Oral Assignment #3

Goals	For this presentation you will present orally the results of the search you conducted for Electronic Assignment #2. You will need to find ways to engage your audience so that it's not the usual "travelogue-lecture" --you want to interest them as well as inform them about what you found. You *must* inspire at least one question from your audience (not including me) to have this report receive above a "C".
Visual Aids	You will be walking us through the information you collected for Electronic Assignment #2. You should create a PowerPoint slide show that includes at least four slides and one live hyperlink. If you wish, you may show us your web page as part of your presentation.
Grading	The presentation will be graded according to the Rubric for Oral Communication.
Resources	See the handouts from Oral Presentation #2, the class Resources page, and BWC 224-226 (use the Checklist!)
Self-Assessment	The following questions may help you make that analysis more comprehensive; use them as guidelines, but don’t be slaves to them. They are meant to guide your viewing and your self-assessment. Feel free to comment on anything else you think was important in the presentation. In what specific ways did you enact the plan for improvement you made after presentations #1 and #2? How well did you carry that plan through? Did you make eye and verbal contact with the whole room? Could you have done anything different in this regard? How well did you manage your 5-7 minutes? How was your sense of time control? How would you characterize your presenter’s manner--calm, confident, nervous, etc.? Did this change over the course of the presentation? If so, when and why? Were there any verbal or physical distractors ("uhh", rocking back and forth, etc.) that might have distracted your audience from following the presentation? Did your presentation have a clear structure (using the pyramid) and point out the key points the audience should remember? Do you think they "got the message"? How well do you feel you used your slides and web page? How did they look on the screen? Did they illustrate a clear point for your audience? Did you gesture to them or otherwise incorporate them into your presentation? Did you get sucked into staring at the computer monitor and make less eye contact than you should have? Now that you have seen yourself present, what kinds of changes, different strategies, or improvements do you want to make in your final oral performance? Compared to your first performance, what changes do you notice?