My Goals for Presentation #1 -My Passion

First presentation in this class!

PAL
Presentation: Communicate to the audience what I am currently passionate about.
Audience: my AEP classmates, Sylvan and Mark
Logistics: On Monday, December 20 at ILC-101. 3 min. max. presentation with visuals

Presentation:
I want to brainstorm ideas of what I can tell the audience about what I am passionate about. Then, I will prioritize which information to share. Then make a rough dramf of what I am going to say. Next, I want to find photographs that correspond with the information. Finally, put the information and the photos on to a powerpoint presentation.

Content/Overall
I want people to know more about girls lacrosse. Also see how exciting and fun sport it is.

Voice
I want to speak in a voice that shows that I am passionate abou the subject. I want to be able to emphasize the right words and speak with intonation that will not bore the audience.

Body Language
I want to use only neccessary movements; which means no fidgeting. I will probably bring in my cross so I have to make sure not to play around with it. Also I want to be able to stand straight and not lean on one foot.

Visuals
I will be using both slides and bringing in actual equipments. I want to be able to use both of them effectively.

TED: Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

Overall, I thought this was a good presentation. It talked about an interesting topic; growing your home. It seems like a story from a fairytale but according to the speaker, Mitchell Joachim, an architect, its possible. For a 3 minutes presentation, he was able to give the audience quite a lot of information. Also it was funny, apparently. There were parts where I was not able to understand the humor though.

He was a good presenter because he was talking to the audience instead of just saying the contents of his presentation. He seemed relaxed and comfortable on stage. The volume of his voice was easy to listen to. Also he put emphasis on important words by stressing and stretching them.

However, he did not pause much which made it difficult to follow sometimes. What also made it diffcult to follow was although he started quite slowly, he started to speak faster as the presentation went on. I thought he needed to speak slower especially when he was talking about architecture because that is a specific field not everyone has lots of knowledge on.

Advanced English Presentation Class

Its been 8 months since I used this blog!!
Now I will be using it for the Advanced English Presentaion class.

First task: characteristics of a good/bad presentation

In a good presentation, the presenter...
-has good eye contact
-engages the audience
-speaks in a voice that is heard and understandable
-seems enthusiastic about presenting
-uses pauses

In a bad presentation, the presenter...
-does not remember the contents of the presentation
-turns his/her back to the audience whilst talking
-mumbles
-moves around too much
-assumes that the audience understands everything that he/she is saying

First post!

First proper post. yay
i was never really good at keeping journals or anything like that so i will just have to see how it goes. well, I have nothing else to say...

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