The last week of MCOM

Well ... Mcom 320 has come to an abrupt halt.  With all the craziness of the end of the semester I didn't realize that this was our last class.  It has been fun.

Luckily, I immediately got some practical use for my Mcom knowledge after it was over.  I asked for a letter of recommendation from one of my science professors, and he wanted me to send him my resume.  I'll admit I used the feedback from my resume in class to make an awesome revision to it.  Letter head and all.  My brother asked me to look at his resume and I was able to give him some solid advice because of what i have learned.

While this class was quite a battle for me the last few weeks, I will be grateful the next time I have to give a presentation for the experiences I've had here.  Thank you all for a great semester.

-Parker

Professional Presentations

Wow.  The personal presentations we gave as a class this week were awesome.  This was a great experience, and I learned a ton.  The beauty of this assignment was that we got to practice a few times before the real deal.  I honestly feel like I could present in almost any setting now as a result of going through this class.

I was freaking out on Tuesday and Wednesday about how I was going to do this, which made the pay-off of successfully completing this assignment so much sweeter.  It was great to use the flip charts, even though I don't know if I will ever use one again.  There will surely be other events and situations where power point isn't available and I will have to know how to work with other media forms. The take away lesson from this week is that I need to practice presenting and get as much feedback as possible.  I have always been told that, but this made that concept so much more real and tangible for me.  I am excited to see everyone else's next week!

Remote Meeting Blog Post

Meeting online is an interesting experience.  The simplest way I can think to describe it would be a watered down version of speaking face to face.  My team and I used Face time after failing to use Facebook video.  We took turns meeting with each other and delegating team assignments.  Face time makes using hand gestures difficult unless you have a place to set your phone down, but other than that it works extremely well.

Almost our entire project was done using Google docs and power points. This made accessing the project and adding information easier at times that we couldn't meet as a group.  Everything for our power point slides surprisingly turned out well; we didn't have to reformat anything.  Luckily, Jeff in our group is an expert on using the Google drive tools, so that was a great resource for us.