Let me quote from Louis Pasteur's famous saying, "Chance favors only the prepared mind". You will never really understand what this old saying means until you experienced it. Today, we finished our oral presentation 2, unfortunately, in a big, big hurry.
If one of our audiences, Gary, is the CEO of a company who awaits us to convince him to accept our proposal, we would have failed.
To be honest, I admit that OP2 power point slides were only finished before the day we present. There are two reasons for this: first is that we made a mistake of having an interview of the officer in charge of NUS cloud computing, and the date was postponed again and again. The other reason is we cannot finish the slides without the answers given from the NUS officer as we were not able to come up with a solution by ourselves—the topic is just too difficult and cutting-edge.
As a result, we could not find a time to have a rehearsal or some kind of practice. The most we can do is to prepare our own parts according to the slides. Obviously, none of us looked confident at all.
However, apart from the hastiness, we did a great job in the collecting of survey results as well as interview reports. In addition, our presentation skills have improved quite obviously, not only in verbal fluency, but also in the way of using proper gestures and eye contact. Personally, I feel that I performed just like what I expected. I did not feel more nervous than usual, and I did control my part of presentation within the time strain. So I guess I know the secret of oral presentation by now: which is nothing more than PRACTICE.
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Hi Jacky,
ReplyDeleteI feel that you did a very good job with your presentation! Given such a short period of time to prepare, your part was very comprehensive and well presented.
Given sufficient time for the presentation, I felt that we could have done a good job. I thought the way you handled the sudden change in venue was well done, given that you did not show any hint of nervousness.
Besides that, I would love to work with you again. Especially on topics about electronics and technology.
Good luck with your exams! :)
Hey Jackie,
ReplyDeleteAs you pointed out correctly it was practice that we lacked, that proved hinder our overall performance but nevertheless, we did finally manage to do a good job at the end of the day.
Its been great working with you this semester. All those group meetings and brainstorming sessions for our CG1102 projects. i must say, you have a great knack for coming up with new and brilliant ideas which worked at bringing creativity to our projects.
Enjoy the last few days of the semester. All the best for the upcoming exams
Cheers,
Sasha
Hey Jacky,
ReplyDeleteWhile there is no excuse for our lack of preparations for the presentation, I must say that we have done well individually within such a short timeframe. Cloud computing is something that is very foreign to us and choosing to deal with such a technical topic is already a challenge in itself. Turning from complete greenhorns to someone that is knowledgeable about the topic within such a short time is truly an achievement.
With that said, I couldn’t agree with you more that practicing is the secret of performing well. If we had worked out the time to practice as a team, our overall performance on that day would surely be much better than our actual performance. However, in regards to individual performance, I must say that everyone of us has unquestionably improved. Be it delivery, posture or articulation, each one of us has certainly improved in one way or another. With that said, this presentation is truly a good learning experience and I hope you have something to take away from this presentation.
Cheers,
Yifan