Analytical Reflection: Oral presentation

My team Sensing Sensation which consists of Xian Jing, Wei Jun and myself did our presentation on the 10^th November, Thursday. It has been 2 years since I last did a presentation after graduating from polytechnic and it was nerve wrecking for me. Although the audience were familiar faces, I felt pressurized as this was a group presentation and I know I had to do my best as the weightage for this presentation was high.

During the preparation of the slides, I took Garr Reynold presentation tips as my reference and designed the slides to keep it simple and interesting by limiting the bullet points and having more graphics. My group rehearsed a few times the day before our presentation to ensure that we are all familiar with the content and language use.

On the day of the presentation, I was afraid that I will tend to forget what I needed to say when I am feeling nervous. Therefore, I tried my best to speak slowly as it allows me to have more time to think of what I needed to say next. I was the second presenter of my group and I had to present the contents of our project to the audience, I was glad that my slides manage to catch the audience attention as it consists mostly images, which indirectly forces the audience to listen to me presenting.

Overall, I felt that I did averagely well for the presentation, however, there is always room for improvements. It was a pleasure to receive feedbacks from my peers and professor as I am able to take note of my flaws and improve. For my future presentation, I feel that I can improve on my facial expression, tone as well as eye contact.

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