Emily Lee

Oral Communication

Video Self-Evaluation
Review the videotape of your speech. As you watch, answer the following questions. 1. How did you try to get the audiences attention? How effective was it?

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I throw out an interesting question to the crowd that makes them think about the situation a little bit. I think it was not too effective, because for HSP/POH students, they might not have understand my question. However, I am sure that my volume scared them, and woke them up, literally.
Did you clearly communicate your purpose (e.g. I am going to inform/convince you about/to)? How did you motivate your audience to listen to you?

Yes, I of the impact a very

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think I did pretty well on communicate my purpose speech. I told them that this hero has a very big on the cancer, a serious disease, and he is still great hero in Canada today.

My speech was organized by an outline. I think it had a pretty smooth progress, every detail was connected to the last one, which helped people to catch up where I am going through. You can stop paying attention to my speech and follow my outline easily, because whatever I said, it's all in the outline.
4. What were some of the transition words you used in your speech? Did you clearly indicate movement from one part of your speech to another? Why/why not?

How was your speech organized? How clearly/logically did it progress? Could I stop paying attention to you and read your outline instead and still follow along easily?

Some transition words that I used in my speech are first, next, last. I clearly indicate movement from one part of my speech to another, because I think it is very important to keep my audience on track of the time range that my hero is facing, and why was those events so fascinating.
5. Explain why your main points were/were not clearly presented.

My main points were clearly presented, because I kind of wrap up one main point that I have just talked about, and then connected it to the next one, and show exactly what connection that they have.
6. Evaluate your conclusion. Did it connect seamlessly with the introduction and body? Did you give a clear sense of ending?

I think my conclusion was pretty good, although there might be some vocal mistakes, it was pretty new to everyone as what they expect in a speech. I think my conclusion clearly connected to my attention getter, and probably a little less to my body. I think when I started to sang the song, people probably got the hint that the speech is about to end.
7. Evaluate your delivery. Were you loud enough/clear enough/energetic enough/varying your tone enough/connecting to your whole audience enough?

I think I did pretty well on delivering my speech, as usual, volume was great, tone was great, very energetic, but I still think I can still improve my pronounciation.

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How did your use of voice, gestures, and bodily action enhance (or detract) from the message of your speech? What will you do to enhance the message of your speaking opportunities?

I use my bodily action and gestures to help the HSP/POH students to understand some big vocabularies that they might not understand fully. I don't really know how I can use my voice to help them understand vocabulary, but I guess my use of voice still needs improvement.
Did you appear sincerely interested and enthusiastic in the topic (your classmate) and in your talking with your audience? What did your body language and eye contact say to your audience? Give examples to support your answers. I think people can tell that I am very enthusiastic about how great my hero is. I think my body language kind of fought with what my eye contact said about me. My body language showed that I am very nervous, that I could not really control my gestures. On the contrary, my eye contact was very well done, which also showed that I am comfortable looking to my audience. I am not quite sure what people might have thought about my bodily actions and my eye contact express, but that is what I thought about myself. 10. Evaluate the overall success of this speech. What grade (A-F) would you assign this presentation? Why? 9.

I would give my speech an A-, because I think I did improved from the last speech. I seemed pretty confident upstage, I had less problem on eye contact than I thought. I did not messed up with words that I forgot, and I carried on smoothly.
11.

Describe what you have learned from this speaking opportunity, and how you will use this information in the future.

I learned that I should learn how to not get easily distracted to whatever my audience is doing, because I was a little shock when one of my friends raise up her iPad and record me.
12. What did you learn from this presentation that will help you prepare your future speech? List at least three things that you plan on working on. (To just practice is not a specific step exactly how will you practice?) a. I will learn how to not get easily distracted by others

during my speech, so that I will not stop during my speech even if I see something distracting. I will do my practice in front of my friends, and ask them to make funny faces. I have to keep practicing vocabularies that are b. either hard to pronounce, or that are new to me again and again, and probably listen to dictionary saying the words several times before going on to the statge.
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I will practice the use of my voice to add a little dramatic into my speech to keep my audience awake, and no what's going on in my speech.

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Describe, in detail, the areas you will improve your public speaking and exactly how you will improve. Include a variety of specific steps you will take to improve your public speaking skills.

I will practice how to not easily get distracted by my audience, and I think one very good way is to either invite my friends listening to my speech before I go upstage, or play random funny videos while I am practicing, I think I might be a good