Week 9, Question 2

In all honesty I haven't been to many public speaking events, and none that were really recent.  I attended the Tim Wise conference at the Rocklin Campus just prior to this semester starting but he didn't use any media presentation.  Other than that, my experiences with public speaking are teachers lecturing in class as school has been my life for the last few years.  Some use media and others don't.  In most cases I prefer the teachers that use media as part of their lecture material.  It really helps for taking notes and often pictures, diagrams, or charts help clarify certain points or aspects the instructor is trying to teach.  In addition, often teachers are lecturing faster than any human can write so it's nice to have the slides up for note taking purposes.  This is also helpful if the teacher gets off track.  Once they notice they are lecturing off track by looking at the slide, they will usually head back in the right direction.  Outside of that, being that I am an RN major, classes are often related to medical material.  Presented media is very helpful in these cases because it really helps to see a real life picture of whatever disease, disorder, infection, etc. is being discussed.  Simple text just doesn't teach as good as media pictures in these cases.