Reflective Presentation Reflection

I will look to the feedback and criticisms given in order to improve on my presentation and communication skills for the future.

Also, there were some difficulties that came about during my speech, one of those difficulties being inadequate direct eye contact. During the length of the speech there were not many time where I looked up and talked directly to my classmates. Something I could have done better to improve this would be to practice even more to ensure that I wouldn’t need to look at my notecards and slides as often. I also could have practiced when to look up and have a successful glance at my audience to have improved eye contact.

One of the things I noticed in my speech was how many times I looked at the screen. I didn’t realize how many times I looked at my prop until I watched myself on video. It was distracting and took away from what I was saying to my audience. Additionally, I feel like I could have improved speaking about the different experiments performed. I feel like they were rushed and I should have stuck to talking about only one or two experiments instead. With my time being rushed, I feel like I couldn’t explain as much of the experiments as I wanted to or as in depth. Lastly, I should have worked on the conclusion for my speech. I wasn’t able to come up with a good conclusion, so it felt as if I left some of the speech left hanging. I mentioned ethical issues performed in the experiments without actually going over it in the speech. Next time, I know I will come up with a solid ending and just wrapping up ideas I already went over in class. I know that for my persuasive speech, I will work on my eye contact, slowing down, and coming up with a solid ending.

Having those makes my presentation deserving more than one point that I got from the class. Regarding about using the apple during my presentation is so risky because I do not eat apples, but in order to do an effective presentation I must do it and also there is a big purpose of it and that why I have to include the apple. Next is gesture, I think I did good on moving my hands because I actually used it to express on what I am going to say. And on my visual aids, I think there is no error and I used all the high quality pictures and somehow those pictures are connected to the topic that I talked about. Lastly, my appearance, I dressed up for that presentation because of the requirements even I hate wearing professional clothes. For my perspective, I think I still deserved more than one vote, but that is my personal perspective and it already happened, so I cannot do anything with

I feel as though I addressed my goals effectively through my visuals and the video. I did everything I intended on doing for my presentation and was very proud of the outcome of it. One thing I would have done differently is I would have created a script beforehand to present more smoothly and I would have added some statistics to help support my points I made.

After you are done with your presentation, have your friends give you a marking (a grade) for your practice overall. In other words, have them tell you and grade you

I don’t think that I did so well during this last presentation. I did a lot of research about the drone I was talking about and I knew what I was going to say about the product. When I got up there I realized I didn’t know it as well as I thought I was going to. I should have put more practice into my presentation. I felt like I practiced but it was all in my mind. I never really put my PowerPoint up and practiced it in front of someone. When I got up and started my presentation, I went through my attention getter and when I took my eyes off of my cards I never really knew what I was going to say next. It was a lack of practice. To prepare for my presentation. I did a lot of research about the drone the

Growing up as a somewhat shy and quiet person, I had never been quite fond of speaking in front of other classmates. Not only that, but I felt extra pressure when presenting because I knew that the room was filled with an abundance of highly intelligent peers. Looking back when presenting, I constantly would read off of a powerpoint and never face the audience. Nevertheless, with the help of Mrs. O’Grady, I have realized the importance of eye contact and posture when presenting in front of others. Moreover, I’ve mastered how to speak loud and clearly to a audience and make sure not to speak too fast or too slow, but at a right pace. As a thinker, I know allow myself to have a creative mind when learning about new topics. Additionally, I always keep an open mind to different topics and perspectives, and am no longer one-sided on certain situations. Overall, I believe that this year has helped me progress in many different

it all in the presentation I was very nervous and talked fast. I am afraid that it didn’t go as well.

My three friends Reynaldo, Blas, and Gilbert did my oral presentation Evaluation. Reynaldo and Blas gave me excellent in the category of organization. On the other hand Gilbert gave me an acceptable in the organization category. On the delivery category Reynaldo and Blas also gave me excellent but Gilbert gave me an acceptable. In the visuals category Reynaldo and Blas gave me excellent but Gilbert gave me acceptable. Next, on the voice category I received excellent form Reynaldo and Blas but once again received acceptable from Gilbert. Lastly, in the category of content I received excellent from Reynaldo and Blas and acceptable from Gilbert.

My eye contact was bettered tenfold! When looking at the grades I made for the two speeches, you can see the improvement- my Visual Directness grade for the previous speech was an eight, while my grade for the How-To Speech was a nine. While that is good, I still have plenty of room for improvement. There were so many instances when I was paying more attention to my visual aid than my audience- in fact, I noticed that when I got nervous, I would direct my attention to the paper I was working with, instead of looking at my audience. While this allowed me to regain my composure, it also I will just have to work on that next

Over the course of the semester in this class I presented on several topics. The first of them being E-money, or electronic money, like credit cards, PayPal, and virtual money like Bitcoin. My next presentation was on Google Driver-less Cars, basically their inception, design and production, as well as how they were received by the public. My last presentation was on Ruby on Rails the development language, again about how it came to be, its uses and why it's so popular. Doing the research and preparing for my presentations really taught me a lot about topics I had never known much about and some even heard of. I spent several hours researching the information about each topic and came out the other side with what I consider to be a thorough

The art speech was not necessarily my best moment when it came to audience analysis. I should have followed through with making the speech less about the assignment and more about who I was presenting it to. The dragon and persuasive speech probably would have been better had I not had so much information, I really saw how it affected the way I looked as far as confidence was concerned. Looking at my personal anecdote speech I think that was my shining moment. I am not only saying that because of the grade I received, but because I owned the material and it showed. As far as maintaining ethos, I would have to say that was during my informative speech. I felt like I knew what I was talking about in the dragon speech more at the Q & A than during the speech, but during my energy drink presentation I really had the material down. During the self-evaluations I know that I properly analyze what I did wrong, though I am not sure I was able to fix everything I set out to. Strategically speaking, I have a ways to go with choosing a topic, learning how to control my nervous energy, and to avoid excluding my audience should investigate more efficiently.

I would not have done things differently if I had the chance to change anything in the presentation because I did everything that I could. For this presentation, I started rehearsing the week before. This presentation was one of my main priorities. I would read on the train or in between classes. Because of my hard work, I was able to memorize the entire speech. In addition, I believed that I improved within these last few months. Before communication class, I was not the best at public speaking. Honestly, I was frustrated because I knew it was going to take me a while before I get comfortable with public speaking. However, after taking communication class for months, I realized that I just needed a push. Because of this class, I was able to learn many important factors that go into speech making and practice my speech skills. Currently, I am not as scared as I was in the first speech. I will continue to further improve my communication skills to help me grow as an individual and to better my

Some of my biggest flaws that I will need to improve upon is weak eye contact, having enough citations, elaborating on unfinished points and not being dependent on my notecards. I excelled in my introductory, transition and conclusion statements as well as maintaining a good presence and providing factual information. These speeches have been challenging for me as presenting is not something I look forward to doing and is something I have avoided in the past. This class has forced me to face a fear and grow as a person which I am thankful for as I hope to continue to better my presenting skills and control my anxiety while doing