The Last One: My Portfolio

This semester was great, & seeing everyone grow individually, as well as studying under Zack was indeed a pleasure. & great job making this class so individualistic, I saw the effort to integrate technology & the blog to make the class a little less traditional. Hallelujah for that! & a Big Thanks for helping me be a little less nervous with my public speaking abilities! Everyone blossomed into beautiful little butterflies...

Here's the Pod:
 https://drive.google.com/a/pipeline.sbcc.edu/file/d/0Bzyoubs77fUbQVVYQkx1UTFFWlU/view?usp=sharing

Speech #4 Reflection

Group Speech

The DUMP

   I really appreciated this assignment. It was a realistic kind of work environment,  hopefully in the future I could work in something like this... It helped show me my pro's & con's of my own work ethic. The first few speeches being all on my own, I had to first come up with an idea on my own, generate it from bottom to top, and present it with the upmost eloquence. Those speeches were in ways much more stressful lying only in my own hands. 

  It was great to work with Barela, Jimenez, & McCool, there was such a dynamic in the group, where everyone had something to offer in their own ways. Barela was so open minded to all ideas, shooting in his two cents whenever there were some little miscommunications to ease tension. Jimenez was always on track at finding our key facts to spice up our research information, and helped find those ariel views of the property. And McCool being native to Carpinteria was obviously the most helpful. She already had the idea right away, and everyone just ran off of that! 

   The Mission Statement was just a mix of intro thesis sentences, we had been typing out randomly to try and help the audience understand what our main goal for this organization was. After the first day speakers went, someone saw a Mission statement for another group, and that kinda clicked, helping tie our hopes together and sort of motivating them for what we were about to show them.. 

I guess you missed our Safe and Secure parking lot drop off loading area, where parents can easily pick up their child as well as a decent amount of parking space, instead of front curb side pick up. which leads children to the front door ID scanner to be able to enter our facility into your wine & dine area... 

   The concerned parent idea were also late ideas someone thought of, to make the presentation a little easier and more personal for the audience to follow.  We needed a way to get people to ask specific questions, but obviously it's hard to get you guys to ask them at the right time so having a rotating character; 1. helped the flow, and 2. gave Barela a bit more equal speaking time to the ladies. As well, he was up for anything and a great sport!

   The idea of the Prezi was just to show the audience what the property looked like exactly and what we had to offer, the amenities of the facility. Were trying to sell them annual memberships to The Dump. Not trying to get more $ for the place, just get parents involved or aware of the place and signing up, through us there at the PTA meeting, at discount. Or sign up through Boys & Girls Club or The Carp Pool. 

Thank god this assignment felt a little longer too, and I'm glad this all came together!

   

Speech #4 Outline

Speech # 4; Group Work!
http://prezi.com/8i0m9oeszltq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Been working on this... Blue Print style of the main "foundation" for the property. During our first group meeting, we just sketched up what we imagined the rooms to be separated into. We found the ariel view on Google Earth to help give us a rough estimate of how large the building actually is. We'll post the first sketch later, next just got to add some pictures & captions for each rooms description.
The rough roles-
Sarah McCool: CEO Founder of, The Dump
Sarah Jimenez: Teenager/Mother/Coach
Steven Barela: Investor (Property contractor back round)
Mackenzie March: Investor #2 (PR back round)

Start,Stop,Continue

Start Stop Continue # 3

This was a fun speech to look into further. It changed my perspective even more then before about how many different interests can become huge radical movements, if we get enough people on board… Crazy ideals or not..

·      Well my favorite speech by far was McCool’s, I'll more then likely attend the tournament just to watch her speak, and I'm trying to encourage some of my radical roommates to come see the discussion on the new evolution of marriage. It was indeed a radical movement! And her incorporation with our class's youthfulness and her obvious feminist movement really was one of the best topics she could have picked for herself. She was comfortable, not just with the topic, but her pace and tone, as always on point.

·      Ryan Fochtman’s speech was a really close first contender in my eyes as well! His topic was informative, grabbed my attention from the start, and he seemed to really understand what he was talking about with compassion.

·      I also really enjoyed the attention hook Conner Thomson used when he threw all the loose change on the desk! He definitely grabbed my attention and kept me till the last word. As well as following through when one of his slides didn’t show up during the presentation.. I would of $#!+ myself or possibly even stopped talking completely if I was stuck up there impromptu. High five for following through and feeling comfortable enough to keep going even when you got stuck.

Start

Well off the bat I need to collect myself a lot more, or maybe just stop syking myself out so hard. Calm my heart rate/ blood pressure, collect my thoughts, taking one word at a time, and presenting myself right then and now, finding my person at that present moment. First off cut the caffeine completely days of speeches. It doesn’t help! Next I look at the speech before hand as a hugee endeavor, and then in the process of speaking I’m usually just subconsciously hoping those five minutes will run out a little faster. Or Castle will hold up that 4-minute marker one minute earlier. I’m running high speed everywhere, my heart my wrists the backs of my knees, the worst part is my chest, I literally look down every time before I start to talk and see my heart about to burst out of my chest. Then my ADHD/ dyslexia head is going a mile a minute, making my tongue trip over its own words.  I can speak in smaller group settings with ease and comfortably, but when it comes to being front and center stage talking about something in specifics, or hoping I come off with enough clarity for the audience to understand me is my biggest concern.

Stop

Okay, just rereading my start commentary, I need to calm down. Quit stressing so hard on what everyone else is thinking about what I’m saying. Most people aren’t really taking in 100% of what you’re saying anyways, but all in all come off like you know what you’re talking about. Will someone please slap my hand or shock me every time I say “UMM” or “UHH” in my next speech!... I just wanted to slap myself after watching the video over and over. I stopped counting at 15.. bad bad and so inarticulate, I really need to work on that.

Continue

SO being Italian, the hand gestures are a blessing that come naturally, but the podium has become a comfort zone, which I need to step away from and try to pace in front of the audience a bit more. But I try to be as prepared as possible with my visual presentation so that there are no mess ups that can be avoided. AS well I’m not the most tech savy person, as you may know, so I try to stay ahead of the game instead of procrastinating till the last minute.

Prezi # 3 speech Radical

http://prezi.com/ddcbfyjojt5n/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy


I'm adding a little more... not exactly sure where yet... But I feel like just dumping all the commonalities and references to the  social aspect of life on the audience will, in a way, take their breath away.. feeling overwhelmed and unconsumed.. not wanting any further connections to such fake BS.

Speech # 3 Dump

I'm a very visual kind of person, my apologies for the chicken scratch.. I thought a brain dump that kind of categorized the different aspects in my head would make it easier to put them all in order.

Start,Stop,Continue

This speech was by far one of the hardest concepts for me to tie together for myself. First just trying to understand what we were expected to do, and then figuring out a scenario that I can easily and in somewhat of a "comfortable" setting, try to present just the conventions.
Walking onto stage center was a bit easier and more comfortable presenting myself to the audience, instead of just standing front center from the beginning. As well walking back and forth across stage helped my eye contact a little more, and helped the blood and Adrenalin pump to different parts of my body instead of heart center.
My biggest issue with public speaking is always thinking ahead of my words. I am thinking too quickly about what to say that my tongue gets tied and it turns into work jumble. I ended up reverting back to my waitress conventions and started speaking in a way that I am comfortable with on a daily basis. the word vomit is confusing not only to the audience but then I get messed up in my rhythm of the speech making it feel awkward, and very fake. Another thing is my tone of voice, I am not trying to come off as ingenue but the tone of my voice at some points feels like I'm more acting then relaying what actually needs to be said. Working on conveying the message clearer, and keeping with steady pace will help for a less awkward presentation, hopefully.
Trying to mingle with the audience, and keeping direct eye contact with their hair is a big factor in helping me for the next speech. I am excited I saw in the blog there's a persuasive speech... well those are by far my favorite if you couldn't tell from Speech #1. Engage, Engage, direct, continue.