a great improvement. I say this because I had been shy almost all of elementary,grade school, and about half of my high school years. In the past, I had gotten super shy and my voice would crack and all that bad stuff. My topic was pinatas and well my purpose was to inform the audience of three things, and I believe I was able to inform them of it, but in a sort of vague way. By vague, I mean unclear. I thought I was comfortable at first, before going up to the front of the class. Once I got up there, tons and tons of things started running through my head, like how people say that a picture can say a thousand words, well all of those words were running through my head. Weird metaphor, but so true. I did not feel confident whatsoever.
If I had to do the entire speech over again, I would work on my preparation way more, and the delivery. I say this because while I was in front of the class, my form of delivery was really bad. I had practiced in front of my roommates, but thats only two people. In terms of content for my next speech,I am going to try and include the citations to be read aloud, that way my speech will have more credibility and people will know where I got the information. In terms of delivery, I am going to try and practice in front of a larger crowd beforehand, and have them criticize me and also let me know whether I move to much, because as shown in the video, I really do. I started feeling confident right at the beginning of the speech, but my confidence decreased by about 80% after the whole, "Marco,Polo!" attention getter.
After watching the video, the first thing I noticed was the attention getter. I think it did catch the audiences attention when saying, "Marco!" and having some members of the audience say "Polo!" I also noticed that right from the start, I kept scanning my notecards which is really bad. In addition, I used many fillers, like "like,umm,"etc. I noticed that I did do some distracting things. To explain, I kept moving a lot which must be really distracting. One thing that I really didn't like was how unconfident I seemed. I would say things like, " umm.yeah.."
Next time I need to sound a whole lot more confident when talking about a topic that I had preparation for. On a scale from 1-10, I would rate my eye contact as a 5. I kept eye contact with the audience at the very beginning, but after a while, my eyes just went onto the notecards. During the course of my speech, I mentioned only one of my source citations. The source citation included the title of the article about the origin of the pinata which I had gotten from the sjlibrary.org website. Next time I need to say four oral citations,not just one. Afterall, oral citations adds credibility to one's speech.
On a scale from A to F, I'd give myself a C-, only because it was our very first speech. If it had been our final speech, however, then I'd have to give myself a D. I say a C- because it was our very first speech for the class, but also because I was very unprepared for the speech. A good speech which would be graded as an A or a B speech would have had the speaker have very good eye contact, and seem confident.
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