I am lucky enough that I had completed my 30-hour placement before schools were urged to close due to COVID-19. I had also already completed my project in this time and had my final placement tracker filled in so did not need to contact my school with any problems.
Once I had sorted out the results from my project questionnaire, I got started on my presentation. I enjoy making PowerPoint presentations, so I really liked this task. It was important to me that I did not cram too much information on each slide. However, this then made me start thinking about whether some of my PowerPoint slides were too bare. I had been keeping track of what I done each week, so it was easy for me to explain this. I then turned my questionnaire results into graphs and explained the main points. It was also good to look back and see how my skills have improved over the course of 10 weeks, which I also included in my presentation.
I was about to get started with writing my script and help cards for my presentation when we found out the presentations would now take place online. Although I still had plenty time to prepare for the presentation, this news made me relieved as I get nervous presenting in front of people. To make my script, I went through my PowerPoint slide by slide and wrote out relevant information, making sure it related to each slide. I timed every part so I did not go over the 10-minute mark.
I have completed an assignment like this before, so I knew roughly what to do. To make sure I was correct, I watched the help video then began to record myself speaking. I found recording on the PowerPoint quite challenging. PowerPoint was allowing me to record over the slides, however my laptop was not picking up any of the sound. This was quite frustrating, but after switching laptops, it worked absolutely fine for me. I recorded each slide with a pause inbetween so that I didn’t need to talk for 10 minutes straight. I had to redo some sections quite a few times as I kept saying the wrong things. It was annoying but it did make me laugh in the end.
Great everything has worked out for you and COVID-19 hasn’t had any disruption on your placement.
– Rosie Sharma