Reflection

My video ended up being corrupted so I will do my best to assess my speech from memory and the comments you gave me. First off I felt my speech wasn’t as coherent as I would have liked it to be. I had practiced with my roommates, but when I got in front in the class I just blanked. This is the first time since my own freshman year that this had happened. I am use to giving informative speeches on research information so I think I was just out of my comfort zone, which is a good thing. I now know that I am going to have to practice even more when I ever have to give a similar type of speech again. Second, I understand that I didn’t move around as much as I should have. I have a habit of pacing so I was trying to avoid doing that and ended up doing it too well.
Third, I can’t completely remember, but I think I may have used filler words a few times as I was trying to recall my points…after I had blanked earlier. I also, as mentioned in your comments, wasn’t very persuasive in my speech. I spoke about my own excitement and feelings about my topic, but didn’t really ‘tell’ the class why they should have been. I think I was focused more on just getting the speech done and practicing projection/body placement that it honestly just slipped my mind. To better my speech I would have to have analyzed my speech more and worked on making it less informative and more persuasive. I also should have simply practiced it more to find a happy medium between pacing and standing still.