Informative Speech critique

There are a few critiques that I have on my informative speech. Firstly, I think that I should have had more eye contact with the audience. My introduction was fairly smooth and I think I properly engaged the audience. Half-way through my speech I realized that I was running out of time and that was when my presentation sort of fell apart in my opinion. Towards the end, I was rushing through the speech, became flustered, and relied too much on my note cards so that I could get through all of the information. While practicing at home prior to the day of the speech, I was under the minimum time of 5 minutes so, last minute, I decided to add a one minute clip at the beginning of my speech. For the next speech I want to focus more on practicing before the actual speech in front of the class. I was thinking about possibly practicing my speech in front of more friends or family so that I get a better feel for the time restrictions. Also, I think I could improve on how I refer to the people who wrote the academic journals during my speech. Looking back, I think that the audience may not have known enough information about the people I was referring to during the speech which may lead to confusion. Overall,  I think my topic was very interesting, I related it well to myself and the audience, and I had very good resources. My main focus for the persuasive speech will be focused more on practicing the speech beforehand.