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Our First Day
“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.” –Dale Carnegie
Today was our first day at EMCP; and I think that I
learned some information about presentations. What did I learn today? First, we
watched a successful episode of "Dragons' Den", and had a class
discussion about what we thought made their presentation interesting and appealing.
Some basic topics that we went over were: eye contact, confidence, examples,
visuals and other techniques. We also learned about how to possibly start a
good presentation/speech. You could start with the climax, and it would keep
the audience listening.
After this, I was assigned to read pages 30, 31, 44,
and 45. We jotted down notes about what we learned from these pages and
presented them in a short [1 minute] speech. When other people were presenting,
we wrote down what we thought was important. Before class ended, we were
assigned to read page 209 - the end of the book and write a daily report like
this. That was what we did today.
Andrew
Andrew
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Mini Enrichment Course!
Today I learned a lot more about how to speak in front
of a class. I learned all new little ways of how to intrigue an audience and I
learned about the author Dale Carnegie. I also learned that I need to learn how
to use a lot of body language too and finish off with a good conclusion!
Cassie
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Cassie
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Important Information
The most important information I got out of
our class today is that you always want to present and speak your presentation
or speech to the audience as if you were talking to a friend or someone you
know. When I present speeches from my experiences is I am always really nervous
and shy to when talking to crowds of people and at times don't sound or present
welcoming as most times I just talk about the information and nothing else,
with these points of interacting with the audience and bringing the people in
to feel the emotions and things that are happening can help me very much to
give speeches more effectively and really teach people about things that I want
other people to know. I also learned to start your presentation with climax and
wonderings to draw your audience in at the start instead of starting out with
an introduction and also to give your emotion and enthusiasm to what you are
speaking about and you want other people to learn.
Harrison
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Harrison
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Today I Learned
Today I learned; while presenting, you should make eye contact, you
should be confident, you should know the subject well, show examples, and show
visuals. The first 2-5 minutes of your presentation should explain what your
topic is. When writing a story, don't call someone "person" or
"this man." If you want to keep their names private, call them
"Mr. smith" or something like that. Effective speaking is more than
just speaking to an audience. It’s about showing personality. To convince your
audience, you must first convince yourself.
Ivy
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Ivy
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What I Did Today In “Present it like a Hollywood
Movie!”
Well, today we figured out how to access our
computers. How? By taking one of the longest routes to get to the library
possible and stopping off at Starbucks before getting our usernames and
passwords for the day from IT. Did you know that there are at least 3 Starbucks
ad 2 Tim Hortons at Carleton??? I didn’t! But onto what I actually learned,
Dale and Dorothy Carnegie are very good public speakers! We read their book
today in class, and there is, you guessed it, a whole book devoted to helping
others with their public speaking! With such tips as “Don’t shoot at your
meaning with a birdshot and hit the whole countryside, but instead use your
rifle to hit your meaning dead on!”, “Humanize, specify, personalize, dramatize
and visualize” and “Pretend as though you are talking to the person in the very
back row”. This has truly been an enlightening class so far!
Matteo
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Matteo
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Monday,
May 2nd, 2016
Some
things we learned about today was starting with climax, getting
rid of unnecessary visuals, sense of communication, suspense, and having
examples. When you start with a climax you grab the attention of everyone
in the audience, and create questions of how that climax was achieved. We
talked about was that when you’re presenting, you have to make sure you
don’t have unnecessary images on your presentation that just distract
people.
rid of unnecessary visuals, sense of communication, suspense, and having
examples. When you start with a climax you grab the attention of everyone
in the audience, and create questions of how that climax was achieved. We
talked about was that when you’re presenting, you have to make sure you
don’t have unnecessary images on your presentation that just distract
people.
In my research in the book “The Quick And Easy Way To
Effective
Speaking” I found that having a sense of communication is important. Your
audience must feel like you are talking to them individually, select someone
in the back mentally and act like you’re talking to them, at the same time
making eye contact with everyone else. Suspense is very important to a
good speech, you must allow questions to generate in the minds of your
audience. “Example is the finest method of making a good speech”
according to Dale Carnegie, you must Humanize, Personalize, Specify,
Dramatize, and Visualize your speech.
Speaking” I found that having a sense of communication is important. Your
audience must feel like you are talking to them individually, select someone
in the back mentally and act like you’re talking to them, at the same time
making eye contact with everyone else. Suspense is very important to a
good speech, you must allow questions to generate in the minds of your
audience. “Example is the finest method of making a good speech”
according to Dale Carnegie, you must Humanize, Personalize, Specify,
Dramatize, and Visualize your speech.
So...yeah. No, just kidding. Never end a speech like
that, always
a clear concise ending that leaves everyone happy. Perhaps the most
important thing about a good speech is putting your heart in it, people see
your sincerity and enthusiasm, and that’s what really makes the best
speech.
Samuel
a clear concise ending that leaves everyone happy. Perhaps the most
important thing about a good speech is putting your heart in it, people see
your sincerity and enthusiasm, and that’s what really makes the best
speech.
Samuel
Today In The Course
Today in the course “Present like a
hollywood movie” we began to make our final project of the course, in this course
we had to pick a topic from our least favourite subject to do speeches on and
make a presentation on that. After quite a while of searching I found a topic
about the island Tasmania and its history. Throughout the next few days this
project will be our main center of attention.
Benton
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Day
1 Mini Enrichment
Along with the touring of the university during the day, we did end up
getting some work done.
We learned different ways to not be as nervous while doing
a presentation.(Eye Contact, being confident etc.)
We each had a part to read in Dale Carnegie book “The Quick And Easy Way To Effective
Speaking". I learned about a central point (i.e. topic) and then, adding
facts onto the original topic. I also learned that language is principal
for understanding.
Stuart
What I Did Today In "Present it like a Hollywood Movie"
ReplyDeleteToday, in class we began by watching some of the first "moving pictures", such as "The Magic Lantern", in which only one piece moved in each picture. We learned how the techniques used there also applied in our presentation, such Hollywood techniques like sympathy and humour.
We learned more in depth about climax and where they are in pieces of media like a movie or presentation, Usually at the beginning AND end. We learned about tone and the political strategy to get your opponent heard, so he feels part of the process, only then to get squashed by you when you interrupt him/her. Also we learned that silence can be used (unlike on radio) for dramatic effect. Something we're told often is don't be formal, be friendly! But this is all the small stuff, the big stuff came just before and after lunch with our presentations on Attacking the Myths of Public Speaking by John Richters Jr. There is A LOT of quality stuff in there for example as soon as you step on stage 10% of your audience already hate you, and no pain no gain, sincerity, humility and enthusiasm. This has been another enlightening class!
Very nice, Matteo! Also, your presentation was very good today. I am encouraging everyone to take advantage of having a skillful classmate like you by learning to work with Google Slides from you.
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ReplyDeleteWe started off today learning about Phantasmagories and "Magic Lanterns". We learned that fear/fantasy is important in cinema, and it is essential to create a mood of fantasy for your audience in a presentation. Then we learned to create sympathy, basically we wouldn't like films without sympathy. We want to sympathize with characters.
Another thing we learned about was the Three Act Structure spoken about in "Screenplay". These acts consist of: Act One (set up), Act Two (confrontation), and Act Three (resolution). Between these acts are climaxes, obstacles, crisis, and the midpoint, all positioned on two lines called ascending and descending action. We delved deeper into the ways to start with climax, and to present with friendship AND authority. Finally we read and presented from "Attacking The Myths Of Public Speaking" by John Richters Jr. In this we learned about redundancy, starting effectively, and getting your audience to like you in the first 3 minutes. Today was very enjoyable!
Sam
Good, Sam! You always pick good quotes, take good notes, and write good reports!
DeleteToday I learned while presenting , change the tone of your voice a bit,introduce yourself a bit in the beginning of your presentation,put a splash of humor in your talks, and the speaker must ' protect the audience from a person or persons who are not behaving.
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Nice and concise!
DeleteWe learned today in our day two class is about cinema and theatre as we read the book "Screenplay; By: Syd Field". We learnt how movies and stories of our time are structured having three main parts which build how the story progresses when it starts with setting up the important parts of the story like characters and settings, the preparation of the confrontation of the biggest part of the story and how it resolves and how the characters react at the end.
ReplyDeleteWe also learnt today that comedy is an effective strategy to welcome and draw your audience into your presentation and bringing emotion and different tones of speaking to your audience of your presentation.
Harrison
Good, Harrison! Wait to see you apply these great points in your presentations.
DeleteDay 2 of mini enrichment was pretty fun, We started the day off by, presenting our presentations by the river, it was pretty fun. As we made our way back to the classroom after a visit at Tim Hortons, our t shirts arrived, which were too big to be true. After that we read a few pages of "the myths of effective speaking" , we created power point presentations based on what we learned in those few pages. At the afternoon we presented our presentations and went home.
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Hopefully new T-shirts are true!
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ReplyDeleteDay 1 was a nice day, as I learned some basics of presenting, and met my classmates (who the majority of despise science and history). We watched an episode of Dragon's Den "Notewagon" and read a portion of Dale Carnegie's novel. We then inspected the elements of presentation from the pieces. We also took a short tour around the buildings (there's a huge library and at least two Statbucks!) to get our usernames and passwords. Overall the first time was a great day, which set the stage for the rest of the week!
Happy that you were happy!
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ReplyDeleteToday in class we watched a video of a group presenting their business to five investors. The video showed how to catch your audience's attention. Start with the climax, tell the audience who you are, make eye contact, use hand gestures and be confident.
After lunch we were assigned pages in a book about effective speaking. Each classmate presented what they read about and the audience took notes about what the speaker was saying and the audience gave feedback to what they did good and what they could do better
DeleteYou’ve mentioned good points: catch your audience's attention, start with the climax, tell who you are, make eye contact, use hand gestures, and be confident.
Day 2:
ReplyDeleteIn class we watched a Ted Talk about the art of misdirection. We focused on How Apollo Robins (The Speaker in the Ted Talk) presented. Apollo Robins involved the audience in his act. He spoke clearly like an average speaker should. Then we read pages in the book Attacking Myths of Public Speaking. We made a presentation about what we read.
Good! You just could add that according to Wikipedia, Apollo Robbins is “an American sleight-of-hand artist, security consultant, self-described gentleman thief and deception specialist.”
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Today in class we looked at the major plot points that a hero undergoes in a story. We then learned how to apply these to our presentations. next we looked at speaking techniques used by the famous Donald Trump. We learned that although his words may be offensive, he uses effective and simple techniques that lead people to follow him. Finally we went through a plot outline for our presentations on the board and began working on them. We were lucky enough to be joined by a guest in the afternoon, who talked about their experiences with public speaking.
ReplyDeleteOverall is was very enjoyable,
ray
Yes, simplicity cuts through!
DeleteAt a script’s plot points, the story changes its direction—the hero hits a new problem and embarks to solve it. The more an effective story/presentation goes forward, the more lethal plot points become!
What I Did Today In "Present it like a Hollywood Movie"
ReplyDeleteToday, in class we began by watching how Donald Trump answers a question (by nerdwriter) (HINT: he uses PROBLEM, TREMENDOUS A LOT, he talks to the audience like they already agree and he speaks at a grade 4 reading level). We learned how the techniques/basic story used in ancient myths and stories can also apply to our presentations (From "A Practical Guide to Joseph Cambell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Christopher Vogler © 1985), such Hollywood techniques like MEET THE MENTOR and THE ROAD BACK
Right before lunch and in the afternoon We began our final presentations. And as a surprise one of Mr. Alin's friends, Dale (not Carnegie) came to talk about his presentation experience. He had A LOT of quality stuff in there for example "Sell it in the first 20 seconds", "Use elevator conversations" and "Don't memorize the FACTS, but rather the STORY". This has been an enlightening class!
~Matteo
Adventure, Danger, Meet the Mentor, climax, and Return with Elixir are necessary in an effective presentation.
DeleteYou’ve got what Dale wanted.
Just a reminder for all! We can’t always present as if everyone agrees with us. Not many can do what Trump does. Situations determine.
What We Learned In Present Like A HollyWood Movie
ReplyDeleteWe started off the day reading "The Hero With A Thousand Faces", a very accurate description of what happens in almost any story. The steps included were the Ordinary World, Call To Adventure, Refusal To Call, Meeting Mentor, Crossing The Threshold, Tests Allies Enemies, Approaching The Inmost Cave, Ordeal, Siezing The Sword, The Road Back, Resurection, and Return With Elixer.
Next we watched a video about Trump, who uses his salesman personality to bring people into "agreement" him, he also uses simple words. Some things we learned from the Hero's Journey involving presentations were: Make yourself the hero, include an enemy, bring in allies, make adventure, plot points (goals/achievements), have a final goal and present the obstacle, have a call for action, and keep the danger alive. Dale gave a special presentation that included key points, and I learned to study the story and then present the story to the audience. After applying these to my PowerPoint I can't wait for another interesting day!
You use a concise and compressed language which emulates professional journalists’.
DeleteCall To Adventure, Meeting Mentor, Tests/Allies/Enemies, Approaching The Inmost Cave, Ordeal, Siezing The Sword, Resurection, and Return With Elixer matter most for a presentation.
Yes, salesmanship and storytelling are golden key points in Trump’s and Dale’s impressiveness.
To clarify, at a script’s plot point, the story changes its direction—the hero hits a new problem and embarks to solve it. The more an effective story/presentation goes forward, the more lethal plot points become!
We started off the day reading "The Hero With A Thousand Faces", it is how we learned the steps of a cinematic movie. for example: hero in ordinary world, finds goal, meets mentor, faces struggle , looks for his/her resolution. We then watched a couple educational videos on strong and professional speaking, we then started our final presentations.
ReplyDeleteCan’t wait to see you guys applying “the steps of a cinematic movie” in your presentations—the hero’s challenges on the way of achieving his goals, getting help from mentor(s), resolution, etc.
Deleteibrahim A is my paragraph. -Aya
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ReplyDeleteToday we learned about the heros journey. Every movie that has a hero, goes through the stages they listed in the book. Their are 12 stages in total. After we did that, we looked at a video of Donald Trump speaking. He used grade 4 vocabulary and kept repeating himself. Sometimes it's good to repeat yourself though! If you want to get a message to the audience you have to do that sometimes but Trump did it too often and it was annoying.
We then started thinking about topics for our presentations. While we were working, we got a little break to listen to Dale talk about public speaking. He gave a lot of good points and will be applying them to my presentation. We also learned that when we are presenting, we are the heros and have to go through some of the stages such as climax and problems. Can't wait for another fun day tomorrow!
You are the hero!
DeleteYou’ve made very good points. One of the things we can learn from Trump is that when we repeat information to impress our audience, we shouldn’t be “annoying.”
And, it’d be great employing climax and presenting problems to be solved in our presentations.
In Day 3 of mini enrichment, we learned about the stages that the hero goes through to create the story for cinema and also for some presentations by reading the book "A Practical Guide to Joseph Cambell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Christopher Vogler. The book tells us that heroes go through there adventure following a certain pattern of events where they are faced with challenges and eventually lead up to the climax or the part that the whole story unfolds. It was interesting to see all the examples of movies and books that we have read and seen that follow the pattern.
ReplyDeleteWe also got to hear from Dale and learned is ideas of what a good presentation should be. He told us very important points to remember when creating and delivering our speech like how instead of reading or trying to memorize what to say about your information, you need to know what you are talking about so that your presentation sounds more casual and you can bring the audience into your presentation too.
We also started to work on our final presentations that we will present a the end of the week.
Very fun class
Harrison
Right to the point! I’m asking everyone to employ or create “climax” in their presentations.
DeleteNot try to memorize and know what you are talking about—exactly what Dale wanted you to learn!
The third day of EMCP was a very simple day. We first were assigned to finish screenplay and then move on to reading "The Hero With A Thousand Faces". Screenplay taught us the basic film paradigm and the three parts of a script or story.
ReplyDelete"The Hero With A Thousand Faces" is a book that all heroic stories are based off of. The reason the book is called "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" is because all heroic stories follow the guidelines of this story but each author puts a twist on the story. The "Faces" are the like the twists that the author puts on the story, each one is unique. I learned the sequence of a hero's journey, and how in a presentation the hero is the speaker. There should be three climax's in the story. The hero tries to reach his/her goal but faces obstacles, friends, allies and adventure.
We then worked on the final presentations. We had to do it on something that we didn't like so I decided to mine on history.
I look forward to tomorrow's lesson.
-Andrew
You’ve given an exact, right summary of The Hero With A Thousand Faces. “In a presentation the hero is the speaker [presenter]” is the golden key to success.
DeleteToday in class we began by reading some pages from "A Practical Guide to Joseph Cambell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces." The book tells us how pretty much every hero goes through the same series of events, and it's true! In many films and stories, the hero always follows the same pattern. We also watched a video of Donald Trump. Besides being marked as a 4th grade speech giver, he never gave a direct answer to any questions. After that, we started up on our final presentations, shortly followed by a quick visit from Dale. (no not Dale Carnegie!) He gave us tips on how he likes to do his speeches. Afterwards we continued our final presentations until the end of class. I can't wait for more fun tomorrow!
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It’s interesting that you write as smooth, friendly, and nice as you talk. It’s as if your spirit reflects in your writings and presentations.
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ReplyDeleteOh what a day! To start off, I cannot express how lucky and grateful I am, to have such an amazing experience and get the opportunity to be a part of it. Today I got the chance to discover and learn many things. I made new amazing friends, I got to learn a lot of skills about presenting, I got to go on a walk with my class around carleton. Throughout the day in class, we started off by discussing PowerPoints, what we like and dislike to make a PowerPoint based on our interests. We talked about skills to establish while making a presentation and even if you make mistakes, establish the skill to hide them. Furthermore, we had to log into our computers however we needed a password for access, instead of calling the office for the password. Our class decided to go all the way to the office which took us awhile, however I found it pretty amusing. On our way, we got notebooks, stickers, and even better, STARBUCKS!!!! We later on, watched a pretty intense and interesting presentation about two groups trying to make a deal and basically trying to convince that other group with their point of view. We discussed how to start and finish a presentation. Adding to that, start it with a climax, so audience would get engaged along with the rest of your presentation. It doesn't only have to be a climax, it could also be a crisis or a horror beginning, overall an opening that catches the audience’s attention. Later on the day, we talked about books, we also got into reading books. It was one book, that the teacher had assigned all of us to read, yet we all got different parts. Last but not least, we got to Listen to other classmates give presentations about their own understanding and summary of the parts they read about. Therefore, today was an amazing, very educational day and I am very excited for the upcoming days.
Bassant
Good notes and comprehensive report!
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ReplyDeleteWe each had a part to read "Attacking the Myths Of Public Speaking" and put it into a PowerPoint presentation. My part was about how to know your audience and recognize if they are the ones that pay attention or don't want to be present.
We just have to make them interested.
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ReplyDeleteOn day 2, we learned many techniques to use in our presentations. We learned about setting moods ("Magic Lanterns" , etc.), the three acts ("Screenplay") and we read a passage from "Attack the Myths of Public Speaking", which we did a presentation on. In the passage I read, I learned about the successes of others, how a speaker will speak in their truth (along with that the audience will listen with how their lives have gone) and that audiences will hear what they want to hear. I feel that the last part (audiences/listeners will hear what they want to hear) was quite important, as getting your point across can make your presentation very successful. Day 2 was a definite learning experience for me, and I hope to include these techniques in my presentations!
I look forward to seeing your presentation.
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ReplyDeleteOn day 3 we learned even more invaluable presenting techniques. We read "A Practical Guide to Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces". The text explained how these series of events are used in many films and stories (e.g. George Lucas's original trilogy of "Star Wars"). This common pattern lead to the success of many great things, and many of its aspects can be used greatly in presentations. We then watched a video about Donald Trump's speeches. Donald Trump used repetitive and simple language, which effectively got his point across. After, we started our final presentation, which I plan on using as many as possible of the techniques I learned throughout the week (the climax, getting your audience interested, confidence, etc.). As we worked on our presentations, we got a visit from Dale (not Carnegie), who stated that he has never prepared for a presentation because he understood what he was going to talk about! The third day was a fantastic day, and expanded on my learning experience of this week.
Glad to hear your insightful intake!
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ReplyDeleteIt's so hard to believe we are approaching the final day of this course! Today we mostly worked on PowerPoints, both working and presenting them. All the presentations were very impressive. Thanks to Aya, Ray, Mackenzie, Cassie and Matteo. These presentations covered topics such as "History Of Western Music",
"Byzantine Inventions", "Women's Rights", "Famous Women Scientist (Marie Curie)", and "Saving Leatherback Seaturtles". Mine was on "The Last Americans", and I got very helpful feedback on it.
I also learned today that my professor Alin is certainly a linguist. He speaks Persian, Turkish, English, and can understand and read Arabic. What a talented man! I got the chance to watch educational videos, and they all were very useful to helping me understand how to present effectively. Today was a fun, great day!
Happy to hear that your day was training and entertaining!
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ReplyDeleteIt's near impossible to believe we are 1 day away from the final day of this course! In the morning we mostly worked on PowerPoint/ Google Slides presentations.
After lunch and a couple breaks, we began presenting (including me!) All the presentations were very impressive and enlightening. Thanks to Aya, Ray, Mackenzie, Benton, Cassie and Sam. These presentations covered topics such as "History Of Western Music", "The Last Americans", "Women's Rights", "Famous Women Scientist (Marie Curie)", "Ten Thousand Years of Isolation","The Sustainable Development Goals" and "Saving Leatherback Seaturtles". Mine was on "Byzantine Inventions", and I got very helpful feedback on it.
I also learned today that my professor, Alin, cam speak 4 languages! Those languages are Persian, Turkish, English, and literary Arabic. What a talented person! Today was a fun and enlightening day!
~Matteo
Glad to see your presentations and interests.
DeleteToday was our final day at EMCP. So sad to not be coming back tomorrow, I will miss everyone! Today we got to hear the last of the presentations from our classmates. After watching a couple of videos and fixing up our presentations with some helpful tips from Alin, we got our certificates. I've finally graduated from university! YAYAY! After that, it was pretty much fun and games. We even had visits from Donald Trump, a needle obsessed Doctor, and someone who was afraid of the light..??? It was really fun at EMCP and I hope to do it again next year. Thank You Alin for being such a great teacher:)
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Thank you, Jenna! I look forward to seeing your success by implementing what you have learned in your future presentations.
DeleteWhat I did Today in Present it Like a Hollywood Movie
ReplyDeleteWow. Today was our last day as EMCP 2016 students. I graduated University at 13. Wow. I know I'll be using the tips, tricks and techniques in this course for the rest of my life.
Now what I did today, well, The presentations (obviously) ended today. Honestly, these topics were all great. They put my topic to shame. The presentations were truly stellar. Wow. After the presentations we played improv games, and then just regular old 7up (although really 3 then 4 then 5 then 6 up). The Enrichment Mini-courses Program was truly enlightening and fun. I hope to do it again next year. Thank you Alin for being a great professor!!
This is Matteo signing of with "This was a truly enlightening course, Thank you."
~(Just In Case You Didn't Read The Last Bit) Matteo
Nothing could make me happy more than your satisfaction. I’m thankful for working with such talented, quick learner, and gifted students. All of you are unique in your own ways and have created unique presentations. I’m sure you will become great people in your lives, as well as in the lives of others. Wish you all joy, health, and success.
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