Oral presentation: History of the family - A look to the past

To start with the Presentation, I don't used any powerpoint as a resource like all my companions have done, my principal resource was be a geneogolist tree I print of all my family at complete.

Referring to Body Language & Eye contact part I still move my hands so much. At the beginning I was sit down because of my nervous but early I stood up and shows with more expressive movements what I wanted to say.

As the presentation was about my research project, the Structure was really good. I introduced the topic, spoke about my objectives, explained some theory followed by a practical part, and I finished with some conclusions. I also used some markers to help audience follow along.

The Content I think was very good, because it shows all my long work I've done last year working hard to my research project.

As for the Language, the grammar was correct but sometimes I've done mistakes its could disappear next time, in my perspective I see it was clear enough to follow.

And the Pronunciation was comprehensible I think, but sadly I was so embarrassed and nervous because some times I don't find words to explain something that appeared in my mind at the moment. Furthermore I have to improve my intonation because sometimes it was hard to comprehend.

Like Lourdes has said, I feel so nervous in this oral presentation and it's a think that impress me because I don't feel so nervous normally. Although I think this presentation could has be so long much better and for this reason I don't expect to have any good mark, if not only six points or similar.

Finally, my oral presentation to show you the work that could has be much better:

Transcription: Google history

Hi, everybody. I’m Roger and I want to explain you the main theme of my oral presentation, Google History. To introduce this explanation, I’m going to do one question: Nuri, what does Google mean? Well, thank you, it's one thing you'll learn in this presentation.

At the beginning, we have to know the early history of Google. Everything began in January 1996, as a research project in Stanford University in California. Larry Page, was joined by Sergey Brin to do in pairs the research project to the final of his informatics career. They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better ranking of results than existing techniques, which ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page. Their search engine was originally nicknamed "Back-rub" because the system checked by back-links.

The engine of these two guys works and important company's began to see this project with aspirations of future, but in the world of dreams of these boys, they don’t know the importance of their creation and they were only worried to created a commercial name.How I’ve told in the previous introduction, this name was Google that provains of the mathematics form goo-gol 10 raised to 100.

For the one hand we have to know the Acquisitions Google have done in the short period of time of his life. Like several companies at the beginning and big companies like:
- Keyhole, Inc. which developed a product called Earth Viewer, renamed in 2005 to Google Earth.
- Youtube
- JotSpot
- DoubleClick
- GrandCentral
- Postini

For the other hand, the Partnerships of this enormous company that eat every moment more companies, are very important to the future, these big companies like:
- NASA
- Sun Microsystems
- Time Warner's AOL
- News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media
- British Sky Broadcasting

Give to Google an important capital and their internationalist. Google have departments around all the world and it’s compatible with any language exist, including dialects, like Catalan.

To conclude my oral presentation I want to give a critical view of Google, because it not only has smiles. Google has monopolized the informatics market like Microsoft. It eats any good company that can be better of him and he include this company like a additional department of his company. But we know that Google has the world in his hands.

Self-evaluation: Google history

In this post I want to do a critical self-evaluation of my first oral presentation in this term which it has been about Google history. So I pretend to revise all the important parts of an oral presentation to give me a hypothetical mark. The finality of this comment is you can see the points you've done worse to improve them in the next oral presentation of the next term.


PRESENTATION

To do my oral presentation I've used a power point to support my explanation. I was been using internet images to create this power point that curiously I've found in Google images, one of a lot of applications Google has.

BODY LANGUAGE AND EYE CONTACT

I have to be ill to don't see public the major time of my oral presentations. It's one of the characteristics I can give to myself. However I think it's a thing my evaluators haven't appreciated when I've done my oral presentation. I've never seen the paper I take and which I was been moving all time because of the nervous, but it's normal. I've tried to give public the most nearly explanation to them with an eye contact I was been searching all time and which I've found at the most important moment of the presentation, the conclusion.

STRUCTURE

The structure I was been following is an introduction with the origin of Google. It was followed to the Google term meaning and after I've explained the acquisitions, relationships and applications this company have done with the past of time.Finally I've concluded my oral presentation with a good critical to big companies like Google.

CONTENT

I think the content of my oral presentation was completely unknown to the audience. Anybody knew anything about Google history: his origin, his name meaning, his relationships with other companies... For this reason I think the content was good in a general term. I know that I've could include more things but I've find a lot of unnecessary things to explain that weren't important to know the general meaning of this company.

LANGUAGE

To do the oral presentation I use to use simply grammar and I pretend to introduce new terms and concepts audience don't know, but it is never easy. I've included technical words, like mathematical concepts to describe the Google name. However I think it's one of the most important things I should to improve, the enrichment of my english vocabulary.

PRONUNCIATION AND INTONATION

In a presentation, it's normal be nervous and it can be reflected in the intonation or in the vocalization of words. Maybe in some parts of the presentation I've speed a lot, but surprisingly my oral presentation is 5 minutes long, so the perfect time.

EVALUATION

Presentation: 7/10%
Body language and eye contact: 9/10%
Structure: 8/10%
Content: 30/40%
Language: 15/20%
Pronunciation and intonation: 6/10%

TOTAL: 75/100%


To conclude this self-evaluation I want to do my point of sight other evaluations. This presentation is a chase that have surprised me, because some persons have evaluated to me with very good marks and congratulation to me, however, there are other people that have said me they weren't know what I said. I think it could be because of the speed pronunciation of much words, so I pretend to improve it.

My first oral presentation: Google History

Google History

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