On Speech 2, I felt it went well. I noticed that Kiera and I engagement was good. We were successfully able to go around and help the other students with their origami cranes. Helping people in the class was something I was nervous about, but it ended up being fun. The lack of stress coming from this assignment suprised me. Not only that but the other groups were very fun to participate in. Working with a partner on a speech was also new to me. We had good teamwork with switching off lines and communication when needing assistance. Although I think our biggest struggle was the time limit. After the speech I recognized how much longer we took because we had to clarify and solidify the instructions. For future speeches we were advised to make better use of the dry runs. To go through the steps thoroughly rather than just announce them. By doing this it should give us a better accusation of our timing. While we did meet up twice before the final speech, we could have gone over it one more time to reconsider the time management. When practicing it worked out but that excluded the fact of people needing assistance. I do feel this speech was a learning benefit for me, it got me out of my comfort zone when working with someone in this sort of setting.
Now that I finished the second speech, I feel I am getting more comfortable with public speaking in this class. Overall I thought we did a really good job on this speech. Giselle and I engagement was very well done. We did a good job engaging with the class and each other. Whether it was walking around the room during our speech to help anyone or engaging with each other to plan when to practice and get done the slideshow and preparing our materials. The process went well, we didn’t rush or feel stressed at all, the speech went smoothly and we had our materials on time and everything was prepared on time. I don’t think we had any big struggles, we had a perfect time, I thought the slideshows were easy to follow and I was also demonstrating it on the board too. We forget to print out our outline so that was one mistake that we forget but know to do for next time. We succeeded in getting everything done on time, we did a good job with the dry runs and they were good practice which was helpful. Overall Giselle and I did a good job on this speech and are feeling better after getting it done first.
Overall, I think the speech went well. It was hard to practice when Maddie and I both ended up being sick at different times, but we still managed to make time to practice. I am glad Maddie and I got to go first so that we could get it over with. I have a harder time when I have to wait to do my speech, and the anxiety has time to build up. I think that I was way less anxious for my second speech than I was with my first speech. I think I found it easier to work with someone else, so all of the attention isn’t just directly on me.
I think and hope that everyone enjoyed our idea of making friendship bracelets. I think it was a little hard to explain to the class at first, but I think Maddie and I doing it on the board, and also having the slide up helped people understand it.
In the end, I was still very nervous to give the speech, but I think it went well, and I am a lot more prepared for the next speech.
Now that I finish the project, I can say that the engagement was strong because I stayed consistent in working with my partner and made sure I was involved in every step of the project. The process was really organized, me and lilian made sure to always communicate and talk out our ideas and points, which helped us stay on track. One of my discoveries while doing this project was realizing how much good teamwork and practice can make a difference in reducing nerves and improving confidence. One of the struggles I faced was speaking loud enough for everyone to hear, trying not to look at the slides too much, and managing my nerves while presenting. However, I think our biggest success was how well we worked as a team and that we were ready for the final presentation.
This speech was definitely a change from speech #1 considering we had to work along with a partner, and there’s pros and cons to both. Some pros to working with a partner or in a group would be splitting the workload, eases the stresses of public speaking, and you get to collaborate ideas that maybe you wouldn’t have thought of solo. You can collaborate on unique ideas and have trials and errors to see what each of you like or don’t like. Some struggles with group work would be collaborating in person as my partner and I had really different schedules and it was hard to get quality in person time to rehearse, but we did manage to squeeze in some time. A good thing for my process is my partner and I both agreed on our ideas and never really had a moment where we disagreed which made the whole process operate smoothly. For the most part we had great time management as we each completed our respective workload on time and came to class prepared with the proper materials for us to perform our speech in a timely manner. Looking back I’d say having a partner is more beneficial than not, and also makes it less stressful when it comes time to perform on speech day.
Now that I’ve completed 2 public speaking assignments and have had the quality time of reviewing my work, and others work I think I’ve had a small growth now when I’m speaking in public areas. Having to prepare and deliver a piece of content to people you barely know makes my daily social interactions have more flow and more of a natural feeling. I think my confidence from speech 1 to speech 2 improved too and I didn’t feel that panicking feeling when I did the first run around. Some tips I plan on improvising for speech 3 would definitely be watching how much I sway my body and try to keep myself square while not looking like a robot too. As far as planning techniques I’ll probably stay doing relatively the same for preparation. I try to rehearse and time myself every other day to stay fresh on the concepts I want to touch on and make sure I don’t purely rely on my notes. Some things I’ll do differently in my planning process is trying to practice on a partner or have someone hear me present so I can get some criticism in the moment on what worked and didn’t work for them. Overall I’ve seen great improvement in my daily life regarding confidence and I think I’m in a good place in regards to speech 3.
While we have just finished our projects and performed them for our class, I really thought it was a fun and interesting project. We got to introduce ourselves to our fellow classmates and make new connections while learning many new skills. For our project in particular I truly thought it was fun to learn and teach ourselves self defense then learn from our mistakes to fix them. I found it very helpful recording our dry run to get the full effect of what needs to change and what we could do better for the final presentation. From doing that we had a good outcome and weren’t so nervous like the time before. So we could then teach it to the class in the most effective way we found worked. I really enjoyed how we got to brain storm ideas on how we wanted to teach the class and how we wanted to perform it. It was fun and exciting getting to see it all come together, and to focus on our mistakes and eventually figure out what went wrong, because we definitely had our struggles but together managed to figure it out.
Now that speech 2, “teaching a skill” is finally completed, I can officially say that it was definitely a hard-working, hands-on type of situation. The engagement of this project was very thorough, and I know that my partner and I definitely put a lot of our time and effort into making a well rounded speech. The process of getting the skill together, which was how to make bagged ice cream, honestly just took dedication. The both of us wanted to deliver a speech that the audience could perform well, and that they would learn a new skill that was fun. However, we made a few trial and errors when getting the speech together – we revised our outlines over and over again. Like I said in previous journals, our biggest struggle was figuring out the timing. We realized that the more we study the actual technique, the more clarity we are going to have while presenting, which made me feel way more confident than speech one. Overall, I think the biggest success from delivering this speech was feeling really good about it, my confidence was definitely high. I believe that this is the biggest success that anyone could have when speaking publicly.
Throughout project 2, I learned a lot about the difference between preparing for a speech on your own versus preparing with a partner. When working on a project with a partner, the process can feel a lot more fun and interesting. We were very engaged in our project, always making sure to complete every step to their fullest potential. For example, we researched and learned a lot about the specifics of self defense; techniques, reasonings, and the moves, which we chose carefully so it would be easy for our audience to follow along with. We did struggle, however, throughout the process of completing this project; we procrastinated a lot. We would wait until even the day of class to meet up and discuss/prepare for our presentation. Due to this, we felt a bit unprepared and worried that that would show when presenting our final speech to the class. Right before delivering our speech to the class, we repeatedly told each other that it would be okay, which helped us go into our speech with confidence. Despite some minor setbacks during this project, we still managed to push through and deliver our speech with pride, along with becoming great friends along the way.
Now that I’ve finished speech 2 I can say there was good engagement but some people still struggled a bit, but they still really enjoyed it. The process was somewhat easy because it was specific set of instructions, but I do not expect this in the future. But I still had to come up with ways to explain each step the best I could and work with my partner to figure out who will do what and to practice the speech. I learned you really need to practice, this gives you a better understanding of what you want to say and more confidence which makes me feel less nervous. Struggles were at first to find something we can actually make a speech on, then we just needed to practice the origami and the speech. Some struggles during the speech were people not really understanding and needing more help then we anticipated so we went over our time by a lot. The successes was the over all enjoyment and engagement during the speech as well as being able to get our materials right away. Over all I learned a lot and have a lot of ideas on how to be better for my next speech and actually enjoyed doing it.
Over the past few weeks, I worked with a partner to create a short speech in which we taught the class a skill. I struggled with working with another person to create a speech, simply because I work best alone. We struggled with deciding on a topic we both could teach to 15 other people. Also, part of the struggle was deciding on a topic that 15 people could learn in less than ten minutes. However, we were able to create slides, a handout, and collect the supplies needed. Over the few weeks, I learned how to efficiently respool a reel so that I could effectively show the class while also saving as much time as possible. I think I spoke a lot less than I thought I was going to during the speech, and I probably could’ve stepped up a few times to tell the class more about the process or introduce the topic. Overall, I think the speech went well and we were able to catch mostly everyone’s interest.
Speech two was a speech I thoroughly enjoyed. I liked the fact that we were able to pick a topic that was connected to things we enjoyed; this made me at least super engaged with the project, and I felt like I could do it for fun, rather than just another assignment. Surprisingly, it proved more challenging than I anticipated; it was difficult to figure out how to convey what Grace and I were demonstrating, because for me, it’s second nature to tie the clinch knot, but being able to teach a class that hasn’t tied this knot is tricky. I really enjoyed our product, and most everyone who volunteered completed the knot, and most actually held it without slipping. I think this is also a great skill to have.
After finishing speech 2 I have taken time to reflect. I feel that there are some parts that I did well on such as making eye contact, speaking clearly so everyone could not just hear what I was saying but also understand what I was talking about in simple terms. Ways that I feel that could have been more improved upon was overall class engagement. I think there could have been more done so the class could have participated more instead of just watching and listening. I feel like the overall process leading up to the speech was well and a success and I felt more confident about this speech because I felt like I knew more on what I was going to say. I discovered during this process when we did the videos to see as a draft was how I do public speaking to people. I felt like I didn’t look as confident as I wanted but that I can work on more. I also discovered having a partner is beneficial as they can give you direct feedback and make me feel not alone while presenting.
After completing the speech two, I realized that creating a paper airplane was more challenging than I had anticipated. Getting it to fly the way we intended required a great deal of trial and error and patience. Finding a time that worked for both of us made our meetings a little difficult, but once we did, we were able to communicate well and exchange ideas to make our design better. Along the way, I discovered that even minor tasks take concentration and coordination to complete well. After testing and tweaking a few unsuccessful planes, we eventually created one that flew incredibly well.
Overall I feel as though speech #2 was a success for me and my partner. Me and Madison worked very well together, which was very helpful for this process, and allowed us to collaborate nicely. I kind of came up with the idea of making bagged ice cream because it is such a fun and easy treat to teach people how to make, and Madison was awesome and made a great outline for us to work on. We both did a fair amount of work and contribution to this project. Throughout the planning process we would get random ideas that would make our speech better, like adding scientific facts for example, which I think was a GREAT addition to our speech and the goal of this project. As we progressed on the speech and presentation there were things we decided to add to make it even better, and there were things we removed as well, we decided certain things could be simplified. One of our biggest struggles was worrying about time, and how long each step would take, as well as the idea of shaking the bag past the time our presentation would go, but it all worked out pretty well in the end thankfully. I truly enjoyed this project and speech, it was fun and I actually enjoyed that it was in groups of two.
After finishing our speech project I feel like I can say it was both very fun and a very challenging experience. Teaching the class how to make balloon dogs was such a unique way to engage with the class and get more practice in our public speaking/presenting. One of the biggest struggles came pretty early on when my project partner Sydney got sick, which meant we weren’t able to meet for a week or so and I had to do our practice run solo. It was a bit stressful presenting solo especially because it was a hands-on presentation which made teamwork very important. Although I definitely think that time gave me a chance to smooth out all the kinks and make our project even better.
After Sydney got better we were able to practice together and coordinate our separate parts and focus on our timing. The actual speech went pretty well I thought, everyone seemed very engaged and almost everyone completed their balloons successfully. It was very rewarding to see our hard work pay off by seeing the speech run smoothly. Overall I think I really learned the importance of flexibility, reparation, and communication especially when working with a partner.
16 thoughts on “JOURNAL # 11”
On Speech 2, I felt it went well. I noticed that Kiera and I engagement was good. We were successfully able to go around and help the other students with their origami cranes. Helping people in the class was something I was nervous about, but it ended up being fun. The lack of stress coming from this assignment suprised me. Not only that but the other groups were very fun to participate in. Working with a partner on a speech was also new to me. We had good teamwork with switching off lines and communication when needing assistance. Although I think our biggest struggle was the time limit. After the speech I recognized how much longer we took because we had to clarify and solidify the instructions. For future speeches we were advised to make better use of the dry runs. To go through the steps thoroughly rather than just announce them. By doing this it should give us a better accusation of our timing. While we did meet up twice before the final speech, we could have gone over it one more time to reconsider the time management. When practicing it worked out but that excluded the fact of people needing assistance. I do feel this speech was a learning benefit for me, it got me out of my comfort zone when working with someone in this sort of setting.
Now that I finished the second speech, I feel I am getting more comfortable with public speaking in this class. Overall I thought we did a really good job on this speech. Giselle and I engagement was very well done. We did a good job engaging with the class and each other. Whether it was walking around the room during our speech to help anyone or engaging with each other to plan when to practice and get done the slideshow and preparing our materials. The process went well, we didn’t rush or feel stressed at all, the speech went smoothly and we had our materials on time and everything was prepared on time. I don’t think we had any big struggles, we had a perfect time, I thought the slideshows were easy to follow and I was also demonstrating it on the board too. We forget to print out our outline so that was one mistake that we forget but know to do for next time. We succeeded in getting everything done on time, we did a good job with the dry runs and they were good practice which was helpful. Overall Giselle and I did a good job on this speech and are feeling better after getting it done first.
Overall, I think the speech went well. It was hard to practice when Maddie and I both ended up being sick at different times, but we still managed to make time to practice. I am glad Maddie and I got to go first so that we could get it over with. I have a harder time when I have to wait to do my speech, and the anxiety has time to build up. I think that I was way less anxious for my second speech than I was with my first speech. I think I found it easier to work with someone else, so all of the attention isn’t just directly on me.
I think and hope that everyone enjoyed our idea of making friendship bracelets. I think it was a little hard to explain to the class at first, but I think Maddie and I doing it on the board, and also having the slide up helped people understand it.
In the end, I was still very nervous to give the speech, but I think it went well, and I am a lot more prepared for the next speech.
Now that I finish the project, I can say that the engagement was strong because I stayed consistent in working with my partner and made sure I was involved in every step of the project. The process was really organized, me and lilian made sure to always communicate and talk out our ideas and points, which helped us stay on track. One of my discoveries while doing this project was realizing how much good teamwork and practice can make a difference in reducing nerves and improving confidence. One of the struggles I faced was speaking loud enough for everyone to hear, trying not to look at the slides too much, and managing my nerves while presenting. However, I think our biggest success was how well we worked as a team and that we were ready for the final presentation.
This speech was definitely a change from speech #1 considering we had to work along with a partner, and there’s pros and cons to both. Some pros to working with a partner or in a group would be splitting the workload, eases the stresses of public speaking, and you get to collaborate ideas that maybe you wouldn’t have thought of solo. You can collaborate on unique ideas and have trials and errors to see what each of you like or don’t like. Some struggles with group work would be collaborating in person as my partner and I had really different schedules and it was hard to get quality in person time to rehearse, but we did manage to squeeze in some time. A good thing for my process is my partner and I both agreed on our ideas and never really had a moment where we disagreed which made the whole process operate smoothly. For the most part we had great time management as we each completed our respective workload on time and came to class prepared with the proper materials for us to perform our speech in a timely manner. Looking back I’d say having a partner is more beneficial than not, and also makes it less stressful when it comes time to perform on speech day.
Now that I’ve completed 2 public speaking assignments and have had the quality time of reviewing my work, and others work I think I’ve had a small growth now when I’m speaking in public areas. Having to prepare and deliver a piece of content to people you barely know makes my daily social interactions have more flow and more of a natural feeling. I think my confidence from speech 1 to speech 2 improved too and I didn’t feel that panicking feeling when I did the first run around. Some tips I plan on improvising for speech 3 would definitely be watching how much I sway my body and try to keep myself square while not looking like a robot too. As far as planning techniques I’ll probably stay doing relatively the same for preparation. I try to rehearse and time myself every other day to stay fresh on the concepts I want to touch on and make sure I don’t purely rely on my notes. Some things I’ll do differently in my planning process is trying to practice on a partner or have someone hear me present so I can get some criticism in the moment on what worked and didn’t work for them. Overall I’ve seen great improvement in my daily life regarding confidence and I think I’m in a good place in regards to speech 3.
While we have just finished our projects and performed them for our class, I really thought it was a fun and interesting project. We got to introduce ourselves to our fellow classmates and make new connections while learning many new skills. For our project in particular I truly thought it was fun to learn and teach ourselves self defense then learn from our mistakes to fix them. I found it very helpful recording our dry run to get the full effect of what needs to change and what we could do better for the final presentation. From doing that we had a good outcome and weren’t so nervous like the time before. So we could then teach it to the class in the most effective way we found worked. I really enjoyed how we got to brain storm ideas on how we wanted to teach the class and how we wanted to perform it. It was fun and exciting getting to see it all come together, and to focus on our mistakes and eventually figure out what went wrong, because we definitely had our struggles but together managed to figure it out.
Now that speech 2, “teaching a skill” is finally completed, I can officially say that it was definitely a hard-working, hands-on type of situation. The engagement of this project was very thorough, and I know that my partner and I definitely put a lot of our time and effort into making a well rounded speech. The process of getting the skill together, which was how to make bagged ice cream, honestly just took dedication. The both of us wanted to deliver a speech that the audience could perform well, and that they would learn a new skill that was fun. However, we made a few trial and errors when getting the speech together – we revised our outlines over and over again. Like I said in previous journals, our biggest struggle was figuring out the timing. We realized that the more we study the actual technique, the more clarity we are going to have while presenting, which made me feel way more confident than speech one. Overall, I think the biggest success from delivering this speech was feeling really good about it, my confidence was definitely high. I believe that this is the biggest success that anyone could have when speaking publicly.
Throughout project 2, I learned a lot about the difference between preparing for a speech on your own versus preparing with a partner. When working on a project with a partner, the process can feel a lot more fun and interesting. We were very engaged in our project, always making sure to complete every step to their fullest potential. For example, we researched and learned a lot about the specifics of self defense; techniques, reasonings, and the moves, which we chose carefully so it would be easy for our audience to follow along with. We did struggle, however, throughout the process of completing this project; we procrastinated a lot. We would wait until even the day of class to meet up and discuss/prepare for our presentation. Due to this, we felt a bit unprepared and worried that that would show when presenting our final speech to the class. Right before delivering our speech to the class, we repeatedly told each other that it would be okay, which helped us go into our speech with confidence. Despite some minor setbacks during this project, we still managed to push through and deliver our speech with pride, along with becoming great friends along the way.
Now that I’ve finished speech 2 I can say there was good engagement but some people still struggled a bit, but they still really enjoyed it. The process was somewhat easy because it was specific set of instructions, but I do not expect this in the future. But I still had to come up with ways to explain each step the best I could and work with my partner to figure out who will do what and to practice the speech. I learned you really need to practice, this gives you a better understanding of what you want to say and more confidence which makes me feel less nervous. Struggles were at first to find something we can actually make a speech on, then we just needed to practice the origami and the speech. Some struggles during the speech were people not really understanding and needing more help then we anticipated so we went over our time by a lot. The successes was the over all enjoyment and engagement during the speech as well as being able to get our materials right away. Over all I learned a lot and have a lot of ideas on how to be better for my next speech and actually enjoyed doing it.
Over the past few weeks, I worked with a partner to create a short speech in which we taught the class a skill. I struggled with working with another person to create a speech, simply because I work best alone. We struggled with deciding on a topic we both could teach to 15 other people. Also, part of the struggle was deciding on a topic that 15 people could learn in less than ten minutes. However, we were able to create slides, a handout, and collect the supplies needed. Over the few weeks, I learned how to efficiently respool a reel so that I could effectively show the class while also saving as much time as possible. I think I spoke a lot less than I thought I was going to during the speech, and I probably could’ve stepped up a few times to tell the class more about the process or introduce the topic. Overall, I think the speech went well and we were able to catch mostly everyone’s interest.
Speech two was a speech I thoroughly enjoyed. I liked the fact that we were able to pick a topic that was connected to things we enjoyed; this made me at least super engaged with the project, and I felt like I could do it for fun, rather than just another assignment. Surprisingly, it proved more challenging than I anticipated; it was difficult to figure out how to convey what Grace and I were demonstrating, because for me, it’s second nature to tie the clinch knot, but being able to teach a class that hasn’t tied this knot is tricky. I really enjoyed our product, and most everyone who volunteered completed the knot, and most actually held it without slipping. I think this is also a great skill to have.
After finishing speech 2 I have taken time to reflect. I feel that there are some parts that I did well on such as making eye contact, speaking clearly so everyone could not just hear what I was saying but also understand what I was talking about in simple terms. Ways that I feel that could have been more improved upon was overall class engagement. I think there could have been more done so the class could have participated more instead of just watching and listening. I feel like the overall process leading up to the speech was well and a success and I felt more confident about this speech because I felt like I knew more on what I was going to say. I discovered during this process when we did the videos to see as a draft was how I do public speaking to people. I felt like I didn’t look as confident as I wanted but that I can work on more. I also discovered having a partner is beneficial as they can give you direct feedback and make me feel not alone while presenting.
After completing the speech two, I realized that creating a paper airplane was more challenging than I had anticipated. Getting it to fly the way we intended required a great deal of trial and error and patience. Finding a time that worked for both of us made our meetings a little difficult, but once we did, we were able to communicate well and exchange ideas to make our design better. Along the way, I discovered that even minor tasks take concentration and coordination to complete well. After testing and tweaking a few unsuccessful planes, we eventually created one that flew incredibly well.
Overall I feel as though speech #2 was a success for me and my partner. Me and Madison worked very well together, which was very helpful for this process, and allowed us to collaborate nicely. I kind of came up with the idea of making bagged ice cream because it is such a fun and easy treat to teach people how to make, and Madison was awesome and made a great outline for us to work on. We both did a fair amount of work and contribution to this project. Throughout the planning process we would get random ideas that would make our speech better, like adding scientific facts for example, which I think was a GREAT addition to our speech and the goal of this project. As we progressed on the speech and presentation there were things we decided to add to make it even better, and there were things we removed as well, we decided certain things could be simplified. One of our biggest struggles was worrying about time, and how long each step would take, as well as the idea of shaking the bag past the time our presentation would go, but it all worked out pretty well in the end thankfully. I truly enjoyed this project and speech, it was fun and I actually enjoyed that it was in groups of two.
After finishing our speech project I feel like I can say it was both very fun and a very challenging experience. Teaching the class how to make balloon dogs was such a unique way to engage with the class and get more practice in our public speaking/presenting. One of the biggest struggles came pretty early on when my project partner Sydney got sick, which meant we weren’t able to meet for a week or so and I had to do our practice run solo. It was a bit stressful presenting solo especially because it was a hands-on presentation which made teamwork very important. Although I definitely think that time gave me a chance to smooth out all the kinks and make our project even better.
After Sydney got better we were able to practice together and coordinate our separate parts and focus on our timing. The actual speech went pretty well I thought, everyone seemed very engaged and almost everyone completed their balloons successfully. It was very rewarding to see our hard work pay off by seeing the speech run smoothly. Overall I think I really learned the importance of flexibility, reparation, and communication especially when working with a partner.