Strengths and Weaknesses of Ted Talk

What are the strengths and weaknesses of your written speech? Evaluate yourself. Also, what do you need to work on for the in-class delivery of your speech? What is easy for you and what is a challenge? Finally, what have you learned from watching others practice and deliver their speeches?

I think some of the strengths in my written speech are that I have good examples of concussions and that I have had plenty of concussions before so that makes my speech more valuable. The examples are very detailed and are good stories about myself and a professional athlete that has also gone through the same thing similar to me. Another strength that I have is that there are a lot of people who can relate to my ted talk so it will be interesting for people and they will be more interested. Some weaknesses are that I have not presented it in class yet so I haven't been able to get feedback from any of my classmates yet. Another weakness is that it is kind of disorganized right now but I will organize it soon... sorry! I also think that a weakness is that it is currently very disorganized because you and I switched the whole order of it and made a bunch of revisions but I don't think I did a good job at revising it the first time so I need to revise it even more. Something that is easy for me is telling my story and marc savards story. This is easy because they are so similar and stories are easier for me to remember than statistics or something like that. Another thing that is easy for me is to be loud and confident when I am presenting because it is a topic that I am very educated in. Something that has been a challenge for me all year is memorizing. Ironically, that is due to my concussion, so maybe I can say that somewhere in my ted talk. Something like "My concussion was so bad that I could not even memorize it to present it to you all today." and then go on to say how this one of the affects of concussions if you do not treat them properly and I also need to say how I didn't treat my concussion properly because I went on my phone and computer and did all of my homework instead of resting like how I was supposed to. I do not know how I am going to remember a speech that is 10+ minutes long. But I'll try my best. All I have done is watch other people practice their poems so I have learned a lot. I have learned from Donaven that its really hard to do your speech with note cards. Jade showed us that its easier to read off of the screen. I think that the promptor thing that you sent us in our messages will help us a lot. I will be able to read off of that and use it to my advantage because I cannot remember anything. Hopefully i will be able to present my speech on Monday so I can get some feedback. Also, I will continue to revise it today and tomorrow to make sure it is more organized and has everything I want it to have.