Formal - summary

Presenters: Saif Al Marzouqi   

                    Zaid Al Maskari

Venue: J30

Date and Time: 30/12/2010 – from  11:00am till 11:15am

Saif ‘s and Zaid’s topic was about the oil spill how does it happens, what is the effect of oil spill and what is the solutions. There introduction was good they gave us facts about the oil spill. Saif was confident while Zaid was a bit nervous. They both used eye contact and there gestures was good. Saif was more organized with his information than Zaid but Saif looked at his notes a lot. Zaid in the other hand didn’t have notes but paused a lot to remember his information. For a person of their level they did great. They weren’t standing in front of the screen. The delivery was well they didn’t have a monotone.

The power point was good. The visuals was nice and clear, the background wasn’t so dark nor bright, the font wasn’t so big the size was big enough to see and there was enough information in the power point for us to read. It was well organized

In conclusion they did good the power point was good they could have done better if they practiced before. With more and more practice come good results. 

Communicative Skills

Communicative Skills

This course has been very gainful for our communication activities, or future careers. Its one of two most important skills in any professional life, besides reading, presenting is very important for any idea or theory to be understood. A U.S. president once said. 'if i ever go back to collage, i would study writing and presentations.' Some people could be very smart in something, but can't translate it out of there mind, therefore, writing and presenting are important skills.   

we have gained in this course very valuable experiences in organizing, each one of this course's exercises needed to be organized well, else you won't learn more adequately then organizing. We had meeting exercise at the beginning of this course, we learned how agendas are made and the importance of making them before the meeting, after the meeting is done the note taker organizes the minutes. After that we had presentations where we learned that we had to practice a lot to look like good presenters, i'm not sure if i was the best, but i'm sure we all did good, practicing for your presentation isn't only to help your reputation, but its the audiences rights that they've come to see something worth their time you might be taking. Before the presentation you had to draw your speech a map, or as its called, 'the outline,' without its a little hard for your audience to keep up with what you're saying, unless you'are a professional, the outline does help you and your audience a lot.

I have really enjoyed this course, it has become more of a hobby, i think in the future i would be taking any opportunity in standing in front of an audience, i might take more courses to develop more of this great skill  

Reflection on formal presentation

The practice video

Long ago, i did know that watching myself present using a mirror or a recorded video would help me improve myself a little, but i never used it, i had no idea it would be of this big help until i saw myself practicing for my formal presentation.

I am not saying that i didn't learn from the videos the teacher showed us, the feed backs he gave us after every presentation we did, or by observing my friends present, but the video was the most significant changer in my performance. I did not know that i use to make a small jump every time i'm trying to remember a word or something like that, but you can't relay on the video itself; in my practice video i spoke in an interactive voice,i seemed to be doing very good in it, but when i gave the presentation, the teacher told me that in few parts of my presentation i was presenting like a robot.

there is no denial that we have improved so many of our skills throughout this course, my last presentation was magnificently different then my first, i changed a lot.