Just thought i’d post this bit about self assessment i had to do for the presentation i gave on the thursday just been. 

The content of my presentation was well researched and offered an appropriate amount of depth to topics which were not exclusively covered in the lecture and our class discussion on Ibsen’s Ghosts.  My major problem was not having sufficient time for rehearsing the material and this inability to rehearse defiantly revealed itself in my presentation because I felt while delivering the presentation that I staggered through a great deal of the information often interchanging topics with extraneous and sometimes irrelevant information.  Visual aids could have most defiantly helped the audience see the key points of the presentation and me in the content delivery as my notes were to complex to deliver a fluid presentation.  I did have slides prepared to slot into Irene’s Power Point but we had no opportunity to meet before class to prepare this which I believe was mainly due to the restrictive time frame we had to bring the presentation together in.

If I had the opportunity to undertake this assessment again I would firstly cut down on the depth of information I was presenting.  I would focus more lightly on a broader range of subjects that relate to the Naturalism movement; briefly speaking about each of these.  This would give the audience a greater breadth of knowledge and enable me to more easily construct a Power Point presentation which was not cluttered with extensive facts (as was the one I designed but did not show).  Cutting down on the depth of knowledge would also allow me to cover the material much easier and probably cut down on the running time of the presentation because in view of my presentation I believe it dragged on for far too long; it should have been shorter and more to the point.

Overall I believe the presentation was relatively successful, we were hindered by the short time frame in which to research and bring together the presentation, the assessments flexible guidelines and the fact that Irene and I were the first to present out of the entire class and really had very little idea of what was expected.Â