What I learned in MCOM this week is about presentation. First, you have to know your material. Knowing our material gives you confidence. If you have confidence, people will listen to what you have to say. Second, you lose A LOT of credibility with filler words. I know that I struggle with saying "like" or "umm". These distract the audience. I have started to try and stop saying those words in my everyday language because if I can kick the habit, it will be a lot easier when it comes time to present.
Finally, if you are presenting as team, you need to be united. Your whole team needs to know what they are doing or YOU lose your credibility because of someone else's mistake. Also, for me personally, I hated having all the team member just standing up there in a line. It sort of made me uncomfortable. I think when we do our presentation, I will try and persuade my teammates to take a seat ;)
I felt like all the presentations were really well-done-- especially for the first try.
Good Job everyone!
Im down to take a seat as long as they're right towards the front and wont be a distraction with people getting up and down. The only drawback to sitting is we will not be able to bounce off eachother and switch as often as if we were all standing. But im not opposed to the idea, i definitely think it focuses the attention more on the presenter as opposed to the other team member picking their nose;)
ReplyDeleteI love what you said about the importance of knowing your information so that you can be confident. Confidence is what might make a presentation successful. It helps the audience have confidence in the whatever information you are presenting.
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