Presenting to Five People

I presented my second speech again to five and these five people are: Steven Tran, Steven Liao, Alison Huang, Vanessa Alim, and Michael Cronenwett. In my second attempt, I definitely slowed my speech down. I believe this made the content of my speech more understandable I also had more eye contact with my audience rather than with my Powerpoint. I also did less moving of my arms and I stayed more stationary. I am glad that I did not walk around as much. This was probably due to the fact that there was no big project of my Powerpoint behind me. However, I sounded less enthusiastic this time, but I still sounded very knowledgeable of my topic. I believe I improved in some ways because I moved around less. I walk around during my speech because I feel nervous, so I feel like I need to pace around. I also focused on the audience more instead of my visuals. If I got to do the speech again, I would definitely slow down the pace my speech and focus more on the audience rather than my pictures. I would also try to stop walking back and forth or shuffling with my arms and feet. Receiving feed back from my audience helped me improve because they were honest. I noticed that most of everything I improved on made me have fewer improvements in the areas that I was strong in, such as enthusiasm. This exercise was useful, but I was ready to move on from this speech so maybe that was why I felt less enthusiastic.