Reflections on Oral Presentation

I have always enjoyed presenting in front of an audience, regardless of the topic. The topic we chose for our oral presentation was something close to my heart – Wi-Fi connectivity. I saw it as an opportunity to combine my love for technology with my love for presenting. We finished our proposal and slides in good time. I was slightly nervous the day of the oral presentation because the other oral presentations had been of a very high standard. In effect, the bar had been raised.  Before the presentation, we were slightly apprehensive about the fact that we had not been able to successfully conduct an interview but nevertheless we substantiated our claims using empirical data such as an online speed test conducted in PGPR and YIH. 

 I thought Bernard presented very well and set the tone for the presentation effectively. Ding Ding’s part was not very content rich but more of comparisons of his experiences back home and his experiences in NUS. My part was largely technical and contained a lot of technical jargon such as routers, extenders, hot-spots and so on.  I really wanted to make it as interesting as possible but even I felt that it became slightly like a lecture.

The Q&A session that ensued went off fairly well, I was equipped to answer all technical questions and vacillations. The reception of our class was largely mixed. Many found it slightly abstruse and technical. The solutions did not seem to flow into direct results. Our presentation was aimed at the Computer Centre and our use of technical information was to substantiate our claims and show the feasibility of our solutions. In the view of a technical presentation , I was very satisfied.  I just wish that we were able to reach out to the audience more in terms of content and convince them a little better. However, seeing as it was aimed towards Computer Centre, I feel better about it. 

Overall, I've enjoyed every bit of this module, the peer teaching, the proposal formulation, the oral presentation and all the blogging. This is not my last post, I really want my last post to do justice to this module so I'm going to pace it out and write it when I'm in the mood for some retrospection. Thank you guys for all your useful comments, faithful readership and all the friendships I made. Keep reading for the last post!