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2. Reflect on a public speaking event that you have attended recently, or one that you recall particularly well, in which the speaker used presentation media. How effective was the speaker's use of presentation media? How did the media add to the speech? Were there ways in which the presentation media distracted from the speech? How might the speaker have improved his or her use of the presentation media?

A public speaking event that I have recently attended was at work. I work for a hospital in Monterey, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. Last month I attended an employee meeting where the director of our department gave a presentation regarding changes in employees’ benefits. Our director had a power point presentation as a visual aid. Her power point presentations seem real cluttered. She did not talk about everything she had on the power point. This affected the audiences focus on the speaker. We were all trying to read off the power point and ignored the speaker. Our director was well prepared, but her visual aid was a little too much. It had too much information that was not talked about. The speaker could have kept her presentation a little more simple.