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Speech Overview

September 25, 2014 by Garren Christopher Stamp   

My speech turned out just okay. Looking back there are things i would do again and things that i would change or have been better prepared for. The good thing i did was the powerpoint. The powerpoint helped me in a couple different ways. First, it allowed me to show two videos i had of the rally relatively easily. This gave people a good idea of what it was like as well as caught their attention. The powerpoint also served as my notecards. It allowed for me to remember the major points that i felt i needed to cover as well as helped me remember what exactly i was planning to say during my rehearsal. The powerpoint also helped me with things such as eye contact. This allowed me to quickly glance at the Powerpoint and be able to read a bullet pretty quickly (since they were only a word or two) and then get back to the speech. The powerpoint also helped me feel more comfortable while speaking. I have given a good amount of presentations with power points in the past so having one for my first major college project helped me feel a lot more comfortable.

Many of the bad things that occurred as a result of the powerpoint. First the videos made the powerpoint too large to save it anywhere. It took forever and i ended up having to borrow a flash drive in order to be able to show the powerpoint. Also, I made the powerpoint on Keynote, Mac’s version of powerpoint. I had never done this before so I had no ideas how to get it to play on a windows device. This made me look unprepared and was a horrible way to start off my presentation.

In conclusion the powerepoint created both the bad and the good associated with my presentation. If I could do it all over again i would have been prepared to have to present on a pc instead of assuming i could just present off my computer.


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