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!

Interview Experience

I have a lot of experience with interviews throughout my life; here are a few short examples:

During middle school, I had an interview competition through 4-H, and actually did very well. We were asked many questions throughout the interview and we supposed to present ourselves in the best manner we could. Well I prepared very well and ended up taking 1st and moving on to regional’s. I took 3rd place in regionals and became very confident with my public speaking and presenting myself in a one on one manner.

My second interview experience I want to explain is when I was applying to my job at Best Buy. Coming straight out of high school, I had no experience on paper. I thought this was a big concern applying to a department like geek squad. During my interview, I explained the leadership skills I had developed during sports in high school, explained the type of technical experience I had and what type of issues I was familiar with. All three managers that interviewed me were blown out of the water and I was hired without question. I now work 35 hours a week at a good paying job that I enjoy.

So basically what I would recommend to anyone is to be confident during your interviews and you will do well. You may want to prepare yourself and run through situations in your head, but an interview is mainly mental. I am not saying I am perfect at interviews, but I did a lot of things right by just being myself and explaining what I am good at.

Apprehension

As a younger kid, I had some issues with public speaking; I was a little shy and stuff. Later, after I was about 8 or 9, I started speaking my mind a lot. I got in trouble a few times for being just a little too blunt, but that helped me become who I am today. I am no longer shy, and I am actually very outgoing now. My friends consider me loud; I never shutup, and they get pretty annoyed at times. To finish off, I am not very apprehensive about public speaking at all. I can stand in front of a croud and speak my mind with no problem.

Myself

Well lets see. I am a first year, second semester freshmen at SJSU. I have absolutely no problem with public speaking. I have taken several AP classes that require a lot of public speaking. I was senior captain for my football, basketball, track, and golf team in high school. As a child, I was the president of my town's 4-H club for two years, and that required a lot of public speaking. I feel that I am a very confident person. Here are a few things about me:

I work at Best Buy as a Geek Squad Agent
I love computers and cars(show me a problem and I will fix it)
I play 360 all the time
I spend a lot of times with friends
I am a very outgoing person and overall friendly guy
Diego is my favorite game lol!

Thats pretty much the key points about myself, feel free to get to know me!