Oral Presentation Reflection

 Initially, I had a notion that the oral presentation is just like any other presentation where I have to speak on the topic that we had researched and explain our solution. However, the video showed by the lecturer on making effective proposals, helped me understand the various aspects that have to be taken care in an oral presentation such as the importance of target audience.

My part in the proposal was to introduce new solutions by highlighting the drawbacks of current system. So, keeping the audience in mind, I had structured my part so that current efforts can be highlighted first and then talk about the drawbacks. However, after the presentation I learnt that if I had changed my tone, then it would have worked very well with the structure of the presentation. 

I had rehearsed both individually and as a team on the previous day and was quite prepared for the presentation. However, I still realised that I was a bit nervous initially, but later managed to overcome it as I continued speaking. I tried to reduce the pace at which I spoke, but still was felt a bit fast. Another thing I need to improve on is articulation of words properly. I will work on these skills and I strongly believe that there will be a day when I can deliver presentations at the right pace and without getting nervous at the start.  

At the same time I learnt that some of my strengths in presenting are the eye contact, gestures. In fact it was only after peer teaching and oral presentation in this module, I recognised that I had the natural ability to use gestures and eye contact while communicating ideas. On the whole as a group I think we had done pretty well in convincing the audience about our idea and were able to even answer questions which we had not prepared.