Skip to main content

6/18 Reflection

 Today, Mr. Paterson told us that grammar doesn't matter much in our presentation. The important thing is how we deliver the presentation to the audience. The important elements of deciding if the presentation was whether it was good or bad are the word choice, how we look while we are talking, and the way we talk. The word choice takes only 8% of it. That is why we have to practice the presentation with audiences to experience the same situation as the real presentation.
 I was glad to hear that grammar doesn't really matter in our presentations. I knew that grammar isn't the most important thing in our presentations but I didn't know that it only matters 8%. Even though I lived in America, I am not very good at speaking English, especially in front of people. I get nervous easily. I know that since it's not a speech we shouldn't make scripts but I want to make it since if I get nervous I panic and that makes me forget what to say. Since we didn't have the chance to practice much in our groups, we want to practice together more. I would also want to practice by myself at home. I am not looking forward to the presentation but I am excited to see other group's presentations.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

9/30 Reflection

Today Mr. Paterson introduces us to a tool that shows us if our choices of color are color-blind friendly. I never thought of the color choices that deeply. I knew that some combinations of colors are hard to see but just for normal people. When we checked our site, there wasn’t that much to fix but I learned that there are choices that normal people can’t notice.  Today the class was supposed to start the presentations but we were given more time. I hope that we can do a better presentation than the last one. 
Post a Comment
Read more

2021/1/14

    Today, Mr. Paterson told us about an article about paper textbooks and digital textbooks that sparked debate.       When he showed us the news article, I recognized the professor immediately and I was surprised to hear this from him. I've read a few of his books about the Japanese language (since he studies Japanese) and seen him on TV multiple times, and I liked him. I'm all in with digitalizing textbooks since it's much more efficient and most of all it's so much lighter.       Mr. Paterson told us about vertical and horizontal reading. With digital textbooks, students can do horizontal reading. When I read books I note down the words I didn't understand and search them up later. But when I forget which page I got it from, I can't consider the context clues making it harder to understand the word. I like paper books but I find this really inconvenient.            I couldn't really get why he disli...
Post a Comment
Read more

2021/10/12

    Today in class, we were introduced to the world-systems theory. This theory was developed by Immanuel Wallerstein. Mr. Paterson showed us a graph with Kondratiev waves, when the graph goes up the monopoly of the technology and when it goes down the monopoly ends. This suggests that the world is divided into 3 countries, ①core countries, ②semi-periphery countries, and ③periphery countries. It argues that technology gets passed down through generations; rich countries get to use the new high-tech stuff first and when they are done with it, the poorer countries get to use it, when it's not high-tech anymore. The richer countries don't like it when other countries infringe on their monopoly and they try to come into the "core countries". They don't like sharing so it's very rare for semi-periphery countries to bump up to the core countries. One example was when the US was developing rapidly and becoming a bigger country, Britain, France, and Spain fought in th...
Post a Comment
Read more