In this blog I want to share with
you my first experience in taking part in the international conference abroad.
During this journey we were chased by dogs, get lost, exposed to rain in night
Istanbul and spent approximately 14 hours in Istanbul airport. Also we met
interesting people, saw night Antalya and of course presented our works during
the conference.
It is actually the second
international conference in my life, but the first I attended while studying for
my Bachelor in my home town - Aktobe. It was organized by my university, lasted
two days and hosted a lot of participants from neighbour countries, mostly Russia. After
opening ceremony we were divided by our themes to several sections and mine was
history and economy. The topic of my presentation was History of American dollar.
I was telling about masonic theory of its origins, how dollar was designed,
what inscriptions mean and why they were chosen. It was interesting for me to
investigate this subject and listeners also liked my presentation. That event was
a combination of conference and competition, that is why there were judges and
at the end of the conference I got the second place.
And my recent conference experience was in
Turkey a week ago. I went to that country for the first time and was nervous
about it as well as about presenting my work in front of all these strangers from
different countries. When we arrived to Goynuk (tourist village near Antalya)
to our hotel, we were so excited even though it was cold (in sunny Turkey!!!)
outside.
We had two days to prepare to the presentations and on the first day
we decided to go to the nearest shopping center and get lost (again). The second
day we attended some sessions to see its overall organization and style.Seven sessions by five or six individual presentations in each both on Turkish and English languages. Sessions were organized based on topics: ICT in education, medicine, biology, pedagogy, higher education and secondary education. Our
expectations from this conference were high; however they were not quite met. The
atmosphere was relaxed, nobody was nervous and we decided not to worry about
our performance and just enjoy the company of interesting people. After comparing
our presentations with others’ we concluded that our training is much better. And
now I am thinking, what is more important to possess good presentation skills
or to have an interesting topic, especially if you cannot combine them.
