These past days we have been working on our presentation skills. We have been practicing to project our voice clearly and having more information in case of questions asked at the end of the presentation.
We learned that in order to not bore our audience we need to not talk towards the screen but face them more. We have also learned that it would be a good idea to sign a few words to them. Instead of just having our audience sit and hear us talk and talk, it would be better if we had them learn a few signs along the way. We could have them do hand movements and facial expressions that go with the signs.
Some challenges that we faced was that the teachers we emailed to, asking whether they would allow us to interrupt their class time in order to present our power point have not yet responded. Another thing is that if one of the teachers were to respond and let us come to class to present our power point on a certain date then we would need to talk to our own teaches and see if they would allow us to miss class time. A problem with this would be if our teacher does not let us then we would need to talk to the one who responded if we could do it on another day then he/she may not have a day cleared for us to present.
Our next steps would be to talk to teachers in person instead of email because they may be busy and didn’t get to see our email. We will go and ask them in person during their office hours and explain to them what we are doing. We are hoping that once we talk to them in person that they might consider letting us do our power point. Talking to the teachers in person is a better and a faster way to get a response.
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