My goals for the first presentation

Purpose:
-To introduce myself to my classmates so that they know a bit more about me.
-To improve my presentation skills, especially gesture and the use of voice, by recording my presentation.

Audience:
-my classmates in AEP class, Mark and Sylvan.

Logistics:
-time limit of 3 min
-one question can be asked after the presentation
-computer
-slide
-presenter is able to bring anything that is related to one's presentation.

1. Preparation/ Rehearsal
-I did brainstorming to come up with good presentation topics.
-I made my reasons why I am passionate about having meals with my friends clear to make easier to make presentation slides.
-I want to know my presentation is coherence, easy to understand, and interesting to the audience.
-I want to rehearsals many times in order to be confident in my presentation.

2.Content/ Overall impression
-I want to everyone to know about my favorite thing to do and know about me.
-Hopefully, I want to get some good info. of good restaurants near school!


3.Voice
-I want to talk with cheerful voice because I will be talking about what I love to do.
-I want to put emphasis on what I want to really tell mu audience.

4.Body Language
-I want to have good eye contact because I usually look at the computer screen when I give presentation with slides.
-I want to show what I want to emphasize by doing gesture.

5.Visuals
-I want to make some slides on google doc to show the pictures of having meals with my friends, and to make my presentation memorable.

Homework: analyze the TED video

URL:http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work.html

1) General impression of the video
- persuative
- a new idea which I never thought about
- familiar topic

2) In terms of speaking skills, what are the strengths of the presenter?
- he questions a lot so that audience actually thinks about the topic
- good timing of pause
- gives very familiar examples which make easy for poeple to understand his point
- his topic claim is very clear
- I like when he says M&M, which means manager and meetings, because usually we think of chocolate when we hear M&M. it was pretty funny.
- he says numbers many times which gives specific ideas.
- good use of voice!
- I think it is good to just walk around on the stage as he talks


3) What are the weaknesses of the presentation? How could it be better?
- he talks a bit fast?
- it would be better if he had slides for his presentation. presentation with no slides is sometimes boring....and slides make easier to understand.

Hello everyone in APE class!!

This is my first blog post for the Advanced English class. How are you guys doing?
In today's class, we introduced ourselves to classmates and memorized everybody's names. I'm not sure if I still remember the names though... haha

Anyway, today's homework!

Characteristics of GOOD presentations:
- presentation with good sources
- presenters are confident
- good eye contacts
- start presentation with good attention getter
- topic and claim are clear and specific

Characteristics of BAD presentations:
- repeating the same things over and over
- saying "like"s and "ummmm"s many times
- reading papers that presenter prepare, not presenting
- presenter is not confident in the content of presentation
- not looking toward audience
- boring
- slides include lots of letters

See you on Wednesday!