Randi+Furmans+Journal

First Journal. 9/3/10.

How did your group use the preperation time provided? Did/would having a good plan make the building process easier? How could this help you with writing a speech? Did your group have any misunderstandings? If so, how did that affect the process?

My group, used the provided time by talking about our ideas of how to make the tower stable yet tall. We had disagreements on how we thought our tower should be built but at the end of our discussion time, we all agreed. Having talked about how we wanted/invisioned our tower looking helped us a lot to build our model, even though it didn't work out in the end. We still had a good attitude about it and we all worked to- gether. Since speechs need to have structure just like a tower needs to be free standing, this excersise helped a lot, because we were given time to think about how to put all of our materials together. Just as our outline puts our speech together. Our group had many misunderstandings and disagreements, since we all had different outlooks on the assignment. Yet we all came to the same solution when we started to run out of time. No my group didn't win, since it blew right over. This was a good excersise.

Second Journal. 9/17/10.

Using what the book says about listening, explain specific ways to demonstrate good listening. In what ways are good listening skills different between interpersonal communication (one on one) and public speaking (one to group)? How are they the same? Use examples from your life to support your statements as well as quotes from the book.

Speaking with a Purpose tells the reader that the writer of the speech should find ways to keep the listener interested. Every speech that is being given, should find ways to portray to the audience (spark their interest.) A one on one speech is usually based around a question and answer topic. Or just the talker (writer) needs someone to listen to them, and that's where the name listener comes in. Other times the talker (writer) needs help deciding and such things. Public speaking is usually held to inform the audience and get less feed back from them. These types of speechs can help to teach people how to act or simply telling the listeners a story.

Third Journal. 10/8/10. Why does Mrs. James care so much about plagiarism? What can I do to make sure I don't show up in one of her examples in the future?

Mrs. James cares so much about plagiarism because you fail to use your own knowledge. If you take someone elses work you aren't thinking for yourself. A couple of ways to make sure I or anyone wont be used as an example in Mrs. James future speech classes, will be citing my authoer or whoever wrote the quote or information I or whoever else is using. Or during a speech, simply say I obtained this quote/information from so and so.

Fourth Journal 10/22/10 Watch the videos in the sidebar of the website for visual aids. Write a journal entry detailing good and bad examples in each of the videos. []

In the first video the women was speaking while pointing and using her visual aid but still keeping up with her information for her audience. Which keeps her audience in tune with her and not get bored. While in the second video the lady quit talking and put all of her attention on the visual aid, acted like she wasn't aware of what she put on her board. She was messing with her pointer in her hand which is very distracting for the audience.

Fifth Journal. 11/9/10. Reflect on the progress you are making during speaking. Write a journal entry entailing at least 3 ways that you have improved since your first speech in class.

My first speech I gave, i could barely keep eye contact i didn't feel like speaking up to where anyone could hear me and I didn't stand up straight. Yet as far as i'm concerned now, I stand up straight, i maintain eye contact with everyone in the classroom unless i'm reading what I am about to say and I speak loud and clear to where everyone can understand what the words are i'm saying.

Sixth Journal. 12/3/10 For your final journal, reflect on the semester. What did you learn? Is there something that you think is still missing? Did you enjoy this class?

First off, what I learned throughout this class is that I have the ability to write speeches and make them somewhat flow easily. Yet I still can't stand getting up in front of people and speak. I also learned that I can't make the time limit I always come up very short for the whole time limit on our speeches. The one thing I believe that is missing is my confidence in speaking in front of others, its hard enough to speak in front of people that i've known for years. So thinking of standing up in front of people i've never met in my life terrifies me. And I did enjoy this class, the only time I didn't was the days I had to give my speeches.