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.