Start/Stop/Continue: Speech #3

Start/Stop/Continue:  Speech #3

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• I did not incorporate a lot of pictures in my slides for this presentation which I think could have aided visually in the presentation. I didn't add pictures initially because i did not want to force any photos into slides but I still think I could have maybe incorporated another picture or two in some of the early slides.I did not use a picture in any slide until slide 5 or 6 
• I would like to start using more “Stage Area” and what I mean by this is start walking around more while speaking. Opposed to standing in one place for the whole duration of the speech. I think this strategy might be hard to implement due to the placement of the projector and the light could potentially be in your face the whole time you are pacing across the stage but, I think it would add another element to the speech that my presentation was maybe lacking 
• I would like to start looking up more at a middle point of the audience, I noticed when I watched myself present on video that I was looking down at a timer I had on one of the front desks. I think making better eye contact with the audience could help with my speech 

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• I said “Uhh/Uhm” many times throughout the duration of my speech.I actually said it more times then I did in my previous speech. Ive had more nervous ticks in speeches as time has progressed. This is one aspect of my verbal presentations that  is the weakest in my opinion and can hopefully be resolved altogether by the next speech
• I would like to stop looking at the slideshow throughout the duration of my speech, unless maybe I am reading some statistics. I personally think looking at the slideshow throughout the presentation stalls your performance like looking at a notecard would and when you are constantly looking at your slideshow you are not looking at the audience because your head is turned which is less engaging 
• I would like to stop being so nervous because nervousness for me just results in nervous ticks which hinders the full potential of my speech 
• I have noticed that sometimes in my speech, my voice will go monotone which in my opinion causes the audience to lose interest in what you are talking about. Because how can the audience be interested in what you are saying if you don't even sound like you are interested in what you are saying how can you expect the audience to stay engaged in your presentation 

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• One of my strong suits while presenting has been that I am able to memorize a majority of my speech which in turn calls for very minimal glances at both a notecard and slideshow 
• Even though I am nervous a lot of the time I have been very good at keeping a poker face and hiding the nervousness or anxiety 
• My slideshow in presentation number two was very poorly put together in my opinion and this time around I thought my slideshow was a lot better. It had a lot of vibrant colors which I feel like was an attention grabber in itself 
• I have been able to include some comedy in all three of my speeches which has been an ice breaker and has helped me feel more comfortable while on stage 
• Ive been very good at using hand gestures in every performance thus far which I think is crucial while public speaking 
• I cited my sources verbally which I liked more than just showing everyone my work cited page at the end of the presentation and just ending on that. Because i told my audience who my sources were verbally I was able to end my presentation with a “Thank you for watching slide” 

Moves That I Liked:

1. I really liked Jake’s overly dramatic presentation I thought it was something different it definitely caught my attention and not only that it is something that has not yet been done in the class which made it memorable. The brutal images of dogs and cats was something straight out of a Sarah McLachlan animal commercial

2. Nick LaQuay had some moving pieces on his slideshow which was interesting he had  a galaxy backround and then used a nice array of colors that really popped when he put them on the dark backround. Also I really enjoyed nicks media at the end of his presentation; it was just a perspective measure for how big the universe actually is. I was really into that. I was kind of bummed when it was cut short due to time restraints it reminded me of Neil Degrasse Tyson’s show “Cosmos”

3. Linda did an overview which I really liked and was very clear and precise throughout the whole duration of her presentation. If I remember correctly, she also started her presentation with a question which was interesting. It reminded me of something you would see in a TED talk presentation 

Rough Draft for Speech #3: Why Animal Testing is Beneficial to the Human Race

• According to the Humane Society International Animal Testing is defined as the experimentation of animals which normally includes subjecting them to force feeding, forced inhalation, drug testing, lethal dosage testing, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns, the infliction of pain, Carbion Dioxide aphyixiation, neck breaking and sometimes decapitation 
• Now here is why this idea should continue to live and be practiced in our society...
• First off, Animal testing is due to many life saving treatments that have saved millions of human lives
• Some of which include Cancer, brain injuries, childhood leukemia, Multiple Sclerosis, and the technological advancements of pacemakers. 
• Some examples of this include experiments such as this one where dogs had their pancreases removed and which led directly to the discovery of insulin which is critical to this day to the treatment of diabetes
• The polio vaccine tested on animals reduced the global occurrence of polio from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012 
•  Secondly, humans and animals alike have extremely complex living systems this is important especially when testing drugs, the bodys reaction to drugs requires the testing subject to have a circulatory system and who else to test then chimpanzees who's DNA is 99% identical to human DNA. 
• Third, Humans are not the only ones who benefit from animal testing, Animals also benefit from the testing of other animals. If vaccines and remedies were not initially tested on a small population of animals many others would have died from diseases such as rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, and canine parvo virus to name a few. 

Start/Stop/Continue for Speech #2: Navigating Genres

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• Using Prezi software opposed to google slides that Im already very comfortable with. In order to step outside of my comfortability zone 
• In my opening statement I only stated my first name even though my first and last name were presented on the first slide of my presentation
• Embracing the pause opposed to filling in no verbal voids with nervous ticks like “uhhms, likes and uhhs”
• The nervous ticks were very evident in this speech even more so then the last speech which is not good in terms of improvement. By speech number three I would like to eliminate almost all if not all nervous ticks from my speech. I personally think the best way to do that would be to practice more
• Being more efficient with my hand gestures. Although I feel as if I did a pretty good at using hand gestures both this speech and during speech number one. There was a fifteen second increment in the middle of the speech where I just put my left arm down to my side while i used my other arm for gesturing and it just looked awkward

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• Using nervous ticks in my speech. I can not emphasize enough how much I want to exclude those from my speech not even in public speaking but from my rhetoric altogether
• At one point in the speech I was talking about one of the conventions and I called the voices conventions a “genre” when it was a convention. I think that was just a product of nervousness 
• The above example and at one other point in the speech I was talking about the script a radio DJ would use in helping himself stay on time while talking on the radio. I said “On time” and then stopped and repeated myself and said, “In a timely manner” those suddle imperfections I would also like to exclude from my speeches

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• I think I did more things right then I did wrong with this speech. I made consistent eye contact with the audience for the whole presentation 
• My speaking for the most part was fluid with only two mishaps in five minutes which is solid progress 
• Both me speeches have been right on time, the first speech was two minutes and thirty seconds and my navigating genres speech was five minutes and thirty seconds exactly. Staying in a timely manner has been a strong suit for my pubic speaking 
• Practicing my speeches prior to going up and presenting them has helped me substantially it has helped me with memorizing my speech and has helped me know when to implement hand gestures
• Memorizing my speech has been one of my best attributes in speech number one I was one of the three presenters that did not use a note card 
• Projecting my voice across the room which I think shows the audience that you are confident when you are both loud and fluid
• Cracking jokes to keep the audience in tune with what I am saying. Both of speeches have been relatively comedic at points in the presentation and I think a good laugh helps the audience stay in tune with what you are saying and whatever point you are trying to get acorss/convince them of
• During my presentation I did not write everything I was going to say at every bullet point in my presentation which I noticed people tend to do it and when people do that it tends to undermine their speech because they are just reading what they wrote and not elaborating on every point. I would just write one word to a couple words on the slide and then spend anywhere from five to twenty seconds elaborating on every point which makes the slideshow itself short and simple. Rather then having twenty five slides with your whole presentation written out on it 

Moves That I Liked: 

• Daisy who did the college tour guide speech talked about the, “Walking Backwards” move and how the college tour guide will always ask the group he/she is talking to tell him/her if anyone is behind them or if they are going to run into a tree or biker etc. 
• Nick LaQuay gave us an initial overview of what the speech was going to be about. I thought that was a very good tactic. You tend to see that a lot of in TED talks and motivational speeches 
• Kyle Ignatius who did his speech on the visual sports/news website Barstool. Told us about one move the group of guys do when they are all talking smack to each other they call it the, “The Hater Ball” which I found amusing and kept me into his speech 
• Jacob gave us a move with his motivational speech(which he dressed up for, which was also a solid move!) where he told us about an acronym he had came up with on how to keep going and persevering I forget what it stood for but the acronym was A.M.E.N.D. Which not only ties into the theme of speech but acronyms are more often then not implemented into motivational speeches