https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate en-us 2018-10-01 10:07:24 UTC 2025-12-23 09:16:39 UTC hello@padlet.com katrina_harrington1988 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/287510226 1. What was your topic and why did you choose it?

2. What was good, and what was difficult about working as a group?
3. What positive feedback and advice did you get from the audience?

4. What would you change next time?

]]> 2018-10-01 10:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/287510226 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288071700 1- Our topic was about punishment in schools , everyone has a different reason why we chose this topic but i personally chose this topic to know about different cultures and how they grew up in school.
2- Everything went good , but they didnt have whatsapp ;( 
3- The positive feedback we got is that we learned about the audience’s country’s ways of punishment
4- We would add citations to the topic as our teacher asked for]]> 2018-10-02 12:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288071700 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288071795 My group presentation topic was about Brexit, we choose that topic because it is a very hot topic right now in the UK and many people has their own perspective about it. The good thing about working as a group is that you can make the work easier, and the difficulity is when we should adjust our schedule for the groupwork because every person has their own schedule. The positive feedback from the audience was they give some great questions. I think i will try to improve my presentation skills on eye contact and try not to look at the powerpoint and try to keeping it fluent and natural.]]> 2018-10-02 12:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288071795 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288071861 the whole presentation is coherent in general.but there are some details that we missed it. the reason why we choosee this topic is that it is quite controversial and very easy to begin with. less communication or eyes contact with the audience are our problems. so next time, I will improve it and prepare the content more thoroughly so that I could off the script.]]> 2018-10-02 12:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288071861 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072006   I chose the problem of pollution as my topic as I was inspired by the news of typhoon in China. At the same time，I found people in England littering on the ground though it is illegal，which reminded me that the vital part of reducing pollution was to raise people's awareness when the government and organizations have tried their best.
The most significant benefit of working with a group is that we can work less in the condition of having good communication. But we need to simulate again and again in case our parts are not able to link appropriately.
I think we have made a clear presentation this time，with adequate preparation in both the powerpoint and what we should say. The structure of our presentation is also relatively understandable.Using a piece of news to open up our topic is also quite special.
But I got a little bit too nervous that what I said was different from what I planned to say...And I used paragraphs instead of bullet points，which is the biggest mistake I need to correct because I always did that in my presentations before...:(
At last I have to say I always need more confidence so that I will not have to pretend to be confident! Hope I could do better next time.

]]> 2018-10-02 12:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072006 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072094 Well out topic is on Gun control over the world. The reason for us to pick this topics which is whatever come through my mind. The structure of the presentation was quite different than the one in my mind, also it is a shame that most of my research was cut off from the final draft. But we managed the time pretty well. To be honest, I do not think that I receive much feedbacks due to us presenting the last and little time is left for the audience to do the feedback. Next time, preferably, I like working alone on the presentation so that I may put more of my personal thoughts into the presentation than following others.]]> 2018-10-02 12:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072094 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072474 1) my topic was about Gun Control, we choose it because it was a big topic that we all understood.

2) It was easy working with the group because we all speak good English and the difficult thing was that we didnt work in class just online.

3) None we didn’t have time

4) Engage the audience more in the presentation, work more in person.]]> 2018-10-02 12:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072474 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072554 1. My topic was about punishments in school. The reason why we chose it is because we found there were a lot of differences on helping to modifying students’ behaviors between different cultures, and the actions taken by schools are not always unreasonable.
2. Everyone is responsible for an individual part, which makes the work more efficient. But there are also some difficulties, for example not all members have ability to make slides, but in order to ensure whole quality of the presentation in a short time, other members need to work more on editing information.
3. The topic could raise their resonance as students.
4. We may add key points in slides so that audiences could receive our opinions more efficiently. We would introduce backgrounds more deletedly to help audiences to get into our topic. We would indicate the source below each researched information.]]> 2018-10-02 12:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072554 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072891 1-The topic chosen was Uniform. We decided to choose it because all group members were able to relate. All group members were interested and showed ability to explain their slides.  
2- Helping each other and discussing the presentation matters on the phone had both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that we could work on different timings and show each other what we had so far to receive feedback. The only disadvantage we had was that we had difficulty explaining our opinions to each other.
3- Sadly, I haven’t received any feedback from my classmates.
4- I would agree on a timing to present together before the actual presentation. ]]> 2018-10-02 12:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288072891 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073047 I think they do spent time on it from their remarkable PPT,the statisticts they searched on the Internet . Beside, the topic they chosen is really good.I can learn much information from each presentation.However, I think more practice about what they will talk in the presentations will make the presentations better.They need fluency and confidence during their presentations.One more thing, more interaction,more eye contact will be better .]]> 2018-10-02 12:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073047 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073085 On Choosing the topic, I firstly considered whether the topic is controversial enough,then I choose Gun Control as my subject.Futhermore, I think it is also a topic with importance because it is vital in order to protect the lives of so many people.It is also a hot topic because of the accidents that have been happening those days,especially the mass murder in the high schools in USA.My making of PowerPoint was fluent because there are lots of information about this topic]]> 2018-10-02 12:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073085 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073187 Our topic is about school uniforms. My teammates chose it because i was absent that day but I like the topic. I really enjoyed working with Becky and Isa. We started a Whatsapp group and often talked about it. Isa was the main leader because he had done presentations before. He organized the contents and made sure everyone have some work to do. Becky came to my room and we redo the PPT because we thought the original one was not good enough. The difficulty was that we didn’t talk about the content in each slide and the problem was that they showed many pictures of uniforms but I showed only one, other than that, I talked about the history and price. Also, because I’ve never studied in UK before so I didn’t really know about UK students uniforms. I could only search the Wikipedia but I was not sure about the information. We were the first group to do the presentation and everyone was focusing on our work. It felt good! I also learned that we couldn’t use Keynotes and should always prepare a USB disk. I think I should speak more slowly next time and after searching the Internet, I’m supposed to summary the information in a more accurate way. What’s more, we need to discuss more about details. Thank you guys! I think we did a good job! ]]> 2018-10-02 12:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073187 840868734 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073217 We chose the "uniforms" as our presentation topic, and we discuss around this. For the reason why we decided to take this topic is that it is around our daily life, and we are capable of handling it well. In terms of the good part, we are all students so we know what we are going to say and come up with some our own ideas about uniforms. Also, it is very easy to make audiences resonate with us. However, as a group work, it is difficult for us to meet up with each other in a certain place and at specified period of time because of different time schedule. So actually we have to discuss the structure and division of labour online which is really confusing and complicated. After the presentation we received handclap from audiences. I will give more eye contact to the audiences and slow down my speed of speaking which because I was nervous at that time.

]]> 2018-10-02 12:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073217 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073774 Good things:
1. Asking question, which can help the audience get more involved.
2. Some funny pictures, which make the atmosphere quite cozy and relaxing.
3. Data is shown, making the statement stronger.
4. Many comparisons are made among different countries, and I think is quite interesting and meaningful to learn and embrace different culture.

Things that need to be improved:
1. Some groups may didn't rehearse together, because some slices were a little contradictory and some conflicts were among the things that speakers mentioned.
2. Some groups did give pros and cons, but they didn't type anything on the slice, and I think it would be a good idea to type the key words on the slice. 3.Some slices had too many words, and that is time-wasting to read all of them, and it may be quite difficult for the audience to catch the key point.]]> 2018-10-02 12:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073774 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073844 well our topic was mainly about homelessness and homeless people in UK, what are the reasons behind such issue, and some solutions to put under consideration. The bright side of working as a group was cooperation between us as teammates and we can decide which statement that best represent our personal views on the topic, but on the other side their where some challenges that we needed to overcome, which  was the time that was given to do the presentation. Meanwhile, the positive feedback that we received from the audience is to consider the opposing side to find the flaws in our solution. At the end we would talk about the topic in details and we would use the latest data to conduct our solutions and statement.]]> 2018-10-02 12:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288073844 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288074484
Our group chose environmental pollution as the subject.The reason is that not long ago a typhoon hit the coast of China,after it there are a number of problems of environment,so we want to make everyone to focus on this problem.We have different work in our group,and also we are all serious and responsible.However,finding research was a complicatied process .From audiences,I got that I need to pay attention to intonation,and avoid using Chinese websites for research.Therefore,I will improve my skills of language,and also be more confident next time.]]> 2018-10-02 12:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288074484 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288077084 My topic was about Brexit, we choose this topic because right now in UK it is a really hot topic to discuss, everybody has their own opinions about Brexit. The good thing on working in group is that we can make the work a lot more easier, and the difficulity is when we arrange the schedule for groupwork and meet up because everyone has their own schedule. The positive impact that me and my group got from the audience was we receive great questions from them. In the next presentation I want to improve my eye contact and make it as fluent as possible also makes it feels natural]]> 2018-10-02 12:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288077084 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288077538 1.Our topic was school punishment,after d]]> 2018-10-02 12:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288077538 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288078900 1.Our topic was school punishment.We decided this topic together through the discussion.
2.It is easy to explore more interesting ideas which would make our presentation more complete and logical for working as a group.However,lots of communication are asked in a group work,it is hard to fit every's time.
3.After our presentation,audience talked several examples of different ways to punish in their country.It reminded me that at the begining,we need to give exactly examples to strike a chord.
4.Firstly,in the next time,I need to take attention to my grammer when I speaking.Secondly,the content should be richer and more vivid.Thirdly,where the resouce from should be given.More evidences should be used to prove my opinions.]]> 2018-10-02 12:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288078900 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288081770 Relection on my topic gun control.I chose this topic mainly for two reasons:it is both controversial and important .First of all,there are lots of argument around this particular topic and for a long time.Then,it is significant because it matters to everyone, gun control is protection to all the human lives .I didn’t have a hard time looking for my information because there are lots of inform action online.But,i also made many mistakes.First of all, I put all the information on the PowerPoint which I should improve next time because audience should listen to me rather than just reading off the slides.Futhermore, during the presentation I should have make more communication with the audience]]> 2018-10-02 12:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288081770 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288086987 TRACY ]]> 2018-10-02 13:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288086987 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288091440 1. My topic was about punishments in school. The reason why we chose it is because we found there were a lot of differences on helping to modifying students’ behaviors between different cultures, and the actions taken by schools are not always unreasonable.
2. Everyone is responsible for an individual part, which makes the work more efficient. But there are also some difficulties, for example not all members have ability to make slides, but in order to ensure whole quality of the presentation in a short time, others need to work more on editing information.
3. The topic could raise their resonance as students.
4. We may add key points in slides so that audiences could receive our opinions more efficiently. We would introduce backgrounds more deletedly to help audiences to get into our topic. We would indicate the source below each researched information.]]> 2018-10-02 13:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288091440 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288092415 Our group chose Brexit as our presentation topic because it definitely is a controversial issue.The preparation ,working with partners,were a enjoyable experience.All of us participated with a positive attitude and we shared the task and cooperate one another.The audience put forward some fierce questions but we were unable to give our opinions directly.So for the next time,I would do more research in order to answer any questions the audience may ask.]]> 2018-10-02 13:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288092415 https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288092573 1. My topic was about punishments in school. The reason why we chose it is because we found there were a lot of differences on helping to modifying students’ behaviors between different cultures, and the actions taken by schools are not always unreasonable.
2. Everyone is responsible for an individual part, which makes the work more efficient. But there are also some difficulties, for example not all members have ability to make slides, but in order to ensure whole quality of the presentation in a short time, other members need to work more on editing information.
3. The topic could raise their resonance as students.
4. We may add key points in slides so that audiences could receive our opinions more efficiently. We would introduce backgrounds more deletedly to help audiences to get into our topic. We would indicate the source below each researched information.]]> 2018-10-02 13:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/katrina_harrington1988/Deansgate/wish/288092573