The presentation project was split into several parts, namely creating a storyboard, setting up a copyright statement, critiquing peers, writing this blog and last but not least, creating the actual presentation. This structure of the project made the whole project very confusing and distracted from the actual core presentation.
Nevertheless I finally uploaded a presentation about UNICEF and its work to help children in Africa. I began by showing pictures of depressed children in Africa, followed by some facts about their poor living conditions. After that I introduced UNIDEF and explained what the organization does to help those children. I finished the presentation by calling for donations to include the listeners in the help projects. Therefore I think there is a logical flow and sequence of content in my presentation. I furthermore tried to anticipate questions by explaining what UNICEF actually does and providing a link of the page where donations could be made. I think the best part of my presentation is the beginning where I grab the attention of the audience by means of pictures and music. What might be missing in my presentation is that I did not really ask questions. The whole narration is not that clear anyways because my microphone does not work as it should do. I think it is totally clear that I am trying to open the eyes of the listeners and that I am trying to encourage the audience to help UNICEF to help Africa. Therefore I also tried to make slides readable by not putting to much stuff on them and not using several different font sizes. While presenting I took the main points from the slide an explained some further details relating to the slides. But nevertheless, my narration is probably the main weakness of the presentation, on the one hand due to my malfunctioning microphone and on the other hand du to the fact that I am not a native English speaker.All in all I got quite some new insights about powerpoint and its functions. Especially the function of including different types of media in a presentation seems to be very useful for further presentations. I also learned about some methods and tools available on the internet to share presentations online which I had never done before. This could actually be quite useful in the future as in today's business environment the web gets more and more the main medium of communication.
However what I found rather muddy was the explanation of the copyright statement we had to establish. That is also one of the problems I encountered while working on the project - and probably the main problem. The structure and content of the copyright statement was not adequately described by the instructors. Several questions posed in the discussion board regarding the content of the copyright statement were all replied by "see what you learned during week 1" which did not help me at all. Finally, 2 days before the deadline we were told that we are allowed to just reference the used multimedia and thus making use of the fair use policy. In the project instructions it had been stated that just referencing is not enough, though. Therefore it was quite confusing for me and several other students I talked to during the project.
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