Reflection on My Group Project

My group mates for the proposal are Huang Huan, Malcolm, and Yi Cun.

The deciding stage of our proposal was a bit confusing for me since I have not much idea on what areas for improvements in Singapore. Luckily, we have two Singaporeans in our group who knows better on what improvements are needed. Malcolm came up with the explanation about the current issues on the waste problems in Singapore which we found interesting. Eventually, we decided to work on "Improving Recycling Rate in Singapore."

The discussion for our written proposal was mainly during the meeting in the class. Initially, we would like to conduct an interview with one of the Environmental Engineering professor to gather ideas and feedback on this issue. However, due to the time constraint and no response from the professor, we finally decided to base our proposal on the survey result and secondary information. 

Our group project relied a lot on the use of wiki.nus. Honestly, it was a bit awkward for me when I used it for the first time. However, as our project progress, I am more used to it. It is quite convenient because we can create new pages on what we have discovered and leave comment at the same time. Furthermore, we can retrieve the changes of the page by other users, which is unlikely to be done in google docs. However, I am not sure whether changes made by two people at the same time in wiki would cause an overlapping content,which is not the case for google docs since we can know who are editing at the same time as us. The minor changes of our presentation slides was also discussed through wiki by uploading the new file and leave comment to alert others of the change we had made. This method is better rather than spamming others' inbox which sometimes may end up to be missed out by the recipients.

Overall, it has been an enjoyable journey working with Malcolm, Yi Cun and Huang Huan. They have been very helpful and cooperative. We even meet up to rehearse our line together for the oral presentation which I think really worth it. Besides that, the use of wiki has saved us a lot of time since it reduces the amount of time needed for our meeting.

Thank you for your cooperation and help for the accomplishment of our project. I hope we can work together again in the future. :)

I wish you all the best for your final exam! :)

Reflection on Oral Presentation

Preparation

During our group's slide preparation, I was appointed to be the first speaker. At first, I was a bit hesitant to take up the role since Mrs.Radhika told us that the first and last speaker have the most important role and I was afraid that I will ruin the presentation if I didn't do well. However, I decided to take up the role in the end since my group mates knew the other parts better than I am and I also understand my part better.

We didn't rehearse together before our dry-run presentation and decided that we rehearse on our own. However, after the feedback received from the dry-run presentation, we decided that we need to have a rehearsal together before the actual presentation. During the rehearsal, we took particular attention in our timings as well as the important points that we want to emphasize so that it can convince the audience on our proposal. Aside from that, I also spent a lot of time doing rehearsals on my own, with the mirror as my main assistance. It helps me a lot in building my confidence and improving the appropriate expressions.

Delivery


My presentation would have been better if I could slow down my pace and take some pauses as suggested by Mrs. Radhika and my fellow classmates. Nevertheless, I felt that I could managed my pace better and presented my content in a more organized way than in the dry-run. In fact, I had cut a lot of less important parts in the actual presentation so that I didn't have to rush over the content and finished my presentation on time. Besides that, I think I have to practise for a better pronounciation as sometimes I realised that I pronounce some words wrongly.

Use of slideware

Overall, I believe that our group have tried our best to produce an effective powerpoint slides. We managed to make good use of the animation to help us in presenting our points. Besides that, we also make use of it to highlight certain important parts, for example, the figures in the statistics provided in our slides. We also included some interactive images related to the content of our slides to make the slides more lively and attractive. The use of the wireless presenter has also helped us to manage our slides well.

Comments on other groups:

For Sin Wei, Li Koon and Seng Leng's group, I believe that you have done much better than the dry-run. Your group had a better organization of the contents and a more organized and attractive slides than before. Each of you also has a better understanding of the content and more confident than before.

For Xiu Xian, Charles and Ying Hui's group, you have done better than the dry-run. I could see that each of you have a better slides coordination with what you presented. Your group also had a better confidence during the presentation  even though I could still notice some nervousness for some of your group members. Nevertheless, you have done a wonderful presentation.

In conclusion, I have learned a lot from these oral presentations. I really appreciate the feedback from our tutors and friends. It really helps me understand which part I need to work on for further improvements. As the proverb says "Practice makes perfect", I believe that we can improve our shortcomings by keep on practising.