preparing for the presentation starting from tomorrow

 In today's class, we had a goal to ①finish making the slides and ②practice for the upcoming presentations (starting from tomorrow to the next few classes). In reality, although we were able to finish making the slides and polishing it, we could not practice the presentation altogether, with our team members. Thinking about it now, I think that there was one major problem that caused us to be unprepared for the practice we were planning to do during class.

 The problem is that we did not discuss the person in charge who was going to do the editing for the slides. Specifically, we hadn't chosen the person in charge of who is going to edit which slides, and rather it was a task which was done more freely, by our group members online on powerpoint. Therefore, not only did it cause confusion between our group members for who is going to edit which slide, but it also made it unfair for the people who would be editing more of the slides, compared to the people who hadn't. 

 Therefore, I realized that whenever we are working on powerpoint slides, we should be sure to discuss the person in charge of each slide, to avoid confusion and unfairness. If we would of have done this earlier, then we would have been able to practice for our presentations during class... 

 However, we came up with the idea to use LINE to send videos of us presenting our section, to give each other's feedback. By doing so,  we thought that we can look at our presentations from the audience's point of view too, making it easier for us to find the points that we can brush up.

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