September 15th 2020

      Today, I did my presentation, and by watching my video, I found many things that I need to improve from my presentation. 

      The first point is that I keep saying "um..." during my presentation. Almost every time that I change the slide, I was saying "um.." that annoys the audience. I want to stop saying those things, to make the audience concentrate on my presentation. The second point is that I was looking at the slide for a long time. The problem is, that I was not realizing that I am looking at the slide, and misunderstood that I was having eye contact with the audience. When I looked at my video, I was looking at the slide so much. I wasn't doing the practice without looking at the slide, so I thought it is important to practice in a similar situation to the real presentation. 

     However, there were many points that I enhanced compared to last year. As I practiced many times before the presentation, I was able to map the room in a natural way, and in an appropriate way. For example, I stood left when I was talking about human cloning, and I stood right when I was talking about our familiar life. Also, I was very confident when I start the presentation, as I practiced many times before it. I was strongly looking forward to having a presentation in front of the audience. Because I was confident, I was able to speak smoothly (maybe it was too fast), and fluently. 

    For the presentation slides, I think the slide became better compared to the last year. I searched for the photo that completely matches the content that I want to say, and makes the slide easy to understand for the audience. However, in some of the slides, I did not write the keyword so maybe, this made it sometimes difficult for the audience to understand the point. 

    Finally, I am very happy with my presentation because I got much better on it compared to the last year. I thought practicing is very important to be better on the presentation, so I would like to practice on it if I have another opportunity to have a presentation.  For this time, I felt the presentation is very fun and enjoyable, so I am looking forward to do some more of them. 

September 10th 2020

     Today was the second day of the presentation. All of them were good, and I learned many of the things to improve my presentation. 

     All of the presentations were good, and I found out that almost all of the presenters are not saying "umm..." or "like...". When I was practicing at home, I keep saying those things so I want to stop saying these things to make the audience stressless on hearing the presentation and concentrate on it. 

     I am looking forward to do my presentation. 

September 8th 2020

    Today was the first day of the presentation. I learned many things from the students who presented today, so I want to improve my presentation more. 

    There were many points that I learned in the presentation, first one is to map the room, and the second one is to write the reference properly. Most of the students moved around the front of the classroom that made me concentrate on the presenter, and don't make the presentation bored. I also had much eye contact with the presenters and this is one of the things that I can observe from them. Also, Mr. Paterson told us to write the reference properly. There were some of the mistakes in my presentation, so I fixed it that day. 

   Like this, there were many points that I learned from them. I want to observe many of the things, and enhance my presentation much better. 

September 3rd 2020

Today, Migusa had her presentation practice, and we shared feedback with each other. Migusa's presentation was very enjoyable because she presented just like talking to the audience. She did not spoil the summary much, so I thought I would like to read that book. Also, I thought it is important to do eye contact and a phrase that appeals what I did before doing this presentation. 

I had feedback that I spoiled the summary of the story too much. I thought the same thing too, but it was very difficult for me to tell the points to the audience that I really want to tell, without spoiling the ending of the story. However, to let the audience want to read this novel, it is essential to hide the endings, so I decided to change the thing to say in the summary to hide what actually happened in the story. 

The feedback was very helpful for me to make the presentation better. Thank you to my teammates!

September 1st 2020

 Today, I had a presentation practice. The teammate's presentation was all good, and it was very helpful to me to enhance my presentation. However, today, we did not have enough time to share feedback with each other, so I would like to do that in the next class. 

For my presentation, I thought the time was too long, and I spoiled the story too much. Also, when I talked with my teammate later, I found out that she was misunderstanding the main point and the structure of the book, so I thought I should fix that point to tell how fantastic this novel is. 

There were many good points having a presentation practice, and I thought I want this time before all of the presentations I should do.