Pechakucha 20X20!

I liked pechakucha because it is already organized to make 20slides and we are allowed to speak for 20 seconds for 1 slide, which was easier for me to make a presentation compared to start with no restriction. Sometimes it's easier to do something if there are some rules to follow. In addition time and slides are limited, so people think carefully what to present and practice a lot, which means each presentation should be polished and improved in comparison to the normal presentations.

Here is my pechakucha movie:
https://w3.icu.ac.jp/people/payne/asuka.html

Goals for my next presentation:
- reduce a frequency of saying "like"s and "and"s.
- talk smoothly without script.

My reflections and goals (Presentation 1.)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope that everyone had a nice holiday.
I mostly worked for my part-time-job, went back my home(OKayama Pre.), and spent time with my family and friends for a couple days.

1. Voice (Volume, rate, pausing, emphasis etc)
Reflection: The volume was smaller than I had expected. I sould've clearfied the emphasis that I wanted to put, also the pausing.
Goals: To talk more clearly and put emphasis and pause at the points I should put.

2. Body Language (Eye contact, gestures, posture etc)
Reflection: I was looking at the screens, not the audience. Gesture was not too bad.
Goals: To have good eye contacts!

3. Visuals (Images or text on slides, timing etc)
Reflection: Image was not too bad. I was quite happy about my slides.
Goals: I want to understand the timing to change to next slide, which means I need to practice more.

4. Preparation Process (Topic selection, notes, visuals creation, rehearsals
etc)
Reflection:Topic selection was good?! Well, hope everyone enjoyed it. I think I should have done more rehearsals in order to be confident in my presentation. More rehearsal creates better presentation, I learned.
Goals: Many rehearsals!! Maybe I should practice in front of mirror as I do rehearsals.

5. Any other reflections or goals?
- My body was moving all the time... so I want to be careful about it for the next presentation.
- overall, I should be more confident in my presentation so that I can look at the audience, not the slides, and to speak more clearly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkqPGl0bbiI&feature=email
here is my presentation

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!

Thank you all!! xoxo

Today was the last day of Freshman ELP! I can't believe it actually finished....Even though I had hard times doing all the homework, I really enjoyed ELP classes.On the last day of ELP, we continued to watch the movie "This is What Democracy Looks Like". I was wondering what was the position of the police side. We have to listen to them before making judge of the movie. I also thought that Japanese young people do not demonstrate because we do not know about what is going on in the world, we do not care what is going on because we are busy with personal problems and we know that only people on the top can control the world. I personally feel that the world exists somewhere else, I mean I feel it is far away from us. I also got surprised that demo against the Iraq war, only 30,000 people out of 30million did demonstration , although there are much more around the world. Iraq war is not directly related to our life in Japan, which can be the reason for not having demo in Japan. have to thank Rab for giving us many useful knowledge, especially computer skills. I'm sure that those skills will be used in my future work. Also, thank my section mates! Even though we had SEKUKON once in the spring term, I really like you guys that you always go your own way! Best wishes to you all<3Have a great fall break!

Presentations!

Today, we gave our presentations to our classmates to explain the website we made for the group project.

Every group did such a great job and I was actually amazed all the works they had done!

We had classes in 2nd and 5th period today, and in 5th period, we watched the movie"this is what real democracy looks like."(am I right with the title?) I was once interested in media and wanted to get job related to media. However, now I don't because now I figured out that the majority of the media doesn't tell reality to audience. If I worked in the field of media, I would like to tell reality to audience, making documentary, etc.

Anyway, I enjoyed listening to everyone's presentation and watching the movie!