Review of My Classmates' and My Presentation

In viewing my classmate's proposal presentations, I really enjoyed seeing everyone's research topics and how they planned to organize their paper! It was nice to see a group of the Caribbean countries together and what each country "specialized" in. The presentations worked, the topics worked, but a handful of people's presentation skills did not work too well. Some classmates were too quiet, hid behind the computer screens, and there were one or two presentations that made very little sense. Although I enjoyed how each classmate discussed his/her topic, I was not very impressed that most of the topics had to do with the country's economy based on tourism. I felt like some countries/students could have been more creative when choosing their topic, because a lot of the presentations sounded very similar although they were based on different islands.

I, on the other hand, never got the opportunity to present my research proposal presentation to the class, but I did present my final research presentation. After the presentation, I definitely thought of a handful of things I could have mentioned during my presentation such as statistics of developed and developing countries, environmental facts on how pesticides alter our mosquitoes and water, and why ethics, logic, and equality were the reasons I believed developed countries should assist developing countries. I was disappointed in myself that I did not mention those factors that I wrote in my actual paper, because I was nervous about staying within the 5 minute presentation time, and by the time I did remember it no longer seemed relevant so I kept my mouth shut! I did not think I did terrible, because I projected and made eye contact with others, but I did not think I did fantastic either! Below are the slides of my final research presentation.