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FRESHMAN YEAR 2010 - 2011

ESLR |1B Academic Achievers who:
Clearly articulate information in a variety of written and verbal form.
COURSE: Creative Writing
 
ASSIGNMENT TITLE: The Final Lecture
 
DATE OF PROJECT: 12/12/2010
 
Topic​

The topic addressed by the Final Lecture project had been one of my choosing as long as it fell into the category of teaching the audience one or more life lessons. This topic had to be some kind of knowledge that I personally would like to pass down through the generations and my very own chosen topics were about leadership, spiritual connections, and kindness in life. My chosen topics to address were about how for one to have the ability to lead, one must first have the ability to serve, how someone who has not committed some kind of mistake regardless of it being big or small, has not tried something new, and about how kindness is important in life because things happen for a reason. The make-believe reason to why we were creating this final lecture PowerPoint presentation was because we wanted to pass down a piece of knowledge that we have learned in this life before we were to die of a disease, illness, or accident of some sort. The cause of my death had been a very imaginative one and was more of a murder than anything because my housecat had decided to implant a spork, a utensil combination of a fork with a spoon, with a motor inside my skull, which eventually was supposed to travel until it reached my brain and made my life end. Even though my death was a rather shocking one, I had made my presentation be based on the good in life and the hope that we all should have to live happily.

 

Parameters

This assignment needed to be completed in about one to two weeks (but less than two weeks in total) and I worked on this assignment for about a week so that I could be able to meet the deadline and fit in as many details as I wanted. My PowerPoint presentation needed to be composed of at least four slides as a requirement that talked about our chosen topic. These four slides needed to have bullets and pictures that helped demonstrate our final lecture’s topic (or topics) and have the ability to teach it appropriately. After having created the presentation, we were then needed to present our piece of work in front of the class. While presenting we needed to teach it as if though we were the teacher that had mastered it greatly and wanted others to be influenced by it in order to help them with their lives.

 

 

Decribe the concepts you learned in class and analyze how they connect to the real life application.

 

This evidence demonstrates my ability to clearly express information by a good amount because I was able to choose my topic and teach it to the class through a PowerPoint presentation (which required both written and verbal conductions). Furthermore, being able to give off a life-experience aura in order to teach the class certain life lessons had required talking about life experiences and writing different quotes from others to receive support and send the message across. Having to explain certain parts with my own life experiences in order to get my own point across had been a difficult concept because not everybody can see things from others’ perspectives. One of my concepts had to do with some things in life not always being the best of things, but that there will always be a brighter side to everything if we are willing to wait for it patiently or look for it with patience and deepness. Another one of my concepts had been about how kindness in life should be practiced more often because of the golden rule in which people should treat others the way that they would want to be treated. One of the most difficult concepts that I attempted to teach was about how one must first obtain the ability to serve in order to obtain the ability to lead. I was able to teach this concept with the help of quotes that I had found on the Internet from different resources such as Albert Einstein and the Bible. With the help and cooperation of the audience, I was able to influence their lives in many positive ways.

 

 
ESLR #1B Reflection​

 

My obstacles in completing this assignment were that I had to come up with my own topic that still fell into what was required to be taught and added. Furthermore, I hadn’t been sure as to what I wanted to be dying of. Dying of something was necessary for my presentation to be able to be an actual final lecture. For my lecture to have had a realistic aura of an official final lecture and get my point across in a more effective manner, I needed to overcome these (previously noted) obstacles that came in my way of success. If I had to conduct this project once more, I would make sure to verbally state more of my important details and key elements from my presentation rather than having just written them down. Also, I would try to center my slides on a much less vague topic and also make my topic more specific so that I can create a stronger and firmer connection between my various slides. Therefore, my Final Lecture project had allowed me to clearly articulate information in a variety of written and verbal forms.

 

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