Critical Reflection

1. Module Learning

My goal by the end of this module was to be able to speak with more clarity and be able to present myself as a confident speaker in front of a crowd. Currently, I feel that I have become more confident and able to present with more clarity. But I feel that I have not fully attain my goal. During my presentation, I could tell that I was better with my presentation skills then how I was before. But there were times where I stumbled over words that were more difficult to pronounce and my subsequent speech became more muffled as I became unsure of myself.

During the module, I tried building on my communication skills by practicing my presentation speeches in front of a small group of friends to help myself gain more confidence. I also went online to research on how to become a more confident speaker and I fee l that these methods built up my communication skills.

By continuing to present in front of an audience will further improve on my communication skills. I will cease the opportunity to speak up more in class to build up more on my confidence and my communication skills.

1    2. Project Learning

With the research project I have learnt that being able to present more confidently is to firstly be able to be confident on your own presentation. Then, we need to practice and know what we want to say during the presentation.

During the mock presentation, even though I was confident that my product was a viable solution to our team’s problem, I did not practice enough with the main points I want to bring across to the audience and this made my mock presentation a disaster. But from that experience I made sure I did more practice.

From the actual presentation, I learnt that clarity is very important to bring across the main points. I learn from others that I should speak with more moderation and be less monotonous. I felt that even though I have practiced my speeches, I did not focus enough on the moderation of my presentation. I found myself speeding through my presentation. I should practice more in front of an audience to better build on my communication skills.

From this project experience, I will definitely take forward the different communication skills that I have learnt and continue to further improve on it.

1     3. The Presentation Showcase

I felt that ‘Team Recyclables’ had an excellent presentation as they good communication skills and their idea was a memorable one for me.  They painted a picture of how their product would work by telling a short story. This story was easier to understand them trying to understand technical terms and also this story is easier to remember as it applies to us in a real-world situation. As I am an audio learner, I felt this method of presentation is an effective method to captivate the audience. Saying this, the one thing that could have made the presentation even stronger was targeting the visual learner as well. They could have included the use of more visuals and even a video to better leave a greater impact on the audience. Taking reference to ‘Team PEWS’ which had excellent animations to simulate different traffic scenarios and the animations impressed the audiences. Having such visual would communicate main points of their product to the audience.