I saw many things I liked, such as Paul's map and bird identifier, or Ian's transformers geometry lesson. Who can forget Mikey's railroad audio clips either? In each one, the information was presented in a fresh way, and kept my attention. To be fair to the hard work of the class, the examples I sited were randomly selected, and there are many more things I could mention here that were examples of strong work.
As with any group, there is always room for improvement. I felt that many felt a bit rushed, so a bit more rehearsal might help. Technically speaking, aside from an occasional glitch, the power points all worked reliably, and were easy to see. Some could have benefited from running their presentation through before presenting using the class system to check for glitches or missing content. Unfortunately, some had trouble with this, and we did not get to hear or see parts of their presentation. Ibrahim in particular, had a problem of this sort, and could not show the video portion to us. I felt badly for him, and in a classroom setting, having a back up plan would help.
I felt that the next time I would use this presentation, I would have better actual examples of what dividing the script into beats looks like, for example, some text, showing the different beats highlighted in some way. I might also spend a little more time with the step on getting into character, and then emphasising how to stay in character while waiting to go on. I did feel well prepared to present, and with more exposure, I imagine I will become more trusting of the technology, or at least know how to fix things when they don't work the first time. Becoming literate of power point in other words.
I really do like it as a way of providing strong visuals, and to organize lessons. I am trying to use it in lessons as much as I can, to get more familiar with the process. I see it has a great strength in connecting a screen to a lesson for the class, who is likely more interested in TV, video games and computers, than in me. One disadvantage of using power point would be if technology fails. Expectations of the students can be dashed and may easily result in students becoming less than focused. For this reason, I would have a plan "B" at the ready, just in case.