This is the page for: Public Speaking, Fall 2010

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Got ‘em

I got your final Self-Evaluations, folks, and I thank you for your promptness.

I am not printing them out, they’re mainly just an exercise for you to assess your progress (though completing them helps push your grade up a little bit, as it counts as homework).

The grades should be in the system sometime tomorrow. Take care and have a wonderful holiday!

Your Speeches! Here They Are!

Finally! I have them online!

The files are available as .zip archives (which means you will need to unzip the folders to view the videos, at least on some OSes); if you click the links, they should download automatically to your hard drive. Please save them and view them however many times you like. I’m including a list of all the speakers in each file, so that you will be able to find the file you need quickly. But feel free to download all of them if you want to do so.

File #1: Speeches by Minjae, Woosung, Jin, Jung Ki, Jinju, Minkyung.

File #2: Speeches by Juwon, Sejin, Youngmin, Kyongjin, Miju, Eunjung.

File #3: Speeches by Sora, Nayeon, Kyoung Eun, Nara.

(I don’t think I missed anyone in that list, but if I did, I’m sorry… I was just hurrying through the videos to see who had spoken, and I might have jumped ahead too far at some point.)

As for your final Self-Evaluation: Since I’m making this available to you on Saturday night, I’m going to ask you to email it to me by next Sunday, 26 December at 3pm. (Remember, you can submit it ahead of time, of course!) I don’t normally accept homework by email, but I’m making an exception in this case because it took me so long to figure out a place to upload these videos. Please copy and paste the following text into the Subject line (제목):

PUBLIC SPEAKING SELF EVAL FINAL

Please make sure to copy the above text and paste it into the Subject (제목) field of your email. This will help me filter the emails and get your self-evaluation dealt with before the deadline for  handing in grades, which is on the 28th of December — just a couple of days after the deadline! If you have any problems with the files, please send me an email.

UPDATE: One more thing: please DON’T send me .hwp files. I can’t read them on my computer. I also don’t like .docx, but I can at least view those. However, with .hwp I can’t even open them. (I don’t have HWP installed for Linux because it costs a ridiculous amount of money.) Preferred file formats are .doc and .rtf, though .txt is also possible. For more on file formats, see here.

Have a great holiday, folks!

Damned Files!

Folks,

I am having trouble finding a place that I can use to upload those giant files that contain the videos of your final speeches. I am working on it, but it might take until Sunday morning for me to get them done. I apologize. If the A/V Department had been able to split the files into a smaller size, the files would have been uploaded already, but every service I have tried to use has crashed. I promise you I’ll have this sorted out in the next 24 hours. (That is, they should be up by tonight or sometime tomorrow morning.)

If I really can’t sort it out, then I’ll work out something where you can get the files off a computer at the office or something… but hopefully by tonight, you’ll be able to download them instead. Please check back for an update tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks for your patience!

Your Video

So, I was able to get a CD containing a video file of your speeches from the office. However, in their infinite friendliness and helpfulness, the Audio-Visual Services team decided that no, they were NOT going to split up the video into individual speeches. Therefore, I won’t be able to upload a bunch of individual videos to our channel.

However, Youtube has apparently removed length restrictions for users who follow copyright law. I may have to use my own video channel, but I will get that video online as soon as I can… (maybe on Youtube, maybe to Google Video or the Internet Archive). I’ll post it here as soon as the video is available.

Self-Evaluations and Our Final Class

I don’t have exact information on when the digitized videos of your midterm speeches will be available, but it looks like it will be sometime next week. When I know more, I’ll post it here (or, hopefully, announce it in class). In any case, you should try to get your self-evaluations mostly written up prior to seeing the video. You can watch the video to compare your impressions and memories with the reality.

Remember that your self-evaluation is not only an evaluation of your performance in the final speech, but also a demonstration of how well you have learned the materials of our course. That is to say, you should use the self-evaluation to demonstrate to me that you have mastered the knowledge and ideas presented in our Public Speaking course.

Your Self-Evaluation will be due one week after the videos become available (which I will announce here). Therefore, please check back often (starting next week) to see when the videos will go online.

We will have our final class on 14 December. Eight people will give argumentative speeches and we will ask questions and answers. That should pretty much take up the whole two hours. See you then!

Final Speech Night Tickets

Here are the tickets for the final speech night for our class:

As with the midterm event’s tickets, you should print these out and write your name on the back of each ticket before giving them to the people you invite to the event.

I decided not to do posters because I suspect they wouldn’t generate interest. However, if you want a big turnout, feel free to advertise the event in your other classes.

Finally, just to be clear, here is how the event will work:

Good luck, and see you Tuesday afternoon! (Yes, we will have class in the afternoon.)

Final Speech Evening

Hi everyone!

Good news! Our final speech evening will be in a proper hall: it’s room N301, which I am told is a large-ish lecture hall in Nichols Gwan.

As I said, you will need to make sure that at least five people come to the evening–the rules are the same as last time, with one additional rule: three of the five people you bring must be different people from the ones who came last time. You are free to invite more people if you like. I will post some tickets and posters here in the next day or two!

The room is booked from 7:30 to 10:00pm. The process will include each student speaking for five minutes, plus a few minutes for questions after each person. This means our event will probably take up the whole time. Please plan accordingly, and also ensure that the friends you invite understand that they are asked respectfully to please stay for the whole thing.

That’s it! Please check for tickets and posters in the next day or two (Thursday night, Friday, or Saturday).

Fallacies Page

I promised you a page explaining informal (argumentative) fallacies. This is a pretty good page, especially if you have an adblocker. (The advertisements are a bit distracting, but the explanations of the fallacies are pretty good, especially if you clink through the list of links on the names of the various fallacies, listed on the right side of the page.)

You don’t necessarily need to memorize all the names of the fallacies. Think of them as common “moves” that people make, and remember that it’s more important to remember the “move” than to know the name of each.

Self-Evaluations

Congratulations, everyone. I consider tonight’s public speaking event a success. I was pretty impressed.

Now, don’t forget you owe me a self-evaluation. It should be thorough, and be honest. I expect you to assess your speech in terms of a few things:

We’ll be continuing next week with improvised speeches telling how to do whatever you’re lucky enough to get as a result.

Midterm Speech Night

Hi everyone!

The location for our midterm speech is N308, and the time booked is 7:30-10:00 pm.

Here are some “tickets” for you to distribute among friends:

I will be asking the night secretary to come and collect tickets from people coming to the speech night; if she cannot come, I will collect them myself. Tickets will be collected at the end of the evening, but your friends are expected to attend as early as possible. (And to help ensure this, a schedule will not be made public until 7:25 pm.) As stated in class, you are expected to have a minimum of five friends show up in your name. Friends are not transferrable: even if you have seven friends, you cannot give two of them away to a classmate. The attendance of your invited friends will be pertinent in your evaluation.

You should write your name on the back of the ticket in order to make sure your friends are counted as attending in support of you.

Please be advised, we will be meeting for a normal class at 12:00pm on that day, as usual. Repeat, class is NOT canceled on ther afternoon of 28 October. I will be collecting a list of partners and topics that day as well.

One more thing: you will be judged individually in terms of your contribution to the presentation, despite working with a partner. I will be videorecording your speech, in order to help me evaluate your presentations more fairly. I will be looking at the same things we have discussed in class:

You are also expected to write a Self-Evaluation about your midterm speech, and submit it to me in class on 2 November.

Have a good week!

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