Mailing List Report
I chose Making Oral
Presentations Better because in my opinion
nowadays not only English but also other subjects use oral presentation in
every matter. Since oral presentation is important, I just want readers learn
to be a better presenters, especially when they are in a very important event (eg. In launching a product, show their opinion, etc.)
Other subject that
interested me is “scoring student”. My reason is, I just interested in how a teacher
scoring their students. For some teachers, they scored students subjectively,
and I definitely do not agree with this, it will cause an unfair result. But,
some other teachers who really considered their students effort in learning the
subject and scoring them objectively, it will indirectly selecting (smart or
less smart) the students.
"Maria Spelleri"
<[email protected]> opinion about “I have to say I've
never like the "forced audience question" approach , as an
instructor, I have sometimes had trouble myself coming up with a reasonable
question that won't be either totally obvious or make the presenter look bad.”
It is good for the speakers to get their confident and to initiate audience to
think critically. Sometimes presenters had showed their best, but some
audiences still considered them as a bad presenter. But, “David Tillyer" <[email protected]> just collect
the comments first and then present them to the speaker after he has read them
and, if necessary, pocketed unhelpful comments. It will help the presenters
also, if the teachers do this. Same opinion from “Susan Mahon"
<[email protected]> “all students can take notes on the
info presented and then the teacher can make a quiz over the stated info. This
would hold them accountable.” Other opinions from
"Felicity O'Dell" <[email protected]> which
make the audiences pay attention to the presenters is “I've also wrestled with
this. The most successful way I've found to deal with it so far is by
asking all the audience to write down for each presentation 3 things that they
particularly liked about or learnt from the presentation and one thing that
they feel could be improved on.”
<[email protected]> was wondering what criteria other teachers use to create the student's final score and what weight they give to each one. Those criteria are attendance, class interaction (actively involved in class or sleeping?), homework, quiz, and exam. He was also thinking about weighing the exam as 50% of the score. Most of opinion in “scoring students” they are from "Maggie Sokolik" [email protected] , "Ali Boumoussa" [email protected] , "Maria Spelleri" [email protected] , "Dick Tibbetts" [email protected] , and "Geoffrey Vitale" [email protected], regarded :Attendance
As teachers’ considerations in scoring their students. It involved students’ efforts in order to get a high score in the end of semester.