1) I believe I did achieve the purpose of my speech, although I could have achieved it better if I used more facts or statistics from my outline. A lot of it was general knowledge, since I knew so much about my topic already.
2) Although I didn't feel as nervous, I began to lose confidence as I stumbled over my words every other 30 seconds! I was really thrown off with my pen marks everywhere, that I almost stop caring how it sounded and how I preformed.
3) If I had to do it again, I would have prepared much, much more! My note cards were completely unorganized from last minute scrambling; things were crossed off and added in. It was very hard to read them. Next time I will definitely practice much more than I had for this speech. It didn’t help that I had two speeches, so it was hard to balance practicing them both for the same night.
4) My goal for the next speech will be to practice in front of a small crowd at least 4 times. When I practiced mine alone, I thought it sounded pretty great, obviously! Also, when I was alone I didn’t have to make any eye contact with anyone.
5) I failed to deliver my speech with full potential and personality. I need to really work on how I deliver my next speech and use more enthusiasm. I thought I had some as I started off, but if I did, it died shortly after I started scrambling my words.
6) Since I did two speeches during this class, my first one seemed better to me. I have had that speech ready for quite some time and was more familiar with it. This informative speech however, needed a lot more last minute final touch ups. I was more comfortable giving it, probably because I already stood up in front of the class just an hour before, but otherwise it wasn't as practiced.
7) I didn't do anything distracting that I know of, which was good because during my culture speech I was chewing gum and didn't even realize. I usually try to hide a piece of gum in my mouth so it’s not so dry, but apparently I’m not sneaky and my nerves force me to chew it!
8) I would rate my eye contact at about a 4. I feel more comfortable reading off the card, and think it sounds more smoothly. I desperately wish I could be like the others and give my speech without any note cards! I did notice students saying uh or um a lot without their cards, and I know I would constantly be using like, uh and um. However if I would have had them more organized and practiced, I wouldn’t have had to look down so much and it would have made a noticeable improvement with my eye contact.
9) I believe I got a satisfactory grade due to my performance. When reading the feedback, apparently my speech was poorly researched. While I do agree my topic wasn't as challenging as some others, I did put in a good amount of research into it. Thinking back I should have created the speech about the inventor of Facebook, instead of the site itself. But other than that, I believe my grade was appropriate and I am satisfied with it.
10) I didn't source any citations during my speech; in fact I had no idea you had to. I did cite the source in my outline although as (s#). S stood for source and the number was the specific citation in order of my works cite.
11) This speech was not better than my last, and it was purely due to a lack of practice and research.
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