For Humanities this time, we have to write a reflction on a presentation we have recently done. This presentation was about the place you call home. For me, its K.L, since I have been living there for around 7 years. But there was a catch. You had to present about the environmental factors, statistical information, and historical factors, not just random facts. Well, I should leave you to read about how my presentation went. It might have been a mess, but, you'll see!
After I presented my powerpoint, I thought I did a mess of a job. But a few days later, I looked at my grade, and I was fine then. I actually got a really good grade on it. The reasons I thought that I would get a not-so-good-grade, was because of one thing. Ok, maybe not only ONE thing, but all the other reasons are connected to it. I spazzed out. I had a nervous breakdown. I thought that nothing would work out the way I planned. But I had something that saved the day. My script (Hurrah, hurrah!). But throughout my powerpoint, I stuttered and sometimes I didn't keep to the script. Now that I think about it, I think I did pretty well on my environmental factors, and I added additional information to the statistical info. But, I think the best thing I did was talk normally to the audience. Not the mono-tone voice some people had, I had kind of a casual voice. I think that it calmed me down a little. Generally speaking, I actually think I did well!
What I think I would improve for my future presentations (and I know I'll have plenty more) is that I should be more organized and less distracted. I admit I can forget important things a lot. I forgot my thumb drive 2 days in a row, one in my class room, and once on the bus. To top it off, I forgot my thumb drive 2 days out of the three days left 'till the presentation. Since I finally didn't forget my thumb drive a day before the presentation (I put it in my wallet), I was then distracted from writing my script, by chatting. I knew that I shouldn't have done it, and I tried to stop, but I just ignored the thought as it came through my head. What I plan to do next time though (and all the other times), is to keep focused on my work at all times, and actually put my thumb drive in my bag, not my jacket, where I'll forget it again.
From my presentation, and all others, I believe I have a few things to learn from them. One is, of course, is being prepared, as I said before. Some people read off the slides, so it felt like they could only say what was on the slide, not say a little information about it, and then go to the next slide. Sometimes, it was kind of annoying (no offence) that they read the WHOLE ENTIRE SLIDE. When people did that, it felt like it would last forever. Thankfully, it didn't. From me, I think I should have practiced before-hand more. Also, sometimes it seemed like people were whispering while presenting. So the things I have learned were, being prepared, not reading off of the slides, and maybe to speak a bit LOUDER. But I learned plenty about K.L too, like it's history, rainfall and resources, and the population and average age group.
The analysis on my presentation, was that I did a pretty good job. I mean, I was panicking at a point of time, but then I just calmed down. I had clarity and volume to my voice, instead of speaking quietly and not slurring my words. I mostly speed up when I'm talking, but I've learned to speak slower, instead of having 2 second slides of my usual gibberish. Since I had a script, it helped so I wouldn't mess up that often, which, I didn't. But, what I have to work on is that I needed to practice. Overall, I had a great time doing the power point and I learned a lot about, the place I call home.
~By the way, here's the link to my power point!~ https://docs.google.com/a/iskl.edu.my/present/edit?id=0AZUcPzipaK3iZGczeG1uYzhfNzBjODlqcHJmYg&hl=en
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