Impromptu Self Critique

Good job tonight. You made a strong effort to apply the techniques and patterns discussed for impromptu speaking tonight. I gave you some feedback. Now it is your turn to comment. Post your self critique here and take into consideration the feedback that you received in class tonight when posting your self critique.

Persuasive Speaking Critique

Please post three strengths and three improvements from your persuasive speech here. You should include content details that highlight your strengths in utilizing research, evidence and reasoning in creating your arguments. How well did you apply Monroe's Motivated Sequence to creating your persuasive argument? Also, you should be building in these critiques and sharing how your are improving in the areas that needed improvement and were highlight in previous self critiques. This self critique is due on the this post by December 11, 2009.

Networking and Creating a Self Commercial

We discussed in class the importance of developing career networks. Networks are important for developing identify, developing contacts for information, advice, and moral support as you pursue your goals. Kellly Pederson, a Career Specialist, at Rider University states that 75-80% of jobs are found through networks. And, a referral generates 80% more results than a cold call. We discussed that an important part of the networking process is developing a 30 seconds to one minute commercial of yourself. The commercial should contain your background information, current/prior roles in your responsibilities, education and knowledge, strengths and areas of interest and goals. Please post two parts to this blog. First, post your ideas for places that you can reach out to develop these network contacts (religious affliations, friends, prior work situations, etc.) Second part of the post should include your commerical script. Bring a hard copy of your commerical to class too.

Informative Speech Critique #1

Good job on your first speech. There are a few things to work on for our next speech, but overall, it was a strong effort that was shown. Everyone illustrated to me that they put proper research time, planning time and practice time into their speech presentation. Let's keep it up for the next speech! We will be addressing those areas that we excel and those areas that need improvement. Please comment on your own presentation based on your observation, the student critique in class and my critique. Identify three need areas for improvement in the next speech. What will you be focusing on to improve your presentation? How will you work on these areas? Be specific with a step by step action plan for improvement. Then, be sure to remark on the areas that you had a strength and were pleased with applying in this presentation. The areas that must be part of effective communication that you will continue to utilized in your presentations. Be sure this blog is detailed, with descriptions, examples. Avoid vague comments. Self awareness is how we learn.

Do Words Really Matter?

We will be preparing soon for our next speech and taking on a new goal in our speaking with persuasive speech. It will be your job in the next speech to find an issue that you feel are passionate. What words or strategies can you imploy to movitate change in your audience? We will review the techniques and strategies of persuasive speaking in the next few sessions. Take a look at this video. Leave a comment to this 11 year old boy's desire to create change. We will discuss in class later this week.

The Power of Positive Criticism

An important part of becoming a strong speaker is using the feedback from your audience to develop a self awareness of yourself and your message. We spoke about the idea of viewing the critiques that you will receive on your speeches as a "gift" from your classmates to becoming a stronger speaker. We need to stay aware of how we share this information with each other. What words or ways will you share with each other suggestions for strengths and improvements? It is important to always remember that the criticism should be positive in form whether it is sharing a strength or necessary improvement. What ways can you share suggestions for ways to improve? Try to think what can I teach another student when I critique them, not just list of speech criteria. Check out this brief article. Dr. Weisinger is a psychologist, author that addresses the area of positive criticism and emotional intelligence as a means to finding both personal and professional success. Share in your comments suggestions for what needs to be addressed in your opinion in speech critiques. How will you share this information? And, have you ever receive a critique that you found useful? Or destructive? What things have you found to be helpful in receiving advice? This blog comment is due by Thursday, October 22th at the start of class. You must write a post that contains 300 words. Please check for spelling and grammar. This post will count toward course points in participation.

Creating An Impression

The goal of this assignment is to further deepen the knowledge acquired in class this semester in producing an effective speech presentation, please include the following criteria as a comment to this blog before our next class meeting on Thursday, Sept 17th Find a clip of a presenter (celebrity, athlete, politician, etc.) on Youtube or some other video outlet available to you on the Internet, and evaluate why you feel he or she makes an impact on you through his/her speech. You can use the feedback form you will be using to evaluate your peer's presentation next week as a reference for what to look for in this review. This presenter can be making a speech, giving an interview or in a film as a character who makes an impact on you. The clip should not be more than two minutes (it is just a small part of the whole presentation). Place the url address of the link in the blog for me and your peers to look at as they review your posting. Additionally, be prepared to share why you chose this person in our class meeting on Thursday. As stated, you can use Youtube, news site (CNN.com, msnbc.msn.com) live.com/video, TED Talks site or some other video sharing location on the web.

Welcome Com 154 Fall 2009

Welcome to the summer session of Com 154 at Lacey High School We will be using this blog site to post homework assignments and critiques. Please be sure to use appropriate language that is suitable to an academic setting on all comments. Looking forward to reading your thoughts this semester!

Impromptu Critiques

Elevator Speeches were a good start. Keep practicing! Post you impromptu speech critique here for both day and evening classes.

Self-Critique - Day Section

The last blog is all about you. Discuss what your strengths and improvements are as you complete this course. What ways have you turned your improvements into strengths? In what ways have you improved? What areas do you still need to continue to focus your speaking skills? Improving as a speaker requires that you remain conscious a weak habit so you can turn it into a need strength. What is at least one habit that you need to remain conscious about to improve upon? You post with details. I am looking for both quantity and quality in this post. Be write thoughtfully, with details and organization.

Self critique-Evening

This last post to the blog is all about you. Discuss with details what your strengths and improvements are in the completion of this course. What ways have you turned your improvements into strengths? In what ways have you improved? What places do you still know that you have to be continue to practice? Improving as a speaker requires that you remain conscious of your weakness or necessary improved habits to improve upon them. What habits do you know that you have to stay conscious so you can become a better speaker and communicataor? You must post with details. I am looking for quality and quantity in your post.

Persuasive Speaking - Day Section

Please post your critiques here for our persuasive speeches. The comments must address the argument and include comments on the steps to the motivated sequence and the evidence used to support them. Do not only address delivery. I want you to really analysis the argument in both verbal and visual forms. What kinds of evidence was used? What was the quality of the sources chosen? What specifically moved you or did not move you to take action? What kinds of areas does the speaker need to continue improving upon? These are some important points that need to be addressed in your blog posting with any other comments that you wish to include.

Peruasive Speaking - Evening Class

Please post your critiques here for our persuasive speeches. The comments must address the argument and include comments on the steps to the motivated sequence and the evidence used to support them. Do not only address delivery. I want you to really analysis the argument in both verbal and visual forms. What kinds of evidence was used? What was the quality of the sources chosen? What specifically moved you or did not move you to take action? What kinds of areas does the speaker need to continue improving upon? These are some important points that need to be addressed in your blog posting with any other comments that you wish to include.

Informative Critique - Day Section

Please post a critique of the student speaker that you were assigned in class today. The critiques should include two parts. First, two strengths and two improvements. Please choose criteria that has some depth to it. Stay away from superficial comments. Second, give the speaker some suggestions to make improvements for the next speech. Be positive and encouraging to each other! I am grading on your ability to be an effective listener and your understanding of what criteria is important in creating an effective and contagious message!

Informative Speech Critique-Evening Section

Please post a critique of the student speaker that you were assigned in class today. The critiques should include two parts. First, two strengths and two improvements. Please choose criteria that has some depth to it. Stay away from superficial comments. Second, give the speaker some suggestions to make improvements for the next speech. Be positive and encouraging to each other! I am grading on your ability to be an effective listener and your understanding of what criteria is important in creating an effective and contagious message!

Welcome to Com 154

Welcome to the summer session of Com 154 at SEC. We will be using this blog site to post homework assignments and critiques. Please be sure to use appropriate language that is suitable to an academic setting on all comments. Looking forward to reading your thoughts this semester!

Creating An Impression

The goal of this assignment is to further deepen the knowledge acquired in class this semester in producing an effective speech presentation, please include the following criteria as a comment to this blog before our next class meeting on Thursday, May 21st.Find a clip of a presenter (celebrity, athlete, politician, etc.) on Youtube or some other video outlet available to you on the Internet, and evaluate why you feel he or she makes an impact on you through his/her speech. You can use the feedback form you will be using to evaluate your peer's presentation next week as a reference for what to look for in this review. This presenter can be making a speech, giving an interview or in a film as a character who makes an impact on you. The clip should not be more than two minutes (it is just a small part of the whole presentation). Place the url address of the link in the blog for me and your peers to look at as they review your posting. Additionally, be prepared to share why you chose this person in our class meeting on Thursday. As stated, you can use Youtube, news site (CNN.com, msnbc.msn.com) live.com/video, TED Talks site or some other video sharing location on the web.

Speech Anxiety

Communication Apprehension seems to be a major focus on student's hestitates to take a public speaking course. We reviewed in class that two important ingredients to effective speech delivery are reprogramming your "self talk" and putting in proper preparation so you really "know your stuff". Take a look at this clip. Then, post to the blog what your self talk sounds like and a portion of this interview that you identified with in your experience. What does your self talk sound like? What are three practical suggestions that you can give yourself to begin to conquer your speech anxiety?

Entertainment Speech

Please post your critique comments for our last speech here. Be sure to identify at least three of the five techniques from creating humor. Then, post your thoughts about their delivery and content.

Persuasive Speeches

Post your persuasive speech critiques here. You should include three strengths and three improvements. Be sure to include in your comments some suggestions on how to strengthen their needed improvements. The comments should include strengths and improvements for the content. Stay away from critiquing the delivery. Let's look at the argument/content details in this blog.

Critiquing our Informative Speech

We have completed our informative speeches. It was our first speech. It is difficult sometimes for students with the first speech to orient themselves to thinking about communication as a process. We need to move past just "getting up" and apply the content and delivery criteria addressed in class for effective communication. Please work on the suggested areas of improvement in the next speech. Post your critique in this blog post. Be sure to include the speaker's first name in the comment. You need to give three strengths and three improvements. I am not interested in reading superficial comments. Please use depth in your comments. You are required to give your assigned speaker thoughtful suggestions on how to improve the needed weakness or improvements in their presentaion. Unsupported comments or those comments lacking details will receive a zero or a deduction in points for this assignment.

Creating An Impact with Visual Aids

We have discussed how to use powerpoint correctly to contribute to producing an effective message. What other types of visual aids could be used in a speech to creae an impact. Think outside the box and using the list of visuals that we dicussed in class (and are mentioned in the text, eg., models, charts, etc.). What creative ways could technology, and the internet sites be used? Or, what other types of visuals can you come up with has examples? Give two hypothetical speech situations and the type of visual aid that would be utilized in each speech. Remember, we are focusing on being clear and contagious when we speak! Blog comment due on February 26th.

Creating An Impression

The goal of this assignment is to further deepen the knowledge acquired in class this semester in producing an effective speech presentation, please include the following criteria as a comment to this blog before our next class meeting on Thursday, May 21st.Find a clip of a presenter (celebrity, athlete, politician, etc.) on Youtube or some other video outlet available to you on the Internet, and evaluate why you feel he or she makes an impact on you through his/her speech. You can use the feedback form you will be using to evaluate your peer's presentation next week as a reference for what to look for in this review. This presenter can be making a speech, giving an interview or in a film as a character who makes an impact on you. The clip should not be more than two minutes (it is just a small part of the whole presentation). Place the url address of the link in the blog for me and your peers to look at as they review your posting. Additionally, be prepared to share why you chose this person in our class meeting on Monday. As stated, you can use Youtube, news site (CNN.com, msnbc.msn.com) live.com/video, TED Talks site or some other video sharing location on the web.

Welcome to Com 154 -Public Speaking

Welcome! We will be utilizing this blog as a means of sharing our critiques. Everyone needs to open a google name and password to post on our class blog. We will primarily post our speech critiques here. It will give us the opportunity to review our performances. Please do not sign your posting with your last name or some other unfamiliar crazy name. Be sure to give me your first name and the first letter of your last name so I can give you credit for your work. If you have problems getting started with the blog, please do not be concerned...just email me or bring your questions to class. You will catch on soon enough! I would suggest that you first type up your critique in word so you can check it for spelling and grammar errors, and then copy and paste your critique to the blog. Please remember that this is an academic setting. I am expecting proper behavior on this blog. All comments must be appropriate or will be deleted by the instructor and the student will receive a zero. Also, all comments are to be supported with details and examples from the speech. No unsupported statements will receive credit.I want to be sure that you become familiar with blogging quickly so, we are going to put our first homework assignment here. Please go to the next blog post. Click on comments and post your thoughts per the instructions. Again, stay calm if you get confused...contact me via email or in our next class for help!