Group Project!

Where to begin.  Well how about the end?  Seems logical enough.  In the end our group was able to come together and create a great presentation that I am sure will earn us fine marks.  We presented our information in a well put together and informative manner.

A clever screen shot of google drive

Now...back to the beginning I hate group projects.  Don't get me wrong I enjoyed everyone in my group and enjoyed the opportunity to socialize with my classmates, but group projects scare the Sh*@ out of me.  You have to rely on, in my case, three other students who you ave never met to complete their work and do a good job on it.  SCARY!!!!!! Now no one in my group slacked off and as I mentioned before and I am fairly confident we did alright on the project, but I am morally against group projects.  The only redeeming quality of this group project was Google Drive.  Not only is it a clever program it was also very useful.  Drive was the one link in our group that never faltered.
In short I did enjoy the work we did on this project and especially enjoyed Google drive, but I would rather jump into quicksand cover in stinging bees than do group projects.

Me in front of a crowd

The presentation that we did at the end of this project I will admit was intimidating.  I am told that I am usually a very good public speaker.  The dirty truth is, I am the biggest scaredy  cat when it comes to public speaking.  So this was indeed a challenge, but I pulled through and feel as though I did very well. Here are some things I learned from the feedback of my classmates.
1) Stand up straight
2) Speak clearly
3) DO NOT fidget
4) Come prepared
5) Have fun!

Along with those I also used lifehack.org as a great reference for public speaking.

This group project presented some great challenges for me but I feel as though I came out the other side with a good grade and a more experienced young man.  My only hope is that my teacher dose not assign any more group projects because I have bees and I know a guy who can hook me up with some quick sand at a good price.

Power point "eh"

I have always feared this logo.1

In this project we were told to create a lesson that envolved the use of Power Point.  So i set out to make a Geography lesson as fun as possible.  This turned into an awfully difficult task, and half way through I saw horrible visions of my class full of student falling asleep while I lectured.  Somehow I made to the other side though and have created what I think is a rather interesting and fun Power Point.   Although this Power Point was much to time consuming to be practical for every day lessons I believe that if I were to supplement my lessons with little "games" like the one I created my students would be willing to participate in the class more.  My initial thoughts as I began this project took me back to long hours sitting in my A.P. U.S. History class in high school.  My teacher, who shall remain nameless for his or her own protection, stood infront of my class with powerpoint and lectured about the information on the slides.  Yawn!  It is impossible to count the number of students that fell asleep in that class due to how boring our teachers style of teaching was.  So as I approached this project I was not excited, BUT the more I worked on my project the more I began to enjoy working on it.  I believe that I have created a slide show that the students will find to be fun as well as one that they will be able to learn from.      So in conclusion I still have a grave fear of Power Points putting my students to sleep but I also believe that with the right slide show the students will not only learn from the lesson but also have fun with it.  So my general thoughts towards POwer Point are as follows: "eh."