Reflection on Oral Presentation

This presentation together with the mock oral presentation was a very special experience for me, totally different from the individual or group presentations I have done in other English modules. From the proposal ideas generating to slides making and presenting, we made it as a real and formal performance presentation to strangers who would potentially consider your proposal and make it realization. It provided us a good chance to learn how to communicate and present yourself in front of administrative people.

As a team of directNUS!

First I have to thank Ariele and Xi Min, who contributed a lot into this proposal and presentation, so lucky to be a part of the three people team! To my odd English writing and expressing, they gave me patience and helped me with my part, we discussed the ideas after class and through emails, shared happiness and anxiousness when we reached our goal or ambushed with problems. The day before that day, we finalize the concept of procedures in performance and rehearsed, we also came out with the idea that giving role identity cards to our audiences. To the real one, even though there were still some minor changes on slides, we all have confidence to make it well, because we are the last team to present and have learned some skills about presenting and dealing with slides from our peer teams. The result came well and we noticed both our improvements and things needed to be improved.

My dear teammates

Ariele have good slides making skills and responsible, audiences’ attention grabbed not only by her fluent expression, but also by her wonderful and interesting animationalized slides, everybody love it and enjoy it, great! She explained the functions and features of directNUS detailed but also very concise, more focused on the parts that audience interested in, appropriate gestures and eyes contact, as confident as a great presenter in working occasions. Haha, it good to be smiling more, I sure with more smiles and closed interaction with audience, you will be a great presenter!

For Xi Min, as usual, I supervised with her sophistication and confidence, well done Xi Min! As dear Brad mentioned, Xi Min have already very closed to a professional presenter, the tone, eyes contact and gestures can make plain slides lively. I usually wonder what if change to my mother tongue, can I be as good as Xi Min, I sure except that language, I still have many things to learn from her.  

For myself

I realized what Spiderman’s uncle said “the more power, the more responsibility”, so I decided to take the general introduction part and let my two powerful teammates to hold the important parts, haha. However, the first one to show up still challenge for me even though is not the first time. I give myself 7 out of 10 as I know that I was not as anxious as before, thanks to the mock interview and mock oral presentation sections. There were still some mistakes, like I wrongly recognized the slide, made the process pause, then I try to walk between two sides of the screen to relax myself, but it was too much, I ok with my tone and gestures but the speed still a bit slow. Anyway, there is a joyful presentation for me, and thanks to my classmates and dear Brad with their kind and sincere feedbacks, I sure I will improve more in the future!