Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Presenting a Presentation

What do you need for a good presentation?? Well... Tell you more when u continue reading. Was a very tiresome day. Woke up by my phone. It was 7.30am than... Since initial wake up time is 8am, i continue slping. In the end, i woke up late. So i went for lesson late again. But when i arrived, lesson not started and im not the one that is late. Im like early. That feels abit good. Well, lesson as usual. BORING!! In the middle, we had a test. Not a very good one. Did not put in my best... Guess the results will be not my best either. After the test, we are suppose to put our names for our timeslot for an interview test. So... Alot of things happened and then... Conflicts started out of nowhere. Than my team shatters into pieces of glass. Well.. The happy times were broken like that because of a timetable. It took some time for the pieces to glue back and form a nice piece of glass. As soon they settled their differences, we got back to our work. Had to redo our presentation slides. Tedious work, but somebody got to do it. Settled that once and for all. Went to town area to look at the clothing required for our presentation. Guys were simple, get a colour and style we like. Pay for it and go. For the girls... Well... They do the 1st and 2nd step more often than the last. I have to admit that makes them the biggest difference between girls and guys. Went home on a bus trip back home. Was a rather long trip, but it normal for us.

I had my team's presentation slides totally striked off for redo as what we did was not required. Was a little sad at the start and frustrated too. In the end, we had to summarise our points on powerpoint and present using speech more often. So we sat down, discussed what is needed and such. Summarise all your major points. When presenting a project to a client, make sure he understands what your system is and what you are doing. It does not matter whether the server has more than 200GB of space. All he wants to know is what the hell are you doing and what is the final product. So we have to summarise things. Listed is an example:


PPT slide:
- Member uses message system.

Speech:
our system will allow members to use our internal messaging system to send private messages to one another. initially, we thinking of just sending messages via email, but that will be out of our boundary. Also, a private messaging system will improve on the communication between members.

Well... If this does not help, i guess we might as well forgo our 10% on presentation and focus more on the programming part of our project. Maybe in life, presenting oneself and presenting is one important aspect in life. It is a life skill. Some are born with it, some are trained in it. With practice and perfection to errors, im sure everyone can present like a pro.

Training on presentation...

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