Presentation Day 1

 In today's class, we had the first 3 groups of presenters present about their idea. Three groups were randomly picked, and so they presented. Since my group wasn't picked today, I have a week to change a few things and brush it up based on the few bits of advice that Mr. Paterson said after listening to the presentations from Today's class.

 Firstly, I plan to practice more on making eye contact with my audience. When I practice my presentation alone, I don't make eye contact with the "audience" because there is no such audience in the first place. However, I realized that if I keep on practicing this way, I will get used to making no eye contact at all. Therefore, I came up with the solution to use dolls to serve as the purpose of my audience. So I collected all the dolls that were in my house, (most of them from the storeroom) and lined them up in front of me. When I presented using this method, I found myself making more eye contact with the audience.

 Secondly, I plan to practice using my body gestures even more, when presenting. Specifically, I had already made sure that I used my arms and hands when I was practicing alone, but I had forgotten to move my legs too. Since when presenting, it's important that you make eye contact with the audience within a near distance, it's important that you move around the stage. Therefore, I want to be conscious of whether I'm using my whole body, and not just arms.

Using these two bits of advice from Mr.Paterson, I plan to go over my presentations again.

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