Speech Evaluation

Well, considering that I have now completed my presentation for this project, the last thing that I have left to do is to complete my evaluation for my presentation. Might as well run through what I was graded on. Considering that there are five categories to be graded on, I will grade each category 6 out of 30 points. 

The first category is that is must be four to five minutes. I have done practice runs several times, and that are all between 4:40 and 5:00. Though I don't know how long I talked for, considering there didn't seem to be any big delays during the presentation to drag it on, I am pretty sure that my speech was around 5 minutes long. I'm going to give myself a full 6/6 for this one. 

The next category was visual component. This seems to be split into "Presentation" and weather it drove the presentation or not. Well, I did have a presentation, so that's a couple of points there. However, I also felt like my presentation wasn't as good as it could have been. This was partly because the presentation that I used was not my first: I had completed a presentation on prezi that I couldn’t use because I realized that you cannot import audio files into prezi. Aside form that, though, I think I did well and I don't think the presentation drove the presentation. I give myself a 5.5/6

The category after that is “content,” which is split into several different subcategories. The first category “inspire through your passion,” was pretty difficult for me to do, one can only record a song if they play an instrument, which I’m pretty sure not most of the audience could do. However, I did get some applause after I finished recording my song, and I could see a person bobbing their head to the song, so that’s one person. Ultimatley, though, I feel like I wasn’t abe to inspire that many people. However, I did have a very clear product (My song, or the 30-second clip used), I felt like I showed a pretty clear process, and I felt like my purpose was really clear. As such, I give myself a 5/6 for this category.

I felt as though my organization was pretty solid. The fact that I started clearly and managed to show my purpose at the beginning and the end I felt helped really get the message across. I also feel like I did a good job transitioning form slide to slide. Overall, 6/6

For my delivery, I felt like it could have used some work. For one, unlike some other people, I used notecards when presenting. I decided to use notecards because I didn’t want to just stand there, doing nothing because I forgot what I was going to say. However, I feel like I might have used these notecards a little too much when presenting. In addition, I also felt like I made lots of speaking mistakes, and said things such as “um” and stuttered a lot. I felt like this detrected from my presentation a lot. As such, I give myself a 4.5/6 here.

Overall, though, I think I did a pretty good job. As such, I give myself a 27/30