Archive for April, 2009

Speech #4 Reflection

Monday, April 20th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

For my fourth and final speech in this class, I chose to present a demonstrative speech on “How To Make a Fleece Blanket”. I had some trouble with this speech because after I had chosen the topic and began preparing the speech, I realized that my topic did not give me enough information to present a well developed and lengthy speech. I tried to do as much research as possible to learn about different techniques for making these blankets, but I had some trouble. During my presentation, I tried to maintain eye contact with the audience and speak clearly and loud enough for everyone to hear. I was quite nervous but I think that I did an okay job at making eye contact. My voice was pretty shaky because I was really nervous so I think I could have improved in that area. I also panicked a little bit towards the middle of the presentation because my notecards fell out of order in the process of me demonstrating how to make the blanket so that kind of threw me off and caused me to pause during my speech. Besides the few minor setbacks in the speech, I think that if I were to do a demonstrative speech again I would be sure to pick a more detailed topic and not be so nervous. 🙂

Speech #2 Reflection

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I think that our group speech over Chapter 15 went very well. I think that our group was very prepared for the speech and presented the information in a good way. We had split the chapter into four sections and each of us was responsible for outlining and presenting on that section. During our actual presentation, we completed the time requirement which was a concern that we had, so that was good. I feel very good about the section that I presented. I think that I maintained good eye contact with the class and that I presented the information very well. I tried not to look at the power point because I knew that it would distract me from making eye contact with the class. I feel that my voice and over all verbal presentation was strong also. I think that something I could improve on is the speed of my voice. I get a little nervous in front of the class and I start talking really fast so I think I should work on fixing that.

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