Self Evaluation Assignment #2

I feel I fairly achieved the purpose of my speech. There was some information I did omit out. I was still a little nervous being in front of the class so my mind rather forgot other points I had planned to state. If I had to do it all over again, I would have tried to find more pictures showing the celebration of my topic. I admit I did not work to hard on my media presentation; I had been focused more on the speech part. Honestly, I have no clue what I am going to do to improve the content of my next speech. I will take advantage that we have a whole month before our next speech is delivered. In addition, the topic I have chosen I do have a personal experience that I intend to incorporate in my speech. My goal is to be able to speak clearly and have an enthusiastic element in it as well. I hope that during my next speech my confidence will be clear.
There were a few differences from this speech and from the first speech, I did in class. I felt less anxiety going into my second speech, which helped a lot and made a big difference. During my first speech my mind so discombobulated, my time ended up being short of what the time requirement was for the first speech. During my second speech, although my mind still tried to panic, I was able to present my second speech within the required time. The bad thing I did notice was that my eye contact was not as good as it had been during my first speech. In addition, I noticed the tone in my voice was not consistently clear and sort of faded in some spots. Overall, I think I did much better than I did in my first speech. Of course, there is still a lot of room and things that can and need to be improved on for my next speech. I would rate my eye contact a five. I was distracted myself trying to operate my PowerPoint slides while being able to maintain my eye contact with the audience. I am sure a quick glance down would be no problem, but I seemed to stare at the picture on my slide for longer than necessary. For an overall grade, I would give my self a C+. Even though my points were all covered, the inconsistence in my voice took away from my confidence and my eye contact should have been a lot better. Even though I did verbally cite all four of my sources, I could have done a better job. I was not sure how to verbally cite the sources and I rather hesitated when doing so. I do feel this speech was better done than my first speech. My topic was better researched than my first topic, and I was able to present all my points in the time allotted, as opposed to my first speech, I did not make all my points in addition to cutting my speech well below the required time.