Reflection On The Past Four Weeks

We're sitting in the Langsam Library on main campus, putting finishing touches to our first PBL assignment, and I thought I should look back on the last four weeks of this class. It started off great, we got our assignment, gathered all our information. We were ready to rock out a great powerpoint presentation. Then we reread the assignment and realizied we were going in the wrong direction, we were supposed to be playing this to kids. That set us back a bit, it took us a while to create a new direction, a new idea of how to display all the information we had learned. In the end, we came up with an idea that we believe will be both informational and fun: a jeopardy skit. We'd dress up in togas, answer questions on our topic, and then play up the SNL side of jeopardy during the final jeopardy question. Our focus group would be high school kids, ages 14 to 18. That way we could present the techinical information we had, without boring them or overwhelming them. Our group really liked this idea, so we plowed ahead. So here we are, less than 72 hours from our presentation. I'm nervous, but then again I'm always nervous when it comes to presentations, and I'm confident in our group and our idea. We'll see how it goes.