Blog Post #4

*for some reason, I saved this post as draft instead of publishing it, so I am posting this post few weeks late! I apologize*

Today's class was quite exciting! We began the class by presenting our slideshow to 5 people in the class. We also learned a lot of good points about presentation today. Firstly, Rab told us that we need to think about the purpose of the presentation (why we're presenting), the main message (it should be simple, clear, strong, and connected to the purpose, easy to remember and so forth), present the key points (should also have 3 sub key points in order to achieve the purpose eg. weather, climate, money, food, and etc). In addition, we learned that we need to think about our audience beforehand. For example, we have to accommodate our slideshows that it is suitable for our audience. Furthermore, the slideshow should differ between students, teachers, politicians, and etc. In other words, the presentation should be appropriate for the audience. Next, we were told about the technique of predicting any problems beforehand. However, we had to make sure that we cover all central and important message in the presentation. In addition, we also learned that we should not be negative to opposed people. We could simply redirect the question, then cut it off instead since it is our presentation so we would not want our audience to ruin it. Lastly, we learned the CRAP. Apparently, C is for contrast and R is for repetition. That is, we want to repeat something throughout the presentation (for eg. same font throughout).

Today, our class were assigned a presentation to do after returning from our winter break. We were randomly chosen our group of three. We are creating the presentation slideshow using Google Drive. Each member of the group will be working on it during the break and then contacting each other using Google chat or other form of communication as well.

Overall, this course was packed with lots of useful information that I hope to make use of in the near future! And I hope to make our presentation to be an awesome one, too.