October 22th 2020

 Today, I got feedback from Mr. Paterson. Most of my mistakes were slide mistakes, such as font size, the lack of keywords, and the point that I sometimes used more than one photo in one slide. 

 First, for the font size, Mr. Paterson said "title 50+, subtitle section headings 40+, Content, Informations, Keywords 30+, credits 20-25". When I made this slide, I did not have these points on my mind, so I would like to remember this and use this when I have an opportunity to make the presentation slide. However, I thought 30+for the keywords are sometimes too small. 

 Second, my slide had a lack of keywords. I pasted a big photo, but I did not write any keywords, so that made the audience difficult to understand the main point of the slide. 

 The third point is that I sometimes used more than two photos in one slide. Mr. Paterson said pasting two photos in one slide, that makes the audience take time to understand the meaning of the slide, and concentrate on the presenter, speaking. 

 There were many improvements in my slides, so I want to improve this for the final draft. 

October 20th 2020

    Today, I thought about my preferences in the book. It was interesting listing my preferences. I like reading Mystery's story, in which the characters solve the incident and the complicated human relation, or a big secret. It is very enjoyable to find out the truth and makes me feel very excited. The book I chose "Never Let Me Go" is not a mystery story and not a genre that I like but I strongly enjoyed reading it. There were similarities to the mystery story that the reader is going to find out the big secret inside the story. I love to read books, so I thought I want to read many genres, and encounter many books. 

October 6th 2020

 Today, I listened to the presentation by new students. All of them were very good, that I can not believe that they came to this school recently. Asahi's presentation was very easy to understand, that he spoke slowly, and said each word clearly. I understood all of the things he pointed out and had an interest in his book. Rei's was fantastic that her speaking had inflection of volume and her temperature to the book has been conveyed. Not like me, just speaking what I decided to say in the same tone of voice, her presentation had the power to attract the audience to listen to her carefully. I finished presenting, but I want to copy her technique when I have an opportunity to have a presentation again. 

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Reflection of the presentation

I was very confident about presenting this term, compared to the previous presentation. It could have many reasons, such as being able to have time to listen to each other's presence in small groups and got advice, and I made enough time to practice the presentation. In reality, I am very happy with my presentation, even though I had plenty of improvement points about my actual skill of the presentation, and about my slide. 

     The first point is that I did not do much eye contact. When I watched the video of my presentation, I realized that I was not having eye contact with the audience, and keep looking at the slide. I was not aware that I am looking at the side during the presentation, and I forgot to be conscious about having eye contact when I was practicing the presentation. So, in the actual presentation, I unconsciously looked at the slide, instead of the audience. If I could have a chance to do the presentation again, I would practice having eye contact with the audience, without looking at the slide. 

     The second point is that I kept saying "umm..." during my presentation. When I looked at the video, I always said umm in each time I change the slide. This could annoy the audience, as I was annoyed when I was watching my video. I was also saying "umm" in the previous presentation, and this never improves. This could be because I spoke too fast, and to fill in the time, I keep using “umm”. So, I would like to be conscious about talking slower on the presentation.

    The second point is that in my slide, I pasted a photo that matches the point that I want to say, but I did not write the keyword of my point, so it made the audience difficult to understand my point. There were many slides that I only pasted photos with no words, so maybe, I made the slide too simple.

    There were many points that I need to enhance for my presentation, such as having eye contact, stop saying “umm..”, talk slower, and put keywords on my slide, not only the picture. However, I assert that my presentation got better compared to the one from the last year, so I am very happy about it. I would like to improve my presentation more and gain my presentation skills.