Sunday, 21 April 2013
Reflection on Oral Presentation
Ah Oral Presentation! On the week before, Mdm Fazilah asked all four groups to pick a lots to decide the order of presentation. Being the very "lucky" person, I decided to pick my group a lucky number for our presentation and as my members and I happily unraveled the number depicting the order of our presentation hoping for the best draw, we got the "best" draw! Yay! Number 1! =___=
After that, everyone in the group gave the look that they were gonna have me for dinner. Hmm hehehe >:3
Having less than 3-4 days till our presentation, there were much issues to be sorted out and the whole group stayed behind late on monday to finish up our data analysis of the survey results, interviews with a TA and even revamped our entire proposal to meet the presentation deadline on Tuesday.
By the next morning, during presentation, my mind literally went blank and had to resort to reading from the basic script i made from the slides. But we were glad that we finally finished the assignement and can take a break...
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Hi Zi Yang,
ReplyDeleteI still clearly remember how was our expressions when we knew that we will be the first group and we ended up until late night in one of the room in Utown to prepare our presentation but I personally glad with our team work though.
Regarding to your oral presentation, I did not come to your peer teaching presentation because I was sick so I cannot compare your peer teaching presentation and your oral presentation, but I personally think that you did a great improvement from our first drill on proposal presentation in Utown even though it would be better if you could try to memorize your script instead of reading it because it will be more persuasive. By reading a script, you will also only focus in your script without giving any non-verbal communication, but I think practice makes perfect and I am sure as a freshman you still have lots of time to practice more in order to improve your presentation skills.
Thank you for your nice help and hard work during our proposal and presentation preparation. I wish you all the best for your school life :)
Zi Yang BANANA! (:
ReplyDeleteYay! The presentation is over and done with and I still think you should not buy lottery tickets XD
Anyway, just wanted to say that between your first presentation and second presentation, you did better in your first presentation. But yes, given the late night, that is understandable.
I can tell that you are more comfortable with a script as it helps you remember and provides some of of security. However, may I suggest making cue cards instead of an A4 script. They look more professional and you can have like one cue card per slide so you don't get lost looking for information in the wall of text on an A4 paper.
Other than that, keep calm! The audience will not eat you. I will make your voice sound more confident. What I do is I don't think too much about the audience. Actually, I rarely think of them at all. Just pretend like you are talking to someone whom you've known for years. Imagination can do wonders in helping you focus and feel more confident.
It has been great working with you! All the best for the next few years in NUS. It will be one hell of an adventure! (:
-Sarah L.