Critical Reflection 2: Presentation Showcase

The most attention catching presentation of the day would be the Team SFLR. Even though the team was the last group to present, they managed to get everyone’s attention by their enthusiastic voice. They spoke with confidence and engaging tone and successfully woke everyone up from a long day. 

The team’s topic was clearly presented and can be easily understood by the audiences with their articulate speech and the use of visual aids on the slides. It was clear that instead of memorizing the contents, they had their contents ingrained in their mind. This showed that they had done an excellent job in project research as most of the slides had only pictures shown. Every member of the team presented their parts verbally with only picture on the slides, this further grabbed the attention of the audience and made the audience curious and focus on what they are going to bring up next. The use of body language was good enough to make their presentation look natural.

Overall,  although their proposed solution still has some weaknesses just like the judge had mentioned, but in terms of presentation, the Team SFLR did an excellent work. I think the most important thing about a good presentation should not be only about comprehensive contents, but also to getting the audiences’ attention. Lastly, the presentation showcase was really a good opportunity for students to step out of their comfort zone and enhance their confident level. 

Critical Reflection 1: Module & Project Learning

At the beginning of the course, my communication and writing skills were poor, for example, I was unable to express the things I want to deliver in a proper sentence, therefore I aimed to improve on these areas.

First of all, the effective communication lessons were fun and entertaining, which made learning interesting. There were many opportunities that allowed us to discuss as a pair or a group, this helped me to enhance my communication skill and to step out of my comfort zone to share my ideas with my classmates effectively. After been through the course, I have made some progress on what I set as my goal. The reader response and summary article assignments have boosted not only my skill in writing, but also improve my reading skill. As of now, I will take an extra step whenever I am writing, which is to check my grammar carefully. Moreover, reading news articles has also become one of my habits now. Even though there is no more effective communication lesson, I will continue to read news or articles as to further improve in my communication skills.

The group project was beneficial to develop our teamwork and communication skills. Working in a team is not easy as we possess different strengths and weaknesses, thus we have to communicate effectively in order to understand one another better. In this way, we can combine forces and work in a more effective way. In addition, I also learnt to respect other’s ideas and contributing my own to work towards a common goal. As there were some disagreement at the start, but we managed to resolve on a topic which all of us agreed.

The team presentation was never been easy for me since polytechnic days, as I always get very nervous, tends to tremble and even lost my words when doing public speaking. In order to overcome these problems, we arranged meet up to do rehearsal presentation in front of our peer teams. In the process, we helped to point out one another’s weaknesses and learnt from them, so as not to make the same mistakes.

Lastly, with our team efforts, both of our technical report and team presentation were successfully completed, and this proved teamwork is the key to succeed. In future when working as a team either in school or work space, we must respect one another’s ideas and cooperate with one another as everyone has different area of expertise.