Here I will critically reflect on what I have learnt in this course..
Difficult decisions in my poster design
The hardest things here were deciding what to leave out without losing the main points and how much time to spend on presentational aspects i.e. you can tinker with colurs and backgrounds for ever and not progress the actual content at all. Probably better to make an initial decision and then refuse to alter it until all the content is in.
Main differences between talking about my work at the poster session and giving a talk on it
The main diffierence was that during the poster session I was respondingto questions of people who had read it not proactively giving out information. In this sense it was more like the QA session at the end of the talk. If someone had come and said “OK take me through your work” then it would have been more like the presentation but using the poster instead of slides.
Mix of skills needed
Verbal, visual and written communication
What I did well
I think the poster and the talk went well, The slides were harder to create than i thought – they never seem to reflect what you actually say when you reach that slide, its like another person wrote them. The abstract took absolutely ages longer than i tought and opnions on it were hugely varied.
What I want to work on
it would probably be best for me to give a lot more talks as I’m on a roll and that is almost always my major weakness, either being nervous or appearing more nervous than I am.
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