Post a self critique of yourself in this blog. Discuss your three strengths and three improvements as the course winds down. Expand on a course of action for making necessary improvements in the future.
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I have learned a lot from this class over the course of the term. Professor McManimon's helpful critiques were given to help improve our public speaking skills.
It is in my belief that my three strengths were, organized powerpoints, strong attention getters and transitions, and good projection.
Three things I still need to improve on are the use of notecards, need to lose them, for the persuasive speech, I needed to keep my credible sources up longer for the listeners to digest, and to not get too cocky, or it starts to show.
This course has taught me many things, including confidence, due to the small class size. I usually get very nervous when giving a formal presentation and I found that only having to preform my speech in front of a small group of people that I had gotten to know fairly well, I was less nervous than to be expected.
I believe my strengths that I had coming into the course, as well as developed along the way are my eye contact, my volume, and my research. I need to work on my preparedness, my timing, as I tend to go too fast and miss important information, as well as my organization. Often times I was including too much writing per slide that overwhelmed the audience.
This course has taught me how to actually use powerpoint, as I never had to on an individual project before, and I have become much better acquainted with the program. In addition to learning how to create a powerpoint slide show, I also learned how to give a speech while using the slides as my visual aides, which was a big challenge for me. I feel as though I am more comfortable not having to worry about the slide behind me and if I am saying the correct thing at the right time. Being well rehearsed and better prepared so that I am more confident will definitely be something I need to improve on for the future.
Overall, three of the things I have learned in this class were how to properly set up a persuasive speech, how to use a powerpoint in a speech more effectivly and how to do an imprompty speech. Althought I have taken a public speaking class before, we never went over impromptu speeches or the fact that there are proper formats to follow while giving them.
Some of the things I have to improve on are my ability to remember exactly what I put on my slide and citing things better. Although I practiced, it is hard to remember where everything is and looking at the notecards makes me lose my place. The other problem I have is citing things on my slides and during my presentations. I have trouble getting the cites correctly.
Professor McManimon the three things that I will use in my class room from your class are: organize in written outline form for lecture presentations,introduce a topic for consideration using an intrigiung fact or question and maintain student interest by concluding with a twist which will give them something to think about.
I have learned not to overwhelm students with boring statistical facts,to use anecdotal humor as often as possible that ties in with the subject matter and to try to end each class with the students wanting to do additional research on the concept if only to satisfy their own intellectual curiosity. Joan McKenna, Comm 2405,Mon.,Thu.9:30-10:45
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I have learned a lot from this class over the course of the term. Professor McManimon's helpful critiques were given to help improve our public speaking skills.
It is in my belief that my three strengths were, organized powerpoints, strong attention getters and transitions, and good projection.
Three things I still need to improve on are the use of notecards, need to lose them, for the persuasive speech, I needed to keep my credible sources up longer for the listeners to digest, and to not get too cocky, or it starts to show.
This course has taught me many things, including confidence, due to the small class size. I usually get very nervous when giving a formal presentation and I found that only having to preform my speech in front of a small group of people that I had gotten to know fairly well, I was less nervous than to be expected.
I believe my strengths that I had coming into the course, as well as developed along the way are my eye contact, my volume, and my research. I need to work on my preparedness, my timing, as I tend to go too fast and miss important information, as well as my organization. Often times I was including too much writing per slide that overwhelmed the audience.
This course has taught me how to actually use powerpoint, as I never had to on an individual project before, and I have become much better acquainted with the program. In addition to learning how to create a powerpoint slide show, I also learned how to give a speech while using the slides as my visual aides, which was a big challenge for me. I feel as though I am more comfortable not having to worry about the slide behind me and if I am saying the correct thing at the right time. Being well rehearsed and better prepared so that I am more confident will definitely be something I need to improve on for the future.
Overall, three of the things I have learned in this class were how to properly set up a persuasive speech, how to use a powerpoint in a speech more effectivly and how to do an imprompty speech. Althought I have taken a public speaking class before, we never went over impromptu speeches or the fact that there are proper formats to follow while giving them.
Some of the things I have to improve on are my ability to remember exactly what I put on my slide and citing things better. Although I practiced, it is hard to remember where everything is and looking at the notecards makes me lose my place. The other problem I have is citing things on my slides and during my presentations. I have trouble getting the cites correctly.
Professor McManimon the three things that I will use in my class room from your class are: organize in written outline form for lecture presentations,introduce a topic for consideration using an intrigiung fact or question and maintain student interest by concluding with a twist which will give them something to think about.
I have learned not to overwhelm students with boring statistical facts,to use anecdotal humor as often as possible that ties in with the subject matter and to try to end each class with the students wanting to do additional research on the concept if only to satisfy their own intellectual curiosity.
Joan McKenna, Comm 2405,Mon.,Thu.9:30-10:45
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