Speech review

I think in terms of my voice and speaking, I did okay. At the beginning I said “um” a little bit, but I also thought the whole thing was casual enough and I didn’t loose my place at all, or just stop mid sentence. This is probably because I was talking about myself, and since I knew the topics I needed to cover, I just went with the flow. My biggest flaw was probably the fact that I somehow refused to make eye contact, or even look at the audience. I noticed I looked back at the projection screen a lot, and when I looked at the audience, I quickly looked down, which accentuated my nervous look. And my hands were fidgeting with my notecards, which drew attention to them. Even though I told myself not to before hand, I still managed to cross my legs and rock back and forth and that didn’t look very professional. I wish I had talked about my career earlier in the speech, because I used the ending of that as my conclusion, when I really had a better ending at the end of my entertainment part. I kind of trailed off at the end too. I really thing the presentation of my speech was the worst part of it, and the content was good, but even though I was comfortable when I practiced, getting up in front of people usually causes me to break eye contact with the audience, and that really subtracts from what I am saying.