Self Assessment

Please post your experiences in this course. I want you to compare your first day back in July to the end of the semester. What things are you taking with you with regard to speaking skills and attributes like confidence, organizational abilitie etc. Process your learned strengths and the areas that still need improvement... this post should be at least be 250 word. Due on Tuesday, December 7th.

Interviewing Speeches

Discuss your performance in this post. What kinds of things did you learn about preparing and conducting an interview? Share your insights along with your strengths and improvements. What kinds of things will you do different in your next interview? Post should contain at least 150 words. Due on Friday, December 3.

Speech Buddy for Persuasive speech

Please post your speech buddy critique here. I want it to be content oriented. Where are the places that the argument are weak? Did your partner forget to cite? Use a transition? Create a logical argument? Where are the places that the argument is strong? Give examples and instructional feedback to your partner.

Speech Buddy Evaluation

After examining and completing the post on humor. Post three strengths and three improvements in the strategies used in delivering a practice speech for the entertainment speech in this blog post comments.

Humor, Vocal Qualities and Nonverbal Communication

Please post a link to a speaker presenting a humorous speech or using humor in their delivery of their speech. What kinds of vocal and/or nonverbal strategies are they incorporating in their speech delivery. Highlight them and discuss how they enhance the humor being delivered in the message. And, followup on three strategies that you plan to use in your upcoming speech. This post should be a minimum of 150 and is due by Friday, Sept. 24 at 5pm.

Entertainment Speech. Are you funny?

Anyone be funny. Yes, really. It isn't what you say but how you say. There are five techniques to humor that we will apply in our first speech. It will be your task in the first speech to use a minimum of three of the five techniques one time.

The Five Techniques to Humor:
1. Using Yourself
2. Using Others
3. Pulling the Peg/Changing the Switch
4. Building Bridges
5. Element of Surprise


Check out this clips? Do you see the five techniques of humor here? Post a few examples of the techniques being applied here by Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 at the start class.

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What's Your EQ?

What is your EQ? This post follows up our class discussion on Emotional Intelligence Please review this article entitled "Teaching Emotional Intelligence In The Business School Curriculum" by Frank Bellizzi, Quinnipiac University. Then, check out this self test. Please create a post that makes application to our class discussions, assigned readings,and the results of your self test. The blog post should share your top two "personal" EQ improvements. What needs to be improved to develop your emotional intelligence? Share with us your personal strategies and/or plans to put them into action. Blog comment is due by Friday, Sept 17 at the start of class.

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We're Back!!!

Great to see everyone again! To follow up on our discussion of listening. Everyone must come up with a strategy that they will practice when daydreaming or
"thought speed" begins to happen...You must give me a detail plan of your strategy and identify some moments that you know it will likely occur (hopefully, not in my class!). The most must be 150 minimum and is due on Tuesday, Sept 14th.

It's a Wrap....for now....

Well done on the award speeches today. It has been a fast semester...always seems so strange how five weeks can fly by so fast. I appreciate your efforts this semester. Thank you for your contribution in making this a great class this summer. I saw many of you making great strides in our second speech. You illustrated to me that you are starting to pull all our criteria together for effective speechmaking. Way to Go!

Rest up! Enjoy the rest of your summer break! Our first class on September 9 will be here before you know it...remember to bring an outfit back to class this fall for your speech days!

See you again in September!
Prof. M

Final Speech for Summer EOP 2010 Award Speeches

Award speeches require a simple pattern of information to present or accept speeches. First, we are clear of the qualifications of the speech. Discuss the speech and include the requirements needed to earn this award. Second, share with us the recipient's qualifications in accordance to the criteria. And, lastly, share with us the nominated candidates and save the recipient's name for this last moment to create a moment of surprise. The acceptance speech should be sure to thank the organization bestowing the award of you, then, thank the people that directly helped you in earning this award. Be sure to be positive and gracious. Being humble will take you a long way in life!
It is your goal in this speech to create a speech that recognizes an important quality or talent illustrated by a fellow student this semester in our speech class. You will follow the guidelines discussed in class and summarized in this blog to create your award speech. Also, you will be accepting an award and will be creating an acceptance speech as well. This speech assignment requires thought to apply these criteria. No one is allowed to try and create a spur of the moment speech here! Please think carefully about your assigned person. Find something special that they brought to class this semester and develop a speech that will allow them to shine in class! Bring a sense of dignity and honor to this person. And, remember, no rambling...preparation is key!

Critique #2 Passion Speech

Nice effort on the first day of our second round of speeches! I am happy to see that someone you took the comments from last time and made some wonderful improvements! Well Done! We will be critiquing our speech buddies again in this passion speech. I want more depth in the details used than in the last post. I am looking for comments that discuss strength and improvements and be sure to give your buddy some suggestions on how to make the improvements. Comments should not be limited to delivery suggestions only. REMEMBER: you are an entire message up there that combines in both content and delivery. Think about the organization. Did you hear a speech pattern? Think about the supporting details. Did the speaker create clarity, interest and retention? How? How strong was the academic research? Was expertise shown? Think about audience adaptation. What techniques were utilized to adapt to the audience? Think about the visual aids. How did they assist in producing clarity or interest? Were items fully supported? Were citations correctly utilized? Break down the process and share a thoughtful post that illustrates to me that you are integrating the material this semester and understand what is needed to achieve "effective" communication. This critique is due Wednesday, Aug. 11 before the start of class.

Speech #1 Critique- Remember Feedback is a Gift!

Bravo on the first set of speeches! Nice effort in making application to many of the criteria that we have spoken about over the last few weeks! Time to critique! Please post your speech critique in this blog. Be sure to use the feedback sheet with your notes to critique your partner's speech performance. The critique should contain three strengths andd three improvements. Be sure to elaborate with details so your partner understands the effectiveness of their performance and also reads practical advice and suggestions for strengthening their improvements. The comments should include points that include both the delivery of the speech and the research, content of the speech. Remember you are being graded on this blog critique. So, don't forget to elaborate with details. Post should be a minimum of 200 words.

Creating a Vocal Impression

This blog posting will require you first reading the article Talk This Way on our Blackboard site under course documents. Please conduct a naturalistic study of both your voice and those around you using these criteria:

1. Are you using voice mail effectively? Do callers return your phone calls and mention that they can’t understand what you left there?

2. Do you have trouble understanding messages that are left on your voice mail? What are some vocal mistakes that others are making when leaving recorded messages?

3. Has anyone ever told you that they can’t hear you? Understand you? Ask another student to give you some adjectives to discuss your vocal quality.

4. Have you ever corrected someone’s pronunciation of a vowel of consonant? Are there certain words that you hear are commonly being incorrectly spoken? Has anyone ever corrected your pronunciation? Or commented on your speech? How do you think that you are perceived by others when you are blurring your sounds and words when communicating?

5. Conduct a naturalistic observation study of another person speaking. Observe this person’s speech by noticing how they use their lips, jaw, teeth and tongue? Repeat the observation with yourself in a mirror? What do you notice about yourself? How do these movements affect their (your) speech?

You should refer to the article, Talk This Way by Alec Wilkinson when you post found on Blackboard under course documents and discussion in class and the assigned reading in text on Nonverbal Communication when posting on the blog. The assignment requires a minimum of 250 words. Due date for this post is Monday, August 1st by class time. We will refer to this blog assignment in our class on Monday, August 2nd.

Blog #1 -Success- Want It As Much As You Want Air to Breathe

What does success mean to you?
"">Secret to Success" here for your review.

Comment on the following in your blog post due by the start of class on Monday, July 19th. This blog post is worth 25 points.

1) What kept your attention about this presentation? Was it the delivery? The content? Be specfic and use details to discuss this point.
2) What things did this speaker incorporate in his speech to adapt to his audience?
3) Was it motivating to you? In what way? What are your thoughts to defining personal success?