Week 03: Discussion Board Post

INSTRUCTIONS:

First, take a few minutes to review the prompt below. After reviewing the prompt, you should put your critical thinking skills to use as you begin to answer the questions. You should make your initial response to this post by Thursday by 11pm. You will then come back to the post Friday - Sunday and respond to at least two of your fellow classmates posts with a thoughtful and relevant reply. Your initial response should be 8-10 sentences in length at a minimum. Answers such as agreed, disagree, yes, no, etc., will not receive points. This discussion board post is worth up to 6 points. You will receive up to 3 points for your initial response and up to an additional 3 points for your reply. 

PROMPT:  This week, you will meet with your instructor in the Virtual Classroom to begin learning about informative speaking. You will be introduced to your second speech, the SEEI Impact Speech. With this speech, it is important to focus on relevancy to your audience. You will learn how to tie your topic back to the audience. It is important to be audience centered when your delivering a speech to make sure that you connect with your audience. Would you want to give a speech on increasing college tuition to a group of college students?

In this discussion board post, we would like you to think about a time where you didn't connect with a speech (that you watched on television/internet, heard on the radio or attended in person) as an audience member. Please share insights on what the speaker could have done better to captivate their attention.