In class we first visited the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and learned about how they sort of got started, what they are doing and what they offer  currently to advocate for bicyclist equality and safety in San Francisco. I didn’t know anything like this existed in San Francisco so it was pretty cool I guess. After this we all went deeper into golden gate park and went to the lake. Which was also, pretty cool.

So what I remember of class 3 is that we went to the golden gate park for the first time and gave our project 1 presentations. We first visited the conservatory of flowers and then the academy of science/ de young museum, which is where I gave my project 1 presentation. I think its pretty cool how San Francisco has all these little hidden areas and its great to go back around that are since I haven’t been over there since I was like n elementary school.

So similar to the last post I’m going off my memory, so in the second class I remember we started getting into credibility. We began the sort of introduction to project 1 by going to the panhandle and separating into groups and watching several videos by several different public speakers. We  then analyzed how they are as public speakers using the sheet of paper that professor hunt gave to us. I think using other speakers as a sort of guide to understanding public speaking is important because when it comes to a subject such as speaking I think it is better to see how other people are able to effectively do it compared to just a professor  telling us how to do it.

So I’m going off straight memory here, but what I remember is that when I first arrived to class I was really surprised  by the class size. I remember reading a description of a FYS and it being really small classes but I didn’t think like, 15 people small. I think small classes are some what important to have in a class such as a First Year Seminar because they really ease you into the whole college scene. Compared to if the classes were really large it’ll feel as though i’m just being thrown in. I think overall, the first day was a success and the description of the class really peeked my interest.

I think everyone did a pretty GOOD job. What I think everyone did well was really explain their ideas or thoughts thoroughly also, everyones powerpoint(except mine) was really nice and visually pleasing. Especially the ones with a lot of pictures. I think what everyone can do overall to improve is memorize what were going to say or not rely on a piece of paper or whatever.

I think overall, I did alright. I don’t think I did as well as the last presentation but, I definitely did better than the first presentation. I think what I did well was explaining  my thoughts and the video throughly but, what I think fell short was my slides. I don’t think y slides were very effective in providing a visual for my ideas about the video that I watched. I also, didn’t talk about bikes in any way so…..yeah.

The video that I watched and basically drove my entire presentation was a video of a Stanford professor speaking about public speaking in biology. She talked about how scientist are really bad at giving presentations and I think what she says next is really interesting because scientist are so bad at presenting its too the point where relatively decent presentations will open the door for a lot of people. She also spoke about how scientist do not know how to present their data in a very concise and easily applicable way. Overall, the video was really interesting and entertaining to watch.

The overall message that I’m tryin got convey in y presentation is importance of giving good presentations in science and how giving good presentations can lead to opportunity. My presentation will start with a description of my idea with the title page then following that up with an explanation of the video I watched and what she thinks of public speaking in biology. I will then lead into my interview of the biology student and close out the presentation.

Intro

I’m going to be talking about communication among scientist but, more specifically how scientist give presentations and why they aren’t effective as communicators.

First slide

So I watched a video that professor hunt sent me of this lady susan mcconnell kind of talking about why scientist suck at giving presentations. So basically she said that scientist do not:

Prepare for presentations.

Ex. professor hunt making do the outline and video things

If they do review their data they are often times become discouraged because they notice flaws I guess in their experiments or holes in their data.

And they don’t make their data conscie when their trying to present it to the audience.

Ex. It’s not easily understood by the vast majority.

She also spoke about how if you are able to give a nice presentation it at often times opens doors for you. So people basically really notice that you do know how to speak and you’re confident in your work and the chances of you getting invited to future events is increased I guess.

Second Slide

The girl that I interviewed did not want her name or picture shown but, shes a second year bio/ chem major and I basically asked her the importance of effective communication in biology and how so biologist communicate. And basically she talked about how if the professor does not effectively express the ideas then it influences the students in a negative way and affects the next generation of scientist.

Conclusion

So to conclude  the presentation something I learned from sort of doing research on this is that coming up with results is important but presenting those results in an effective way is just as equally important.