PBL 2 - Reflection

The second time around, I think our group did much, much better in our presentation.

I believe that it really started with our brainstorming process. For the first PBL we pretty much jumped straight to PowerPoint as a means of making our presentation. We completely overlooked any alternatives that we may have been able to use. This time around, however, we made sure to carefully and deliberately think of different mediums that we could use. We listed all of our ideas, no matter how outrageous they might have seemed, and then began our selection process to choose our final presentation format. I really think that this made a big difference.

We ended up choosing to do a skit in which to present our ideas, since our PBL was that we were to establish a committee. As we progressed, our "skit idea" started to change a bit. Because our first presentations were so long, we were going to have to stick closer to our 20 minute time limit. Since we were going to do a skit, we came up with the idea of taping it, this way it would ensure that we stayed within the time constraints as well as allows to cut and edit our best performers and eliminate a lot of stage fright that presenting in front of your peers can induce.

This eventually evolved into our final taped skit/live report which can be viewed below. For this we decided to combine pre-recorded footage with a live "field reporter" that would interact with the video. This way, we were able to keep the presentation moving rather than just have the audience watch a single video the whole time.

In the end, the presentation was much, much better. I felt we were able to convey many of the important facts pertaining to the Pantheon as well as present them in an entertaining fashion. The one thing that I feel our presentation lacked was pictures. I felt that people would get a better idea of the Pantheon if they saw some pictures of what we talked about in our presentation. We able include some pictures, but not quite as many as I think could have been helpful. But yes, I think the final result was a success.