Hi all, I would like you to add in a few comments about how YOU thought the practice talks went. I am interested to hear YOUR thoughts. You can make any comments, observations about your delivery and/or the delivery of others. Maybe you wish to comment on the feedback, nerves, using PowerPoint, stuff like that? Anything goes, so go on, what you thinking...Tuesday 16 November 2010
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Hi all, I would like you to add in a few comments about how YOU thought the practice talks went. I am interested to hear YOUR thoughts. You can make any comments, observations about your delivery and/or the delivery of others. Maybe you wish to comment on the feedback, nerves, using PowerPoint, stuff like that? Anything goes, so go on, what you thinking...
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ReplyDeleteWell I think it was obviously valuable prep for our assessed talks, and gives us all an opportunity to polish off areas where we now know we need to work on. I'm sure there are members of the class who have never had to do this before, so they may not have known exactly what they need to work on, or where their strenghts already lie. As well as this, I'm sure we will now all be generally a lot less nervous about giving our assessed presentations. Still nervous, but not to the same extent.
For me personally, I am really glad to have had the opportunity, despite having done this sort of thing before for work and various other environments. It reminded me of that feeling you get standing up in front of people and putting across a view/opinion and I must admit I rather enjoyed it. Now...to the assessed assessments!
I liked the way how you lead us slowly to the presentation. There was plenty of time to prepare and abundant help available. I somewhat thought we would be filmed during the presentation, but then that would have been too much, I suppose. I learned a lot during this process, especially regarding nervousness and the importance of subject familiarity. It is very handy when the audience is keen to ask questions, which they inevitably do...so, your drilling us in having all the answers ready is a good move.
ReplyDeleteI can't really say anything about other presentations than my own; I was too nervous to actually pay attention on my day and yesterday I was absent. But it makes me wonder how it was possible to hold 9 presentations in 2 hours...
Thanks guys. I really like your commentary. Jon, I think it is great that you are polishing your delivery skills and mindful of others as well which shows a lovely sense of being collegiate. The group worked well on this exercise and I certainly felt individuals were genuinely keen to learn. I also liked it when the class and not just me were asking the questions. It was more apparent in the session yesterday. Holding, assessing and feeding back on nine 3-4 minute presentations in a two hour slot was easy Christian - I'm a professional!!! We started bang on 9am as I knew we could have been tight for time if we had had the requisite thirteen talks! I will go over the times for presentation delivery for the assessed talks tomorrow. Great stuff guys and very helpful. I think we are going to have some god fun tomorrow looking at this next brief!
ReplyDeleteThat should have been GOOD fun, not god fun!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to say 'thank you' Mark for all the work you've put in getting us through the presentations. Your patience with my computing skills especially! I enjoyed doing the presentation and putting the powerpoint together.Great to hear all the others too and learning together. I certainly feel a lot more confident after standing up in front of the class...I'm doing another (short)talk with powerpoint slides for literature tomorrow,so no holding me back now!
ReplyDeleteGood luck tomorrow! And thank you for those words, they are very reassuring.
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