Respond to this prompt fully in complete sentences explaining yourself fully.
1. From the Bag Speech to the Persuasive Speech, what skills do you think you most improved on in the public speaking process? How?
2. What skills do you think you could've improved on even more? Why? How could've helped you more improve in this area?
3. Of the units we did, what was the most interesting/useful to you? Why?
4. Of the units we did, what one did you find the least useful or interesting? Why? How could it be improved?
5. Are there concepts/skills related to communication that you wish we would've covered? If so, which ones and why? Should the class put even more emphasis on giving speeches and away from the notes/tests or is it the right balance?
6. In regards to the instructional strategies used by the teacher, which ones worked for you? Which ones didn't work? Why?
7. Are there ways you can think of to incorporate technology more into the class?
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1) It was easier to just get up in front of the class and have absolutely no fear. I think I did this just by giving a lot of speeches in this class.
2) Always using gestures. I hardly use any. Tell us good points in teh speech to use them.
3) Demonstrations, they are the most interesting to listen to.
( I really like the movie making activity we did; you should do more things like that.)
4) Persausive, you just sped through it and hardly gave us any time.
5) No, but I think you should have fewer test. You are in speech class to give speeches not test.
6) I liked when you demonstrated a speech for us, but was not all that fond of always using the powerpoints.
7) Like I said earlier the one day movie making thing we did was a lot of fun and we had to use the given structure.
Throughout everyhing i think i learned how to be a serious speeker and not get nervous in the performance of giving my speech...I couldn't had more eye contact and memrized my speeches a little better. I love giving the demonstration speeches. i think i could have impoved on slowing down and not trying to waist time. I don't think we should do outlines or test just give lots of speeches, i don't really think this should be a technology class honeslty.
--Demi
1. I don't use as many verbal fillers and I feel more comfortable speaking in front of people.
2. Probebly speaking more slowly, because I usually speak quickly . I may have been able to correct this by breathing more.
3. The informational speech, because I had a lot of knowledge about my subject.
4. The speech where we asked about stories in people's lives, yes I do not remember what it was called. I feel this way because it was difficult to come up with things to talk about and i just disliked that one the most. I believe it could be improved by just avoiding that speech.
5. no. yes, the class should just base around the speeches and should do away with the tests because the class is called speech for a reason. we already know how to take tests.
6. The ones that worked the best were the class discussions because I had a hard time paying attention. the one that worked the best were the notes because I can understand them at my own pace.
7. I think there was enough use.
1. Not using verbal fillers and for not getting as nervous as when I was before to talk in front of a lot of people.
2. I probably could've worked on using hand gestures since I like never used them. I probably could have practice with some gestures to make it so that I would use them.
3. Demonstration, because they were really fun and I enjoyed sharing them.
4. I really didn't' find any that weren't useful. Because I'm going to have to give a lot of them in the near future, and knowing how to do all of them is a good thing.
5. No. I think I covered a lot of them.
6. The powerpoint did help, because then I could see it. The more talking the more boring it was though. So adding something to get my attention would probably make the class a better one.
7. Using them more for anything would be good.
1. Less moving more talking and improved confidence
2. fidgeting... i dunno just me not fidgeting
3. Hmmmm my favorite was informative... i dunno my favorite part of speech was during speech season.
4. Probably... persuade... but i could probably just do it.
5. No sall good we covered most of the bases in mind. yes speeches speeches speeches.
6. Probably the review games... and powerpoints.
7. Using more visual aids in speeches...
1. I've become a lot more confident in my speaking, and don't really get nervous in front of a crowd anymore.
2. Preparation before a speech. I could have begun practicing earlier.
3. I think the two most useful were the informative speech, because that is something we will have to do throughout the rest of our school years, and the interacting with small groups and such because we will always have to be able to handle small group situations in work and the rest of our lives.
4. Partner biography because it taught you about your classmates, but this will not come in handy for the rest of your life. The bag speech also really had not relevance, but it broke the ice for the class and got the first speech out of the way without seeming intimidating or hard.
5. I think a lot of stuff that we need to know for the rest of our lives. The balance is good because we had speeches but we also covered other subjects and made sure we understood the information we were basing our speeches on.
6. The echo off the back wall allows for a correct volume, and the tips for getting rid of nervousness were helpful.
7. We already do blogs and use visual aids like PowerPoint and Keynote, along with doing some iMovies and podcasts, so I think there is enough technology in the class.
1. I think I am a lot more confident in my speaking in front of people. By speaking more and more in front of people I kind of got used to it.
2. I could probably improve more on giving more speeches =S.. Doing speeches would've helped me more in this area =/
3. The interviewing is probably the most helpful because I will most likely use this again in my real life.
4. The least useful was probably the informative unit. It just wasn't that interesting to me.
5. No, I think that the tests are necessary in this class.
6. The team challenges and role playing were fun and worked, while doing speeches didn't work for me. Why not?
7. Maybe go into garage band and give your speech while recording on there and not have to stand in front of the whole class.
Please pass me this year :)
1. I believe that I improved on my delivery and my approach to making my speech.
2. I think that i could have stopped leaning on things.
3. The persuasive unit; it helped me do some research and help to make a speech that I needed for another event.
4. The informative speech;I do not like to give informative speeches because they always get turned into a persuasive; I would give more detailed things to do rather than let people just choose a topic and run with it give them things to explain.
5. No; it is the right balance
6. The notes on the power point is what really worked for me.
7. No
Matt Maloun
1.I think the most improved skills for me during the bad speech and the persuasive speech would be more comfortable talking in front of people. With the bag speech i was really nervous, but to the persuasive speech i wasn't nervous at all and i felt more prepared because i knew what to expect.
2.I think the areas i could have improved on more is being more conversational with my audience and not changing the tone of my voice. I could work on not reading right off the note cards. I think the only way to help this is to just keep practicing.
3.the most interesting thing for me was the bag speech. i liked it because i feel like i had a good idea of what i was talking about because it was about me.
4.I think the interview is the least useful thing. I know that it is useful for some people, but i feel like it should come as common sense instead of having to go and write a speech for it.
5.I think we covered giving speeches good, like your appearance and your tone of your voice. I do think the class could of had more empasis in giving the speeches, but so could have i too.
6.The thing that worked for me is not writing everything down on the note card, just writing the main ideas. The thing that didn't work for me is keeping my voice tone the same through the speech.
7.I thought we used all the technology we could with giving speeches
1. eye contact, i focused on looking at the audience more.
2. less verbal fillers and speaking fluently. memorizes my speeches better.
3. persuasion, getting someone to see your views.
4. instructional, i just didn't like giving them.
5. more personal, no
6. memorize led to better speeches.
7. more blogs
1.ummm i dident like to give speeches in fount of people... so i dident do it.
2. if i gave the speeches i would have overcomed my fear of giving speeches.
3.i liked watching the informitive speech.
4.umm the how to speech... i dident follow along with it.
5.if i would have did the speeches im sure i would have learned somthing.
6.i learned that if i just looked down i could speek smoothly and studder.
7.im sure there is somthing you could do with the macbook.
i have no other comments
1. I think I did better with eye contact and body language.
2. I could have improved on slowing down when I was talking because I was hard to understand when I talked so fast. I could have practiced talking in front of people more and gotten more used to it.
3. I liked the informative unit because doing informative speeches are easy and I learn a lot of new things.
4. I wasn't very fond of the demonstration speeches, but I think that is just because my demonstration speech was a catastrophe. But I also didn't think it was very interesting because I already knew most of the things that people demonstrated. It could be more interesting if people showed things that others don't normally see or do.
5. Yes, I think we could have had a debate unit because I learning how to argue using skill and knowledge is very useful. I think it's just the right balance.
6. I really liked making the imovies. They were fun. What didn't work is taking notes. They were just so long and there was so much to know. It made it hard to stay on task.
7. I think you could make more commercials or make more imovies.
8. Mr. Mohr I enjoyed your class, but I think you should get rid of the majority of the test. Keeping a few would be just fine but I think overall you should not have as many test. I think if you get rid of most of them the students would have more time to work on their speeches and possible get better grades.
1. I improved on giving speeches and making time.
2. I could have improved on eye contact. I would have gotten some better grades.
3. I liked the public speaking. It was fun.
4. I liked all of them.
5. I got them all. I think the class is fine.
6. All of them worked. Mr Mohr is a great teacher.
7. I think the class is just fine.
1. I think that I improved on not being so nervous in front of people.I just don't seem to get red in the face anymore
2.I think I could work on visual aids more, I think they help your audience stay interested in your topic and I think other students would have paid attention more.
3. Pry the informative, because I did it on pot.
4. The demonstration speech, I just felt there was no point in it.
5. No but fewer test would be nice.
6. when you showed how the speech was done, because they were funny
7. no.
1. Talking in front of people has changed a little.
2. More eye contact and memorization probably not using my notes as much.
3. The informative i thought that was a fun speech.
4. The mock interview i thought that was dumb.
5. n/a
6. The long power points SUCKED if we did more stuff in class and have fun doing it i would have probably learned more.
7. n/a
the speciality of my understanding.
i could improve in many things, but i did improve on becoming more attentive, and stuff.
the persuation speech was pwnage.
i could defenetly improve on stuff.
there are defenetly skills that i gained with this program, thanks to myself, not you. but its cool........
1. I think that I improved on not relying fully on the paper or note cards and I did increase my eye contact some. Also I wasn't near as nervous to give my speeches by the time we did the persuasive speech.
2. I think I could have improved even more with the eye contact, it would have made my speeches more personal. As well as using more gestures and changing the tone of my voice. Work on that more with us.
3. I enjoyed both the informative and persuasive speeches, because I liked informing others about certain things.
4. I really didn't like the partner speeches very much. I feel that if we picked our own partners it would have been better.
5. I really think we covered all of the ones I wanted to cover. I think we should have focused more on giving speeches and less time taking notes and tests. I would have enjoyed the class more I believe.
6. I felt that when you explained the speeches and let us do our own thing that I got a lot accomplished, because I didn't have to wait for the class and could work at my own pace.
7. Maybe do more speeches that acctually involve using the computer instead of just the two that did.
1. I think I improved on being less nervous and making more eye contact.
2. I think I improved more on The Nervousness in the speech. I think in the volume of my voice.
3. I think it was the first one and the persuasive was the most helpful.
4. The most interesting was the persuastive speech to me I would improve in the volume of my voice.
5. I think everything we covered was just fine.
6. I think the ones that worked the most was to not repeat thing and the ones that didn't work are the volume work.
7. to find examples of a up coming speech.
1 i think i improved in saying less verbal fillers on my sentences
2.i think i improved more in being less afraid of stage fright and talking infront of people i think i can improve this by doing more speeches
3.the bag speeches because i think i can describe my self alot better and show wat things describe me
4.I DINT FIND ANYTHING LEAST USEFULL I THINK THAT THIS WELL HELP ME WHEN I GET A FULL TIME JOB AFTER HIGHSCHOOL
5.i think its the right balance
6. EVERYTHING WORKED FOR ME BAG SPEECHES AND TESTS AND PERSUASIVE SPEECHES HELPED ME ALOT
7.no i dont really like technology that much.
--Daniel D.
I think i have learned how to be more comfortable in front of my class or students.
I think i could have improved on talking louder, so more people can hear me. If i had more time to learn.
I really like informing people
I dont really like persuasive but thats just me. I think our class used it in the wrong way and tried to persuade people to do something.
NO. our class should put more work into our speeches.
I liked doing the speeches, and they worked for me. The powerpoints did not work as much because they got kinda boring and weren't hands on.
I think we could use our computers more, but i liked the way we did it this year.
1. From the Bag Speech to the Persuasive Speech, what skills do you think you most improved on in the public speaking process? How?
- I think I excelled in almost all the areas, I watched other people give speeches, and then I corrected mine and did it.
2. What skills do you think you could've improved on even more? Why? How could've helped you more improve in this area?
- Eye contact, I never looked at the people, I should have studied my speech before giving it.
3. Of the units we did, what was the most interesting/useful to you? Why?
- Informative, I show people how to do things, not tell them how to
4. Of the units we did, what one did you find the least useful or interesting? Why? How could it be improved?
- Persuasive, I believe you should not be able to change someone’s beliefs
5. Are there concepts/skills related to communication that you wish we would've covered? If so, which ones and why? Should the class put even more emphasis on giving speeches and away from the notes/tests or is it the right balance?
- No, I think we are doing the class the way it is supposed to be.
6. In regards to the instructional strategies used by the teacher, which ones worked for you? Which ones didn't work? Why?
- Not using verbal fillers, we did a little speech thing on it, we need to work on giving eye contact, we didn’t work to hard on that.
7. Are there ways you can think of to incorporate technology more into the class?
- No, I think we use it enough
1. I think i mostly improved on my overall delivery and ability to speak in front of people.
2. I think my organization and preperation could be improved a lot. If i had better skills in this area, I would have gotten better grades on some speech.
3. I think the small group section was the most interesting to me, i learned a lot about working with people.
4. the informative was probably the least interesting to me .
5. no
6. i think when you found time to teach us, i was able to pay attention and learn a lot.
7. no, i think we used it a lot.
--Cameron D.
1. looking at the crowd when speaking
2. saying sentences fluently
3. bag speeches
4. intra personal speaking
5. no
6. being calm worked for me
7. none
1. From start to finish, I feel more normal speaking in front of people than before where I got more nervous than now.
2. I feel I could have slowed down a little when i was speaking and gave more eye contact during the speech, those are what I feel are my worst areas in giving speeches; practicing my speech more the night before than I did during the semester.
3. I feel that the small group helped me the most in this class by helping me not be so nervous.
4. I don't feel that there was one that I could single out one of the units as the worst as they were all helpful and none useless.
5. If we could have done a big group speech it would have maybe helped me even more than most of the ones we covered, it would have made me less nervous for anything I do in life; fine balance.
6. I feel that the looking over the powerpoints in class and taking tests helped me understand these speeches the most and also when you gave an example speech before we wrote the speech helped also, they helped me understand how to do it more.
7. No, to be honest I can not think of anything else or other ways.
1)I think i improved on just talking to people in general because i was never really good at it but now i feel way more comfortable doing it.
2)I think I could have improved on taking my time and making my speeches last a lot longer.I think what could have helped me is the audience not making hand gestures which made me nervous.
3)The bag speeches because I got to talk about three things that I had a lot of interest in.
4)They are all useful to me so I can't single out any of them.
5)NO, Yes
6)The power points because non of them really didn't work for me.
7)Nope not really.
Jericho
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1.the ability to be more confident to speak
2.the ability to give eye contact, i dont do it well practice while talking to more then 3 people
3. interviewing speech it helped prepare us for the real world
4. the rest of them .... i dont really like this whole public speaking thing
5.no not really : and not really
6.hmmmmm i dont know how to answer this one
7. idk how to answer this one to try not to be so complex
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