Chp 5 Speech Buddy Videos

In the light pollution speech by Courtney, I thought the introduction could use some improvement, but she had a good opening statement about how we probably have heard about water pollutants, but most of us would not know much about light pollution. It caught my interest. She made good use of her hands during the brief clip that we watched of her speech. I noticed that as she stated her thesis, she used her fingers to count off the three main points that she would be talking about. This is something that I could learn from. Using your body during your speech to accentuate what you’re saying is important. She also seemed to be knowledgeable about her topic from what I could tell from the short clip. In the drinking video from chapter 5, I noticed that Matthew seemed a little nervous. He didn’t seem to have memorized his speech very well. He spent a lot of time looking down at his cards and pausing. I thought his opening statement was pretty funny though. At first, I wasn’t sure if he was hacking like that for real or not. I liked his use of the projector to highlight some statistics that were important to his topic. Being able to read the statistics yourself made them a little bit easier to understand than if you were just listening to the speaker read them for you. Something I could learn from in Matthew’s speech is that almost seemed to use too many statistics, which can be boring.