My reflection on oral presentation

My reflection on oral presentation

-------Hopefully I can present as good as Steve Jobs in the future

With our oral presentation last Tuesday, my team has marked an end of series of oral presentations in ES2007S. In spite of some technical problems during my presentation, I really satisfied about my overall performance. Everything went smoothly and accordingly to our plan. It is a really good experience to work with Weirong, Liying and Grace who helped me greatly. 

Preparation:

Our proposal is to set up various food vendors around our campus. My part is to introduce recommended vendors that we are going to bring into NUS. Besides simply mentioning about tastes and prices of food, our group decided to buy the real food and ask the audience to taste them during my presentation. It would definitely make our presentation more impressive, clear and attractive.

To be honest, my group really made an effort in preparing the presentation. We spent the whole Saturday in preparing our scripts and slides. Under the help of Weirong and Liying, I restructured my slides and made it more attractive. Grace corrected and rephrased many sentences in my scripts. Therefore, I would like to say a big thank to Weirong, Liying and Grace.

In the coming Sunday, I spent the whole afternoon in watching Steve Jobs’ presentation from Youtube and tried to imitate his way of speaking. Hopefully, I can present as good as him in the future.

Presentation:

During the presentation, I tried my best to talk slowly and stay calm. In addition, I tried to have eye contact with the audience. However, I was quite nervous, especially when the clicker became accidentally insensitive and did not work when I pressed it. As a result, I had to go to press the latop button. This made my presenatation not as continuous as expected.Nevertheless, compared to my peer teaching, I felt that my performance this time improved a lot, as my presentation was generally smooth and clear. The difference between me and Jobs, in the area of oral presenatation, becomes less :)

The following is a part of conversation records screenshotted from skype: