3/29/2010

Reflection on oral presentation 2

My team has given an oral presentation about food wastage and hunger on 22 March,2010.We have prepared the presentation for almost one month and generally I felt that our presentation was satisfactory.We had a good time management and we presented our topic with a clear structure.We made use of many pictures which were more attractive than wordy slides.At the end of the presentation,we showed a short but overwhelming video which emphasized the objective of our presentation.

I was in charge of the last part of the presentation -- solutions to food wastage and world hunger.I talked about six different ways to resolve the problem of food wastage and hunger.I tried my best to explain in detail what these means of solution are with only pictures in my slides.I was also making myself clear by speaking loudly and slowly.There were not many pronounciation mistakes during my presentation.Moreover,I maintained my eye contact with the audience throughout my presentation.

However,I felt that there are still many areas that I need improve on.Although I was having eye contact with the audience,there was still a lack of confidence in my presentation.In addition,my hand gestures were not enough.This actually exposed my lack of confidence.I think I really need to put in effort to practise my hand gestures.Last but not least,I was keeping silent during the Q&A session.This is partly because of lacking in confidence of answering the questions.Besides,I was not very sure of the contents and evidence of our presentation.This is the other factor which prevented me from answering the questions and I think I should make myself fully prepared in the next presentation.

Generally I think my performance in the presentation was satisfactory.I have actually improved from the previous oral presentation.I believe I can do better than this in the next presentation if I work hard on those parts that I was weak in.