Blog Question for Week 7

'With hindsight, what advice would you give to next year's students about preparing for the A1W group presentation?'

The advice i would give to next year's students preparing for their A1W group presenation is that to first of all to get together in a group with the people that you know you will be able to manage and get along as a team with. This should be done as soon as possible as this would give you more time to prepare for the actual presentation.

Once your group is sorted out, you will then need to make sure that you plan out regular group meetings so that you can keep track of what each group member is doing, what they are suppose to do and what together as a team the improvements you can make if something is wrong or missing and you can also keep a record of who did or did not attend the meetings, as this will help you identify who is actually participating within the group. As you plan your group meetings you need to make sure that you inform all your group members the day, time and the place well before advance as this will help them know when and where the meeting is held so they can participate and prepare for the presentation as you do not want any members to be absent on the actual day of the group meeting as this would just set you and the entire team back leading to less time for preparation. Also make sure that you have at least 2 group meetings per week as this will give you enough preparation time for the presentation.

The final advice i would give to next year's student preparing for A1W group presenation is to make sure that you keep a reference of all the websites that you visted inorder to help you look for information regarding your presentation subject and also to make sure you have enough time to rehearse your part of the presentation as this will enable you to conquer your presentation which will lead you to produce a well developed presentation when it comes down to the actual day of presenting as you will have no notes with you and you will not need to be keep looking back at the presentation slides to see what you have to say next as you would have already conquered it. Like this others will have a good impression of you and will not say that you just read straight from the slides.