The presentation went well, though there are things I wish I had done differently. My co-presenter was really good, worked in humor really well (something I need to work on) and was, I felt, much more natural in front of an audience.
But I’m done! And I really can’t wait to do it again.
The keynote by Rachel Bridgewater (What We Talk about When We Talk About 2.0) was really great. She’s a great speaker, I would love to be half as good as her someday. It sounds like she is doing really cool things in her job – especially the information literacy instruction. I have my notes from her presentation on my flickr account. (I don’t do liveblogging, but I can at least post my written notes!)
I also saw Marvel Mering and Nora Hillyer talk about “Criss Library On-Line Information Literacy Assessment for English Composition.” This is the third time I have seen Marvel Mering present, and I’ve liked every presentation so far. After I went, Michael Sauers presented on “The Social Web.” I think I stole part of Michael’s presentation. Sorry! There was overlap in some of the presentations- Rachael talked about Google Docs, Michael talked about Wikis and Flickr. I was fairly brief with the web applications, though- the focus was on portable applications of the kind that can be put on a keydrive.
I took away a few lessons to help me in future presentations-
- Have extra material in case I talk too fast or something I want to present has already been talked about. I cut a lot of portable applications out of the presentation because I was sure I would run long. I should have been ready to present those anyway.
- Make sure the projector is on – I worked part of the time thinking the projector was on. Luckily someone pointed my error out. :)
- Bring EVERYTHING you think you might need. When we got to the room, we realized that the projector was in the middle of the aisle- set up for a presentation using a remote. That wouldn’t work for me since I was giving a demo of software. I had Geoff bring down my 25′ VGA cable, so it all worked out dandy.
- Try to work in humor. I’m not good at this, and I need to work on it.
A few pictures below. I’m tired now…
PS-
I posted the presentation on my Online C.V. and Marcee and I have a wiki.