Speech buddies videos!

After watching the speech buddy videos for chapters 7 and 8, I learned a few tips that I think we all could deem useful to all of us who are trying to improve our future speeches. I think one of the most useful things that was discussed is the use of support; that is something I have lacked. Facts, statistics, and sources always help when trying to convince your audience to believe what you are saying. Another aspect that was discussed is credibility. Are your sources credible? That is something that we all can put into account during our research phase. We can compare sources and see which information is more credible or provides more statistics to better support our argument:)

Self Evaluation

I believe, strongly, that I am a great public speaker. My biggest issue, during our cultural artifact speeches, was preparation. I knew my topic, felt confident, but my speech lacked organization. I was very repetitious, and rambled instead of emphasizing the main points that I had come up with.
As far as self evaluation goes, after I finished my speech, I was relieved, but I felt very unconfident because I failed it overall organization. Normally, I can present a speech very well by just writing out a few points and consistently running through things in my head. This time around, I prepared more than I usually would, but still didn’t prepare enough. I loved my topic and knew that I could answer any questions about my topic, but had a pretty difficult time displaying this to the audience. Time management was a big issue for me; I went over the five minute time frame by nearly two minutes. I think the biggest thing for me was I was panicking when I saw the time cards, and kept saying things over in just different words.
As far as positive factors go, I thought a good thing was that I didn’t rely on my note card at all. I felt very good about my powerpoint, and I feel that I emphasized some of my points just by making the audience interested with the good use of pictures. I felt I gained a lot of people attention, but failed to keep them interested, in my next speech, I will try to focus on this more than anything else because the audience is who you are trying to inform or explain something to and without keeping their attention, your speech will be a failure.
If I had to put a grade letter on my speech it would have to be a C. I didn’t feel very confident when I was finished with my speech, relieved but nothing else. I will definitely be preparing better on the next speech and planning out my word choice much better.

Chapter 5 Audience Relationship

After reading chapter 5, I felt the most important topic was the audience speaker connection. In my opinion, if your audience doesn’t feel some type of connection with your speech, they will feel that you are making a pointless speech. I especially like the question that was asked, “How does this apply to me and my experiences?” If you can relate your speech to everyone and answer this question, then your speech was successful. As I mentioned in my other post, the audience has to be the most important thing that a speaker thinks about when preparing a speech because you are trying to either motivate or inform the audience in some way. Without their attention, you are simply wasting your time!!!

Speech Buddies Videos

After watching the speech buddies videos, I feel that you can learn a lot just by listening to their topics and how they transition from one point to the next. Its something we all need to learn how to do and do well. In the first video, “Drinking,” Mathew, first, has a great topic that will definitely motivate his listeners. Second, he did a great job of grabbing attention with transitions and such.

In the second video, “Light Pollution,” Courtney did a good job of presenting her topic, some might have found it more interesting than others, but she presented her speech in a way that would grab the attention of many of the listeners.

I learned a small helpful tip while watching the videos, try and make your audience visualize what you are talking about and make them, somehow, relate to it.

Your audience

So, your in front of a crowd, giving a speech about a boring topic; your audience is becoming uninterested and not exactly into your topic. Audience adaptation and analysis is the most important thing when giving a speech. The audience is your judge and if you don’t make them interested, your speech will be an epic failure. The biggest thing is the topic, always pick a topic that everyone can somehow relate to or find somewhat interesting. Also, keep the audience interested with your words. Think out your speech so you are not repetitious and everyone can understand what you are saying. If you keep your audience interested, your speech will be a success and you will feel confident afterwards.

In my first speech I plan on getting the audience involved by consistently explaining things in a way that is interesting, simple, and informative. My topic, in my opinion, is something that everyone can relate to.

Chapter 6 concepts

After reading through chapter 6, the concepts are pretty clear, and I feel that one is very useful to everyone. Internet resources, possibly the best invention ever, the internet can be defined as a tool. I have learned a good portion of what I know about computers and cars through the internet. Its free knowledge and when people ask me how I learned all I know about computers, I grab a piece of paper and write on it “google.com.” As a younger child, I discovered that the internet contains an answer to everything, it is a collection of everyone’s experience and knowledge, and no library can match the amount of information it contains.

Speech Buddies videos

Hi guys!
So after watching the speech buddies videos, I think the most helpful thing was when they were talking about research and how helpful a library can be. It is actually pretty neat. You can almost research any topic using any library because it has so many resources.

Anytime I needed to find something out I would always go to our town’s library and it seemed to be pretty helpful. There is typically at least one text on each topic and if there isn’t a book then there may be a magazine, or some other type of article that can help. If you can’t find it at the library, you aren’t looking hard enough!