March 15, 2016

Reflection #8: Google Slides

This week has been one of the most challenging weeks in this class. The assignment the professor gave up was a complete nightmare for control freaks like myself. He sent us an e-mail saying that we had to do a presentation on "how to create an effective presentation." We had to incorporate everything about the topic and include different visual resources BUT we also had to do it as a group... the WHOLE group. The entire class was a participant in this Google Slides presentation assignment. We were all just doing our thing separately without even acknowledging one another but it was a disaster because some people were deleting each other's work and writing over others and it was just awful. More than 30 people adding stuff to a presentation at the same time was an experience i hope to never have again.

Even though that was a horrible experience, I have to say that the tool itself is pretty great for doing online presentations without having to meet face to face and having many people in a group... maybe not 30 but if you have about 5 people in a group it will work just fine and the communication will definitely be more effective that way.

Click here to see the presentation that the whole class did and down here is an online reaction that we were required to upload to the website regarding the experience of working with 30+ people in a presentation.

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