[REFLECTION] Day 1 - Book Review Presentations

While listening to the classmates presentations, there were few things that I have realized. 

First of all, most of the speakers voice was shaking. As a result, the listeners can easily detect if the speaker is nervous or not. To look confident about what I am saying on my presentation, I thought speaking clearly was important thing to keep in mind.

Secondly, some text and images in presentation did not look very nice. The problem was the lack of blending colors, box elements and fixed layout. By blending the image background with the slide background (or removing all whitespace) will make the slide very clean and visually attractive. Also, by creating a box element as a background for the text will make the text more viewable and clear.

Last of all, I thought that it was always important to link your "one last thing" with your book. Some people were stating the "One Last Thing" that had nothing to do with the book, but had something to do with either the authors background or their experience. The topic for the presentation is "Book Review". Not "The Book and I". I thought it was very important to stay with the topic through out the presentation. The slides and explanations are there to support your opinions about the book. (And maybe to insure the listeners you have deep understanding of the book)