Presentation Skills Blog

Everyone needs presenting skills so they can be successful in presenting in front of an audience. One presentation skill is how you speak. You have to speak at a good pace and loud enough so everyone can hear you. Another presentation skill is the content you are presenting. The content needs to be long and thought out. The third and last component of having a good presentation is rehearsal. This is important so you can go through it quick and easy and you don't have words like um or so.

The TED videos showed us how presenting should be. It showed good presenting skills and what a good presentation should look like. Bill Gates showed a good presentation when he was speaking at TED. I gave him three fours and one five. Lomberg gave a really good speech but his appearance wasn't all that great. Jamie Oliver's speech wasn't as good but he got his point across to the audience. TED speakers are very good at presentation skills.

My presentation went pretty good for our first e9 presentation. I had good eye contact and a loud voice. My content wasn't very good. I could've added more so my presentation would be longer but overall it went well for the first time. I will prepare more for the next time we present and do the best I can.

The sketchbook

My sketch is just a normal sketch, nothing to fancy. I used a font for the graphic design letters in the middle of the page. Then I drew two sides to it, the sunny side and the dark side. I used pictures off the internet to inspire my design. Theres no logos but there is basic sketches of a sun and a cloud. I like how theres two sides represented in my sketch and it looks very cartoonish. This assignment was quite easy and very fun because I like drawing.

Thinking About Color

Blue is my favorite color because it represents peace and calmness. Blue represents police and things that help people. Ive always liked the color blue because its the color of some of my favorite sport teams like the KC Royals, Chelsea, or even ONW Ravens. I would change my car color to like a dark chrome blue if I could. My color is both bright and dark because it could be a darker tint or a lighter tint. But most of the time it is a shade.




My least favorite color is brown because its just a nasty color. Its the color of my house which i lived in all my life and its quite boring. Brown is widely used for houses and buildings all the time. Theres just no color to brown and its just a dull color. Brown can be a tint but usually its a dull shade.

Illustrator Experience

My illustrator experience went quite well. I used the rectangle tool to draw 5 shapes. I changed the rectangle to an ellipse tool, then into other shape tools. The graphic design I made was a house just like a real house that people would live in. This graphic design came from my imagination and creativity as well as my personality. This fits my personality because it shows creativity and a lot of small details some one else might've missed. My personality is very well creativity along with organized because i don't like things being off center or weird looking.

We also learned about color theory in class on Monday. It showed that colors are primaries and secondaries. There are also tertiary and analogous colors. We learned by using doe color wheel and looking at all the shades and tints of the color wheel. It is a really good tool to use if you ever have questions about the color wheel.

Sidewalk Chalk Activity

Sidewalk Chalk Activity

My group used a lot go collaboration on this sidewalk chalk. We first chose what symbols we represented on the sheet that was handed out to us. Then we sketched our idea onto a paper that we were soon to put on sidewalk. We communicated when it was time to start using the chalk so we can get thing done more efficiently. We chose the colors that represented us the most and we came up with really creative symbols we would draw on our flag. We got the job done and I think our flag turned out just great.

The team experience was very collaborative and made us communicate with people we might not know. It was a fun timed the chalk project went great. If we did it another time, I would make sure more people communicated and contributed more so our flag would have been even better.