For a long time I was due for a Technical Session in my college . The month of February was jam-packed with helluva lots of fests and events and that was the sole reason that I did’nt wanted to squeeze my demo in between all the different fests and events . Web being my expertise , so a Talk on Glassfish and J2EE was looking the most feasible option for me as I did not had much time to prepare for the talk.
Further trouble came when I found that the date later went on to clash with the Mukti treat . When I publicised about the talk on the mailing lists and groups people told me that I was a block (dumb) as I scheduled the talk on the same evening as the Mukti treat . But I went on through my initial plans as I felt that work always comes above and over anything and everything in life.
It was class test times for most of the students so the gathering was as expected limited with just about 25 people sitting I went on to start the talk . The talk was attended by students of Computer Science and IT 1st, 2nd and 3rd year. It’s great to see a diverse audience, shows you really are reaching out to everyone, and for me the success of this talk meant a lot of confidence to do future talks in this semester. I wanted everything to be perfect. From the past week, I had been observing some of our faculty lecturers carefully, trying to understand the art of holding the interest of your audience throughout the lecture, how some lectures turn out to be boring, while others keep you glued to the teacher. We all know we hate slide reading, we hate too much theory, bookish language.. but there’s a lot more to it. Body language, being friendly and casual, relating your audience and yourself with the topic, visualization of ideas, giving examples, case studies and most importantly, involving your audience, making it interactive and not just one-way traffic.
My audience for the first time in the college properly understood what the term Web Server really means and also got the abtract concept of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technology .
I had already made up my mind that this particular session will witness a much better demonstration as compared to the last demo which was somewhat very uninteresting . So I demonstrated them about how to make a real world bloger application using the popular JRuby-on-Rails and that too using Netbeans IDE which which made the whole thing very very easy and fast .
I also showed them use of Servlets and JavaBeans with respect to Http Session States.It was not a long session unlike the last one as I had to attend the Mukti treat and also my audience had some tests the following week . So I wrapped up the Session in an hour . A pretty nice experience again . Now I really consider myself really grateful to GOD for making me do all these things . Now I really feel more confident presenting knowledge and information in front of public.
Abhishek Gupta 