CG1413

Individual

As compared to the first oral presentation, I was evidently more composed in this Oral Presentation. I was also better prepared, and did not rely as much on the index cards, opposed to Oral Presentation 1. I felt that I was more capable of expressing my ideas coherently, and elaborating on the points that I had raised.

However, I still have the problem of speaking too fast, and sometimes not very clearly. In some parts of the presentation I seemed to be almost mumbling and the words could not be heard well. I would need to work on improving the speed and pitch of my voice, and express myself better the next time.

I tried to maintain eye contact with everyone in the class, but at some points in time, I seemed to be focusing on a certain few people in the centre of the class. This is another thing I need to improve as the others whom I am not maintaining eye contact may feel unimportant, or distracted as my attention is not given to them.

Team

I felt as a whole our team did well, we had sufficient visual aids and diagrams to illustrate our point, and different portions by various members of our team complemented each other well. For example, my slide on the vicious cycle and Brandon's slide on the self sustaining cycle emphasizes to the audience, that a change in perspective of the public can help to solve problems, if their perception of things can be changed. Moreover, we did not have too much trouble with slide transition.

However a problem we faced was that we placed too much content into the presentation, causing all our team members to have to race their way from the start to the end of their parts, and our time also overshot. This is a lack of time management on our part, and in the future, we should not be overly ambitious is having too much content in the presentation.


Here are some comics showing us how presentation skills are important to communication and transmission of information :