After viewing every classmate's presentation I really learned a lot of unique information about pirates that I never truly realized until taking this class. Many students had extremely interesting topics such as how pirates create and brand for themselves ranging to pirate medicine. Most importantly, I was able to examine various students' presentation styles and observe what worked and what could have been improved. First, many students followed the design guidelines laid out in class that helped create a visually engaging presentation and made it easy for the audience to quickly find the important information on the slides. However, the most common problem that I noticed many students have was they wrote full sentences on the slides and thus going against the stylistic guidelines creating a presentation that made the audience struggle to read the information and not really be able to pinpoint the important information. I also noticed some students read directly off of their slides while some did not. Those that did not had far more engaging presentations as they typically made better eye contact and were able to improvise and only use the slides as reference therefore making more information available to the audience and seeming more credible on the information they were presenting about because they genuinely knew what they were talking about. I believe that I incorporated all of the design guidelines and did my best to not directly read off my slides and only use the slides as a supplement to my argument. I wholeheartedly believe I conducted extensive research and kept it very related to my topic so I believe that my presentation was among the best in the class.
