1st Group speech (Chapter 11)
Personally before the speech started, I was sort of nervous and I thought I would do a bad job because this isn’t one of my strengths, talking about an IPC chapter, I’d rather much do something on the lines of something that interests me like Sports, Movies, etc. I can do improv speeches fairly well, but this one concerned me.
After reading up and studying my material and with very little practice, I walked into the classroom and thought that I might turn on my iPod and listen to some music to pump me up for the speech/calm me down at the same time. Also engaging in conversation before the class started with classmates that also eased the somewhat butterflies that I originally had. After calming myself through music and talking to my classmates, I settled down and had confidence that I would do just fine. Funny thing about confidence, you feel like you can do just about anything if you have it…
I believe our group did a fantastic job, I believe the class (those who were paying attention) understood our material and our examples we used. I believe all of us individually did a great job of relaying the information effectly to the class and I also believe it was in the B range, grade wise. The only thing I thought we did bad on was the time, ours was supposed to be 15-20 minutes and it ended up being 11:07, although it wasn’t too short.
My strengths as a speaker are eye contact with the whole crowd/audience and integrating humor and improvisation in the speech. When I mean improvisation I mean, using the crowd into the speech. I took Steve as an example and used himself and his shirt he was wearing (A Detroit Tigers baseball shirt) cause I knew he would like the example I had for our group speech. My presentational skills are pretty good, I have my strengths and weaknesses, with the strengths overcoming the weaknesses.
We presented as a team very well like I said, I think our group gets along very well actually. We had great flow in our speech, I don’t believe any of us dragged down each other, I believe we did a great job. My teammates did (I suppose) help out by not messing up. Maybe if they messed up, I would mess up, but it didn’t happen and if it did, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal anyways.
Areas we can improve on is memorization and speech length. I think that our next speech will be the best out of all the groups, you’ll see. Better as a team, there’s really nothing extra we can do in my opinion. I believe we did excellent, maybe our own little tweaks of our own speech styles but as a group, nothing really.
Overall, I think we did a fantastic job, I don’t think any of us screwed up and I think we deserve a great grade because of it. As our first speech together as a group, I think we did excellent as I said.
-Matt
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