The Saxophone Presentation

Here is the link to my Presentation on the Saxophone:
http://www.screencast.com/users/KarinaMills/folders/Default/media/33a4ac59-526c-4b5e-a0e8-92fd67c9df23

Image taken by Karina Mills

Overall, I am pleased with my presentation. Going over the evaluation rubric though, I found some things that I could have improved. After a short introduction, I dove right into the meat of my project without much information to the audience of the purpose of the presentation and more of an outline for what I would be presenting. It was more of an informative presentation, so it was not as imperative to precede my presentation with putting the audience into that persuasive mindset. The purpose was to introduce to the audience some information about my passion, and maybe something they did not know before.

Seeing as how the majority of my audience is not familiar with the Saxophone, I don't expect that my audience had too many questions leaving the presentation because I thoroughly covered the basics about the saxophone. Since the topic is very broad, there may have been random questions that I could not necessarily  anticipate from the audience. I did not ask questions to spark curiosity; rather, I caught the attention of my audience through the use of multiple multimedia outlets. From the first slide where I played a simple blues scale,  to the video clips I included to show different musical styles, the audience was sure to be left with a tune in their head.

I took the time to ensure my information was accurate and presented in an easy to read format. Sometimes when we go into a presentation knowing EVERYTHING about the subject, there is a disconnect between the presenter and the audience because of the knowledge gap. I tried to tone the information down to be pretty basic. Had I gone too much into detail with the information, I would have bored the audience. I left the simple information with lots of visuals on the slides, and expanded upon the information by explaining it in more detail to be more engaging.

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I learned a lot from this presentation. Never before had I been successful in recording my own audio to accompany the presentation - let alone figure out how to upload it online! Taking the time to read the resources given and researching on the internet allowed me to learn many things about Media, Software, PowerPoint, and the internet in general.  This knowledge will come in handy in the future. Especially since I am part of the Online Business Program, I need to know how to do the things that I did in this project. It was also good that we were able to see other peoples' presentations. One of the best ways that I learn is to take ideas from my peers. Before I even began, there were some projects already posted for me to review. It was also nice to see how my presentation compared to others once I finished. Even if I have a presentation that I will have to present in person, knowing how to record the audio will come in handy. It will be nice to use the audio as a resource to allow me to do a rough run through of my presentation and use the playback feature to hear any issues and correct them before I present live.