1. Preparation
During the preparation of my slides, I organized them in order to provide a smooth flow of the story in my presentation. I tried to rehearse my speech several times to ensure that I can speak smoothly. During the preparation, my team members and I stayed till late night to ensure that we had several rehearsals. Furthermore, we also met an hour before the presentation to rehearse for the last time. I felt that having the sufficient number of rehearsals is important to put us into a comfortable level of confidence in telling our story. Furthermore, we invited some friends to be our audience during the presentation and they gave us useful feedback to improve our presentation.
One problem that I believe we faced in our preparation was time management. We used most of our time to improve our slides on the spot instead of amending them before we met. Thus, we had to spend more time than we expected to complete our rehearsals. I also realized that it is important to have ample rest before the presentation as we tend to make a lot of mistakes when we were tired during our presentation.
Another problem which continues to haunt me is the use of bullet points. It seems that the habit of using bullet points is too difficult to be replaced by other style of presentation. Thus I tried to use slide ware to reduce the number of points presented all at once on the same slide.
Behind a successful presentation are tons of practices and rehearsals. Having ample practices allowed us to prepare ourselves well to face our audience with confident. And because the words we wanted to say were deeply drilled into us, our presentation can flow well and the points we wanted to emphasize were clear.
2. Delivery
As my team members and I have allocated significant amount of time in our rehearsal, we were able to improve our speech during these rehearsals. We hope to engage our audiences by having some of our classmates to disguise as student representatives. This allowed us to pose questions to some of our classmates which would be interactive and might help to gain attention from the rest of our audiences.
One problem in my delivery lies in my tendency to drag my sentences. I tend to illustrate a simple point with a long statement. Therefore, it is important that I have sufficient practice to keep my sentences clear and concise.
From the presentation, I felt that it is important not to have my notes or scripts with me because I felt that I would rely on them even more. Instead, the slides became important visual aids which also act as cues for me to evaluate the points reflected on the slides.
3. Use of slide-ware or other audiovisuals.
Most of my slides contain slide-wares but not audiovisual aids. Due to the limited amount of time I had to prepare my slides, I focus on the use of slide-ware to emphasize my points. I also used some interesting picture to gain audience’s attention and interest. From what Brad had taught us about using picture, I try to use some pictures as background when the picture do not have significant illustrative points while other pictures that stands out will increase the impact of the points which I want to emphasize.
Hi Patrick,
ReplyDeleteI thought you presented quite well, with confidence, good speed and eye contact. Also, your slides were well-done and looked professional. The colours were well-coordinated. I especially like how the percentage from the chart was animated, so the focus was on what you wanted us to see.
At some point in your presentation, I felt that it was abit difficult to keep up with what you were saying because of the long sentences. Another issue is that I think your team exceeded the time limit. You've realised all of these issues in your reflection.
However, I liked the part where you asked the "student representatives" some questions. It sure brought some laughter to the class and made the presentation more interactive.
Well done!
Hey Patrick,
ReplyDeleteI thought you presented well, as Geok Ting stated, good eye-contact and you seemed confident. You also had appropriate hand gestures.
I felt that you had a few language problems. Some of your sentences were too long which you had reflected on.
Other than that, I thought you presented well for your part.
Catherine
Hello Patrick! =)
ReplyDeleteI feel that cutting on long sentences would greatly increase the audience attention!
Great job! Rehearsals are indeed very essential! Thanks for all the help and suggestions!
Rebecca =)
Thank you, Patrick, for the detailed reflection and for all your work in the project, which culminated in a fine presentation. Here you've also gotten good feedback. I'll provide more later. Cheers!
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