I have worked on my Capstone Essay in past weeks and it has been really fun! If you have not seen my previous Capstone posts then I would suggest you read them using these links, Blog Post #1 and Blog Post #2. I needed to incorporate all of the answers to my Sub-Questions into one big essay. That meant that I was not supposed to write down, “The answer to my first Sub-Question is…” I had to use the research that I had from my Sub-Questions to answer my Main Inquiry Question. So, I had to write, “The top five ways of treating Anxiety are CBT, Exercise, Meditation, Relaxation Exercises and Writing. Technology has aided the treatment of Anxiety because it has apps that help people and Telehealth also helped during Coronavirus.” I had to do this because the whole point of having Sub-Questions was to answer my Main Inquiry question.

Although it was fun, it was also hard organizing my essay. My Main Inquiry question was, “What are the Top Five Ways of Treating Anxiety and How Has Technology Aided it’s Treatment?” I had to split up the top five ways into two sections. In my first body paragraph, I had to write down the top three ways of treating Anxiety, and in my second body paragraph, I had to write the last ways of treating Anxiety. Then, I wanted to make the technology part a bit longer so I made my third paragraph to be about the apps that help with Anxiety. Finally, I made my fourth body paragraph to be about Telehealth during the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Overall, I loved doing this Capstone Essay because it was fun to write down what I had researched and it was also nice to know that when people read it, they could learn new things about treating Anxiety.

To read my Capstone Essay, please click this link: Top Five Ways to Treat Anxiety.

After my Capstone Essay, I had to work on the script and my slides. I am preparing a TedTalk so I do not need to have pictures that are going to be played on a Video. I will click the board and wait until it turns to start saying the script for that slide. When you do a TedTalk, you can use however much time you need on a slide as long as it does not bore the audience and also as long as your whole presentation is three to five minutes long in total.

While doing my script, I had to take the evidence that I had in the essay and put it into my script. However, my script could not sound like my essay. I had to make my script more conversational. I was worried that I would not get the script done in time and I was also worried that my TedTalk might not be able to fit into three to five minutes. Still, I got my script done in time and soon I was onto the next step, making the slideshow.

Making the slideshow was fun and exciting! I loved finding all of the pictures for my slides! After I had put the pictures into the slides, I had to time my slideshow with the script. At first, my time was four minutes and fifty seconds. Then, it moved onto seven minutes when I read it to my father. Then it went down to five minutes and seven seconds and after that, it moved down to four minutes and forty-six seconds.

After working on my slideshow and my script, I was pretty excited to present for feedback in front of the whole class. However, I was a little worried. What was I worried about? Well, I was worried about having the critiques. Maybe I would have a lot of critiques and just a little positive feedback! Maybe many people would not like it! The first day I presented in front of the class, I was so worried I couldn’t feel my legs! After about a minute though, I got comfortable and started to be a little calmer than before.

It turned out that I probably would be better off not worrying about the critiques. Instead of making me feel as though I should’ve done better work, the critiques made me feel as though my presentation could get better, and it did!

After my first time presenting, I worked on memorizing my script so I would be ready. Memorizing my script took a lot of time when I did homework. One day, for homework, I even practiced eight times! Although memorizing and rehearsing could be hard sometimes when I forgot what to say, it definitely paid off. When I next presented to the class, I found that I had memorized more than I thought I had, and I challenged myself not to take the script with me. Of course, there were times where I said something that was supposed to go before and not after. For example, when I was talking about how Relaxation Exercises could help with Anxiety, I said that the shoulders and jaws could be tense, after I said what you did in a Relaxation Exercise. Fortunately, I did not pause after I made a mistake and I just kept on going.

The third time I presented was a little more complicated than the other times. I had to go over my introduction because it was not flowing very well. At first, I said, “Raise your hand if you knew about Telehealth for Anxiety Pre-Coronavirus. That’s right, not many of you knew. Telehealth is when you see a Doctor virtually. It turns out, 75% of the American population didn’t know about Telehealth for Anxiety Pre-Coronavirus. Well, now you probably know about virtual Anxiety Therapy, but what about the best ways of treating Anxiety, and how has technology aided its treatment? You’re about to find out!” After I revised it with a classmate, my aid, and my teacher, I decided I would say this, “Do you know what the best ways of treating Anxiety are? And, do you know what happened to Anxiety treatment during COVID?  I will be talking about the best ways of treating Anxiety, how technology has aided its treatment, and the ways treatments have evolved as a result of the pandemic.” My revised introduction added more flow than I thought it would and I was glad that I changed it.

So, looking back, I found I have done a lot of work for Capstone. If you think about it, there are many steps! Finding my topic, making my Main Inquiry Questions and Sub-Questions, making a Blog Post #1, organizing my interviews, doing my interviews, making Blog Post#2, writing my Capstone Essay, writing my Capstone Script, making my Capstone Slides, memorizing my Capstone Script, and writing Blog Post #3.

If you would like to see my Capstone Slides, please click on this link: Capstone Slides.

Here is my Presentation! Hope you enjoy!