Green Lab A March 13 - 19th

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This week we gave our Familiarization Presentations. This went well for most, but there were nearly universal issues present in the composition of the power point slides used in the presentations.

To help us learn proper slide composition, and improve our marks, we were asked to revise our presentation slides for the Wednesday short lab, at which time we were given some guidelines as to how presentation slide should ideally look.

As well, the video game designer guy came by and was able to offer help to the groups who needed it.

Some frustration arose in the lab this week from the unclear expectations surrounding the visual aspect of our presentations. Teams were unclear as to how to best prepare a power point presentation and as a result nearly everyone made formatting issues which could have been prevented had we been versed in the basics of power point techniques. We were able to redo our slides to avoid losing marks, but we still lacked clarity as to what was actually expected. We were finally given some guidance as to the ideal construction and composition of good presentation slides, but only after we had redone our slides to meet a standard which up to that point had been vague and unclear. Although it was beneficial to learn the techniques and guild lines associated with presentation slides, it was extremely frustrating to learn these things only after preparing them twice without guidance.