Informative Speech Reflection
As
the first speech of the semester is now completed, I must reflect to evaluate
my strengths and my weaknesses. To start off, I don’t necessarily think the
topic that I picked was the best topic because of the class’ interest in the
subject matter. What I mean by that is that not many people seemed to be
interested in what was going on and my speech might have been a bit too
‘researchy’ for them. The topic of microblogging although it has everything to
do with our generation and the type of activities that everyone in the class
engages with is not something that maybe my peers wanted to know but rather
what researchers are more interested in. I must say however that I think I did
a great job of linking it to twitter and evaluating the aspects of
microblogging in relationship to Twitter to make it into a much more
interesting subject matter.
As
for the speech itself, I think I actually did a great job of engaging with the
PowerPoint and the things that I wanted to say as a whole on my flashcards. At
one point I did get nervous and rambled a bit so the speech rifted from the
format that I had planned for it and instead I lost track of where I was going
with it. Besides the fact that I rambled at some points I think I actually did
a great job of introducing the subject matter and hitting all the points that I
said I was going to talk about. Although I did use hand gestures they were in
my opinion very natural and I was not fidgeting. I do think however that I
stuttered a bit and used the word ‘um’ a couple of times and that just shows
that instead of trying to be natural with my speech maybe it was very rehearsed
on my part.
Overall,
I am proud of myself for the work that I did and the way that I engaged with
the crowd because a lot of times when one is nervous we tend to look down and
the fact that I refrained from doing that is a positive. I have a long way to
go but again am excited for my starting point to have improved.
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