User: Profli

"The cleanliness of theory is no match for the mess of reality."

Slide Deck for Admin Training 2019-08-26

Introduction to EG

"The The Impotence of Proofreading" by Taylor Mali

"Life After Death by PowerPoint" by Don McMillan

Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

Milestone 1

How Steve Jobs beats presentation panic

"Totally Like You Know Whatever" by Taylor Mali

Final Presentation

Introduction (UAI)

• Working with EG 10+ years
• UG @ Poly: CS
• Freshman Advisor Melinda

• Worked last 10 weeks on project
• Course focus on teamwork
  • Working with different vs same people
  • Working with friends
• Each project has its own backstory: covered briefly by each team in their presentation
• Created and represent their own company
  • Introduce company at the beginning of presentation
  • Few weeks in, pitched initial proposal
  • Progress updates in weeks that followed
  • Benchmarks met twice

• Housekeeping items (course)
  • Last day to flag missing grades
  • Survey
  • Kit returns

• Housekeeping
  • Phones on silent or vibrate
  • Preselected order
  • Microphone

Conclusion

• Improved since first presentation: example
• Taste of college: one of five/six classes for freshman
• Stress/frustration = real life
• Science or math? No. Engineering is real-life.
  • Paper: crumpled vs flat
• "The cleanliness of theory is no match for the mess of reality."
• Tacoma narrows bridge: Youtube

Miscellaneous

Strippers and the Oxford Comma
Crazytown