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Well, it is sad to acknowledge that our group’s presentation did not go well. It is not the fact that we did not do our research and preparation work. We had tried our best to find ample of information and also planned each other roles in the presentation in order for the presentation to flow smoothly, even still, things did not fall in the way we wished it to be.

After the presentation, the whole group gather together to reflect on what went wrong during the presentation. All of us agreed that it was the way we handle online presentation. Firstly, it is that we did not add “Moderator” to our name that gave the students a hard time in defining who the moderators are. We know this is an excuse that is not forgivable as we never really fully utilised and ‘explore’ with the functions of our UTS Online and virtual classroom. Secondly, we were like in the muddle and could not response quickly enough to students' questions. Students are often out of topic and we could not manage to control them. Many of you might think that we were not prepared the presentation but what we could say is that “what you see is not what you really saw”.

Students were often too aggressive on ‘soldiering on’ with questions and we did not have sufficient time to response to one’s question, and another question was already asked. When we answer the initial question they tend to ignore it due to the time lag between the question asked and answered. We admit that we did not address some questions well, such as the “moral voice”. The purpose we put it in is for everyone’s discussion. But it seems as a presenter ourselves, we, are expected to know everything perfectly and put everything in either black or white as the students do not seems to allow grey areas to occur in the presentation. With the bad start, our confidence level has dropped to the lowest point until we were ‘blank’ for a moment and do not really know how to control the situation.

As the presentation go on, things seem to be sailing a bit smoother. However, students sometimes are too aggressive in a way that they like to ask questions, especially questions which have no perfectly right or wrong answer. Many of the time, the answer is very much depends on one’s perspective. For instance, one of the virtual community’s characteristic is for caring and nurturing discourse which is not agreed by many of the students. Many of the student’s argued that virtual communities do not do any good to the society which is not exactly correct. There are many virtual communities that promote society care to our world, such as World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

In conclusion, we had really learnt a precious lesson in this presentation. Things can never be changed once it had happened. We really feel like doing it all over again and erased the history and re-live that day again perhaps things might ended up much more better and the outcome is at least something we desired. However, we all know that that could not be done, what we look forward now is the next presentation in Assignment 3 that we hope that we could do much better from this experience.

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