The purpose of the presentation was to prevent the four topics that we had researched and become "masters" of. There could be no indication or reference to game ideas as this process was solely for getting familiar with topics that have meaning to us.
The target time to present the four topics is 8 minutes so I should aim for about two minutes per topic but from the research I have collected, I think that I will spend the most time speaking about addiction and rollercoasters. Safe spaces is probably the most interesting topic to me but I did not go down such detailed research avenues for that topic.
I had written notes for each side and they were displayed on presentation view so I could face the class with my laptop, and not get lost in the slides. When practicing my presentation ahead of the day, I was able to present in just under eight minutes but on the day I did run out of time to get through the final topic (rollercoasters) so I had to skip through quite a bit of it.
I think this happened because on a few slides I realised I had more to say than what I had initially planned to and tried to add in extra thoughts I wanted to share with the class. Next time I will practice a little bit more and and keep a timer going in front of me to make sure I do not lose track.
This was given by my classmates through Kinopio boards. While each person presented their four proposed topics to explore, the rest of us used Kinopio to give ideas, suggest research avenues and any express any other thoughts we may have had about the presented themes.
Page One - Addiction
It seemed from the feedback on the Kinopio board, that people were most interested in the stages of addiction and how it changes a person mentally and physically. People were also curious as to whether or not there were any good addictions.
Personally I would say having an addiction, that is uncontrollable, to absolutely anything cannot be in any way good. Perhaps this was not clear to everyone and I think what they were trying touch on, was more to do with rituals and good habits you can get into. This would be interesting to explore and I wonder if I could research into how we can trick ourselves into engaging with good habits in rituals as a method of recovery when suffering with addiction.