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Report
#3:
Strengthening
my oral presentation
by
Mike Choi
Dr.
Leon James, Instructor:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy/leon.html
Instructions
for this report:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy19/g19tasks-schedule.htm
Introduction:
My name is Mike Choi and I am a student in Dr. James Psy 459 class
which discusses men and women in the workplace. We are Generation 19 which
means that this is the 19th semester. Being G19 has it’s advantages
and disadvantages. One of the advantages you’ll find being G19 is that there
are 18 prior generation webpages that you can review which can help a lot when
you start to create your own webpages, you’ll find many ideas and creative
thoughts in many of the prior homepages. One of the disadvantages is that since
you are G19, there is a certain level of progress that needs to be in our
homepages and reports.
This is the third report that was required for completing this
class, we had to do two oral presentation during this semester on a book by
Deborah Tannan “Talking from 9-5”. For myself, I had to research on a article
for Chapter 7 “Gender Communication”, and for my second presentation, it was on
Chapter 8 “ What’s sex got to do with it.
This report will focus on
steps I took to strengthen my oral presentation skills. There will be a
pre-ratings before I started on my first oral presentation, and then a
post-ratings scale after I have completed and got my grade and feedback from
the instructor and other students in the class.
First
Oral Presentation:
Article
Chapter 7
|
Step |
My Affective
Information Behavior |
My Cognitive
Information Behavior |
|
1. Turned on my computer at home. |
- stressed because of other mid-terms. |
- I can’t believe I waited till the last minute. |
|
2. Looking for sites relating to my topic. |
- felt nervous because I hate doing oral presentation. |
- It shouldn’t be too bad. |
|
3. downloaded several interesting sites on my topic. |
- excited to see many sites relating to my topic. |
- I shouldn’t have a hard finding a decent article. |
|
4. Read all three articles. |
-confused on the first two articles I read. |
-Maybe it isn’t as easy as I thought. |
|
6. Read the last article. |
- happy that this article is understandable. |
- I hope I can write a good outline with so little information. |
|
7. Prepared my outline. |
- Mad that I don’t have enough information. |
-I should’ve started earlier on this project. |
|
8. Printed out my outline. |
- Unsatisfied with the work I have done. |
- I just hope I can explain it well in class. |
|
9. Practiced my presentation. |
- Very nervous cause I’m bad at giving oral presentation. |
- I hope I don’t screw up and embarrass myself. |
|
10. Presented in class. |
- I was so nervous that I forgot all the things I was going to
talk about. |
- I just screwed this presentation. |
Comments:
|
Sender |
Message |
|
Psy 459 |
“I thought your
presentation was well done, and your outline understandable” |
|
Dr. James |
-You looked down
instead in the audience 90% of the presentation. -You shouldn’t chew
gum. -Recommended that I
take a look at other students report for reference. |
My
Errors While Doing Oral Presentation #1
|
Description
of Error |
Error
Classification |
Explanation
For Error |
Solution |
|
Didn’t do enough research on my
topic. |
Major |
Since I had two other mid-terms to
prepare for, I was short of time. |
For the second presentation, I
will be sure to prepare way ahead of time, and make sure that there are
nothing due during the week of my presentation. |
|
Didn’t practice my speech for the
presentation. |
Major |
Since time was a big factor in
this presentation, I wasn’t able to prepare adequately. |
Next time I will practice my words
in accordance with my outline. |
|
Looked down 90% of the time. |
Major |
I was so nervous of what others
would think of my half prepared presentation that I was embarrassed to look
at them in the eye. |
Next time I will be prepared so I
could feel more confident in looking at people and feeling competent about my
presentation. |
|
Chewed gum while presenting |
Major |
I forgot to throw away my gum
before the presentation because I was so nervous. |
I won’t chew gum before my
presentation starts. |
|
Didn’t explain thoroughly my
outline. |
Major |
Because I wasn’t prepared, I
didn’t know what to say during each section of my outline. |
Next time I’ll be prepared and
make sure to take good notes. |
Errors:
First of all I’m very bad at giving oral presentations, even when
I’m prepared, however this time I wasn’t prepared, so my oral presentation was
even worse, like pouring salt on a wound. During my presentation, I kept
snapping my jaw because I had gum in my mouth, that was due to the lack of
confidence giving this presentation. Also during the presentation, I didn’t
look up at the audience because I was embarrassed for not being prepared, and
felt bad because other classmates had good rapport with the audience.
Second oral presentation:
Chapter 8
|
Step |
My
Affective Information Behavior |
My
Cognitive Information Behavior |
|
1. read Chapter 8 while on the
threadmill |
- felt good killing two birds with
one stone. |
- thinking about ways to improve
on my next presentation. |
|
2. reread chapter 8 |
- proud to understand this
chapter. |
- I figure I will read it several
times until I can memorize it. |
|
3. prepared a ouline. |
- little stressed because I didn’t know how I was going to organize
my outline. |
- I’ll combine several paragraphs
so it will be more understandable as long as I can explain it well. |
|
4. wrote notes on a different
sheet of paper to supplement my outline. |
- happy that I’m not on a time
budget since I started a week in advance. |
- thinking which areas will the
students find amusing. |
|
5. practiced my speech with my
notes and outline. |
- laughing because I know my
audience will enjoy this presentation. |
- what if I freeze up and forget
everything? |
|
6. presented in class |
- nervous but felt more confident
since I was prepared this time. |
- everyone seems interested, I
hope they forgot about my first presentation. |
|
11. filled out post-ratings |
- relieved that this was over
with. |
- now all I have is the third
report and this semester is over. |
Comment
from peers:
|
Sender |
Message |
|
Kim Naka |
“you did a great job
on this presentation, it was interesting and fun, gook luck on your next
presentation” |
|
Dr. James |
Great job Made great eye
contact. Good rapport with the
audience. |
My
Errors While Doing Oral Presentation #2:
|
Description
of Error |
Error
Classification |
Explanation
For Error |
Solution |
|
None. |
none |
none |
none |
Publishing Task 6:
|
Step |
My
Affective Information Behavior |
My
Cognitive Information Behavior |
|
2. Opened up word. |
-stressed because once again I’m
waiting till the last minute to complete it. |
- it shouldn’t be too bad. |
|
3. started to make tables and
organize my report. |
-tired and stressed because I got
other finals. |
- I just want to get this out of
the way. |
|
4. saved it because I had to leave
for a while. |
- very very tired. |
- thinking about work and closing
up. |
|
5. I forgot to save my document. |
- very mad and upset, now I have
to start all over. |
- I hope I can finish on time. |
|
6. starting all over and reviewing
my notes. |
- so very mad, but a little calmer
now. |
- I better be able to finish
before the deadline. |
|
7. filled out post-ratings |
- all relieved now I can take a
shower and go to bed. |
- I hope I didn’t forget anything. |
|
8.uploaded my report and check if
all the links work. |
- everything is fine, but still
mad at losing three hours of work. |
- yes! Everything is fine. |
|
11. emailed instructor that report
3 is published. |
- very relieved |
- now I can go to bed. |
Errors
doing report 3
|
Description
of Error |
Error
Classification |
Explanation
For Error |
Solution |
|
Forgot to save my document
correctly. |
Very Major |
Since I had to work from another
computer, I emailed myself as an attachment to I could open up the document
on another computer, however when I downloaded my report, I forgot to save it
and the whole thing erased. |
Next time I should copy it on a
disk so I know it will be saved. |
Pre
and post ratings for task 6:
|
|
Task
#5 |
|
|
Questions |
||
|
2. Mood (1= negative; 10=positive) |
4 |
10 |
|
5. Importance of succeeding at
this task (1=not important; 10=extremely
important) |
10 |
10 |
|
6. (Expected) difficulty in
performing task (1=not much; 10=a lot) |
9 |
8 |
|
7. Amount of upset if failed at
task (1=not upset; 10=extremely upset) |
10 |
10 |
|
8. Degree of certainty in
completing task (1=doubtful; 10=almost certain) |
9 |
10 |
|
9. Likelihood of becoming good
at task (1=pretty doubtful; 10=almost
certain) |
8 |
9 |
|
10. Main reason for completing
task (a=luck; b=skills I’ve acquired;
c=help from others; d= combination of things) |
b |
b |
|
11. Amount of motivation to
complete task (1=slightly motivated; 10=very
highly motivated) |
10 |
10 |
|
12. Computers make it easier to
perform the task (1=I strongly disagree; 10=I very
much agree) |
10 |
10 |
|
13. ∫(Expected) amount of
effort to complete task (1=not much; 10=a tremendous
amount) |
9 |
9 |
Analyzing pre and post
ratings:
Question
2: my mood has changed for the better because I was much happier this semester
was over.
Question
5: importance of succeeding was the same because I wanted to succeed no matter
what.
Question
6: it was as difficult as I thought it would be after doing the first
presentation.
Question
7: importance didn’t change because it was very important that I pass this
course.
Question
8: Degree of certainty was higher because I felt more confident after the
second presentation.
Question
9: becoming good at this task went up because I felt more competent after the 2nd
presentation.
Question
10: I felt that it was skills that has made me successful at completing this
task.
Question
11:motivation was same because I knew I had to pass this course.
Question
13: amount of effort stayed the same after completing both presentation.
Facing
a due date:
I
was very stressed finishing this report because I had so many other priorities
that I had to accomplish, especially when I forgot to save my previous version
of the report. Right now its
Conclusion:
I
have learned a lot from doing these two presentation, I realized that I can’t
just wing it and expect to be ok, however I noticed that when I put more effort
I tend to do better at thing.
Advice
to future generation:
Just
do your best and if you have trouble, look at previous generations webpage to
get ideas to aid in you reports. Make sure to read the chapters thoroughly so
you can understand and give good criticism to others.