Bamboo-copter is a shy and quiet cartoon character. Taking Com1010 is the most challenging thing for her. She only has once experience with public speaking. Last semester she took Eng2150. She presented her presentation in front of the class. Although it is a small class only have nine people, she stills nerves. Nervousness is a major problem for many people during public speaking. A visual aid is really help the presentation. She made a Power Point slides for her presentation. Sometimes she forgets the content, the Power Point will remind her the main points. She enjoys a process from choosing an article, doing research, and presenting a speech that are interesting. She had done a presentation. She hopes she will do better than first time. She hopes through this course will improve her communication, research and analyse skills.
She always pays attention to the class, and takes a note. However, she doesn’t speak a lot. Sometimes she forces herself to join the class discussion, but she only can say few words. A small group discussion made her feels more comfortable.
Because she lacks of vocabularies, sometimes she can’t express what her idea is. She will use body language or she will give some examples. A strength of her presentation is the Q&A time. She does a lot of research. So she is able to answer the questions and has a discussion with the audiences. In order to build her confident, she will practise a lot before she presents her speech. Another strength is she has well organize. She will follow the plan. The worse thing is she doesn’t know how to engage the audiences. She speaks too fast because she is so nerves. Sometimes audiences don’t understand what she saying. She believe only thing can overcome nervousness is a practice.

Jinjin Xu