Brandon’s IPC blog

For our last speech we had to give a “How to speech” to the class. I really like giving speeches like this to classes because I get to talk about something I like to do and with that I can share all of it to the class. For this speech I had to prepare a lot for it. I say this because we needed at least five sources so research at the library for books, or other information on fishing was in need.  I was able to find a lot of useful books at the library, but majority of the information I got out of them was things I already knew about.

I did feel like I had dressed appropriately for the speech. I dressed as how I would go fishing, that is the reason I did not dress in business casual clothes. I also felt like my use of visual aids were very helpful in my speech. I brought in my pole to show how to cast the rod and brought in my tackle box to show some of the necessities needed while fishing.

Although I thought my speech went really well for the most part there is also things that I wish I would have done better. Some of the things I think that I could’ve done better are limited the use of filler words such as “like” and “um” as well as slow down my rate of speech.

I do feel as if I deserve a pretty good grade on this considering I was well prepared, used my visual aids effectively, and was in the appropriate time range.Overall I really have enjoyed listening to other speakers, because I have learned a lot of new things, such as how to make different foods, making sports bets, and identifying a terrorist.

Last Wednesday my group gave our last group speech over chapter 15 that deals with persuasive speeches. For this speech we had to meet a lot outside of class to get our speech well prepared. In our first meeting we divided the chapter into four different section in which each of us were going to talk about. I was given the last part of the chapter which went over the materials of organizing speeches on questions of policy. We then went our separate ways and made a PowerPoint for our part of the speech and sent it to Imani where she meshed them all together so they were all the same. I feel like the PowerPoint was very presentable, with a good amount of material that was straight to the point. 

I think that this speech should have been easy for every one’s group as long as they knew their material and met with their groups to get the speech well organized. I didn’t enjoy this speech as much as our toast speech because with our “toast” we got to have fun with it. The reason I feel that was is because this speech was more serious and academic. 

Overall I feel like we did do a good job on this speech, we did have to kind of cut it short because of the time limit, but I would rather have the speech go longer than shorter. We were able to fit all of our material in the speech, but I do feel as our conclusion to the speech was weak, and could’ve been better if we were not running out of time. I am now looking forward in giving my last speech over how to fish, because it is something that I enjoy and I really want to show the class my knowledge on the sport of fishing.

In class on Monday March 30th my group gave our first group presentation.

To prepare for a “toast” we had to John and Beverly we met multiple time to organize and discuss what we were going to say in our part of the speech. We randomly flipped a coin to see what roles we were going to play in our speeches. I was given the role of the best man. I feel that I got the easy end of the stick (sorry broc) because I can relate more to what a best man would say instead of what broc had to do in which his case he was the father of the bride.

How I myself prepared for the speech was at first I sat down and watched some youtube videos on best man speeches. After that I then started brainstorming ideas of what I was going to say. I figured that I would talk about past events and how John and I grew up together and decided to make up some cheesy stories about our college days and the road trip we took to Las Vegas. I then prepared by practicing in front of a mirror timing myself so I had a reasonable time, that I didn’t go too long or too short. I feel like practicing in front of a mirror is one of the best ways to practice a speech because you can see youselfand how you move and give gestures, it also helps with eye contact as well.

I feel that our speech went really well. We tried using props but all we could get were coffee cups for our “champagne” instead of plastic flutes like the group that went today. (very nice job to that group by the way) I did feel like that there were a few down falls to our speech. For instance I feel that our transitions could have been a little better, as well as the eye contact to the “guests” instead of just looking at the screen to “john and beverly.” I did feel as though we did have a lot of positives to our speech. For instance we tried adding humor to our speech to keep the audience entertained. Also, we budgeted our time very wisely so we were in the correct time limit.

Overall I had a lot of fun with this speech, and felt like we did a very nice job on it…showing that we got a pretty good grade on it that is. I also feel like the audience enjoyed it as well.