FINAL BLOG!!!! #10

I cant believe this is the last blog for this class..... ):    (: 

I think my biggest goal this year was to become more confident in my public speaking and to not be as shy. I also think another goal was to memorize, but we all know that that is nearly impossible for someone like me. This class not only improved my public speaking and made me less shy, but it also taught me many other things. It taught me how to correctly criticize people and how important good feedback is when working on a huge project like a ted talk. So yes, i think i did meet my goal of becoming more confident in my public speaking. Definitely not in the memorization part, but like i said before, it will always be a struggle for me. I think the thing I was most proud of was my ted talk. Although currently it is not completed, I am proud of it. It really portrays exactly what I wanted it to and it has a powerful meaning behind it which I think I explained really well. I think something I need to work on more besides memorization is staying on task. As you know, this was a very talkative class, and I get side tracked easily. I think that I work best when I'm alone, and we did a lot of group work in this class. This may have made me do worse in my group projects because when we would work together it was more of socializing then it was actually working. Candy and that luna bar that you gave me and caroline that day were definitely huge things I took away from this class lol. but besides that, I took away that you should never give up on something youve worked hard on. I was debating wether or not to switch the topic of my ted talk plenty of times while editing it. Since its a touchy subject for me I didnt really want to talk abut it. But I realized how much work I had put into it and I thought that I could really make it good and not let my girly emotional side come out. I loved this class and you as a teacher and person and I hope you enjoy my ted talk!

Ted Talk Reflection

I think some of my strengths were pacing myself and talking at a good volume. I think that the prompter thing was something that helped me to pace myself because mrs. guarino was able to keep me going slow enough. It was quiet in the room so that made it so that I wasnt too loud but I also wasn't too quiet because I have a loud voice already. Some of my weaknesses were fiddling with my hands and rocking back and forth. I think that this was because maybe I was nervous but also because I was getting bored because my speech was so long. I think I always do something like that when I'm talking.. not just when I'm giving a speech. When I talk to someone in person I always like play with the ends of my hair or my nails or something. It's just something I do, but it's not something good to do when you are giving a speech. But, overall, I think that this speech has helped me for the future with future speeches and public speaking as a whole. I will be prepared to do speeches like this in college and later in life in work.