Professor Elam

And so we come to the end of another semester.  Most of you are, thanks to years and years of multiple choice enforced testing, focused only on your grade on the next test. This of course is a mistake.  You are looking down, look up.  X years from now no one is going to ask what grade you made in Economics 2356. They will however judge you on your

Ability to connect with the business environment

Ability to get to the point

Ability to make a presentation

I am amazed at how many of you blithely say that you don’t have time to do, well, any better than you are doing, on a presentaiton.  Here we have had all semester to prepare. ON the job it will simply be expected. Oh well, I warned you.

I have seen two effective presentations. With one to two classes left in the semester, I hope to see at least two more.  The effective ones were highlighted wtih a good use of points, a summary of the story or  book, and then a discussion of why this was important. I mentioned several points about presentations on my post before spring break.

In the fourth installment of Star Wars, actually the second release, Skywalker is sent for tutoring by Yoda.  Weary of Skywalker’s half hearted attempts, Yoda finally says

There is no Try, Skywaker, There is Only Do……