Friday, 17 January 2014

Pecha Kucha reflection



Lisa and I have decided to give a presentation on the trilingual education system in Luxembourg. Frank and Hendrik suggested contacting Selma, a student from Luxembourg who is studying at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies. We wrote her a mail and she was immediately ready to help us with our presentation. Selma turned out to be a very helpful person who gave us useful advice on our presentation.
The most strenuous part was definitely preparing and recording the transcript. Unfortunately, Lisa and I hadn’t seen us during the weekend before the deadline and so we had to spend a looong evening at the ITAT splitting up our text into a dialogue. Therefore, it wasn’t surprising that we talked in a monotonous tone – but we weren’t bored, just very tired.

I have to admit that I wasn’t keen on giving our presentation in the form of Pecha Kucha. I was horrified by the fact that a slide will be shown for 20 seconds and then the next slide will appear. This required a lot preparation and I felt impelled to learn my text by heart. However, in the end everything went fine and PK turned out to be not as bad as I imagined it. I don’t want to say that I enjoyed giving the presentation, but the meticulous planning of every detail was worth it and we received a very positive feedback:

“Interesting and well-structured”

"The time management was great, it was loud enough and good to understand
I liked the language examples :)"

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