On 5th November, last Thursday, my group mates
and I had our final presentation on proposal of conserving water through
rainwater harvesting system in the new SIT campus. On Monday, we were quite
shock when we received the news of being the first two groups to do the
presentation. As this means that we only have less than 3days to finalize our
presentation speech and do our presentation slides apart from doing other
module’s school work.
To speed up our progress in this short duration, we decided
to split task and prepare our own script as well as presentation slides individually.
What helped in my preparation of PowerPoint slides was also because of one of
the effective communication class I had previously. It was where I was tasked
to summarize the key points for preparing an effective presentation slides. Following
back the website for guidance, it helped me to prepare my PowerPoint slides
quicker too.
On the day of presentation, my group met up early before the
class to practice our group presentation. As I was always not comfortable in speaking
in front of a big group of people, I was really nervous. To make things worse,
I also had trouble memorizing huge paragraphs of words usually and this made me
more anxious as script was not allowed during the final presentation.
When the class started and it was my turn to present, I felt
really nervous as the scene was different from when I was practicing because
there were a large group of audience. Furthermore, mispronouncing words,
disrupted my thoughts too. But I managed to finish my presentation.
Although I was really glad about the good feedback given to
my group on our presentation slides, I felt that in the future presentation, I
could improve more on my part in presenting. Such that I could be more fluent in my
presentation to prevent mispronouncing of words by practicing my script more,
learning to stay calm even after mistakes and be more enthusiastic in presenting
so that I could match my group’s enthusiasm level as a whole.
