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: 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.
·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.
Stop
·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.
Continue
·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!
