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These past few weeks we have done not so much learning but preparing for our projects, and in the end our presentations. But the things I did learn about were more so skills and studying techniques that helped get me through this project. I learned to decipher what was important information and what was not. My group picked psychoanalytical theory, and psychology is basically an endless void. There are so many theories and concepts, and each one is more complex than the previous. It was a challenge to go through the theories we chose and decide what about that theory would help our presentation and what would not. We especially had to be picky about what information we chose to present to our audience, because most of them do not know anything about the theories we chose. We had to be able to word them in a way to get the audience to understand the theories is a two minute span so they would understand the applications to MacBeth our group was trying to make. We also learned about time management. With five snow days during this project we had to keep rerouting our plans to be able to make the dead line. The final obstacle our group had to overcome was managing on the fly. The night before our group mate told us she would not be there for the presentation, so my group mate and I the next morning on the fly had to reroute the game plan we had set up for the presentation, and we ended up doing very well in the end. Here is a website that talks about how to prepare and present so that you end up with a successful presentation. http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/.
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.This week we have not necessarily done much learning, but more so with our own endeavors and with our group mates. We have been working on our Shakespearian project, and depending on which play you chose, you either have King Lear or Macbeth; and I chose Macbeth. To say the least, it is a very very interesting play. Seeing Macbeth slowly transform into a completely different, as well as insane, man was pretty watchable. For our proposal we chose to do pshychoanalitical theory, and there is an endless amount of usable information to put into our presentation from Macbeth, there's just no end to all the pshycology packed into the play. But as easy as it is to find information, I personally have found it extremely hard to put it all together in a way that makes sense, and flows seamlessly throughout the project. I'm gratefull to have group mates to work through this with, it makes it much easier. Although this project has given me an insight on to more than one subject. Taking a look into what makes a pshycoanalitical theory led me to another road full of information that I never knew about, things like Lacan's and Freud's theory. Being able to go into depth on this and actually utilize them in the project was a lot of fun to me. In the end I'm positive that we will make it through the project with a decent grade, but for now I'm finding it very difficult to make it through the piece. Attatched here is a website, http://www.apsa.org/content/psychoanalytic-theory-approaches. It goes more into depth on what pshycolitical theory is and how it works. |
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