Although I have attended different conferences, NCUR was different. This was my first time presenting at one. It’s natural to be nervous, but the anxiety wore off soon after the first few minutes. I know that the practice presentations in class helped me improve my skills. Since I had a class of attentive audience and I presented twice, I got lots of good questions! Overall, it was a worthwhile experience at Spokane, WA.

If I could go back to my presentation day, I would definitely ask one of my class fellows to jot down the questions that were asked at the end of my session. I would suggest that questions from practice presentations should be recorded as well. If you get a lot of thoughtful questions (and you can provide concise answers for them), then this could become a sort of “FAQs” of your eportfolio. If someone stumbles upon your website, this “FAQs” page could be a nice snapshot of your one-year research.

A thing to keep in mind when going to NCUR is to have your PowerPoint Presentation or Prezi be saved to a USB. This might not be true for the next NCUR conference, but if there are Windows computer, it’s a good idea to save things accordingly.