Final blog post - reflection of the year
This year, I have improved many skills: especially presentation skills, the skills for using digital tools and writing skills. Firstly, my presentation skills have improved greatly. At the beginning of the year, I presented as I was reading a script and my slides were full of words and bullet points. I don't know why I didn't realize at that time that this was a boring and unpersuasive type of presentation. Now that I know the importance of having good visual contents, I have started using attractive images that are royalty-free which relate to the content of the presentation. I have used this technique in other presentation slides too. Also, I learned that gestures are very important in presentations. In the first lesson, I just stood and introduced myself. However, I learned that looking confident, catching the audience's attention and interacting with the audience is actually more important than what I'm saying. Before this year's lessons, when I had to d...