Giving Talks

Today I've had a very interesting lecture on Oral Presentation. Even though it was the third lecture, I would usually half-asleep by then. However, I was wide awake and enjoying every minute of the lecture.

I shan't bore you with every detail of the lecture, but the most captivating part is the time when he showed videos of introductions to a few presentations. Introduction is an important part of the presentation as you need to capture your audience right from the start. In one of the videos, this guy tried cracking a joke, but no one catch that, how embarassing it would be if I were the presentor. Another guy started his presentation with a right hand right leg march to the screen, must've been too nervous.

Of course, there are good examples too. One of them started the presentation with a rhetorical question, then added herself as one of the answer as a joke. It worked well, and captured the audiences' attention.

The lecture was fun alright, but after the lecture, I had an afterthought. What I've just seen were videos of students from past cohort taking the module, and what I'll be doing. What if the lecturer decided to take my presentation and show it during lecture for future batches? Will it be shown as a good example or a bad example? What funny things will I do during the presentation?

Whatever uncertainties I have about this presentation doesn't matter now that I've already chosen to be forced to take this module. What must be done shall be done. Let's hope the topic given wouldn't be too tough.