Demonstration Speech

Watching my demonstration speech has been enlightening. After watching myself I have learned my strengths and weaknesses. To start I will talk about some of my strengths. I feel that my introduction was pretty good. I kept my voice loud and clear during the presentation making it easy for my audience to hear. Organization was good because in order to field a ground ball you have to learn how to field it at you and then you move to the side. Also the relevance of my topic was similar to my class since it is mostly an athletic based audience. My conclusion was not great but it was not bad. Maybe not ending it so quickly will help. With my speech I have also noticed a few negatives. The first being the time limits that were set. Our speeches were to be between five to ten minutes and mine was almost two minutes short. More practice next time will allow me to make sure I meet the time requirements. The next is language use. While my words were not inappropriate, eliminating the word "um" and "gonna" may make my audience not lose interest and keep my presentation more appropriate. Finally I feel that eliminating some of my nervous jitters such as extra hand movement and giggling. Eliminating these aspects can help me to give a better presentation.

Overall my presentation was not bad. There is room for improvement and I believe it is the little things such as time limits and more practice that hurt me in this presentation. So next time I know that I will need to practice more in front of myself and an audience to improve my overall effect. As they say, with practice comes perfection.