musings for speech 111

My experience with speech 111

At the beginning of this class, I was just about petrified to stand in front of a camera and think that someone was going to view my performance and critique it. It made me so nervous, I just had to put the camera out of my mind. During this last speech, I turned the viewing screen around so I could watch myself while doing the speech. Apparently, I was feeling much more comfortable with the camera. I think this class would be much more fun in the classroom, but in some ways more stressful also. I told my wife that those standing in front of the class only get one shot to present their speech, while we have unlimited tries due to the rewind button. It was to easy to get wrapped up in trying to do a perfect speech. I would still be very nervous standing in front of a crowd, but at least, I have the confidence now to write a speech that I could believe in.

posted by kevin @ 12:22 PM