Ted Presentations

Today was the final day. The project we had put in hours and hours working towards for the past month. Today was the day of our TED presentations.
When I first heard that we would be working on the TED projects for a month, it seemed like we had an infinite amount of time to complete them. But, as October went along, two weeks passed with ease and we were already meeting with our groups in person. This signaled the halfway point to the final presentation day and was a great help with organizing our website. For the two weeks after that we all worked together to prepare for our presentation the best we knew how.
As with anything else in life, we had our ups and downs. There were some problems with getting some people in the group to work, and even getting some people to relax a little and not work so much. I thought the revisions we made to the rubric and instructions of the TED project during class helped iron out a lot of the wrinkles that were in the project last year. I liked the aspect of having a group and individual grades because the individual grades motivated us (well most of us) to do our best, and the group grade encouraged us to collaborate with our other group members.
The actual presentation day was full of a lot of useful and interesting information. The different presentations made me think about things I might never have otherwise. There was a slight problem during the beginning with the sound in the Emerald City but it was quickly fixed. One reoccurring problem was that the groups ran out of time for their Q&A session at the end because of the abundant information they wanted to share. Overall, I thought the TED project ran more smoothly than it did last year and I enjoyed it.