Blog Post 6:Reflection on ES2007S

The journey of the module ES2007S has been both memorable and insightful for me. Ranging from brainstorming over problem solving; presenting and defending our ideas in peer teaching, oral assessment, oral presentation to writing resumes, application letters, proposals, blogs and giving mock interviews, we students have evolved from “taciturn listeners” to confident “attention seekers” dying to speak out and voice our opinion.

Although the module involved a considerable amount of workload, it was totally worth it. It helped me know how to face the real world, that is how to interact and communicate with people in different situations, how to face the job interviews and how to make presentations, all of which are important ingredients for success in this era.

I also learned about the 7’Cs; courtesy, correctness, conciseness, clarity, coherence, concreteness and completeness; which are an important aspect of the writing skills.

Before this module, I had not blogged or presented before.ES2007S helped me achieve the required skills for doing so.

The most wonderful thing about the module was that the classes were full of activities which were fun and exciting. I made a lot of new friends from different country, culture and religion. By talking to all my classmates, I enhanced my inter cultural communication skills.

Thus overall I gained a lot from the module. Of course, this would not have been possible without our supportive and encouraging tutor Ms Lim.She helped me realize my mistakes, criticized me wherever I went wrong and encouraged me to do better and learn more. Thanks maam for all your support, help and guidance.:)

Blog Post 5:Reflection on Oral Presentation

My team “Go Green” had the presentation last week on Thursday. Our topic was about “Solar Energy”. I have been studying environmental education for 2 years and this was one topic I could associate with very well.

Despite having prior knowledge in the area, I found this proposal and presentation very challenging. It involved doing lot of research, contacting halls, SERIS, OES, NUSSU SAVE for interviews; conducting surveys, collating results and finally compiling and presenting all the information to convince NUSEU to accept our proposal.

My part of the presentation involved the “Plan of Action”. I tried to incorporate all the comments of Ms Lim while practising my speech text and rehearsed a lot in front of my friends. To speak honestly, I think I did a better job this time than my peer teaching presentationJ. However, there is still some room for improvement.

While presenting, I think I spoke at a little fast pace which might have made it difficult for a few to grasp the information but overall I think I pulled it off well. I was very confident and energetic while presenting and the bright, smiling faces of my colleagues and audience helped me boost up my morale even further. I used both verbal and non verbal cues while speaking and maintained a good eye contact with my audience. I think my tone of voice was also quite appropriate while presenting.

The Q/A session was a bit difficult to deal with. We were bombarded with a lot of questions but my team and I managed to emerge successfully out of it. According to me, I was successful to a certain extent in clarifying the doubts put forth to me. I also managed to actually implement Ms Lim’s advice on how to deal with the curious audience J.

Also, this time, keeping into consideration all the comments from my classmates, I dressed up in full sleeved shirt, had my hair pinned and a smile on my face.

I hope I came out as a confident speaker and was able to convince NUSEU to accept our proposal.:)

At the end,I can passionately say that I had an enjoyable time working with my group-mates. The disagreements were solved in the most rational way possible, everyone was considerate to others and we all were more than willing to help each other out. We started out as a group and ended up a a team. This experience is what matters the most to me!