Week 7 - Final Research Video Project Planning Reflection and Weekly Reflection

         Amidst editing a live document and determining sections, we have successfully doled out our respective roles in the video and have been checking in as we make changes to the document. Discord has been immensely useful in having easy access to each other and a collective spot to leave ideas and make progress, our #GroupAssignments channel has made it simple to organize a space to collaborate. In a bit of a similar approach to our Industry Analysis outline, we have settled on an outline that covers an introduction followed by history with sections on a particular problem and solution in Internet access finished off with a conclusion. So far the process has been incredibly smooth, time will tell how easy collaborating on the video itself will be but given our previous work as a team I am sure it will not be an issue.

        For my weekly reflections, I feel I revisited and learned a lot about being a strong presenter and also got some compelling information and video inspiration out of the TED website. To be an effective presenter with a solid presentation, there a few critical areas. Any presentation must have a clear and well-organized purpose in its content and structure. Engaging the audience in a way that stokes interest and illustrates relevance or potency is crucial as well. With video presentations, production quality is everything as it is the vehicle for positing an argument or theme. If the video is a collaborative project, teammates should all be submitting meaningful effort and input for the presentation to be the best it can be. A TED presentation that was relevant to computer science was Kanawat Senanan's presentation on how hard drives work. The video lays out a relatively complex topic with simple diagrams and when there isn't a relative diagram to display the video uses generic and simple images to keep the pace of the video feeling consistently fresh. The narrator speaks clearly and plainly, free of ambiguous language in order to present a nuanced topic to a broad audience. A presentation relevant to my personal life was Wendy Suzuki's presentation on how exercise protects your brain from neurogenerative diseases and depression, this was a high energy and eloquent presentation that opened with an anecdote to qualify her argument and kick off a clear and enlightening presentation. 

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