The Big Presentation

So I just finished my presentation at FallCUE. Unfortunately, I'm super disappointed in myself. I forgot my watch to tell time in the car, I didn't cut out enough from the hour and a half session down to the hour session, and noticed I that a lot of people walked out without by best and favorite resources. I was super bummed after my session, but I feel like I learned a lot.

I didn't think I was nervous...that was until my voice cracked and I had absolutely no saliva in my mouth at all. Seriously. At. All. I settled in, but it took me a while. I'm sure some people didn't notice, but if you know me, then you would have totally noticed.

I got good feedback on my energy at the end and someone said it was the best session they went to all day.  However, that person also stayed the entire time and got the whole session. I don't know how people felt that didn't stay the whole time. About half left with 10 minutes left. I totally get it. I did it in other sessions to make sure that I had a seat in one the next session. I just need to remember to have my presentation end early 10 minutes and that allows them to fill out the eval in that time (or leave and fill it out while they wait for the next session they go to).

I simply didn't shorten down my presentation enough and am really bummed out because I expect more from myself and know that I can do better. If I would have deleted the Google Forms and Flubaroo section from my presentation. That way I would have been able to really touch more on the games, we would have had an opportunity to play some of the games (only 2 people played one game in front of everyone), and there would have been time to fill out the evaluation, hand out resources, and I think it would have gone better overall.

I am pretty bummed out, but I need to remember that this is my second time presenting. I will get better. I know that. It's just kinda hard walking away disappointed in yourself.

This isn't going to make me stop presenting. However, I just need to make sure that I really get down the amount of material down correctly and maybe I will even reformat the layout and switch the order. Once again, I just have to remember that I am learning and growing as a speaker, it's just really hard to remember that at the moment.

Getting Jazzed!

Who is presenting at Fall Cue? 

This girl!

Who's ready to rock the house?

This girl!

Who is super excited?

You guessed it...

This girl!

Presenting, Networking, Learning, Growing!  I can't wait!

Fall Cue...HERE I COME!

Marketing

How does one go about marketing their presentation so that people come to their session at the conference over going to others?

Here are my ideas:

• Tweet like crazy the day before and that day using the conference hashtag

• Make a movie trailer-like short clip for my session...if there is time (I highly doubt there will be at this point, but would really like to!) "In a world, where students hate math....imagine games, apps, and tools to not only make it fun, but educational and at their own learning level..."
• Put up a few signs at the conference (It that appropriate? It is frowned upon?) 

• Network (that's a given though)
• Provide a fire breather outside my session? Nah, Nevermind....I'd have to pay them

• Just hope for the best?

What ideas might you have?

Revise, Edit, and Repeat

Alright, so I have been doing quite a bit of reflecting on the last presentation. I have looked at what worked, what I need to cut because this presentation is 30 minutes shorter, and how to make it better. I have updated my website to try to make it look more professional...

I have also combined one of the forms I have them fill out and plan to skim over one area that I didn't speak about so eloquently last time. I need to be more specific on that area, but can speak less about it. My presentation is on Saturday and I am pretty nervous for this one since I haven't had much time to practice since my last presentation a few weeks ago. Fingers crossed!