For
the project, my group and I have decided to talk about "Active listening
and resolving conflicts within a family". Why active listening? As a student, we feel that many
of us are able to relate to it easily. Apart from that, we as team also feel that we should strain the importance of the things taught in class such as active listening and conflict management or resolving conflicts. As for the project, we were given
specific time requirements such as the 5 minute presentation and the 3 minute
video.
Coming
from the engineering field, I rarely had the chance to practice my language and
also my oral presentation skills. Previously, my idea of a presentation was to read
out everything from the slide clearly and get it done and over with. From there,
I have gotten a lot of feedback about eye contact and other non-verbal cues. However,
my perception of a presentation changed after attending this module called “Interpersonal
and Work Communication” taught by Brad. Through this module, I have learnt a
lot of things that applies to our presentation skills such as verbal and
non-verbal communications and etc. With that, I would like to take this
opportunity to reflect on my oral presentation skills.
In this module, we were given two chances
to present. Firstly the mock presentation and next, the actual presentation. Referring
back to constructive criticisms that was given to me on the actual and mock presentation,
I realized that my posture and non-verbal cues has always been an important
factor affecting my presentation. For example, not making enough eye contact
and the position of which I was standing at. Apart from that, I also have the
tendency of repeating a few word which may be very annoying to the audience. Despite
the criticisms, I have managed to improve on my verbal articulation and voice
projection.
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Edited on:
11th April 2016
18th April 2016
Thank you, Hirah, for this brief reflection on the presentation component of our course. You address a few of the areas where you feel you've learned something, namely nonverbal expression during the presentation and articulation of ideas. We'll discuss these when we meet on Friday.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious, of course, about other elements of your project learning. Do you feel, in retrospect, that the choice of listening within the family was a good one for your main topic? Did any of the research that you did surprise you? In your own family, can what you have learned be applied?
These are issues that jump out at me when I think of you writing a project reflection. I know you're busy and that it's easier just to go with something as obvious as presentation skills. Still, can I be faulted for expecting more directly related to your project content from you?