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!
