I must say this was a real journey, one of sweat, joy and frustrations that lasted for almost 6 weeks and we pulled through. It was a very interesting journey these 6 weeks and especially so this past week when we started to prepare for the final presentation. Nonetheless, the whole experience will leave me with many fond memories for years to come.
Preparation
Personally, I feel that we put in more effort on writing the proposal than for the oral presentation itself. It was difficult to meet up at times because of the different schedules that we all had. The 3 of us are very passionate about this proposal, thus, we had a clear idea of the things that we were going to be saying on the actual presentation itself. We managed to have a practise session together on the night prior to the actual presentation. Before we knew it, D-Day arrived. On my bus ride to school, I was actually running through my presentation in my head, from the slides to the way that I was going to execute the delivery. I tried to picture the faces of the audience so that I was mentally prepared for the big one. I must say that this actually helped to ease off some of the pressure that I put upon myself. Before the presentation itself, Rami, Megha and I were still joking about things to help ease out the pressure upon ourselves (Thanks guys).
Delivery
For delivery, I felt that I projected my voice well and also established eye contact throughout the presentation. I tried to use some hand gestures during the presentation itself. However, I feel that I did not use hand gestures as effectively as I hoped to. During the peer teaching exercise, I did not use much emphasis on words that I should have emphasised on and I tried to do so for this presentation, to make it more impactful. Looking back, I feel that I could have used more emphasis though.
Slides
We opted for the use of PowerPoint because we wanted to make it look simple and be the main focus of the presentation. We also minimised the words on each of our slides. I personally learned from my peer teaching experience that having to many words on slides can actually stray the audience to some extent because they would concentrate more on the slides. We also added more pictures to our slides- pictures that supported the idea that we were trying to propose.
In conclusion, I realised that I missed out 1 or 2 sentences that would have made the presentation look more seamless. As they rightly say, there are always 3 presentations, the one you prepared for, the one you gave and the one you wished you gave. Overall, I really enjoyed the entire experience, from writing the proposal to doing the oral presentation. It has been a learning journey and I definitely and more aware of the way I present myself as compared to the start of the term.
Hi Ramandeep,
ReplyDeleteReading through your own reflections on the OP, I can see a lot of changes in your writing style from earlier days in the class. It is true what you say in the last paragraph about the three presentations. Here are my own comments on your oral presentation.
At the start of your part, I think that there was only one slide explaining what exactly your proposal was (the social zone). You had immediately jumped into the other details/benefits and I was left a little bit confused about what exactly your solution was. However, this was explained later by Megha. Maybe you could have mentioned that Megha would be detailing it later on (might have also helped to link your parts together).
You had nice voice projection. Even though I was seated towards the back, I was able to clearly hear and comprehend.
I noticed that sometimes you avoided eye contact with the audience. You were staring into the floor/desks. It looked like you were trying to think of the next point - which can be done while still maintaining eye contact with the crowd.
Finally, your hand over towards Megha's part was done nicely. You had mentioned what we were to expect once you left the stage.
Overall, I would say that it was a very well done presentation.
You seemed engaged and interested in the topic, which of course affects the audience’s approach towards the presentation. You used the tone of your voice, stressing certain words and phrases, which always is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteOne thing you could improve is your eye contact. You closed your eyes, and gazed briefly at the audience rather than looking straight at us. Looking people in the eyes could make them easier to convince with your message.
Also, you could reduce the usage of errrms, as well as use a little bit more body language. This time, your left arm was living its own life, moving constantly and quite uncontrolled up and down.
On the whole, it was pleasant listening to you, I really think you made a great job.
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ReplyDeletelike what anna said, you tend to look at your "thinking spot" during the presentation. This happened about 40 times (looking down and/or closing your eyes) I counted /: It will be better if you are more fluent with your speech (: I can tell you have memorised your speech (:
You had a good voice and projection. It was clear and concise, other than the intermittent pauses while you are thinking.
Content wise, you 3 are on the same pitch so there was no disrapency during the Q&A so it was good. (:
vivien
Hi Ramandeep,
ReplyDeleteGood job with the presentation!
The voice projection was good as the others have mentioned. The speech was also delivered with clarity and it was evident from your enthusiasm that you were passionate about delivering your ideas to the rest of the class. In your presentation, you also related back to Ramy's part and ushered in Megha with a brief introduction, which I felt was good in linking up the group presentation.
There was a chart you prepared in your slides that I had trouble comprehending. Perhaps you could illustrate the various portions of the pie chart more clearly so that the information was clearly understood at one glance. I also noticed at the cost consideration part of your presentation you seemed a little flustered, perhaps trying to remember your script?
Overall a job well done!
Thanks guys for all the comments. I will use these pointers for the next presentation I have. All the best for your presentations tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteCheers
I really like your non-verbal cues and actions, they really added to getting your points across effectively. Except for your eye contact, which everybody has mentioned, so I won't say more.
ReplyDeleteYou projected enthusiasm, like Megha and conveyed your passion in the proposal to the audience. And your slides were pretty awesome too! Less is more indeed. Don't worry about the presentation you wanted to give; yours was really good already!
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