I suck at public speaking

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Skip to about 22 minutes in and keep the speakers down...I had mic troubles for a minute and a half >.>. Yes, the focus is fuzzy. Didn't realize beforehand that the camera I was using didn't support long range focusing.
 
The thought of talking in front of people terrifies me. I once had to read an essay I'd written to the entire school. I almost died.
 
I was terrible at presenting my multimedia project on the last day of class a couple of weeks ago (a PowerPoint based on the NASCAR position paper I wrote). The site I posted the PowerPoint on didn't convert the text over correctly, so I pulled it up on my flash drive after showing the website to the class, wasting time and not saying much while I was doing that.

Aside from the above, I am usually decent at and not afraid of speaking in front of a group of people (probably from years of presenting weather PowerPoints filled with maps and forecasts - though that went bad once when I failed to save what I had updated a few minutes earlier and saw old temperatures on screen).
 
I was terrible at presenting my multimedia project on the last day of class a couple of weeks ago (a PowerPoint based on the NASCAR position paper I wrote). The site I posted the PowerPoint on didn't convert the text over correctly, so I pulled it up on my flash drive after showing the website to the class, wasting time and not saying much while I was doing that.

Aside from the above, I am usually decent at and not afraid of speaking in front of a group of people (probably from years of presenting weather PowerPoints filled with maps and forecasts - though that went bad once when I failed to save what I had updated a few minutes earlier and saw old temperatures on screen).

Look at Prezi. It took me a minute to learn it, but it makes things nice and easy and universal.
 
I'll consider that next time. With this project, I made the PowerPoint with the intention of putting the slides into a video with my voice over it, but ran out of time, and now have no motivation to turn it into a video since it's already been graded.
 
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