Hello once again interested fans and readers. This
week saw me practice presenting my research for the first time and then had me move
on to examining the recording of my presentation and the feedback I received
from the board of teachers to best improve my presentation. Also, this week saw
me look to the presentations of some of my closer friends to get a better idea
of the exact way to structure and organize my presentation. I learned a large
amount of new information on how to better make my presentation both interesting
and appealing to the audience, while still making sure that it was not to
verbose or distracting to the actual points I was making. With my presentation
redo set for tomorrow morning, it has been a week of intensive edits and
corrections for me.
The first step I took this week was to review the
video of my presentation to get a thorough understanding of where I could
improve on my actual presenting ability. An immediate error that I noticed was
that I had a weak memory for the script and that I needed to both edit and more
thoroughly review it for my next presentation. In addition to my continuous
pausing to remember the lines of my script, I also noticed that I was having
problems directing my eyes towards the audience and keeping good posture. I
took mental note of this and practiced reading off lines from my script while
staring at something specific and standing straight to get more used to it.
Another problem that I noticed in the video recording of my presentation was
that I had a number of redundant points throughout the actual presentation
itself. I began to remedy this by removing unnecessary bullet points, slides,
and words that I felt added very little to the presentation.
Another important step that I took this week was to
look at the presentations of my friends who did well on their practice runs to
get a better idea of how my presentation should flow and what is should look
like visually. With Malavika’s permission, I began by looking at her presentation
and immediately noticed a number of excellent changes I could make to my own. The
first important edit I realized I should make was to add many more photos and visually
stimulating images so that the presentation itself was actually stimulating to
the audience. Another change I realized I should make was to greatly reduce the
word count of my slides, as I was just repeating the things I would be saying
to the audience anyway. Finally, a change I realized I should make was to place
my research question after my literature review, as this mimicked the structure
of the paper and made it easier for the audience to understand by that point in
the presentation.
Between trying to improve my presentational skills
in person and trying to look at the feedback I received from the faculty, it
has been a busy week of editing for me.
Regards,
Lazar Vukcevic
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