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Post-Speech Evaluation #4

Post-Speech Evaluation #4

My group was the Trax Development team pitching our line of shoes specializing in child monitoring for prevention of child abductions to the local shoe company Deckers based here in Goleta

The team: Chris as Chief Technology Officer, Nick as Chief Product Officer, Ling as CEO, and Linda as Community Outreach Coordinator

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1.      MORE PRACTICE: This time around, the entire team met together several times to practice, but I want to start practicing more on my own. I did not practice for this outside of the few team meetings and could have hit my marks and points better.

2.      Timing slides/ setting up a timer: I would have really appreciated knowing the time that we had taken up during the presentation. This would help me realize if I should go through a specific section more quickly, or if I have time to elaborate.

3.      Linda was really great at creating a serious tone and conveying emotion during the presentation. I took on the role knowing that I would be giving technical information more positively, but would like to practice getting serious

4.      Similar to above, I am good at being positive and somewhat humorous, but want to effectively convey other emotions and direct a crowd or audience’s emotions through presentation. So start practicing to a mirror or something; perhaps create scenarios to improve public speaking at a funeral, or memorial.

5.      The last thing I really want to start getting down and intend to practice in the future is getting the crowd as physically and mentally involved as I can. This time around our team got to get them thinking about missing children. Also about the affordability of our product. I specifically got them to hold out or look at an iphone as an example of the potential for compact gps technology. I have been improving however, I still remember the elevator pitch guy creating the scene of you at a baseball game sitting on the seat-warmer and want to start moving even more in that direction.

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1.      My usual pet-peeves: repeating gestures, though I have improved a lot throughout the course in this regard.

2.      I don’t believe I said umm in this video which is great, but still want to stop repeating words while speaking. Like missing the word I wanted to say, then repeating the sentence. 

3.      We wanted to stress everyone getting equal speaking time, but given the fact that our presentation was running short during practice we all decided to elaborate even more on each of our subjects: I would like then to stop having to go off the cuff to lengthen presentations. I did fairly well and only stumbled on my message very few times – and it hopefully isn’t really noticeable unless you knew what I intended to say – but I ended up speaking a bit longer than the rest of my team as a result and we still only presented for like 13 minutes before questions

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1.      PRACTICE! Made all the difference between this speech and the last. My group met together on 3 separate occasions outside of class to practice and plan the presentation.

2.      Vocal Projection: has always been an important point for improvement in my speech and I was able to project my voice and convey authority during the presentation

3.      Body Positioning and Gestures: This presentation was less focused on individuals speaking, so body position during speech was very important to consider. I kept myself engaged as I could and opened my arms up and faced my body to the audience and my group when speaking to remain connected to both parties.

4.      The Prezi: I feel like, with the help of my teammates, the Prezi finally got somewhere really great for the presentation. There were not too many words flooding the pages and distracting the audience. There were helpful images and tables available to guide the audience’s attention. And there were enough titles and subjects written to guide us as presenters through the 12-15 minutes of presenting

5.      Visual Presentation: My group was not as coordinated in clothing as Canyon and Taka’s suit-up, but I am very glad we moved in a similar direction by wearing ties (Nick and I) and vests (Ling and Linda) though Ling couldn’t find a matching one.

6.      Visual Aid: The film was a great addition to our presentation because it 1. Looked professional and like we put a lot of effort into our project and 2. Set the tone and established a background for characterization of our company and our product. Also it was a lot of fun to create and helped the team work together on our project.

My Fave Moves

• Canyon: understood his audience very well – not the hypothetical one, but the actual classroom – and made use of his previous history as a shoe shine salesman to establish authority for his new character and to establish a humorous presentation.
• Ben - Did a great job getting into character for his presentation. very entertaining and also set the mood for the rest of his team's acts
• The Dump Crew - created a very impressive Prezi that guided the audience through the presentation very efficiently  That is the kind of creativity that I try to channel when creating visual media aid for my presentations

Speech #4 Outline

Team Members: Chris, Linda, Ling, and Nick
Local Company: Deckers (shoes)
Our Product: Tracks - shoes with built in tracking devices
Rhetorical Situation: We have a great product and are trying to sell that product to Deckers in the form of a shoe line made out of our Tracks products.

Team Roles
Chris is mainly giving highlights of our product
Linda is mainly highlighting the market for our product
Ling is providing the counterarguments to our product
and Nick is naming the competition and reinforcing our superior product

More on the Product:

Shoes: We are focusing on children's lines of shoes made for walking children up to size 4 in girls and the boys equivalent of 7

The GPS APP: The GPS will send out a signal that can be received only through the purchaser's authorized mobile application available on apple and android.

The GPS Battery: Similar to your iphone, they can be charged overnight. each pair of shoes will come with a neat charging apparatus in the box.

Research: Shoe Sizes in Boys http://www.shoesize.com/boys/shoe-size-by-age/ - Based on many online surveys

Age	Boys' Shoe Size (US)
NB (new born)	Baby's shoe size 1
6 months	Baby's shoe size 2 or 3
1 year	Baby's shoe size 4 or 5
18 months	Baby's shoe size 5 or 6
2 years	Baby's shoe size 6 or 7
3 years	Baby's shoe size 9 or 10
4 years	Children's shoe size 10
5 years	Children's shoe size 11
6 years	Children's shoe size 12
7 years	Youth (Junior) shoe size 1 or 2
8 years	Men's shoe size 4
9 years	Men's shoe size 5 or 6
10 years	Men's shoe size 6
11 years	Men's shoe size 7 or 8

Research: Battery Life - modeled after the "Pocket Finder Personal GPS Locator" each charge takes about 4 hours and the device emits tracking signals for up to 72 hours.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-gps-child-trackers,review-2884.html

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Post-Speech Evaluation #3

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·         The most critical upgrade I can make now, would be to practice my speech with an audience. I got some practice in during class, but it is a much different experience when dealing with the visuals behind you.

·         I did not understand the format of this speech. I imagined it would be heavily driven by speech and not visuals plus information written on prezi as the last one was -> so start asking more questions on speech delivery

·         Consider tone of voice more seriously before presentation and practice using that tone and pitch before presentation. I felt that my tone of voice did not match the prezi going into the presentation

·         Make use of my natural tendencies in conversation by getting my point across through comedy or anecdotes. It works more quickly and efficiently for me. That being said…

·         Practice speaking with and making use of different tones of voice and using different strategies to make my points. Specifically, I want to get very serious and communicate as if the situation was life or death. That with my tone of voice, pitch and pacing as well as body positioning and my hand gestures

·         Considering the effects of the prezi on presentation more thoroughly and designing the prezi with tone and purpose in mind. I wanted this one to have little information written so that I could go heavy on speaking and lighter on reading, but next time I will need to practice that speaking more seriously in order to keep track of my purpose and presentation.

·         For my last presentation I began by making some statement to break the ice and engage with the audience as I set up the prezi. This time I did not and I wish that I had. It made me feel more confident and comfortable and I believe it made the audience more comfortable by breaking the tension before I even began presenting.

·         Last time I also used role-playing a bit by creating a persona for my audience and this would have been very effective for relationships. The college students slide was ineffective and not even kind of radical. Better scenario: involve the audience, which were college students btw chris! “Everyone look to your left and right. One of these faces could be your soul-mate. Don’t like what you see? Well there are a thousand others here on campus and one of them will love you forever” Then explain a more organized and meaningful procedure to get to that point and hopefully get that audience thinking about the possibilities. They might even blush or get embarrassed when they look around which seems like the best ever.

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·         Feeling the need to state all the words on the slide. I felt very slide dependent despite my efforts to be speech dependent with little info on the slides themselves

·         Raising the pitch of my voice throughout some sentences as it makes my point less meaningful when it sounds like a question.

·         Providing too much of a counterargument to my propositions and statements. That section about the college students was far too lenient and I felt that I was catering to a crowd instead of convincing a crowd.

·         Saying “you know.” This is one of my least favorite things to say when speaking. You probably don’t know; that’s why I am telling you.

·         Again I repeated a few words while speaking. Just a few times around the beginning, but still something to stop.

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·         To stand with confidence. This is very important and I always stand well. I did not try to run away from my audience and stood my ground despite being unsure during my presentation

·         Keeping solid eye contact with the crowd and looking out to the whole class instead of focusing on one section

·         To create visually stimulating slides on prezi. The slides did provide a certain tone, I just didn’t pay attention to those tones and got my speech out of order.

·         To venture outside my comfort zone. I learned a lot about what not to do and what to start doing when trying to make a very speech reliant convincing argument.

3 classmate moves how why

The anecdote from Taka last time and this time was very effective and I appreciated the relatability of his subject provided by his personal story.

Jake also had very effective recurring personal touches in his presentation that had the added effect of giving his audience reassurance of his own intentions and sympathy for animals before making his argument not to help them. He did this at the very beginning and then again before making very bold statements that may have made people skeptical otherwise. Much Props for that Jake!

Mr. D, Nick as well as a few others incorporated an introductory layout to their presentations. I wanted to do the same, but I did not work it in as I thought it would be best not to waste the slide on it. Now I know!