Speech Review

After watching my speech, the first thing I noticed was I definitely did not realize how many times I said the word “umm” and I need to cut back on that a lot. It makes you sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about even when you do. Another thing I could improve on is sometimes I would sway back and forth or move my leg around which can sometimes be distracting for the audience. Besides those two things I did decently well I guess. I was really nervous and hate public speaking so all things considered I think I did pretty well. Content wise I hit pretty much all of the points I wanted to hit, even though I probably could have gone into more detail on some of my stories. After watching some of the other speeches, I think it would have been more engaging and entertaining for the audience if some of my stories were more in depth. Also I was a little bit short on time, whenever I practiced at home I was normally about 3:20 and this time I was like 2:30, so that’s also something I need to work on. Finally, I noticed in the beginning that I tended to look back at my pictures a lot, I guess just because I was nervous even though this didn’t really help at all. Overall I think I did pretty well but these nervous habits are definitely something I will need to work on and practice not doing for future speeches.