Love of the Game: 6th Blog-aganza

Well, fall is in full swing and footbal season has arrived. Sports often provides metaphors for other spects of our lives. Visit http://knowgramming.com/metaphor.htm to learn more about metaphors and how to enhance your speeches with them, then creat one unique metaphor using footbal (or another fall/winter sport) to illustrate an idea about public speaking! Good luck and "go-fight-WIN!!!!!!" Smiles--Your (former cheerleader) teacher

5th Blog Promto-rama

Hello fellow bloggers of the "inter-web" ---Hope this finds you well and awake...next in class we will begin to learn about informative speaking. Tell us where you turn most often for information. Myspace doesn't count! Tell us: Why do you trust this source of info? How important to you is it that a teacher and classroom climate reflect current issues and events? Finally: What is the meaning of life? (extra credit)

Remember: what would you try if you knew you could not fail???????????????????

4th Amazing and Awe-Inspiring Blog Prompt

OMG! I am still cracking up over all of these stories in response to the last blog--great group stuff, thanks! Let's turn our attention to listening, an important part of good speech interaction.

The audience must be there for a speech to be heard and your book gives a lot of insight into being a good listener...tell us about some one you feel is a very good listener and just what makes them one. For double credit, use vocabulary from class or the textbook.

Prompt #3: Group Speeches & Families

Hi Gang--Those were some great current event and introduction speeches, I really enjoyed them--As we begin to move past outlining and into the first official speech of our class, or "The Group Special Occassion Speech"--Think about some of the formal/informal groups you belong to or observe regularly. Families are certainly interesting groups to think about--or bands...or teams, or Irish dancing troups, whatever...please tell us about a group you either belong to or are a fan of and how you can tell who the leader is...do they have a unique speaking style? Also, what do you hate most about group projects? What do you like? FOR DOUBLE BLOG CREDIT: Tell us a funny (PC PLEASE) story about a wacky group dynamic in your world, past or present. Like the time all the kids in my preschool group went running through a field on recess, my very first day, and I had to stay behind because they ALL squeezed through an iron-bar fence to go climb trees and I had to stay behind because, as little Daniel told me brutally: "Your head's too big!!!" I tried so hard to squeeze throu--my ears were sore! My first brush with group rejection for being different! Smiles--Blog-Lady

Fall 2007: Prompt #2

Your interests are fun and diverse, thanks for sharing them! Please tell me about a performer (athlete, celebrity, politician, musician, etc) that you admire and describe one quality they exhibit that you can mimic in order to enhance your public speaking skills. ie:I love Will Farell and the way he gets great laughs, I think his non-verbal, hilarious expressions and body language are what makes his humor work. I try to borrow some of these techniques to get my own laughs in the classroom here and there (acting "cool" in a way that makes it oh-so-clear I am kind of a goofball). Your turn! Smiles--S