Effective Presenting Skills

Another slightly empty day today although I found out about my friend's first night working with the TSC and he seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself so I am felling slightly better about it all now. With a bit of luck being stuck with not much to do for the period whilst the event is on might actually encourage me to get some real work done. My tutor is expecting my third prototype on Monday and so far I haven't even decided what it should be.

This afternoon was taken up with a talk/seminar type thing about giving effective presentations. It was a voluntary thing but I went in the hope that it might give me some help with my impending presentation. I thought I'd managed to get at least the presentation bit sorted and just had the report to focus on now but the talk was so useful, I am now considering implementing all of the techniques they spoke about. I'm not sure what I was expecting from it really, it was more a hope that it might be useful and it turned out to be really very useful indeed. I have a similar thing for writing good CV's next week so I will be able to find out if the one I cobbled together is any good or not. We have been told to bring them along with us so I'm hoping for some interaction and personalised feedback but we will have to see.

I am only now starting to realise just how many things like this the university organises each year and I really wish I had started paying attention to them sooner because they all sound so useful I don;t know if i will have the time to do them all before I graduate - even though that is over a year away still - thank goodness!