Comments on Children Book Presentations

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Comment on the Children Book Presentations

We had 11 presentations on children book last week. There are not only good presentation skills that we can learn from our classmates, but studying from mistakes can also improve our performance. First, I would love to share the strengths of our classmates. 

Preparation were welly done by the outstanding performance. Powerpoint were beautifully crafted. For example, Jerry made a picture book-like Powerpoint. It is undoubtedly very pleasant to read with his explanation in class. Confidence were also shown. For instance, Boots had many hand gestures when she was elaborating her points with example in which it is a mean of fully prepared. Creativity of musical instrument sharing by Nick was another way of showing perfect rehearsal. Not only he combined the picture book with his own personal experience, but also an attractive way to capture the attention of his audience. Therefore, well prepared presentation skills are the power that our classmates has obtained. 

However, there were certain mistakes that need our attention to learn from, which were all minors mistakes on the design of the Powerpoint. Since this class has adopted English as the teaching medium, we should be careful when it comes to explanting ideas for not including Chinese. Boots had put in a Chinese word in her presentation, although it benefited to the clarification of her theory, it is after all an English class. It is suggested that she could translate the word into English and use brackets to include the Chinese word, which is a proper way to indicate the translation. Presenter confused the wording in some case. For Nick, he mentioned that he would give us a summary of his picture book. Yet what he did is telling us the story in detail. Presenters should pay attention to their wording for avoiding confusion of readers.