As the Speech 2 Project approaches, me and my partner Kiera have been in contact. When working we split up on the outline and worked on the slide show for our speech. I do feel we have been working well together. Today, Monday September 15, we met up to talk about how to address this project. We communicated through Instagram as well to get clarification and ideas before we met up. Today we created the outline and the slide show on first floor commons. Some challenges we faced were getting the material; I didn’t realize for this skill we needed square paper. Luckily, she has a car and is able to get the supplies, because I do not have a car on campus. Throughout this project some successes we have faced were being very open to ideas. We didn’t argue about what we should or shouldn’t do, she was very easy to work with. Overall, I think because we both wanted to succeed in this project, it made it not challenging.
This week I have been trying to figure out the logistics of our presentation. when I thought of the idea it seemed simple to give a presentation on, but we must think about how we’re going to keep the fruit frozen, which blender we’re going to use, and the presentation itself. Grace and I have been communicating and are working on a time next week to meet to go over everything. We haven’t faced too many challenges, which has been nice. And everything seems to be going smoothly. (Get it)
These past days, Giselle and I have been communicating on how we are going to present this speech and getting ready to prepare ourselves. We ordered the strings and materials to use for this speech and they are supposed to be here either today or tomorrow. This past week I also looked up pictures and videos we could use to show the class so it’s easier to follow along. Giselle and I have been talking about the speech in person since we are basically neighbors in the same hall and have been talking about it in the commons. We both haven’t experienced any challenges along the way, we both agreed on this topic and have gotten along very well. I am a little annoyed that the string has taken a little while to come in the mail but at least it’s coming soon. We have succeeded in building a draft for the speech and talking about how we want this speech to go.
This past week, my partner and I have been working on our project. We decided to teach a skill on how to make bagged ice cream. We both thought this idea could be taught thoroughly and also enjoyable. The both of us have been communicating over the phone, but also in person with each other. We sat down together to create our sketchy outline for the next class. We both agreed on a lot of the topics and things we are planning on saying. I think the biggest challenge we faced was determining how we were going to physically write out the process, and how that process of making bagged ice cream happens. Also we thought that the timing was a challenge because it needed to be two minutes or so. To face this timing issue, we recorded ourselves to see how long it took to go over the whole outline. We were at about two minutes, just a few seconds below, but overall I do not think we have a timing issue anymore. I think overcoming this timing issue was the biggest success. We were both nervous that it was going to be too brief, but it was just fine.
For the second speech me and Maddie are going to teach the class how to make friendship bracelets with strings. We had to get the string shipped in the mail, so we started working on it a little later. We think that it will be an easy and fun craft to learn, due to the fact that I am also learning how to make them for the speech. Maddie and I have been practicing, and it has been going well. I just hope that the sketchy speech will be long enough and that we get our point across. We are going to explain how to make the bracelets and give everyone string of different colors while projecting the photos like a slide show onto the board and walking around to make sure everyone has the skills down. I am excited to teach everyone this new skill, and I hope it goes well.
This week I have been working on Figuring out what we want to include our speech and how we want to execute it. I have been working on writing out the steps of the origami crane and some facts as a background for origami. I have been communication with my partner through direct messages and we met up to better plan out how we want to do the speech. Challenges I have run into are the wording of how to make the origami crane, I tried my best to describe and just sat and thought about it for a second. I think what came sucssesfully is how me and my partner work together as well as the idea for what we want our speech to be.
Over the past week, Sydney and I have continued working on our speech on teaching people how to make a balloon dog. The funny thing is we still don’t actually know how to make one! Our balloons haven’t come in the mail yet so we’ve just been researching different tutorials on how to make them and using that to base our speech off of. It’s been a little frustrating not being able to learn it hands on but we’re doing our best to stay on schedule in our speech development until our supplies arrive.
Despite that original challenge we’ve made a lot of progress, in my opinion, on the development of our speech. We’ve mainly been communicating through text or meeting up in one of our dorms, we also have a shared google doc where we’ve developed the rough draft for our speech. We’ve spent most of our time trying to figure out the best way to explain each step because we plan to have the audience participate during the speech.
One of the biggest challenges so far has been making the direction sound simple and clear, which is especially hard when we haven’t physically practiced ourselves yet. TO work around this we watched quite a few video tutorials and carefully broke each step into a more beginner friendly language.
The biggest success so far has been the finalization of our rough draft, our script feels fun, clear, and overall well-placed. We started practicing when we’ll speak and when we’ll demonstrate throughout the speech. Overall the experience this past week has been very positive despite our major setback and I think we are both very excited for our speech.
Journal 7
While my partner and I were working on our journal I found it was a fun way to connect with her and learn about something new for the both of us, and teach the class what we have progressed in and help them succeed as well. Because I think that self defense is truly an important skill to have especially being a smaller woman or living on your own. I really think everyone can benefit from what we have chosen and maybe save someone’s life one day from danger. We have been working on our outline and getting more familiar with self defense and what it is on a deeper level. My partner and I definitely came into problems with procrastination but we realized we had to get this done and put the effort in and we did. I think we did a pretty good job managing it in the end and pulled it together, and we are so excited to present self defense to the class.
Over the past week, me and my partner have worked on our speech, despite running into some challenges. We communicated very well, discussing times we could meet to practice our speech. We also completed our outline for the speech, which included our key points, specific quotes, and organizational bullet points to make sure we have a hook, purpose, tips, and the demonstration. We, however, faced a challenge; we both procrastinated and ended up communicating to meet up very late. We didn’t give ourselves much time to practice although we will be having our “sketchy run” in class today. Despite this issue, we were still able to get together and work on everything toward our speech with enough time. We also have a deeper understanding of self-defense and the importance of having knowledge of it. We believe that, if the audience members are able to retain our demonstration on self-defense, that it can be of use to them and potentially help them out of a dangerous situation.
Over the past week, I’ve been working on finding something that both Nic and I can teach to the class. We originally wanted to teach how to make a smoothie, but after thinking it through and working on a dry run and outline, we made the last minute decision to switch our topic (like Tuesday). So we switched gears to teaching the class how to set up their fishing pole to fish. I worked independently on practicing my knots and unspooling my reel to prepare to teach everyone how to respool it. I’ve worked on pacing myself for my parts of the speech in order to meet the requirement and not rush and get a final time under it. We’ve been able to explore different things that we’re both efficient at that we can teach the class. Scheduling has been hard as we are both sophomores with busy schedules, but the project is moving at a good pace.
This past week, Abby and I kept working on our speech about making balloon dogs. The ironic part is we still haven’t been able to try making one ourselves yet since our balloons haven’t shown up in the mail. For now, we’ve just been watching videos and reading tutorials to get a good idea of how it’s supposed to go. It’s a little weird building a whole speech around something we haven’t physically practiced, but we’re trying to stay on track.
Most of our work has been through texting and adding to our Google doc, but we’ve also hung out a couple times to go over things in person. Lately we’ve been focusing on how to word the instructions so they’re super clear, since the audience will actually be following along with us. We’ve had to rework the steps a bunch of times to make them simple enough for beginners.
The hardest part so far is definitely trying to explain something we haven’t done ourselves yet. To get around that, we watched a ton of different tutorials and compared them until we figured out the easiest way to explain each step.
On the plus side, our rough draft is finally done, and I think it feels really solid. We made it fun but also easy to follow, and we even started planning out who’s talking when and how we’ll demonstrate. Even though we’re still waiting on the balloons, I think we’ve made a lot of progress and we’ll be in a good spot once we can actually practice.
JOURNAL #7 – Speech 2 Project Reflection (Making a Paper Airplane)
I’ve been concentrating on creating and rehearsing my portion of our group speech on building a paper airplane for the past week. Through messaging and adjusting our flow, I’ve been collaborating closely with my partner. Making sure that our explanations are understandable to the audience has been one of the difficulties we’ve faced, particularly when some of the stages involved in creating a paper airplane may appear minor but are actually quite important. I’ve made detailed visuals and practiced describing each process in clear language in order to get around this. I’ve personally worked on my delivery as well, timing my remarks and making sure I’m speaking with confidence and clarity. We’ve been successful in making our speaker transitions better .It was a little choppy at first, but as we practiced, our teamwork got better, and the speech came more naturally. I’m pleased with our development and feel more equipped for the upcoming class dry practice. We have been actively experimenting with various paper airplane designs and techniques in addition to practicing. To determine which version flew the best, we experimented with a number of different versions and modified our explanations accordingly. We were able to comprehend the significance of every step, even the ones that might not appear significant at first, better thanks to this practical approach. Our method gained greatly from trying out new concepts, which has made the speech more interesting and educational.
So far my partner Hana and I have been working well together and have finally found a quality idea that we can execute. We had some struggles trying to figure out a good idea that would consume 4-7 minutes of time, but our idea has come to us. We’ve decided to give a complex tutorial on how to make a paper airplane. This may sound very simple, but we’ll be crafting high quality planes using construction paper, and also showing a video that will help the students in class walk through, and help them build a plane too. With these detailed steps involved this will keep the class engaged, and hopefully intrigued about crafting this high level paper airplane. The best part of it all is we’ll hold a class wide competition at the end of class where everyone can test out their airplane and we can see who’s going the furthest, the winner will get a gift too which will add some competitive incentives too. We dealt with a few struggles early on, but they were mainly just about brainstorming ideas, and seeing what skill would be the most interesting to teach. Overall we’re in a good position to build off of and I’m glad we have an idea that can get the whole class excited and involved.
This week I made an outline of what we are going to be talking about, so we know what main points we want to say. Me and my partner then met up in person to write it down and review it. We then made a script to practice so we know what to talk about and what needs to be said. WE then decided to divide the parts evenly so we know who is talking about what. The only challenge we have encountered is finding a main topic to teach about. It was hard in the beginning to find something we could deliver clearly while also having props and overall realistic with our time as well. We finally were able to narrow it down to a small list and went from there on which ones we think we both had enough knowledge about to speak on. Finally we came to an ultimate decision on doing lashes to describe the application. I think our success is writing out what we want to talk about. I think we have a good amount to speak on with details. I think we will be successful on a clear delivery as well.
Madison and I met up and discussed our plans for Speech 2. Together we planned an outline for our speech. We brainstormed before meeting up and were able to plan an outline we both felt confident with. Madison and I worked together well and were able to combine our creative ideas which has been very helpful for this project. Our challenges were planning out the time everything would take in our speech without running our experiment. We pretended to do the things we will include in our speech which helped us time it out right. As we were planning the outcome, we had a great idea of including the science behind what is happening to the ice cream in the speech and we squealed with excitement because everything was clicking together. After this we felt very prepared and excited to plan out the rest of this speech.
This past week, me and Lilian met up to discuss speech 2. We made an outline and discussed what we were going to talk about in the speech and how we were going to organise it so each one could say a part. Outlining really helped us see the structure of our ideas, and it gave us a better sense of how to divide the work so each of us would have a fair and balanced part to present. The only challenge we encountered was deciding on one topic to speak about. It was hard at the beginning because we had many ideas and we needed to choose something to stick within the time limit. It took some back-and-forth discussion, but after a while, we were able to reduce our main ideas into one solid focus that worked for both of us. After some time we were able to reduce our main point. Something we succeeded on was to find something that we could both speak confidently about, and I think this will help us deliver a stronger speech.
16 thoughts on “JOURNAL# 7”
As the Speech 2 Project approaches, me and my partner Kiera have been in contact. When working we split up on the outline and worked on the slide show for our speech. I do feel we have been working well together. Today, Monday September 15, we met up to talk about how to address this project. We communicated through Instagram as well to get clarification and ideas before we met up. Today we created the outline and the slide show on first floor commons. Some challenges we faced were getting the material; I didn’t realize for this skill we needed square paper. Luckily, she has a car and is able to get the supplies, because I do not have a car on campus. Throughout this project some successes we have faced were being very open to ideas. We didn’t argue about what we should or shouldn’t do, she was very easy to work with. Overall, I think because we both wanted to succeed in this project, it made it not challenging.
This week I have been trying to figure out the logistics of our presentation. when I thought of the idea it seemed simple to give a presentation on, but we must think about how we’re going to keep the fruit frozen, which blender we’re going to use, and the presentation itself. Grace and I have been communicating and are working on a time next week to meet to go over everything. We haven’t faced too many challenges, which has been nice. And everything seems to be going smoothly. (Get it)
These past days, Giselle and I have been communicating on how we are going to present this speech and getting ready to prepare ourselves. We ordered the strings and materials to use for this speech and they are supposed to be here either today or tomorrow. This past week I also looked up pictures and videos we could use to show the class so it’s easier to follow along. Giselle and I have been talking about the speech in person since we are basically neighbors in the same hall and have been talking about it in the commons. We both haven’t experienced any challenges along the way, we both agreed on this topic and have gotten along very well. I am a little annoyed that the string has taken a little while to come in the mail but at least it’s coming soon. We have succeeded in building a draft for the speech and talking about how we want this speech to go.
This past week, my partner and I have been working on our project. We decided to teach a skill on how to make bagged ice cream. We both thought this idea could be taught thoroughly and also enjoyable. The both of us have been communicating over the phone, but also in person with each other. We sat down together to create our sketchy outline for the next class. We both agreed on a lot of the topics and things we are planning on saying. I think the biggest challenge we faced was determining how we were going to physically write out the process, and how that process of making bagged ice cream happens. Also we thought that the timing was a challenge because it needed to be two minutes or so. To face this timing issue, we recorded ourselves to see how long it took to go over the whole outline. We were at about two minutes, just a few seconds below, but overall I do not think we have a timing issue anymore. I think overcoming this timing issue was the biggest success. We were both nervous that it was going to be too brief, but it was just fine.
For the second speech me and Maddie are going to teach the class how to make friendship bracelets with strings. We had to get the string shipped in the mail, so we started working on it a little later. We think that it will be an easy and fun craft to learn, due to the fact that I am also learning how to make them for the speech. Maddie and I have been practicing, and it has been going well. I just hope that the sketchy speech will be long enough and that we get our point across. We are going to explain how to make the bracelets and give everyone string of different colors while projecting the photos like a slide show onto the board and walking around to make sure everyone has the skills down. I am excited to teach everyone this new skill, and I hope it goes well.
This week I have been working on Figuring out what we want to include our speech and how we want to execute it. I have been working on writing out the steps of the origami crane and some facts as a background for origami. I have been communication with my partner through direct messages and we met up to better plan out how we want to do the speech. Challenges I have run into are the wording of how to make the origami crane, I tried my best to describe and just sat and thought about it for a second. I think what came sucssesfully is how me and my partner work together as well as the idea for what we want our speech to be.
Over the past week, Sydney and I have continued working on our speech on teaching people how to make a balloon dog. The funny thing is we still don’t actually know how to make one! Our balloons haven’t come in the mail yet so we’ve just been researching different tutorials on how to make them and using that to base our speech off of. It’s been a little frustrating not being able to learn it hands on but we’re doing our best to stay on schedule in our speech development until our supplies arrive.
Despite that original challenge we’ve made a lot of progress, in my opinion, on the development of our speech. We’ve mainly been communicating through text or meeting up in one of our dorms, we also have a shared google doc where we’ve developed the rough draft for our speech. We’ve spent most of our time trying to figure out the best way to explain each step because we plan to have the audience participate during the speech.
One of the biggest challenges so far has been making the direction sound simple and clear, which is especially hard when we haven’t physically practiced ourselves yet. TO work around this we watched quite a few video tutorials and carefully broke each step into a more beginner friendly language.
The biggest success so far has been the finalization of our rough draft, our script feels fun, clear, and overall well-placed. We started practicing when we’ll speak and when we’ll demonstrate throughout the speech. Overall the experience this past week has been very positive despite our major setback and I think we are both very excited for our speech.
Journal 7
While my partner and I were working on our journal I found it was a fun way to connect with her and learn about something new for the both of us, and teach the class what we have progressed in and help them succeed as well. Because I think that self defense is truly an important skill to have especially being a smaller woman or living on your own. I really think everyone can benefit from what we have chosen and maybe save someone’s life one day from danger. We have been working on our outline and getting more familiar with self defense and what it is on a deeper level. My partner and I definitely came into problems with procrastination but we realized we had to get this done and put the effort in and we did. I think we did a pretty good job managing it in the end and pulled it together, and we are so excited to present self defense to the class.
Over the past week, me and my partner have worked on our speech, despite running into some challenges. We communicated very well, discussing times we could meet to practice our speech. We also completed our outline for the speech, which included our key points, specific quotes, and organizational bullet points to make sure we have a hook, purpose, tips, and the demonstration. We, however, faced a challenge; we both procrastinated and ended up communicating to meet up very late. We didn’t give ourselves much time to practice although we will be having our “sketchy run” in class today. Despite this issue, we were still able to get together and work on everything toward our speech with enough time. We also have a deeper understanding of self-defense and the importance of having knowledge of it. We believe that, if the audience members are able to retain our demonstration on self-defense, that it can be of use to them and potentially help them out of a dangerous situation.
Over the past week, I’ve been working on finding something that both Nic and I can teach to the class. We originally wanted to teach how to make a smoothie, but after thinking it through and working on a dry run and outline, we made the last minute decision to switch our topic (like Tuesday). So we switched gears to teaching the class how to set up their fishing pole to fish. I worked independently on practicing my knots and unspooling my reel to prepare to teach everyone how to respool it. I’ve worked on pacing myself for my parts of the speech in order to meet the requirement and not rush and get a final time under it. We’ve been able to explore different things that we’re both efficient at that we can teach the class. Scheduling has been hard as we are both sophomores with busy schedules, but the project is moving at a good pace.
This past week, Abby and I kept working on our speech about making balloon dogs. The ironic part is we still haven’t been able to try making one ourselves yet since our balloons haven’t shown up in the mail. For now, we’ve just been watching videos and reading tutorials to get a good idea of how it’s supposed to go. It’s a little weird building a whole speech around something we haven’t physically practiced, but we’re trying to stay on track.
Most of our work has been through texting and adding to our Google doc, but we’ve also hung out a couple times to go over things in person. Lately we’ve been focusing on how to word the instructions so they’re super clear, since the audience will actually be following along with us. We’ve had to rework the steps a bunch of times to make them simple enough for beginners.
The hardest part so far is definitely trying to explain something we haven’t done ourselves yet. To get around that, we watched a ton of different tutorials and compared them until we figured out the easiest way to explain each step.
On the plus side, our rough draft is finally done, and I think it feels really solid. We made it fun but also easy to follow, and we even started planning out who’s talking when and how we’ll demonstrate. Even though we’re still waiting on the balloons, I think we’ve made a lot of progress and we’ll be in a good spot once we can actually practice.
JOURNAL #7 – Speech 2 Project Reflection (Making a Paper Airplane)
I’ve been concentrating on creating and rehearsing my portion of our group speech on building a paper airplane for the past week. Through messaging and adjusting our flow, I’ve been collaborating closely with my partner. Making sure that our explanations are understandable to the audience has been one of the difficulties we’ve faced, particularly when some of the stages involved in creating a paper airplane may appear minor but are actually quite important. I’ve made detailed visuals and practiced describing each process in clear language in order to get around this. I’ve personally worked on my delivery as well, timing my remarks and making sure I’m speaking with confidence and clarity. We’ve been successful in making our speaker transitions better .It was a little choppy at first, but as we practiced, our teamwork got better, and the speech came more naturally. I’m pleased with our development and feel more equipped for the upcoming class dry practice. We have been actively experimenting with various paper airplane designs and techniques in addition to practicing. To determine which version flew the best, we experimented with a number of different versions and modified our explanations accordingly. We were able to comprehend the significance of every step, even the ones that might not appear significant at first, better thanks to this practical approach. Our method gained greatly from trying out new concepts, which has made the speech more interesting and educational.
So far my partner Hana and I have been working well together and have finally found a quality idea that we can execute. We had some struggles trying to figure out a good idea that would consume 4-7 minutes of time, but our idea has come to us. We’ve decided to give a complex tutorial on how to make a paper airplane. This may sound very simple, but we’ll be crafting high quality planes using construction paper, and also showing a video that will help the students in class walk through, and help them build a plane too. With these detailed steps involved this will keep the class engaged, and hopefully intrigued about crafting this high level paper airplane. The best part of it all is we’ll hold a class wide competition at the end of class where everyone can test out their airplane and we can see who’s going the furthest, the winner will get a gift too which will add some competitive incentives too. We dealt with a few struggles early on, but they were mainly just about brainstorming ideas, and seeing what skill would be the most interesting to teach. Overall we’re in a good position to build off of and I’m glad we have an idea that can get the whole class excited and involved.
This week I made an outline of what we are going to be talking about, so we know what main points we want to say. Me and my partner then met up in person to write it down and review it. We then made a script to practice so we know what to talk about and what needs to be said. WE then decided to divide the parts evenly so we know who is talking about what. The only challenge we have encountered is finding a main topic to teach about. It was hard in the beginning to find something we could deliver clearly while also having props and overall realistic with our time as well. We finally were able to narrow it down to a small list and went from there on which ones we think we both had enough knowledge about to speak on. Finally we came to an ultimate decision on doing lashes to describe the application. I think our success is writing out what we want to talk about. I think we have a good amount to speak on with details. I think we will be successful on a clear delivery as well.
Madison and I met up and discussed our plans for Speech 2. Together we planned an outline for our speech. We brainstormed before meeting up and were able to plan an outline we both felt confident with. Madison and I worked together well and were able to combine our creative ideas which has been very helpful for this project. Our challenges were planning out the time everything would take in our speech without running our experiment. We pretended to do the things we will include in our speech which helped us time it out right. As we were planning the outcome, we had a great idea of including the science behind what is happening to the ice cream in the speech and we squealed with excitement because everything was clicking together. After this we felt very prepared and excited to plan out the rest of this speech.
This past week, me and Lilian met up to discuss speech 2. We made an outline and discussed what we were going to talk about in the speech and how we were going to organise it so each one could say a part. Outlining really helped us see the structure of our ideas, and it gave us a better sense of how to divide the work so each of us would have a fair and balanced part to present. The only challenge we encountered was deciding on one topic to speak about. It was hard at the beginning because we had many ideas and we needed to choose something to stick within the time limit. It took some back-and-forth discussion, but after a while, we were able to reduce our main ideas into one solid focus that worked for both of us. After some time we were able to reduce our main point. Something we succeeded on was to find something that we could both speak confidently about, and I think this will help us deliver a stronger speech.