Reflection James' and I Presentation

When I found out we had to lead discussion at the beginning of the semester, I was dreading it. When I decided to actually go sign up for a topic, I was choosing between this topic and one other. I ended up picking this one because I saw it was the first discussion topic. The weekend before the presentation was due, I regretted that decision. However, my regret was unnecessary, I felt the presentation turned out to be just fine. 

I enjoyed the articles we had to read, well two of them. The other, the one on White Guilt, I did not enjoy as much. I discovered it would be easy to talk about these articles in class because the topic is such a huge social issue. I have always loved watching Def Poetry on Youtube and after reading the articles, I knew exactly what I wanted to use as my audiovisual. So I began working on my half of the powerpoint and putting the presentation together. 

As for the presentation, I feel it went well. Although I was nervous, I found it a lot easier to be up there with James, instead of by myself because all the attention was not turned to me. I believe that our powerpoint was very well put together and went along with our presentation well. I liked the AV James picked out to go along with the White Guilt article. I felt as though my nerves got the best of me at points during my discussion, but it didn't seem that anyone noticed. I felt the discussion questions we picked worked out very well, even though the class was somewhat unresponsive. :) 

I also liked how it tied together nicely with what Professor Seloni discussed afterward. All in all, I am content with James' and I presentation and it was not quite as bad as I expected it to be.