Weekend Assignment, TED Talks: Evaluate the Speaker, Jill Bolte Taylor

How can your stories make an impact on your audience? What can you do in your presentation to gain reaction and initiate an intelligent discussion within your audience? Take a look at this video, note what works for the speaker in gaining authenticity with the audience, her ability to keep the audience involved and how she takes a technical topic and makes it user friendly. How can you apply some of these techniques in your presentations? Be specific in your critique and assertions and use examples and techniques as demonstrated by the speaker. Post your comments here no later than Monday, August 3rd, before class time.

President Obama trip to New Jersey

Listening in a public speaking situation is important. Listening can teach us how to become better speakers and become knowledgeable in important issues among other things. Please comment in this post after you have returned from your outing at the PNC Arts Center to hear President Obama and Governor Corzine speak. I want to know what techniques did you hear being used by either of these speakers ( or, if another is present) that illustrated a message being adapted specifically to a college audience? What was the message? How was it achieved? Topic? Supporting Details? Delivery? Or something else? Be specific. You need to tie your comments directly information evidenced in the speech. Really listening teaches us many things...and can really open up new perspectives....What did you listen to?

Self Evaluation - Speech #1- Did You Ever Notice?

Our first speech is completed. A nice effort was shown in research content and delievery. Use this post to comment on your own performance. A self evaluation of your first speech in both content and delivery should be addressed here. Please do not just focus on delivery aspects and remember to discuss your content and research citations too! I am looking for you to use details here as you discuss needed improvements and actions to implement them. Don't forget to focus on your strengths as well. Be sure to discuss in what ways your strengths contributed to an overall effective message. Overall, good start today!

Informative Speech Practice Sessions- "Did You Ever Notice"

Hi Everyone,
I am pleased at how well everyone is progressing on your first speech. As we discussed in class, tonight and tomorrow night will be practice sessions in the library. You should rehearse at least twice with your assigned speech buddy the night before your presentation is due. (You should check blackboard under announcements for the two day speech schedule.) You need to place your speech critique using the feedback form under EOP assignments links on this blog. Compose your comments after rehearsal in the evening. The comments must be completed in the evening for next day credit. Give your partner some detailed suggestions on how to improve in content and delivery areas that are lacking.....and continued encouragement in those places that are going well. :). The comments must be a least one hundred words.