Demonstration Speech
Next week, students will give a two-three minute speech demonstrating a simple action.  Whether you choose to demonstrate how to tie a tie or how to properly swing a golf club, just remember your target audience and choose an appropriate topic.  This video give many ideas and examples although, for lack of time, no food demonstrations are allowed.

The Eye's Have It
Whether they read from prepared notes or do impromptu speeches, effective speakers make eye contact with audience members.Don't be afraid to make eye contact with audience members, their reactions to you will help your performance as a presenter. If you sense boredom, you may have to pick up the pace; if you sense enthusiasm, it can help to pump you up. When you make eye contact, you are relating to your audienc

Listening is Essential to Public Speaking
Listening is an everyday experience. It is making a conscious effort to hear and to give heed. We listen when we attach appropriate meaning to the sounds we hear, so it is important that we acquire skills that will enable us to be an effective listener. The effective listener listens with anticipation, hoping to profit from the information, inspiration and motivation of what he hears. The effective listener listens with cooperation realizing that he has a responsibility to get something out of the speech. He also listens with concentration, keeping himself mentally alert by eliminating distractions both externally in internally. But most of all, the effective listener listens and evaluates

Adding Bodily Action
Bodily action is essential to effective public speaking. It will help to capture and hold the attention of the audience, it will deepen the impression made by the spoken word and convey meanings which you cannot express in words, it will give added force to your convictions and feelings and most of all, (believe it or not) it will r

Vocal Production and Variety
Today in class, students learned the importance and the basics of vocal production and variety. I can't stress how important it is to use and to practice proper breathing and posture.The first step in voice production is dependant on the breathing process. The effective speaker uses epigastric breathing to exhibit the greatest control of the speaking process. Epigastric breathing also requires less effort than clavicular (breathing from the shoulders), or upper-thoracic (breathing form the chest). Proper breathing is being used when the abdominal area is extended duri