I have the final graded presentation on blogging on Monday. I've been working on making the speech more natural, and trying to better integrate Powerpoint slides. I'm fairly knowledgeable on the subject of blogging, and find that I want to have a few topics in mind and just start talking. Some of my very best speeches have been done in this manner, as I find memorizing pre-written lines to sound stiff and unnatural coming out of my mouth. This might be a weakness in my writing, but perhaps I'm just more suited to impromptu rather than planned out speechmaking. The powerpoint slides are becoming increasingly constraining because of this. I feel like I'm having to make the speech match the slides, and losing whatever spontanaety I could possibly have. My dislike of Powerpoint is increasing because of this. What if my topic doesn't lend itself to visual stimulus? Unfortunately part of the assignment is to make slides, so I'm going to have to learn to do it. I just keep thinking back to all the political speeches I've seen, VERY few of which had slides. Can you imagine Bush with a laser pointer during the State of the Union?