2019/2020 LE blogs

Today other groups received their feedbacks. During that time, I edited some of the slides and website. Tomorrow, we have to change the image of the conclusion slide, finish the brochure and fix the infographic so there is more colour contrast.

 Today, our team received feedback on the presentation from Mr.Paterson. I thought my result wouldn't be good because I had fewer gestures and movement compared to last time. To my surprise, my part of the presentation was good overall. Mr.Paterson pointed out that for improvement, I should have a slide that emphasizes how long students sit on chairs.  Listening to other member's feedback, there were some points of improvement I could relate to. The first point was we shouldn't take pictures in portrait mode. Because I did this, I had to crop and enlarge the photo. This made the resolution of the photo low, and the editing was troublesome. The second point was not opening my arms. I have a habit of doing handclasps when I feel nervous. I tried not to do this, but my arms were still in front of my body so I looked protective. I think I need to do more practice.  I thought my teammates did better this time too.  I was pleased with my results.

  Team 1 (school protectors) did their presentation today. There were a few things that I realized. Firstly, I thought that the mouth speaker was good at catching people's attention because he talked loudly and enthusiastically. He used gestures too so I felt that he really wanted to tell us something. Secondly, there was a lot of movement in this group. Usually, when we try to walk in front of the class, we tend to walk unnaturally because of nervousness however, they walked naturally in front of the class so we were able to focus on the talk. Thirdly, I noticed that they did a lot of handclasps. So I reflected on my presentation. I found out that I was doing handclasps in the last half of my part. However, there were less so I can say that I  improved.   Then Mr.Paterson told us that in other presentations, we should tell the audience when they should ask questions. I prefer having the Q&A part at the end because to have a persuasive presentation, the presentation ...

Mr.Paterson pointed out to one group that there should be a key phrase above the summary photos, and the photos should relate to the content of the presentation. Our group used photos that directly relate to the content, although Mr.Paterson said that the photo can be something that represents key points of the content. For example, dangerousness can be represented by a picture of a cobra. However, the key point of my part is that we need to create a social classroom environment. I can't imagine anything that represents that. I finally realized that we shouldn't write "one last thing" on the one last thing slide because we will say that: instead, I think we should use that slide to reinforce the message that sums up our whole presentation, by maybe using a quote or a relevant image. One group had very interesting pictures and they joked and used humor in their presentation. I thought that was very good because it grabbed my attention and I enjoye...

     Two teams did their presentations today and I realized that I had poor questioning skills.      Firstly, to be honest I couldn't come up with questions during the presentation. That means I make up the questions during the Q&A part or when other people are questioning. I do this because I'm concentrating on understanding the presentation, and so I don't think about anything else. The reason that I can't ask good questions is that firstly, I sometimes can't understand or miss something in other people's presentation, and I don't want to ask a question about something that I might have missed when everybody else understood it. Secondly, my questions weren't that precise. Today I asked a question to a group, but I had to repeat the question multiple times for them to understand my question.      Looking at other groups' slides, there were some texts and images that didn't have much colour contrast with the background. Even if the ...

At the start of the class, I had a feeling that our group would be the first to have the presentation. As expected, we were the first group. To be honest, I wanted more time for preparation because my team didn't practice much together. Looking back at the presentation, I thought I moved around less compared to my first presentation. This is because there were more contents I needed to present. My eye contact with the audience was bad; I didn't really look at the people who were at the back because I kept looking at the screen. I think I had this problem before too and it's a very difficult thing for me to do. We were supposed to change screens when we put our hands down (meaning our hands are up all the time), but we forgot and I had to check if the screen had really changed. I would like to use a wireless mouse or a remote control so that I can switch slides by myself. In the presentation, I was going to mention why creating different shapes using trapezoid table wa...

Since the presentation was postponed, I was able to do an extra practice of my presentation at home. After practicing, I still thought that I wouldn't be able to answer the audience's questions.  If somebody asks me a question, I would have to answer it on the spot, so I needed to understand everything about my topic to respond. I realized that mentioning the reason why I chose the solution that I've suggested was important.  Then we learned about snook.ca. This is a program that calculates the colour contrast of the text and the background. This is so that colour-blind people can  read the text. There aren't many texts on my slides, but I checked my slides anyway. It was mostly OK except the title page (of my part). Having enough contrast is important but the text colour also decides the atmosphere or the image of the topic, so I thought it was hard to adjust the colour.