After doing the presentation, there were some important points that was put to my attention during the feedback session. First was that I needed to provide examples when I speak of a topic in a slide. I definitely agree with this as I do tend to get caught up in theory that I often do not exemplify facets. Exemplifying matters helps improve understanding of a topic and I must do this if I am to gain the interest, attention, and understanding of my audience.
Along these lines, the other point mentioned was that I was told to help increase or catch the attention of the audience, I could walk around a little. This slightly conflicted with presentation skills learnt from previous studies as I was taught not to move as that would distract the attention of the audience from the presentation to myself. So in this respect, I disagreed with the feedback.
However, after some reflection of the feedback, I realised that there is an improvement that can be made that does improve my presentation skills. First, I do agree that I needed to improve on capturing the audience attention especially by not speaking non-stop as that can lead to them drifting from my presentation. To better capture the audience attention and keep them invested, I could increase the use of gestures instead of walking around. Gestures can create expression and connection between presenter and presentation. This is one facet that I can work on and use in my next presentation.
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