Overwhelmed

This was the first week of school for me-a have a little extended contract. My job is located 90 minutes from my home-so I live away from my home during the week, and then go home on the weekends. It's a Tale of two cities. Viewed some stories from the Center of Digital story telling. Untitles, MSK Running, I think of you. The last one was too artsy for me. And, I think, sometime these stories are made not for the masses but for family. They are emotional, but we don't quite understand them because we are not in the loop. And there is nothing wrong with that. I have always thought I would record myself reading bedtime stories for generations in the future. But sometimes the stories are just not that interesting to me. I did like the story Corps vignettes. They are written to be humorous and entertaining, and they were. Listened to the one about a barbershop in NC and the man who made a American flag for his class

As for the reading in Zen, These are the points that resonated with me. In a good presentation the speaker given notes after the speech. I am one of those people that NEEDS to have paper to write on during the presentation-and probably wouldn't trust the speaker to have the CORRECT notes. Althought it sure would be nice to just listen to the speaker instead of scribbling notes.
What's the point? Why does it matter? I need to keep that in mind.
Use plain language. That is one thing I am good at, I don't try to dazzel people with big words. When I was reading this part it brought to mind Mission Statements. I hate those things. They are vaugely worded, catch-alls. Not concrete enought for me.
And finally the process-or steps in the process. This is what I need to work on. I am not a sketch it out person, so maybe the process will really help my presentations.
I signed up for Voice thread, but have not put something on yet. Hopefully it will become much clearer as I do it, because I am not getting it right now. I don't understand how I could administer it in a classroom, which is really my objective in this course. I get how useful it could be and even have some ideas for using it.