We are done with Capstone. These last few days we have been presenting in front of the class to practice for the real presenting day. I was really terrified of sharing in front of the class but when I was done it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be.
After all those weeks of researching, interviewing, writing scripts, and working on my slideshows I am FINALLY done with this project. I am really proud of myself for finishing all of the steps in time and not going over the due dates. I’m also proud of all the hard work I’ve done.
The first few steps were picking your topic, picking your main and sub-questions, and researching a whole lot. I already talked about picking my topic and main and sub-questions in my first blog post so this leaves me to just talk about the researching part. When I say it was a lot of researching I mean it. I thought it was going to just be a little more than normal researching but the researching step was long and scary.
I’ve had a lot of ups and downs during this project. For example, the interview part of this project was really stressful and hard for me and once I was done I was really relieved. After I interviewed my interviewee (Tania Sole) I realized I was worrying for nothing. One of the ups I’ve had in this project is writing my script. Once I finished my introduction the rest was easy. After I was done I asked some of my friends to read it and they gave me great opinions to make my script better. Some of my friends also helped me time my script.
When Mr. Casal our tech teacher gave us the three choices which were: ted talk, ignite, or movie I thought I was definitely doing a movie because I was really scared of memorizing and talking in front of the screen, but then I thought about it more and I started to change my mind to ted talk because I thought making a slideshow was easier than making a movie. In the end, I picked a ted talk and I am happy with my choice.
We presented our capstone and we got separated into two different rooms. I was in the ar t room. I brought my flashcards because I was scared that I would just forget it and I recited it during art. When it was my groups turn to go to the computer lab to record I was so terrified. I was scared I was going to forget. I was going to go second but when I went on the screen I was shaking because of nervousness. I started my introduction but than my slides started going by themselves I panicked and I froze. Thankfully, Mr. Casal let me start over again. But the same thing happened again! Mr. Casal finally figured out the problem and it was that my hair was touching the smart board and It went to the next slide because of that! I just had the worst luck ever today!!! Than I started again and I froze. At this time I was really regretting my choice that I didn’t do a movie. At the end, I had to go last so I could recite it. Finally, when I was actually presenting I did it. The only thing I wasn’t happy with was that I had messed up the ending and forgot a slide because of my nervousness! Im also really scared to present in front of the parents because I can’t redo if i mess up and I will be even more nervous.
In the end, this was a really terrifiiying and a bit fun project but I’m glad I’m over with presenting.