Week of April 5-11

Hello Class! I really enjoyed your speeches on Friday. I can really see an improvement from the first speeches we presented in the course.

Here is what's on the Schedule and Participation Pages for this week:

1). Post your self-evaluation to your blog in essay format as we talked about in class. Make sure that your post is a minimum of 500 words. (10 points)

2). This is a minimum 200 word blog!!! Please take the suggestions provided to your by your instructor and your colleagues. Gather a group of at least 5 other people and present your speech. Have a conversation with your new audience about the strengths and weaknesses noted from your your speech either before or after your speech. Answer the following questions in your blog: Who did you present your speech to? What were their names? What did you do differently this time around than in the speech your presented to the class? Did you improve from the presentation on Friday? If so, in what ways? If you had to do the speech again, what would you do differently? After receiving feedback, were you able to improve your speech? Was this exercise useful? (Worth 10 points).

3). Pick one concept from Chapter 11 that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.

***Remember to post at least 3 responses to your colleagues blogs.

PLEASE NOTE: The three objectives noted above should be posted to your blog at least 12 hours apart like our normal discussion week.

Let me know if you have any questions! :)