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Circa 2020, newly married at 34. 

 

Today's thoughts: Prof comments on my presentation skillzzz

 We had a group presentation in our class, Foundations of Public Health, last Tuesday and our report was about finding solutions for tobacco use cessation at the policy, community, and individual levels. I would say that our group barely managed to get a B, but what I liked was the comment of the professor regarding my presenting skills. Though I need to improve a lot when it comes to designing the slides, haha. Here's what she said regarding the parts that I presented:

-Solutions- presented very well, engaging. Slides still a bit busy with text- not necessary as the speaker did an excellent job discussing the main points- therefore slides themselves distracted from speaking points.

Socio-ecological levels slide- too busy! Too many images on one slide.

Solutions:

Policy and community level solutions slide- again too much on this slide! This detracts from the speaking points- the actual solution points are good and linked to the different levels of intervention but it is difficult to see this link with slides that are so busy. Good linking with everything you learned in class presented by different professors! I like that you discussed federal, state, and local role in solutions but there were many interventions mentioned- seemed a little unorganized as it was not clear which solutions were a priority.

-Wrap up: touched the main points of the presentation

I really need to improve on my slides!!! But super kilig ako when she said, "presented very well, engaging... speaker did an EXCELLENT job discussing the main points."

Still a long way to go, but I'm glad my speaking skills and the ideas I thought of were good, I just need to do a good job in visually presenting my thoughts. I'm more of a tactile and auditory learner than visual, so I don't put much premium, I guess, on the slides - which is wrong. Because some members of the audience may be more visual than auditory, so I also have to construct a slide deck that will appeal to visual learners.