Web 2.0 Project

Below is my Presentation for the Web 2.0 Project. I chose to do a presentation on a nonprofit company called “Man In The Mirror” which is an organization designed to help men become better husbands and fathers.

Self-Critique:

Its always difficult to critique your own work, but I think for the most part that my project flowed logically. I tried to think of any possible questions before hand and attempted to answer them before the viewer would think to ask. The opening of my presentation was attention grabbing, I used soft music and interesting statistics to pull the audience in.

I asked several direct questions to spark interest (which I immediately answered). But one of the things I could have worked on a little more was validating my claims, I probably could have added more statistics, or shown some more examples of how MIM has helped solve the problem I set up in the beginning of the presentation.

I really wanted to avoid clutter in my presentation so I made it as simple as I possibly could. I think this also helped with the presentation's readability, since there are very few words on the screen, the viewer is able to read them quickly, and still follow what I am saying in my presentation.

Overall (at the risk of sounding a little biased), I think it is a very good presentation. It's short, direct and interesting to watch and I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Peer-Critique:

Its a little difficult to critique someone's work too, because you want to be honest and give good feedback, but at the same time you don't want to hurt their feelings. In my case it was really easy though, since I thought the one I critiqued was great! Critiquing someone's work does open your eyes to holes in your own work though. For instance, while I was critiquing my peer's project, I was thinking about how my presentation stacked up against the rubric.

What I learned:

I learned a lot from this project...mostly from making mistakes while I was learning how to use the different video capture programs.

I loved using Prezi, its really easy and fun to use. Also, Camtasia is phenomenal! Once I created my Prezi and recorded the voice over, all that was left was to capture the Prezi and add the audio to the video capture.

I will definitely be using both Prezi and Camtasia in my future, they are great programs to have in a business environment. I think Prezi is a great alternative to PowerPoint since it is so interesting visually and is really easy to create. Camtasia is also a great tool for any business since you can make a professional looking product with a few simple clicks.

This was such a fun project to work on, I loved learning how to use new tools and having to think creatively...I hope you enjoy the presentation and I hope that I get a chance to work with these wonderful tools (and maybe some new ones too) in the near future.