Oral Presentation Reflection

On Monday, my team and I completed our presentation. We had prepared for the presentation in the past weeks, the team also meet up the day before the presentation.

It had been more than half a year since my last presentation, I was really nervous. Everything seems to happen so fast in that short 5 minutes of my presentation, and I can hardly recall what had happened. My only memory was during the Q&A and feedback session. Based on the feedback and evaluation, the team and I still had rooms for improvement. Notable mistakes of the team were not using pointers and the arrangement of the slides, the flow of the presentation was a bit messy. Besides the mistakes and negative feedback, there were also positive feedback. The idea of the destination alarm application seems to be well-received among the class, many even said that it would be a feasible plan. The prototype in the slides had also caught the class attention, the prototype had made things easier for everyone to understand the function of the destination alarm application.

Reflecting on my performance based on the feedback in class and from the peer evaluation, the following are things that i should look out for in my future presentation.

1. Eye contact. It was commented in the evaluation that I was lacking of eye contact with the class, however the comment varies among the evaluation. I believe I had focus on having eye contact with certain part of the class only, thus receiving the feedback of lack of eye contact.
2. Confident. During the feedback session, it was commented that I was confident with the presentation. With the clear projection of voice and gestures made during the presentation, I managed to mask my nervous self. I hope that I will keep up with it.
3. Hand gestures. Without pointers, i ended up with more hand gestures than others. The amount of hand gestures had became a distraction and it ought to be reduced to a suitable amount. And what is a suitable amount? 
4. In appropriate transition to the next speaker. I did not hand over to the last speaker ‘fluently’ as my thought became blanked at that moment. This actually contrast the confident figure that I was as compared to when I was presenting. Further preparation could have been done, a few more rehearsal should improve the problem.
5. Grammar and language. I stumbled for a few times during the presentation, filler words were also used. This made the presentation less professional and not really fluent. Rehearsals and improving in language maybe the solution. 

No one is a born speaker. Learning and improving from our mistakes will be the key to be great in presenting.