This term I had a meaningful study in this class. My presentation skills, communication skills, and my vocabulary skills improved by qualifying in this class and I also found new perspectives. In this class, I learned many things from different directions.
First, my presentation skills grown up. Mainly, the ability to discover issues and a skill to have a smooth presentation. My ability to discover issues grew up by looking for problems in the school and learning about widening point of view. I learned that it is important to look for problems by pretending that you are a visitor that came to this school for the first time, or a teacher, and of course students. There would be many problems that other people can see but you can not see. So, before we start, we walked around the school thinking that we came to the school for the first time.First, I thought it is very difficult to do this, but I it was very enjoyable and not as difficult as I imagined. Pretending like a different person was very fresh and I liked it. However, there were still limitations on discovering for problems. We found many problems imagining that I am a different people, but there are many more things that we could not imagine enough. For example, to find problems that teachers feel, we need to use what teachers use and have a student, and act like them. It is almost impossible to do this, so I thought we could have an interview to our teachers to find problems. Also, pretending as a visitor perfectly is very difficult, and there will be many things we could not see because you know about it and get used for it.
Second, my communication skills improved too. Working in this group, working with Jo and Ren was the first time for me so I was worried about it for the fist time, but actually it was very fun, and I think we have builded up each others communication skills together. I learned that we have to show off our team work in the presentation, not only working together. In reality, audience feels comfortable if the presenter are on a good mood. I felt very good when I hear other group calling each others name and saying thank you to each other. I don't want to forget about this because it is very easy to do this and I also think this is a very important thing.
Third, my vocabulary skills improved in this term, and this is my most poor at, so it was very good for me to improve it. The apps that Mr. Paterson told us that can evaluate the vocabularies that we had used in the paragraph was a perfect app and I am still using that to improve my skills. I learned it is important to use high-leveled words usually, like writing blog posts and sentences each day. I think my variations of vocabularies will increase like this, not just remembering it. Also, working on presentations and speaking to everyone made my use many kinds of vocabularies. It was difficult to choose words that fits my feeling the best very quickly and say it to people by being careful for audiences misunderstanding. However, I understand how it is important and how it develops my skills so I want to practice doing something like that.
In this class, I got to learn many things, not only English, a skill that we can use in any ways. I am now making use of these skills to have a presentation(Japanese). This class was very enjoyable, fun, international, and meaningful. Thank you for your meaningful class. I am looking forward to have more classes in the next term.
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Sunday, July 7, 2019
July 2th 2019
Today, our group had a reflection from Mr Paterson. I thought it would be a very scary one, but actually, I felt very happy hearing his comments to our group.
Bad points for me was that I said "um..." and "like..." many time and that interacted the audience concentrating on our presentation. Also, some of our slides were wrong, for example the reflection slide was not enough, and one more thing slide was not a slide that Mr Paterson expected. These part was a part that we could have fixed without the skills so I feel very regret. Also, my movement of the hands were sometimes weird.
I want to improve these points before we have a presentation next time.
Bad points for me was that I said "um..." and "like..." many time and that interacted the audience concentrating on our presentation. Also, some of our slides were wrong, for example the reflection slide was not enough, and one more thing slide was not a slide that Mr Paterson expected. These part was a part that we could have fixed without the skills so I feel very regret. Also, my movement of the hands were sometimes weird.
I want to improve these points before we have a presentation next time.
July 1st 2019
Today, we had a presentation from Akie, Kei, and Airi. It was very interesting that they had a presentation of problems of the school's system. Our group didn't even think of that. Their presentation was very good because they moved around the classroom during the presentation, and their voice was big and also easy to catch. I want to copy their good points when I have a presentation in the second term.
However, I had few oppose to their opinion. First, I don't think the time between class and class is not enough. It is enough to move to the other class and get ready for the next class. I don't think we need time to rest because everyone would not use that time in a good way. I think that time will be a waste of time. There are many people in this school that takes many times to go back home like me. I need to take one hour and a half. So if the time to rest increase, these people will not have times to have fun with their families, and doing what you want to do as Kei said in their presentation (homework problems). So this part did not have much persuasiveness for me.
I liked how Akie talked, so I want to copy her skills until the next time we can present.
However, I had few oppose to their opinion. First, I don't think the time between class and class is not enough. It is enough to move to the other class and get ready for the next class. I don't think we need time to rest because everyone would not use that time in a good way. I think that time will be a waste of time. There are many people in this school that takes many times to go back home like me. I need to take one hour and a half. So if the time to rest increase, these people will not have times to have fun with their families, and doing what you want to do as Kei said in their presentation (homework problems). So this part did not have much persuasiveness for me.
I liked how Akie talked, so I want to copy her skills until the next time we can present.
Monday, July 1, 2019
June 25th 2019
Today, I had our groups presentation. It was better than how I practiced at my house, but I thought it was better when we practiced this as a group.
I think three of us did very good for individual. Our voice was loud, not to slow not to fast and the inside of the presentation was not bad. However, we had almost no movements in our presentation. We moved our hands big, and had some eye-contacts but we didn't move from one place until our own part finish. I think it was difficult to hear for people who was sitting on the other side. However, even though we communicated during the term, we could not appeal that part. We did the least to appeal that by introducing each others and using each others names during the presentation but maybe, that was not enough.
To reflect my own part, I think I couldn't sum up the summary and the point that our group wanted to say the most. We wanted to tell the part that there are many problems that teachers don't know, there are other problems that teacher feels, and, it is not always good to look for problems all time and by happy on what you have now. Now I think the main point was too much and we couldn't tell all of this to other people.
So, until next time, I will limit the main point and tidy the points more clearly. I am looking forward to have a better presentation second term. Thank you for teaching us presentation skills that we can use all time.
I think three of us did very good for individual. Our voice was loud, not to slow not to fast and the inside of the presentation was not bad. However, we had almost no movements in our presentation. We moved our hands big, and had some eye-contacts but we didn't move from one place until our own part finish. I think it was difficult to hear for people who was sitting on the other side. However, even though we communicated during the term, we could not appeal that part. We did the least to appeal that by introducing each others and using each others names during the presentation but maybe, that was not enough.
To reflect my own part, I think I couldn't sum up the summary and the point that our group wanted to say the most. We wanted to tell the part that there are many problems that teachers don't know, there are other problems that teacher feels, and, it is not always good to look for problems all time and by happy on what you have now. Now I think the main point was too much and we couldn't tell all of this to other people.
So, until next time, I will limit the main point and tidy the points more clearly. I am looking forward to have a better presentation second term. Thank you for teaching us presentation skills that we can use all time.
June 24th 2019
Today, was the first day of presentation. It was interesting for me to see other people's presentation before my group have a presentation. There were many groups that had a presentation about natural lights, but first, I didn't understand why is that important for learning. I thought it is enough if we have lights even it is electric light. However, when I ask for that, there was a explanation that there is a prove from some places. I understand that, but I thought it is very important to have a thorough presentation by explaining the prove. Also, there were groups that they related the school from long time ago and now as a explanation of the reason they thought this is a problem. These made the presentation thorough and easy to understand.
These points from other group made our presentation more better. We didn't put those proves in our presentation too, for example, for my part, I haven't putted the reason why having width is good so I put that newly.
I got to learn many things from other people's presentation and now, I got a little confidence for tomorrow's presentation.
These points from other group made our presentation more better. We didn't put those proves in our presentation too, for example, for my part, I haven't putted the reason why having width is good so I put that newly.
I got to learn many things from other people's presentation and now, I got a little confidence for tomorrow's presentation.
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