(F) Presentation

Seeing everyone's presenting, I thought that they (including me) were using different styles of presentation.

Some people, such as Atsuko, Risako and Mari, used presentation slides which contain relatively many words (compared to others), and pictures to help understanding of the important points written in the slides. One of the advantages of this style is that people can "see" the important points of the presentation so it'll be easy for the audience to remember the content.

On the other hand, some people, such as Miku, Kengo and Yusuke, used pictures as the main and only a few words. A good point of these types of presentations is that the audience can pay attention to what the presenter's saying rather than the screen.

Also, I found an interesting article about different presentation styles↓Please have a look at if you are interested in:)

10 Different PowerPoint Styles – Tips and Clips on Using the Right Style for Your Presentation

http://www.24point0.com/top-PowerPoint/10-presentation-styles.php

Last term in the R&P class, the teacher of my section told us that we could use as many as slides we want but we should use words as less as possible. I know that it's one of the effective ways of presentation, but I do not think that's "the only" effective way. So, I personally do not want to decide which types of presentations are better than the others because different presentation styles have different advantages! (and probably disadvantages as well though...). Anyway, It was interesting to see different people presenting what they researched in many different ways:)

Regarding my presentation, I challenged to do what I've never done before, which is to do a presentation by using slides containing lots of pictures with no words (except the title of the presentation). When I was a high school student (in the English presentation class), I saw a video in which a man presenting in that way. I unfortunately forgot who was presenting about what, but definitely, it was really impressive for me. I remember that he was like spending only 3-5 seconds per slide. And I was curious to do the same thing.

However, my attempt this time ended up with a failure simply because I couldn't practice enough before actually presenting in the class. After the class, I really regretted that...I was busy enough doing other assignments as an excuse...orz

On the next day, (I did presentation in this class on Wednesday, so on Thursday,) I needed to do another presentation in different class. Because I regretted on the day before, this time I practiced many times at home (although it was in Japanese) in order to speak slowly, fluently and confidently. As a result, I didn't feel so nervous and I was able to do better presentation! This experience made me realise keenly how important practicing was...