Now I can relax, our first speech is over and done with. After that experience I felt that I had a lot that I could have worked on prior to giving my speech. I feel that it was pretty good for our classes first time. The thing that I could work on is my time management. Every time I looked at the time cards I panicked and I lost my train of thought. I guess I could time myself better so I can fall into the time frame.
I think that I achieved the purpose of my speech very well except for the time frame. I feel that I had a lot of information in my speech about the Hawaiian lei. I thought I timed myself pretty well but I guess I just took way to much time talking about one thing. Overall I think I did well I just need to work on eye contact and memorizing or practicing my speech a bit more.
During my speech I felt a bit confident like I can see myself doing well, but then once I started talking I could feel my voice shake. I felt comfortable when I was up there but for some reason when I started talking that’s when I started to become nervous. Then when I saw the time card for four minutes and thirty seconds that’s when I started to feel uncomfortable. Then I had to rush to get to the end of my speech and that’s when I started to read off my card. Every time I looked at the time cards I lost my train of thought and would have to look at my note cards or my slides to remember where I left off.
If I was able to do it all over again then I would probably practice my speech more then I did and I would have timed myself better. In my delivery I would have made more eye contact with the audience and tried staying away from “like” or “um”. I also would have not made my slide show so long because there were some pictures that I didn’t get to explain because I was trying to have my speech within the time frame.
One goal that I have for improving the content in my next speech is to mention more support in my speech because I knew that I only cited my sources once in my speech. One thing that I could improve in the delivery in my next speech is to make more eye contact and memorize my speech a bit more. I also could try not using “like” or “um” as much as I did, which I didn’t know I was saying so much in my speech.
When I first watched the video tape I noticed that I was really loud and I noticed that I stuttered a lot because I was so nervous. I also noticed how much times I said “um”. I couldn’t watch the whole tape because I felt that I could have done better if I wasn’t so nervous. I thought I wasn’t going to be while I was walking up there but once I started talking the butterflies in my stomach came.
I think the only that I did distracting is when I started looking or relying on my cards at the end. I also got distracted by how much times I said “um” and I hate it because I didn’t really notice it when I was giving my speech.
My eye contact was about a six because in the beginning I was giving good eye contact. But every time I saw the time cards it just worried me and I just forgot what I was talking about then I would have to look at my cards and think where I left off. Then at the end I just lost total eye contact with the audience because I saw that I only had thirty seconds left and I just had to rush my ending.
I think I would give myself a B because in the beginning I was doing fine I hardly looked at my note cards, I was giving good eye contact and my volume was really good. I did the assignment that was asked I just failed in keeping my speech within the time frame. But I think I did good overall just my ending of my speech could have been better if I didn’t have the feeling of being rushed. Especially this being our first speech I think I did pretty well for my first time.
After doing our first speech, now we know what to do and what not to do for our next one, our speeches can only get better. By watching ourselves on tape we can see for ourselves what we actually do which is a good thing because sometimes some people have to see it for themselves in order to believe it.
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