A Thoughtful Farewell

Hi Everyone!

It's Nadya. . . One last time from my Public Speaking class. The class was only a semester long, and the first semester ended yesterday. So this will be my last blog post :(. 

When I look back on the journey that I've made throughout this class, it has been both entertaining and enlightening. I've learned so much throughout this semester, gotten to know people I wouldn't have meet otherwise, and started to master the great art of public speaking. As I look back on my past blog posts, I look back with a smile and think of all the memories I've made. 

My very first blog post had me write three goals for this class. Mine were to be able to know how to act and speak when in front of a crowd, to look and be more confident when speaking in front of people and, for this blog to be interesting for others. I believe that I accomplished most of my goals. I've started to learn how to act when in front of a crowd for different situations, and my speaking in front of these crowds has definitely gotten better. Throughout this class, I learned that my confident varied from project to project depending on what I was delivering and how prepared I felt. And as for my last goal, I don't really know. Looking back on the blog, I saw that it had 220 views but I don't know  of that means anything. It may not have been interesting for outside sources but, for anyone in my class, I think I enjoyed looking at others' blogs to see what they wrote.

 

The project that I was probably most proud would probably the monologue at the beginning of the semester. I remember how much I time I put into that whole project. Firstly, choosing the monologue, then memorizing, and lastly presenting. At the time, I remember being sort of uncomfortable with all the people whom I didn't know so well. As the semester when on, we started to become friends, talking out of our shared class and making new friends. I think that I probably need to work on being able to memorize things. For example, I know that I needed to take more time (than I did) to actually sit down and work on the memorization.

The main thing I think I will take away from this class, is how to get ready for any type of speaking in front of a crowd. I know how to prepare for any type of presentation, and I know how to execute it in way that will be both effective and bring me an A. I have learned to look back at my own work and that if others, to try to see the faults so edits can be made. And by the way, I will always the candy, fudge, hot chocolate, and munchkins that you brought us!

Thank you guys so much for helping me all through this class. To all my classmates, thanks for supporting me and giving me advice I needed to feel confident in my delivery. To my teacher, Mrs. Guarino, thank you so much for all that you did and still do for me. I always enjoyed coming to your class, even it meant a little star work. Thank you for helping to guide me to where I am today.

And lastly, to anyone else reading this blog. Thank you! How you found this blog I do not know but your presence is remembered. And who knows, I might come back to writing on this blog, so it may not goodbye forever. But for now, goodbye, farewell, auf wiedersehen, and good night!

My Final TED Talk

http://youtu.be/eWqxy9fbBlw

Looking Back on My Speech Delivery

Hi Everyone!

This is going to be my second-to-last blog post. Can you believe it? We're almost at the end of this road. I have been working hard on my TED talk. Finishing the drafts, practicing my speech, presenting my speech, and now working to turn it into an actual TED talk. 

I discovered that having a longer speech would come to bite me in the back. It took me a while to finally get it the way I wanted it, all in one take. The beginning of the speech featured an imagination of a place where you could go. I believe that this type of opening forced the audience to pay attention and listen to the speaker. I noticed that the people in class were actually listening to the speech. The length of the speech made it harder to pay attention as I went along. But because the content was was interesting and new to the listeners, they were actually attentive. The length could've been a little much. Even as I was delivering the speech, I started to realize how long my speech actually was. Although, the rest of the people in my class assured me that the longer length was okay, I felt that the speech might've been a dash too long.  

While the speech was on the longer side, it was easy to listen to and follow the whole time. The panegyric was broken up into two parts; one was the actual tip and after that was the anecdote that proved my point. So after the introduction, came the tip, and following it was story to go with it. And it went like this for three tips. As I was delivering the speech, I tried to make sure that my pace was clear and slow enough to understand. Because my teacher had to move the speech for me, at times it was hard to keep my steady pace, to keep up with her continuing of the monologue. The volume, in my opinion, because I knew that when we edited it on iMovie, we would be able to increase or decrease the volume as necessary.  

Overall, I think that that my delivery of my speech went very well. Despite the many takes that it took, with the heater turning on and having not enough storage, it finally came the way that I wanted. All my hard work up until now was worth it so far. I can't wait to show you guys the end result so sit tight. And I'll see you later. . . Next time on Internal Utopias.

Blog Post #9

http://youtu.be/LgIncUk0jig