Reflection for Oral Presentation (Digital Portfolio)

Nur Fatin Atiqah Binti Abdul Rahman

AH100600

Five minutes and then you go babbling until out of a sudden the time is up! Then you began to think back, what had you said in front of the audience? Had you really presented what is necessary? Or did you just stand in front and said it out loud word by word whatever you had written on the slide?

Five minutes and that's all. Not more than that. Quite difficult for me if you asked me.

Throughout my studies in UTM, I had never been given a specific time when it comes to presenting in front. Therefore, I (as well as the rest of my friends) would tend to present every single things that we had written on our slide. It will pretty much depending on how many slides do we have. If there is only few slides, then the time we need to present would be less compared to those who have more than 35 slides! (Just a random number by the way!).

Thus when it comes to this digital portfolio presentation, I am quite nervous. First, it may be due to the lack of preparation that I had as I am the person who are quite laid back when it comes to presentation and secondly, because I don't know what to talk in front of the class (okay, also due to the lack of preparation that I did)! So I was like, "Just go with the flow!" and pray hard that all will went well.

And it did went well! Very well, mind you.

(You noticed how when you just go with the flow and everything came out perfect in contrast to when you had spent hours trying to plan and prepare? Yep, life is like that.)

 So from this whole 5 minutes of fame, I've actually learn a lot! Most probably in terms of what are the most important, the most crucial, the most essential information to disseminate to the audience. Not every single thing should be presented because then it would bore the audience. The only thing that you should bear in mind is that just present the best quality that you have (referring to the digital portfolio presentation). If you happened to be the student ambassador for a certain NGO then present it with proud to the audience because in the end, the main point of this digital portfolio presentation is to market yourself to potential employers, and if you are not proud with your achievements, then who will?

With that, I thank you.

P.S: I don't know if I am being reflective enough... 

Reflection for Digital Portfolio

Nur Fatin Atiqah Binti Abdul Rahman

AH100600

The first moment Sir Ghazali Bunari assigned the class to do this digital portfolio, the feelings that I had was excited. Yes, I was excited to be assigned to do such task. A digital portfolio, where we are free to create our very own portfolio to market ourselves to potential employers out there as creative as we can? Do whatever you want? Are you serious? Yes, that was in my mind but to be honest when the time flies, and the due date plus the presentation day is nearing, I was like, “Why oh why do we need to create a digital portfolio? Such nuisance, you know!”

So here I sit in front of my laptop and trying to reflect the task that I had finished last Tuesday (18th December 2012), remembering back what inputs and knowledge had I gained during finishing and completing this digital portfolio. There are several benefits that I gained though, and first, I must say that I am convinced now with my ability to create cute and pretty slides. I can play with colours, mix here and there and voila, a very cute presentation slides indeed! So proud if you wanted to know the truth. Even though there are several classmates who had gone all out and produce their very own digital portfolio using Prezi software, flash and videos, but I still want to say that my PowerPoint is not that bad at all. But still, Kudos to everyone because we can produce a unique and one of a kind portfolio, compared to the bland resume.

Other than that, I also learned during the presentation of this digital portfolio about the art of presenting what is more important rather than presenting the whole slides. Being given only 5 minutes to present, it was quite a challenge because normally the students would stand at the front and talk about every single things written on the slide thus the time given was not sufficient enough. Therefore, from the 5 minutes given, I know what to present, what to explain and what to elaborate further.

In conclusion, this digital portfolio had given me a new experience and knowledge that can be used for the benefits of the future! YAY! :D

Reflection on Career Exploration (Interview)

Nur Fatin Atiqah Binti Abdul Rahman

AH100600

The career exploration task requires the students to go out and meet people that they want to interview regarding the job that the interviewees are working at the time being. At first, finding the right person to be interviewed is quite difficult because we need to find someone who is not working in the government sector, plus several private companies are not that opened and being pessimistic when it comes to being interviewed. These private sectors are all private and confidential even though this kind of interview that we were conducting is relatively normal and pretty basic. It's not that we were asking really confidential questions as we also know the limits on what to ask and find out in the business industry. 

Other than that, after finding the right person, the other issues that might arise would be to keep the interview on track with the purposes as our respondent tends to talk a lot when given the chance. So it is quite a challenge to keep the interview on track plus to keep up with the time constraint (because we did the interview around 5.00pm). But overall it was quite a new experience for me. To do this task along with four of my group members, it opens up my eyes to see things from a different perspectives altogether. I believe that the experience I get from this can be very beneficial when the right time comes.

REFLECTION : WEBFOLIO

Name : NURFATIHAH BINTI MOHD NAIM

Matrix No: AH100136

In the digital web, I need to be more creative. I decided to use powerpoint as my presentation web folio. 

In addition, I also include many animation, variety of picture, bright colour to attract audience hear my presentation.  Furthermore, I also learn new things to make my powerpoint as a system.

If given the opportunity in the future, I would like to make a presentation folio website using flash.  Because when see flash from Dewi and Syafiq, I really like that flash.

Besides, I am more creative and create the elements, attractive presentation that I am doing to attract the audience.  i hope i can improve my web folio in next time to be more great.

RECLECTION : ORAL PORTFOLIO

Name : NURFATIHAH BINTI MOHD NAIM

Matrix No: AH100136

In oral portfolio, we need to present our portfolio in five minutes.  For me, it was quite challenging because not only do we need to present our portfolio, but also how to attract the audience.

In this activity, I see a lot of creativity slide that make from others friends. 

In addition, it taught me to be more creative in presentation and improve my communication skills. Other than that, it help me to more practice and reduce my nervous. 

Furthermore, it increases my confidence in doing presentations in front of people.

Lastly, I really appraised those are happy and enjoy see my oral presentation...*,*

Reflection on Curriculum Vitae

The curriculum vitae are like the proposal that was promoting ourselves to be given to the companies when applying jobs. We can put all the information and activities of ourselves as it can attract the interviewer. I learnt on how to do the right CV and also the lecturer has showed us with other types of creative CV’s that was created by other people around the world. From that, I also know that the CV was not necessarily made within the paper but it can be done in many other ways too. I think that this task is the most important topic because from the CV, the interviewer can make the first impression on us. 

Reflection on Job Application Letter

When we want to apply a job, it is important to write a formal letter that was suitable with the job. The letter might not same as the real formal letter but still it is a formal letter for job application. The letter must short, simple and have all the points that we want the company to know about us. We also must show that we are really interest with the job position that we want to apply, so that the representative of the company will be interested to take us for interview. Besides that, the content must follow according to the organization’s need. Overall, I am satisfied because in this topic I can learn on how to write the correct formal letter.