The first team to start off with my oral presentation and coincidentally I am also the first speaker in my group. For the first speaker, it is crucial to capture the audience attention so as not to bore the audience. Firstly, I started off by greeting the class and the lecturer. Subsequently introducing my team member’s name and followed by an attention grabber which is telling a story and asking the audience what is the moral of this story. This engages the class to participate and makes it more lively rather than straight away telling the class what our problem statement is.
Secondly, I felt that I had maintained eye contact with the audience in the class. I also demonstrated a segment of pretending that I had lost my balance on the escalator which makes it more realistic. Next, after narrating my story, in my next two slides, I bring in two real life examples of the problem and stating the urgency to solve this problem which is to prevent injuries caused by train platform screen doors.
Thirdly, for my delivery, I felt that I was loud enough to bring across my message to the class, but I was a bit too fast in my presentation. I managed to finish my content in within the given time allocation. For Q&A session, I stepped forward to answer Aaron and Ms Lim enquiries. This tells the audiences that I have done my research in my project and showing confidence in solving their clarification.
Lastly, to improve my presentation skills perhaps I can record a video of myself presenting and do a playback. This replay will show me my mistakes I make and to ensure I do not commit it during the actual presentation. (291 words)
