freak out. As I grew older, I came to love them. Mainly because most of my views are controversial (at least for them, I never considered them to be such) and I would get some people very angry.

I loved the feeling of empowerment I would get from delivering a heart felt speech. Though, a crowning moment of giving speeches came with my English teacher told me I reminded them of Hitler. (Due to fact that Hitler, though ape shit insane, knew how to give a damned good speech.)
 
it depends wheter your comfortable with the students or not,these days,in my classes i wouldnt mind,but years ago i hated cuz i was so shy.
 
Presentations are really scary.... Especially when you have to talk and point to each slide of a powerpoint presentation which makes you asll icky inside. All your class is looking at you and you are presenting. Im kinda ok with them but sometimes I think My PP presentations are more shit than some other people's in my class :gonk:
 
I hate giving presentations by myself. I get very nervous when I stand up in front of a group of people. It doesn't really bother me if it is just a small couple minute presentation, but if it's a 5+ minute presentation, then I get nervous and stutter a bit.
 
I only love giving presentations or being up in front of the class in general when whatever I'm presenting is something I'm passionate about. Therefore I really don't mind when I have to present my project for architecture class, I'm not as nervous as when I have to do a report on...Tess of the D'ubervilles or something.

That being said, I need to organize myself more. I always end up skipping on things that I wanted to say.
 
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