TED Presentations

In comparison with last year's TED project this year's one was ten times better and I believe that the concept of this project has a lot of potential. Most of the serious issues from last year's presentations were addressed and taken care of. Some of these issues from last year were still problems. Some of these include procrastination, amount of time to work on the project, face-to-face time and technological/presentation issues.

The TED project lasts for over a month. During this time period it is not considered a priority. There are other projects, tests and just plain homework that took up my time for TED. I know that I had begun organizing and formatting our project throughout the month-long period, but I did not add any real content to our presentation until the weekend before the presentations. And I was one of the first to do so. Another issue was the amount of time assigned to work on this project. We were never assigned time to work on the project in social studies class and only once in spanish class. I seroiusly doubt that the other Academy classes were assigned even that much. I think that our face-to-face time with our group members was good, but not as effective as it could have been. In my opinion, I think that it would have been more productive if it occured later during the project. Even though is was supposed to be the half-way mark, no one had started working by that time and some members had yet to watch the video. Lastly, I believe if we took some time out of the day beforehand to rehearse our presentations, technical difficulties and time issues during could have been avoided and the whole ordeal might have run smoother.

Listening to the discussion afterwards, I really liked Leanne's idea of actually discussing, executing and following up on a few of the presenters ideas rather than just presenting them. This also reminded me of the service project were eventually going to do for spanish class. I think that doing something like with the TED videos even further embodies what the Academy is all about.