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What's your experiences of doing presentations to a class?
I guess I've always enjoyed doing presentations since I have a good memory. Like when I was doing 16th Century medicines, I remembered _a lot_ the first time I read it, and probably talked a straight 10 minutes(which is a lot considering I had no que cards, was talking very fast and most just read from a piece of paper) about it. I didn't even have to revise.
Then there was the time I had to do a presentation on anything, so I decided I'd do it on the site I visited the most, and I just showed them how it worked, and I yet again got really good marks, and the pages of notes were just put to the side.
I'm doing a presentation tomorrow about a computer game I've designed, and while it's going to be extremely complex to explain to computer illiterate people, I'm honestly not that worried about it.
But if you were to come up and talk to me, I most certainly am not the confident person I'm portrayed to be, despite the fact I would have only practiced a 10 minute presentation about 3 times, in presentations.
Can anyone relate, or is it just me?
EMZ=]

We had to do presentations in year 8 about our favourite thing. So I did one about eminem (I was really into his stuff at the time) and I had everything written down and was looking forward to giving the presentation.But when I stood at the front I felt really shy and nervous and my hands were shaking but I soon got the hang of it. I don't have a good short term memory so I had to read off the paper.
In year 10 we did presentations but just for the teacher which I prefered. I chose to do one about music stereotypes like emos and chavs (that was my obsession lol) and I enjoyed it and I had a good discussion with the teacher, I got a B for that which I was pleased with.

I don't like presenting. I hate everybody looking at me and I hate to be the centre of attention and also I'm terrible at explaining.

Presentation didn't go very well, no one understood what I was talking about. Meh. Even the teacher clearly didn't. No one even took the profits seriously, 230 thousand million pounds after the first 2.5 years. I don't understand why they ignored that :/.
EMZ=]

I've had a lot of teaching experience which helped, so I don't care anymore. Used to LOATHE it, however. powerpoints are awesome casue i don't need notes... just look at the slide and i know what i have to say. makes it way easier.

Oh, I used to love public speaking, I spoke for my school for the public speaking contest twice, which was actually pretty hard since I had some pretty good speaker in my classes. But now I can't stand them, I just get so nervous...

It depends. One time in science class I had to do a power-point presentaion on birds. I spent all of the class time agiven for the project by looking/editing random stuff on wikipedia. When I had to present the project I told the teacher that the file got corrupted, so I just told the class everything I could remember about birds. That's how I got an "A" on a project I didn't even do.

I seriously hate it when things go wrong. also, I guess I am often very nervous and very exaggerted when presenting. it does not help that I tend to always get scheduled to present at time which are IMHO good times to go to bed, not to be awake and actually doing something. I also tend to stutter a bit in front of the class.

I did four presentations for class so far:
One about a business related topic,I was assigned to. We were supposed to do it as group project but no one wanted to do it with me so I said I was doing it with my imaginary friend. Not a wise choice, people seemed not to understand the humor. It went pretty well despite no actual powerpoint and instead working on the blackboard and on my ancient craptop for function plotting.

One about an IT related topic I could choose (for English class) where I inexplicably got a worse mark than somaone whose grammar was pretty much absent and who wanted to pass off a Windows 3.11 screenshot as Windows 3.0 -- when the 'about Windows' box was visible. The teacer explained it by the lack of a good graphical presentation because I used tpp (a textmode presentation program) with my at that time ancient computer. Why did I use that program? so I could easily switch between the slides and the Forth environment. My presentation was about Forth, so I thought that it'd be advantageous to show an actual, running Forth environment and wrote an actual Hello World program there.

Another presentation for class went really well, technology cooperated, the class did not disturb me, and it was understood. But the next one in that class horribly went wrong: I wanted to do it on my better laptop and could not make the projector 'see' it (all I had to do was re-start X11 as I discovered later). Fortunately, I worked in tpp again: I copied the file to the classroom computer, opened it in an editor (it was text with some formatting informations which also were plaintext) and used it to do my presentation. I was really nervous though due to that blunder (it was at 8am as well) so I haqve the feeling that I could have done far better...

Ouch. I guess I'm lucky then.
EMZ.

Well, I did get 1w and 2s, while other classmates really screwed up. Despite being pretty critical, I _did_ get a 2+ in it. So... it only felt bad but probably wasn't that much.

When it comes to presentations, I usually have a piece of paper to read from and/or a powerpoint. I pretend I'm as charismatic as Hitler and go for it.