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This speech is Project 9 “Get Comfortable with Visual Aids” from Basic Communicator Manual. The objectives of this speech are:

• Select visual aids that are appropriate for your message and the audience
• Use visual aids correctly with ease and confidence

The timing for the presentation is 5-7 mins.

In this speech, I used a inflatable globe as my visual aids. When I mentioned the flattening force, I would press the globe to flatten it a bit. The effect was not quite as good as I anticipated.

I didn’t really like this speech. I agreed with the evaluator that the Berlin Wall portion was redundant and did not add value to the speech. I also think my speech was not very engaging to the audience. I should have keeping the speech simpler and iterating the main contention that the World is Flat.

This speech was presented at the CCK TMC March Chapter Meeting. The evaluator was Mindy Ding.

This speech is Project 6 “Vocal Variety” from Basic Communicator Manual. The objectives of this speech are:

• Use voice volume, pitch, rate and quality to reflect adn add meaning and interest to your message.
• Use pauses to enhance your message.
• Use vocal variety smoothly and naturally.

The timing for the presentation is 5-7 mins.

I got the idea of the this speech topic after reading the book “Search” by… This book is about how Google founders started the revolutionary internet search engine and changed the world ever since. I was very inspired by the Google story, so I decided to speak on it. However, in hindsight, I felt this was not a good speech topic for vocal variety. This was more a “speaking to inform” type of speech. A good vocal variety topic should be one that stretch your vocal variety from fast pace to slow, loud to soft, high to low pitch.

This speech was presented at the Achiever Day and the evaluator was Ong Chuan Aik. This was the first time I spoke outside the club environment.