Past/Present/Future Speech Orders

Order #	Name
1	Neda
2	Lauren
3	Anna
4	Caitlin
5	Mysterious Person With No Username
6	Shannon
7	Amy
8	Maren
9	Amanda
10	Luke
11	Norah
12	Max
13	Daniel
14	Courtney
15
16	Sarah
17	Mary Grace
18
19	Mohammed
20	Cerena

3.31.14 - Building your argument

Daniel Goldstein's TED Talk

• You are the product. You, feeling something. That’s what sells. http://www.amctv.com/mad-men/videos/mad-men-rules-you-are-the-product
• Daniel make three types of appeals in his speech:
• Rational 
• Illustrative/Narrative 
• Emotional 
• Critique - let's get used to critiquing everything, even if we "like" it:
• How does Daniel balance the conversational, scripted and performative styles of speech?
• Where are his strengths/weaknesses?

Outlining Basics

• Outlines serve the purpose of a roadmap for your argument; I only need to see the roads, I don’t need a satellite-view of all of the details. Just like it’s harder to plot out directions on Google Earth rather than Google maps.
• No outline that look like you took a script and bulleted it.
• That said, your outline should be specific to YOUR speech. It shouldn’t be so general that I can’t tell your outline apart from your classmates’.
• Thesis Statement Writing/Outline Creation
• Thesis = crux of argument
• Supporting argument 1
• Illustrative Example
• Supporting argument 2
• Illustrative Example
• Supporting argument 3
• Illustrative Example
• Logic/Reasoning
• Inductive versus deductive
• Inductive starts with a set of examples/observations/data that lead to a general conclusion (theory)
• Relies on general-enough examples that your audience won’t think of your data as an anomaly
• Deductive starts with general rules or theories and uses it to say something about specific examples or data
• This is the part where generalizing assumptions are dangerous - make sure you aren’t taking for granted a premise upon which your whole argument is based without making sure your audience supports it
• Exercise: Working backwards and translating Lewis Black's rant into an organized outline:
• http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/dpx0tn/back-in-black---education-crisis 
• What is his thesis?
• What are his supporting arguments?
• What are his illustrative examples?

The power of Vulnerability

• As we watch this video please be prepared to discuss:
• the strengths of this speech in relation to the three approaches to public speaking. 
• the ways in which the content of her speech is complemented to her style of speech making.
• how the message of her speech can be applied to the upcoming Past/Present/Future speech assignment.

Listening and Ethics

• No decision a speaker makes is politically or morally neutral. When you speak, you are by default editing by choosing what to say and what not to say; you are therefore issuing value and importance to various topics.
• Be aware of your own personal/cultural/political biases. We all have frameworks that we use to make sense of the world. 

Linda Alcoff’s “The Problem of Speaking for Others.”

• Determine your intentions: are your intentions to teach, or to learn?
• Determine your vantage point: where does your cultural perspective differ from the perspective you are performing?
• Be open to criticism
• Predict what, if any, outcomes may be harmful, or perceived as harmful by members of the cultural perspective you are presenting

Past/Present/Future Speech Assignment

ASSIGNMENT: Past/Present/Future Speech

Due Date: 4.2.14

The purpose of this assignment is to get a small taste of public speaking and to practice achieving a comfort level necessary to exude the authenticity to connect to your audience on a personal level. Your goal will be to introduce yourself to your classmates by incorporating 3 carefully selected objects from your home. The items should represent your past, your present, and your future, and should work together to tell a story about who you are in that they represent cohesive variations on a theme. Additionally, please enclose these items in a bag/box/container of some sort that is also symbolic of your speech’s theme.

You will want structure your speech around telling your audience about how these three items represent you, what they mean to you, and where you got them. This will help introduce you to the class while also giving you a chance to work with presentation aides, and practice flow and format.

GUIDELINES:

Pay close attention to the following when preparing your speech:

• Introduction: attention-gaining material, thesis statement, preview.
• Thesis Statement: Clear, specific, and directly related to your main points.
• Conclusion: signal end of speech, summarize main points, decisive close.
• Outline: Typed, proofread, passed in prior to speech
• Practice, practice, practice!!

Speech length: 4 minutes

Speeches will be recorded and uploaded to DU Video Manager. At 4 minutes, an alarm will go off, and at 5 minutes you will be cut off.

3.26.14

Tools for Class

• Blogger
• Dashboard at http://blogger.com 
• Creating a New Post
• Creating a New Comment
• Note: For those who have trouble contributing to in-class participations and discussions vocally, you may receive extra participation points by commenting on my or your fellow students' posts
• Video Manager
• https://videomanager.du.edu/
• Log in with WebCentral credentials
• You will be invited to our class video group - here you will find videos from our class for review and download
• Uploading your own videos

Introduction to Public Speaking

• Message v. Meaning
• Meaning is social
• Ex: Hijacked Social Media Campaigns
• Meaning is contextual
• Ex: Hitler Quotes Attributed to Taylor Swift
• Approaches to Public Speaking
• Conversational - focusing on the connection to your audience and authenticity
• Pro: builds a sense of authenticity
• Con: can create a casual tone that diminishes credibility
• Writing/Scripting - allows more careful crafting of the text
• Pro: arguments will be well-worded
• Con: can seem canned and impersonal
• Performative: focusing on the non-verbal elements of speech making such as voice, posture, body language, facial expression, movement, environment, etc.
• Pro: will immerse your audience
• Con: can seem overdramatic, taking away from your argument's logic
• About the Skill-Learning Process: The more you know, the more critical you will be about your own speeches. People often mistake the discomfort that comes with gaining a critical eye for “failure.”
• As we watch this video, please be ready to reflect on any event or process with which this video resonates to your own experience

• Listening and Ethics
• No decision a speaker makes is politically or morally neutral. When you speak, you are by default editing by choosing what to say and what not to say; you are therefore issuing value and importance to various topics.
• Be aware of your own personal/cultural/political biases. We all have frameworks that we use to make sense of the world. 
• Small-Group Activities:
• Groups of 3-4
1. Please share your reflection of Ira Glass's quote with your group
2. Discuss your top 1-2 fears surrounding public speaking, find out who in your group shares your fears and consult both your peers and the handbook for mechanisms to overcome those fears.
3. Each group will be assigned one approach to public speaking and a qualifier that signifies over-reliance/under-reliance on that approach (for example: over-reliance on conversationalism). Your exercise is to create a minute-long speech that either opposes or supports the following assertion: "The legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado is beneficial to our state's residents." You may choose one member to speak, or you can all take turns. You must illustrate the characteristic of public speaking that your group was assigned. The alarm will go off after 2 minutes.

Hello from Kate!

Hello - I want to apologize for my absence on the first day of class. I will be in on Wednesday and we will get to know each other then. In the meantime, my colleague Miranda is fabulous and the fact that she will be in to conduct class is a real treat! Here's a little bit about me:

• I am from a northern suburb of Chicago called Deerfield - I'm willing to bet some of you from the area have heard of it! My husband and I just bought a house in the Harvard Gulch area (if you haven't been to the Gulch yet, check it out, I think it is far superior to the overrated Wash Park)
• I graduated in 2002 from Colorado College with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Vocal Performance.
• I've worked on political and public interest media campaigns, specializing in online and digital media, since 2007. This included giving media trainings to a diverse range of clients, including a conference I conducted here at DU on "Social Media for Nonprofits"
• I've also been teaching yoga since 2010.
• In the spring of 2013, I earned my Master of Fine Arts degree in Emergent Digital Practices from the University of Denver. For my thesis exhibition, I made two kinetic communication suits that allowed dancers to speak to each other through a wall using just their movement (here is the video if you are interested: https://vimeo.com/66782416 
• I play guitar and sing (occasionally for money). I once lived in Peru for three months without any running water. I hate puzzles but I love nerdy board games such as Settlers of Catan and the Battlestar Galactica game (in fact I will probably make many analogies to BSG throughout the quarter) 

See you all on the 26th (and please be sure to check the "Schedule" tab for homework due that day)!