Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Keynote and Speech/Debate Problems


            Today I finished my presentation for the Upper School! Since I did most of the work on it yesterday, I just spent thirty minutes finishing the final slides and reading it over a few more times. Although the presentation seems to not have much in it initially, I tried to leave lots of space for elaboration within the actual presentation. Honestly, the hardest part about creating my presentation today was definitely trying to figure out how to save the new Keynote presentations! Before the latest update, it was incredibly easy to save presentations and send over Keynote. However, now it is nearly impossible to do so without running into trouble. When I tried sending the Keynote to a friend over the Lovett email server, I received error messages that not all components were saved within the email. Luckily, I was able to save the presentation as a zip file that can be attached to a jump drive and shared easily (I am also pretty sure that it is fairly simple to save the zip file as an email attachment using Google Drive).
When I got home from school, I showed the presentation to my parents and practiced a version of what I might say to the student body. When I gave the mock presentation to my parents, I realized that I spent twenty minutes going through the slides and talking about my experiences! I will definitely bring my phone on stage with me for the actual presentation to gage my time. I also deleted some unnecessary slides about Siempre Verde history because most Lovett students already know the basics of our history and involvement with the Santa Rosa community. Overall, I am feeling really excited about presenting my senior project. I am glad that I gave myself to create the presentation because I am not sure if I would have been able to complete it this weekend with AP exams coming just around the corner. I also cannot wait to hear the presentations of my peers who are also completing senior projects! It will be cool to see how others spent their extra free time outside of formal classes (I am especially looking forward to seeing the documentaries that people created because I love watching movies and short films in my free time).

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