Evaluation

[sunrise95]

Hallo! Ich brauche dringend Hilfe!! Muss meinen Text morgen abgeben und würde mich unheimlich freuen wenn sich jemand durchliest was ich geschrieben habe und nach sprachlichen/ grammatischen Fehlern schaut :/
(das ist nur ein Teil der Arbeit)

I think overall our presentation went well, but I am sure that there are features which could have been improved.
Drawing information from the feedback given by the audience, one primary thing that emerges was that the presentation strategy was engaging and encouraged the active involvement of our class members. I was very pleased with our lesson plan, too. It was well structured, so that the preparatory work done before the final discussion was very helpful for the audience to take part in the conversation.
Apart from that I think our time management of planning the presentation could have been improved. We worked on many different thoughts instead of focusing on one. This caused that we had to cut out many ideas at the end because there was not enough time to present them. The time we spent on working out these ideas was missing when we had to rehearse our speeches.
That leads to the second matter I wasn’t happy with. Occasionally I interrupted my speech and had to look at my notes again to know what I was talking about. The reason was probably that we worked too much on the content of the presentation than on rehearsing our speeches. Another reason could be that I told everyone -if they wanted to hear it or not- that I was really nervous. That is why I got even more nervous while holding the presentation.
After all it was very good that we were able to answer the questions asked during and after the presentation due to our intensive work with the novel and different interpretations of it. This was the positive side of investing so much time in working out different ideas. Therefore we were prepared for these kind of questions.
Furthermore, one effect of choosing a matching layout for our PowerPoint slides and reducing the number of the slides was that the visual aids we used were not detracting but enhanced our presentation. But I must take into account that two spelling mistakes were made. This fact was disappointing because we could have avoided it easily.
On reflection I think we could have rehearsed our speeches a bit more and integrated enough time to avoid stress and nervousness before the presentation.
It is general argued that ‘relaxing-times’ before a presentation are very helpful to reduce anxiety while presenting. Also a good structure and lesson-plan of a presentation is very important to engage and involve the audience.
In conclusion I can say that our way of preparing the presentation was really good because we worked intensively and efficiently on the novel but we should have planned our time better.
The next time I am going to make sure that I have time to relax before the presentation day and I feel it is necessary for me to rehearse my speech to gain more self-confidence while holding the presentation. Moreover I have decided letting someone look over the PowerPoint slides to correct any spelling mistakes.

[Keswick (Contributor)]

Hallo Sunrise,

Du hast deinen Text gestern um 21.35 Uhr eingestellt und erwartest eine Korrektur fuer den naechsten Morgen? Wir tun war wir koennen, aber das ist zeitlich zu knapp. Sorry!

Deswegen haben wir in den Forenregeln unter Punkt 3 auch den Hinweis "Schreibt eure Beiträge rechtzeitig [...]"

Ich hoffe dein Text wurde dennoch gut bewertet.

Gruss
Keswick