REFLECTION ON TECHNICAL PRESENTATION

My group and I did a presentation on the installation of solar translucent automation louvre system. It is a proposed solution on reducing energy consumption for an existing building through the utilization of solar panels as well as a sun shading device. For my part, I presented on the proposed solution. In that section, I have mentioned on the two-technology component of the system and how it works individually and as a whole.

Designing PowerPoint slides have always been my interest. The preparation of the PowerPoint slides has allowed me to explore more layouts. In the initial stage of the preparing the PowerPoint slides, I felt apprehensive, because we were given a short period of time to condense our report into a 15 minute PowerPoint presentation. Our group had discussed and decided to use pictures to convey our explanations with one or two key points explanation. I tried to use fronts that are bold and flow charts to enhance audience’s understanding. We wanted to try if by inputting pictures and flowchart could be effective in capturing the audiences’ attention as compared to a chunk of texts. I felt grateful that the slides turned out well when some of our classmates sang praises that the slides were eye catching.

Conducting a presentation has always been my greatest fear. During my presentation, I felt very nervous even though I had done several rehearsals with my group mates. My weakness was that I tend to speak extremely fast when I am facing the crowd. Hence this has resulted me into mispronouncing most of the words. I tend to move towards the screen to point out the diagram, as such, there were too many unnecessary gesture movement.

As such, in order to improve my presentation skills, I would need to build up on my self-confidence by occasionally speaking up. By speaking up, people are able to correct my mistakes. Another take away was is that our group can possibly use a clicker with laser so that I would not need to walk up and down to the screen. The use of pointers could probably be more professional.  Overall, I was not contented with my performance as I felt that I could do. However, I can make use of these mistakes I made and learnt to overcome them. After all, we improve ourselves by learning from our mistakes and not to make them happen again.