Today in COMP II land we began our descent into the realm of speaking in front of a captive composition audience. Your voice. Real live ears. Seven minutes to share information in any effective and non-boring way.
Khiry had great delivery; he was smiling, and that makes us think: when you’re happy, we’re happy; when you’re nervous, we’re nervous; when you’re looking us in the eye, we’re looking you in the eye and paying attention. He was funny, apt to verbally improvise, and when he asked questions and people attempted to answer, (but were too slow or beginning to stutter) he politely assisted them with the answer he was driving his presentation towards.
Bryan also read a sample text and was calm, yet engaging. He seemed amused with himself and we felt amused and eager to listen.
We also watched this clip from This American Life’s Ira Glass speaking on the elements of broadcasting a story. Glass says that narration is one of the most important techniques in presenting information in a way that is interesting because with each sequence of action the listener feels like they are on a train of thought headed towards a destination. That each step leads to something that is happening. And all questions raised by these steps should be answered. The purpose of the journey can be restated along the way, in different ways to make it interesting, but any body of information can be inserted into narrative form for the purpose of broadcast/oral presentation and made more enlivening.
Proud to be the stuttering question answerer. I was very happy to see that he was on his toes and didn’t let me slow him down.
well, its about twenty minutes after you’re class and i bet you are wondering why i wasn’t there.
This morning, I walked out to my car to find a nice puddle of gasoline under my car. so, driving was not a good idea. I’m having my car looked at now ans will be back in commission by Wednesday.