SEMINAR : CREATING TEAMS
As we were the first group to present the seminar, the first task was to understand the work that the teacher was expecting us to provide. First of all, we met the day after the asignement of the task to talk about what we needed for the presentation. We agreed that on a group of 5 members, 2 will be assigned to read together the chapter of the book, and the others will provide all informations they could find using:
- The infothèque
- Libraries in Paris
- Internet
- Personal knowledge
During the second meeting we shared all the information we had gathered and settle together on what information we will need for our presentation. We agreed on the games we should make the audience practice, and we made a draft of the plan we should use.
The third meeting was the hardest one: we realized that we had too much information and that we needed to go further on certain points and leave some of them behind if we wanted the class to understaind the message we wanted to deliver.
The fourth meeting allowed us to finish our plan and we started to create the power point of the presentation: we wanted to have a good support of power point because the audience has to take notes and learn something from us.
We decided to use a Mac because of the quality of the support: it is also more professional to use this material.
We decided that we didn’t want to give a slide or two per person; we wanted everyone to talk on the subject and give opinions. So we all work on the entire presentation and we just decided that one of the team member will talk more and introduce a slide, then everyone should fell free to ad information from personal knowledge or from information he manage to gathered.
On the day of the presentation we had one fear: the time! We just could rehearse 2 times and one of the times was too short, the other too long! Finally, we were just on time during the presentation without avoiding any aspect of what we decided to give to the audience so it was a real satisfaction.
We spend a lot of time preparing for this presentation but we also learned from our mistakes and we are sure that we would be more efficient if we were to start over again. But we are happy with the result and the teacher seems happy two, and most important, we manage to deliver the right message to the audience.
