Reflective Journal 3

This reflective journal will be reflecting on the student presentations that were presented to us during the past few weeks on certain questions based on particular tutorials. This presentation will be graded in our termly report card as a term grade. Personally, after experiencing so many presentations, I have some comments that I would like to make and also talk about the most interesting thing I find about the presentations.

After going through so many of them, I feel that there are many things that one should be taking note of while presenting, and they are mostly the basic skills of presentation. When presenting, not only should the presenter remain eye contact with the audiences constantly, projecting his voice and sounding clear is also very important as not taking note of these points will potentially lead to the presentation being very boring, especially for the audiences. These are my reflections on the presentations done so far.

Firstly, I realized that most students that went out to present were very monotonous and dull when talking. They were unable to engage us audiences very deeply and thus, whenever I turn my head around, there will definitely be three or four students who are yawning or sleeping, if not more. Even though many might disagree, but I feel that this has been somewhat interesting as after the student has finished presenting and the teacher gave comments on the presentation, what the other students do is they divert topic by talking about contents in the particular tutorial instead of about what the student has presented without knowing it, even if the teacher posed a question pertaining to the individual presentation. Hence, the student just presented to the teacher to get the marks and not for learning purposes. Thus, the extra information in his presentation will not be known unless the teacher mentions it in class.

Secondly, there was one specific presentation done by a student from 3A2 that I couldn’t possibly forget. The student engaged the audiences deeply by using many, if not mostly, bombastic words in his presentation. Many of us were amazed at the presentation because not only was his script filled with words that are not as simple as those used by others, but the voice of the presenter was very clear, and not as if he was mumbling like what many before him did.

However, I feel that there can be things that could take place in order to make our presentations more meaningful to the audiences.

Personally, I think that after the students presented, the teacher should make each and everyone of us to take turns to comment on the presenter’s presentation, either by agreeing or disagreeing with the presenter’s point of view. The student can also add on to what the presenter had mentioned. This will not only be beneficial in a way that students can learn from the presentation instead of not gaining anything from it, but students can also earn their Oral Participation points which play a huge role in their academic result.

In conclusion, I feel that I have learnt a lot just by watching others present. I will try to do my best for my own presentation and hope that I can do well. I will learn from other people’s mistake and not repeat it, in order to strive for a better result for myself.