Lecture Review: Sander Jonker

Lecture Review: Sander Jonker

First I’m going to talk about how he presented the lecture. To be honest, attitude-wise, he’s probably the best & most adaptable. He knows that he will be talking in front of students, so he really adapted his presenting style very well & was more relaxed than most of the previous presenters/lecturers.

And honestly, he’s presenting style is a very good example to any other lecturers out there. Most lecturers usually demand their students/audience to be very serious (sometimes even too serious). But he did not do that which is very good. He combines the level of seriousness & relax perfectly, and that’s what every lecturer in the world should do when lecturing students of our group age. He can joke a bit, be serious and most importantly, he really connects with the audience which is perfect. And to be honest, I believe that is what most students want out of their lecturers too.

In my opinion, what he does was not only presenting, but more like of doing conversation with the audience. And that is the perfect thing to do to keep the audience awake & to keep the audience’s attention focused on what is presented.

Now about the content, he did bring something new and some repetitions (which is not bad at all). Things like cloud computing are certainly new to us, and it was nice that he brought it up in the lecture for us. He also gave a more elaborated explanation about what social media really is before moving on to explain to whom social media may be of use.

Next up, he finally link the use of social media with internal communication. He explains the importance of the five C’s (Clear, Credible, Concise, Consistent & Constructive) in doing internal communication with social media which is very good. And the other stuffs that he explained as well were very good & useful.

And if there’s one thing that I find unique from his presentation was the fact that he asked the students to use twitter in asking questions. For me that’s very creative and a good way to give example right away to the students.

Overall, I believe he did very well in the presenting & connecting with the audience. There wasn’t much negativity from his presentation and I also believe that it would be good if he is called again for the next master class.