Communication Presentation Review

The presentation by the “Shades of Black” group on the topic of communication was moderately well presented. There where occasions when the speaker was excessively verbose, making it sound more like they where regurgitating meaningless rhetoric rather than actually explaining their understanding of the topic. On the whole the slides where well composed, being relatively light on text and using interesting, if somewhat generic, images. The examples used where largely useful and helped to explain the topic, though the one accompanying the “integrity” topic seemed unrelated and didn't explain much, so I understand less about that topic than the others, which perhaps speaks more to the quality of the other examples rather than the lack of it in that particular one.

The topic of communication is a rather broad one, and I felt that the presentation would have been more easily understood had the scope been minimised and a small subsection of communication focused on rather than trying to encompass the whole conceptual topic.

The images where interesting, but I felt the connection to the topic being discussed was a bit flimsy and their actual relevance seemed fairly limited. While those little images of faceless models interacting are nice, they don't convey much of a message. Diagrammatic images tend to be more interesting, especially if you use them to explain your point, like the second image in “methods”.

In terms of the written content, it's well organised and the references are relevant and plentiful. There does seem to be a lack of content for the “Integrity” topic however.

The video is not particularly useful, it explains very little that couldn't be explained in text. Also, the style of content in the video varies frequently, meaning it was difficult to determine how to understand the meaning behind what was being said.