Well, my group's (El Sistema: Changing Lives Through Music) presentation went pretty well. We got all our points across, no one talked like a computer, AND we finished RIGHT on time... :) !! I may be a little biased, but I think my group presented the best. So I don't have a lot to say about the final day about TED besides that... and "thank God it's over."
However, you'll hear a lot more about the preparation process right now... I always tend to leave stuff till the last minute (I work well under pressure), but it seemed like no one else in my group really did. Communication was not great. It was too new and foreign to use the google sites discussion board easily. To me, nothing beats talking face-to-face, and we only got to do that once before presentation day. We needed more times to meet with our whole group in class.
Also, to keep people from managing time poorly, a timeline/deadlines should have given this product more structure, because we really only had the intro to the project, ambiguous "TED work time" to do who-knows-what, and P-day. If we had concrete deadlines within the project, such as "Turn in a bibliography of the sources you tentatively will have used by the time TED is over" or "Have at least one task finished by (date)," I probably would have taken this project wayyy more seriously than i did.
Also, as awesome as the freshies in MY group were, it seemed as though the other groups' missed the point, so cutting out the two freshmen in each group (and having them watch the presentations to know what they'd be doing next year) would probably help. PLUS, with two fewer people, it's easier to work in a little group.
Clearly, TED isn't the best-planned-out project that's been done in academy, and it really is sorta annoying to be the guinea pig group, but it definitely has potential, with change. In otherwords, I REFUSE to go through that exact same thing again! :)
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