Skylar+Truly's+Journal

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

My group did not have any misunderstandings, though we did have a couple of questions, but it did not affect our process of making a Paper Tower. Our plan of making a tower, was to build a strong base to make sure it doesn't collapse, while trying to be the tallest tower in the competition. Building a strong base was the best way to go, because some of the groups did not have a strong base and the tower just tipped over. Having this competition would give me the idea of writing the most efficient way of building a paper tower speech, since I have had the experience of making one. SkylarTruly's Page

SEPTEMBER 17 Journal entry: Demonstrating good listening skills can be difficult at some times; reading "Speaking With A Purpose" gave me some good examples on how to listen to a speaker. " You can aviod such distractions by arriving early enough at a speech or lechure to get a seat where you can see and hear easily...Redouble your efforts to conscentrate...Work to overcome this listening barrier by concentrating on the content of the speech rather the delivery". Improper note taking is a problem also, " Often you wind up missing the point the speaker is trying to make because the student is writing down too much information". Interpersonal communication is when someone wants to talk to you about something because they trust that you'll give your most undivided attention rather than ," Faking attention", like some people do in public speaking. Listening to a one on one conversation ( i think) is an easier to listen to because, you get to enter act with this person, talk to them about whatever they are trying to discuss. You don not have ' proper note taking ' to worry about or fatigue; yes you may still have the ' external and internal noises' you have to hear but, its not as stressful to listen to. Listening to public speaking can be a hassel sometimes, you have to prepare, or clear your mind, ect. For example, listening to (no name) mono tone teacher, tell you about whats going to be on your testing next week, is like listening to soft classical music and NOT trying to fall asleep. Its hard but using good listening skills during this may be a good idea. Listening to a public speech is different than interpersonal communication because, you may have to not daydream, or take good notes, not like you would if someone was trying to talk to you personally, that would be wierd. Between these to different types of speaking they can be similar also, like having distraction while trying to listen to this person, example " internal and external noises" or if you have some sort of emotional reaction towards what they say to you to offend you or maybe make you laugh, but you have to keep concentrating and listening.

October 15 Journal Entry: Plagarism is done all the time by people who do not even realize that they are doing it. First of all plagiarism is ILLEGAL, that would probably be the first reason why Mrs.James would not want us to do that. Also, not plagiarising shows your efferts and your hard work that you have done, instead of taking someone else's work and saying you took the time to think about this, when really it took you 2 seconds to copy and paste. For the people who plagiaris.... Lets say you have a project and you have two weeks to finish this project. You stay up till 12:00 at night every night working hard to make the best possible grade you can recieve. A friend asks you if they can see your project for an example because they quite dont understand what to do. Finally 2 weeks have past and your absolutley exhausted from working extremely hard on your project. Your friend that looked at your project for an example goes first to present thier project in front of the class. You start to realize that thier project is the exact same as yours, all they had to do is copy your work down, that most likely took a day, and bam! they are done. All the work you have done is worth nothing.... now you are the one who has copied your friends work because he/she went first...sucks right? SO DON'T PLAGIARIS. PERIOD So, heres some tips on how you could possible not plagiaris: Check your work, internet sources have websites to check if you have plagiarised. Cite your work, all the websites,books,or people you have interveiwed or veiwed thier page, write it down, saying that you took this from thier website. Quote sayings If there comes to a point that you really like someones idea and you can't live without, maybe try to figure out another way that may be the same idea but different, have opinions that you think are interesting to you.

november 10 Improvment of speeking Having the first speech you gave us was intimidating and i didn't know what i was getting into untill i stood up in front of the class and realized i had 20 people staring at me waiting for me to give this extraordinary speech.. even though it was my first time. Compared to the second speech i was not organized at all. I kind-of said, ok i have three points im going to make and then i can improvize from there....ummm yay no! That definitley did not work out. Then i had my notes, scrambled information on to this little peice of paper that i thought i would be able to read and know what to say next, WITHOUT practicing, because im good like that....uummm yay no that didn't happen either. On the day i had to speak i was not mentally prepared and was too nervous to even remember which hand was left or right.. so i just winged it and made a 79. Off this experience i knew i had to practice and be prepared for whatever came to me. I started writing my note in a readable hand writing, bulleting to main points that were important and the highlighting extra information that would be useful during the speech. Next I used a powerpoint, so i can organize my thoughts in front of me where it wouldn't look like i was using notes at all, and pretending that im put bulletins on the powerpoint soo the Audience would know what i was talking about and when. Then once i had all my stuff done and over with i study my topic more and drew in more information so that i could know more about my subject. Finally when it came down to the day to present my speech i was already so prepared to speak, that i didn't even need to look at my notes and was fully organized. Having that first sppech was defintely different from my second speech because i knew what i had coming and preparded for it.

December 3 Visual aids; what to do and not do? While your using you visual aid you want to make sure that you are out of the way so everyone can see your presentation and that you know exactly what you are pionting at and where the picture is at. What you shouldn't do is have a ruler and smack it where your showing the audience what something is and cause a huge noise or distraction, and you shouldn't look for what you are talking about and don't be in the way when showing them.

December 3 I honestly came in this class not knowing anything on how to present a speech without it written out in front of me. I have learned alot about how to present a speech and the simpiler ways to present a speech. I also liked to learn about how to do a outline better even though i never had a perfect outline, it was either late or I forgot my citation... But i learn my lessons and this college speech class has been more effectyive than a regular high school speech class. The one thing i really wish we did, was to do more prompt to speeches not considering that we ran out of time or that we were always behind cause people were missing or weren't ready to speak. I have really enjoyed this class and actually want to take it again just for fun!