But you will also note that the research and data is also supported with examples and stories that make the academic knowledge real and personal. This is no doubt one reason why this speech has resonated so deeply with so many people.
For this Reflective Journal post, I want you to observe 3 things.
1) Note how she uses Spoken References, mentioning the names of sources whose work she is citing. 2) Consider how she personalizes the speech, and how she uses common and easy-to-understand illustrations to help the audience relate to the academic content. And 3) make one more observation about the speech making.
1) Note how she uses Spoken References, mentioning the names of sources whose work she is citing. 2) Consider how she personalizes the speech, and how she uses common and easy-to-understand illustrations to help the audience relate to the academic content. And 3) make one more observation about the speech making.
Think of 1 more point that we have reviewed from Lucas that you can apply to Amy Cuddy's content and delivery. My hope is that these observations will give you ideas about your own preparation and design for your Informative Speech presentation.
Remember to include your ID# in your post. Please make your first post by Sunday, and then respond to two of your classmates by next week. Aj. M
Remember to include your ID# in your post. Please make your first post by Sunday, and then respond to two of your classmates by next week. Aj. M
6329029 Akarapol Vichitvigrom
ReplyDeleteShe would make a point and would explain what she meant by it. After that, she would talk about examples that would name the person, their career, the university they work at, and provide data and conclusion of the researches that person conducted. This helps make the speech more credible and informative. She also talked about how she personally connected to the topic, to not fake it till you make it, but fake it till you become it, since she felt out of place when she got enrolled in a prestigious university. Furthermore, she talked about body language and showed us some very obvious examples of poses of high-power and low-power to make us visualize easier. The graphs and illustrations are very easy simple and easy to understand, to keep the audience interested in the speech. An observation that I got from her speech is that you can interact with the audience, or crack a joke, but it is a gamble. Also, when she uses data from other sources, she cited it completely, or give credit to the source during the speech as well.
I also agree with you that way she uses spoken references is very effective and easy for the audiences to understand. Furthermore her quote: "to not fake it till you make it, but fake it till you become it", positively change my life perspective. I now know the way to boost up my self-confident during interviews and to feel more powerful when I needed to be.
DeleteMananchaya Punsiri 6329021 Section 2
DeleteI also agree with you that way she uses spoken references is very effective and easy for the audiences to understand. Furthermore her quote: "to not fake it till you make it, but fake it till you become it", positively change my life perspective. I now know the way to boost up my self-confident during interviews and to feel more powerful when I needed to be.
Pakawatwong Bunluesak ID 6329031 section 2
DeleteI have a similar opinion with you about the part where you said that she gives credit to all her sources whilst she speaking and she beautifully incorporated the part where she is giving credit to the information or statistics itself. Her quote was also another memorable part of her speech where is said to not fake it until you make it but to fake it until you become it.
Atikan Thangwatcharapong section 2 (6329026)
DeleteI agree with what you have written especially the way she gave credits to those researchers while giving her speech which make her speech more credible and informative. I am also impressed with her slogan-like phrase which is "to not fake it till you make it, but fake it till you become it" as well as the way she added funny jokes into her speech which spice thing up a bit.
6329022 Ratchanon Nanagara (Section 2)
ReplyDeleteDuring the speech, Amy Cuddy uses multiple Spoken References, mentioning different sources. From my observation, Amy is using these references to provide a stronger back up to what she is saying. For example, she provides multiple evidences from ‘trustworthy’ people (such as researchers) to back up her statement on the effect of body language on 'judgement' which increases the credibility of her statement. In addition, Amy also tries to personalize her speech by referring to her personal stories in proving her points. For instance, to prove her “fake it until you become it” point, she speaks about her own personal incidence of shifting from being an ‘imposter’ to actually becoming who she is today. Furthermore, Amy also includes some visual aids to make it easier for the audience to understand what she is trying to say. For example, when she is talking about the 'job interview’ experiment, she includes easy-to-understand pictures of the different poses of job interviewers, making it easier for the audience to visualize and understand what she is trying to say about high and low-power poses. An observation that I made about Amy’s speech making is about her body language and gestures. For me, her natural gestures help magnify her truthfulness, attitude, and feelings. It also creates communicative bonds and interactions with the audience which significantly boosts the overall quality of her speech.
6329008 Nutnichaporn P. 6329008 (Section 1)
DeleteHer credibility is high since she provides sources from many references, as well as choosing a group of trustworthy resources. Not to mention the fact that she also talk about her personal experiences and connect it to her point to even make her presentation becomes much more credible. I strongly agree to your point that Amy's gestures are stable and clean, they makes her look more professional, elegant, and confident on the stage.
Pin Ngenpisutsin 6329014 Section 1
DeleteI totally agree with you to the point that Amy Cuddy used various sources from the trustworthy people which this makes her speech to be valid. Moreover, the point that she used the experiment such as job interview help people illustrate much easier. Therefore, because all of these points, they make Amy Cuddy's speaking to be valid and interesting.
Phornrawin Wongkarnjanapanich 6329016 Section 1
DeleteI agree with you that her use of various resources to back up her statement did increases her credibility to the speech. Her quote "to not fake it till you make it, but fake it till you become it" help audiences such as myself relate to the topic even more; it also inspires me on different aspects. I also agree that her confident postures and attitudes made her become a better speechmaker.
6329008 Nutnichaporn Phugdiprapai (Section 1)
ReplyDeleteAmy uses spoken references by naming those people (such as Nalini Ambady), even followed by the name of the multiple institution or the conclusive university, and informing data about those researches. I would say there’re more than 6 resources, this's the main point which made her speech becomes very reliable and credible. She also provides pictures and illustrations along the speech, as well as including a video clip and jokes to help entertaining the audiences. Trauma from her personal experience she told is also deep and meaningful as she uses simple and clear language of her own style to make it very emotional. I could feel like she's being herself, representing how she wants others to see her on the stage. Despite the fact that her topic is very general since it’s relatable to every people, Amy gives many examples about poses and experiments on body language, including both statistical and scientific way like graphs and percentages to clarify her point as well. The additional observation from me is that her speech is very interesting to listen to because she’s very enthusiastic and expert about the topic of body language she shares with us. Moreover, she also speaks with a pleasant voice as she makes eye contact and expressions throughout the speech, to connect and interact with the audiences as much as possible.
6329006 Napat Satitthummanit (section 1)
DeleteI agree that Amy used many reliable resources followed by the institution name help make the speech more credible. Furthermore, we both noticed that she expressed her emotions naturally, especially when she told her personal experience and she also made eye contact throughout the speech which is a good way to interact with the audience.
6329029 Akarapol Vichitvigrom (sec 2)
DeleteI agree that using a lot of reliable sources would make the speech much more credible and makes it look as if if we do it, we will surely make it. It is also great that you pointed out that her speech is very general and appeal to a lot of people and is informing the people about what they already know, but some tweaks and lots of graphs, pictures, and studies makes it such an impactful speech.
It is true that you could really feel Cuddy's genuineness and she has achieved this by incorporating visual aids along with emotional stories into the speech. As claimed above, she has cited multiple credible sources which, I agree, makes the speech appear very reliable.
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DeleteChanisara K. 6329003
6329018 Palakorn Piyawannasuth (Section 1)
ReplyDeleteShe starts by saying the person's names following by the career of the person and place of that particular occupation before saying the information that she wants to give. So, while she is giving the audience knowledge with some difficulties about the information, she will provide some pictures and video clips for the audience. This is for a better understanding. Moreover, when she wants to say about some experiments. For example, when she is talking about hormones. She shows the graph that can be viewed easily, and this will make the information easier to follow. When she talks, she always gives some questions to the audience to think about. I think this is one of the ways to get audience interaction. Nevertheless, it is in the mind. In addition, she also tells her unfortunate past about the car accident, and this makes her feel powerless. During the talk, she can connect her past experience with the audience's experience. She also gives the conclusion to the experiment so that the audiences can follow the experiment easily or if they get lost during the beginning of the experiment. Moreover, she also does some postures when she gives the example to the audience, so the audience will see more picture about what she is saying. She also always tries to make eye contact during the talk, so this will help her to get the interaction with the audience. In the end, she also gives the audience some conclusion of the talk, so that the audience can remember her speech.
Hatailux Boontub 6329025 section2
DeleteI couldn’t agree more that the way she asked the audience some questions was a great interaction. Apart from that, she related her tragedy to the speech well which made the audience felt empathy, and her conclusion in the end of the speech was very effective since it made the audience remember the important point of her speech.
Napat Satitthummanit 6329006 Section 1
ReplyDeleteAmy’s speech is informative yet personal and also relates to a wide range of people. Whenever she gave out data, she always cited the source and an organization or institution of that data. It is not only a way to give credit to the source but it also makes her speech more credible. She started the speech with data, numbers and graphs which are well organized and easy to follow along. She also put some funny video clips and pictures to gain the audience's attention. Then she showed the experiment and results about high power poses and low power poses which she put lots of pictures on the slides. She talked naturally when she told her story about a college student. She linked her personal experience to other's stories and then to the audience as well. She even got emotional in the middle of the story and that makes a big impact. Another observation that I notice is that Amy smiled throughout the whole speech and that shows how passionate she is.
Mananchaya Punsiri 6329021 Section 2
DeleteI noticed the same thing too that she smiled throughout her speech. This made her look more competent and attractive. When she told her own story and got emotional, this made informal speech more personal and real. This truly allowed me to feel her pain and struggles of feeling like she did not belong at well-known colleges.
6061181 Uracha Wachirawuttikai (section 2)
DeleteI also agree with you that putting funny videos and pictures does grab the audience’s attention and makes the speech sounds more interesting. Also, when she talked about her personal experience and got emotional, it made me feel emotional as well because she linked her story to the audience really well.
6329030 Uracha Wachirawuttikai (section 2)*
DeletePipatra Tirapairojana (6329019) Section 1
DeleteI could not agree with you more that Amy Cuddy's speech although was informative but it was also personal. She has done well in incorporating her experiences into her speech allowing audiences to relate to her topic. Moreover, I also noticed that her emotions in her tone has helped her story sounds real and makes a really good impact towards her speech. Her smile throughout the speech allows audiences to feel at ease and makes everything looks smooth and natural.
6329007 Napat Pracharktam (Section 1)
ReplyDeleteFirstly, Amy Cuddy used spoken references in a concise way by mentioning the name of the researchers and where he or she came from before referring to his or her findings. This, consequently, increases the reliability of the point she was making. Secondly, she was able to personalize her speeches by using anecdotal evidence of her observation in an MBA classroom and of her childhood car accident. Moreover, she also asked questions in which the answers are universal. For example, what kind of person you would want as your leader, and the answer would be more or less an individual who is assertive and less stress reactive. This implied to the audience that her speech was worth listening to because it was relevant to everyone. Furthermore, she was not afraid to be funny. This creates the atmosphere that the audience would want to continue listening since the speech was not only informative but also enjoyable. Apart from that, her illustrations were obvious –what we see in our everyday life –and we even do these non-verbal languages ourselves like opening our hands and lifting our chins up when we win a physical strength competition. The bar charts were also simple and easy to understand with the different in colors of different elements. Lastly, my another observation is that she underlined the main point for a few times to make sure that the audience really grasped her point, and especially at the end she would summarize the data or the findings she just presented. Thus, she could precisely and effectively convey the main message to all her audience which was “Fake it until you become it!” Also, most of the times, she elaborated on words, phrases, or sentences that are content specific (hormones: testosterone and cortisol) or mean differently to different people (mind) to ensure that the audience followed the right track, increasing her credibility in making the speech on this topic.
6329008 Nutnichaporn P. 6329008 (Section 1)
DeleteI also agree with you about the question she asks to connect the presentation with the audiences, which is a quite strong point in her speech. Also, her sense of humor makes a nice atmosphere towards the audiences as well. Lastly, she eases scientific vocabularies (like name of hormones) for a normal people, as to be able to follow and understand the effects of them on human behaviors. She's very professional.
Chanisara K. 6329003
DeleteThe way she has made her speech unique is definitely how she was able to bring humor and asking general questions that many have an answer to. Visual aids were also used effectively, which helped get the message across to the audience.
Mananchaya Punsiri 6329021 Section 2
ReplyDeleteFirstly, Professor Amy Cuddy uses Spoken References by referring to the name of the researcher followed by the research institute(college). This way of integrating the name of the sources allows the audiences to understand specifically where the source of information comes from.
Secondly, she personalized her speech by using real people and real stories as examples on her visual aids such as showing the video clip of the presidents shaking and not shaking hands. Even in her experiments, instead of showing tremendous amounts of pie charts, graphs, and statistical numbers. She explains the process of her experiments by using pictures and shows her results by using just a few graphs. This allows the audience to easily make connections with the academic content.
Thirdly, she tells her own story and real experience of her student, which makes informal speech more personal and not just all about the academic. Her story allows us to reflect on our lives and significantly impact the way we can change our mind, body, and behaviors to become more powerful and dominant.
Lastly, the point from the Lucas video that I can apply to her content and delivery is the speaker's body. She appears natural and her non-verbal communication such as gestures, facial expressions, and actions all come out beautifully, appropriately, and suites well with her topic. She also smiles often to her audiences, which makes the audiences feel connected with her and see her as a more competent speaker.
6329006 Napat Satitthummanit (section 1)
DeleteYou made a good point that Amy was able to express facial expression really well and that she often smiled to the audience. These features could be counted as her strength as I could notice these qualities as well. Moreover, I totally agree that the she could explain a complex experiment very clearly and easy to understand by using a few graphs and pictures. Because this is a pretty challenging content to deliver but she could do it beautifully.
Tisthong Charoonmethee 6329009
DeleteI completely agree with your last point!, her facial expressions was priceless, this has been one of the reasons I watch her speech from the beginning to the end. Her facial expressions suite perfectly with her story at the time, when she was referring to the job interviews as one of her examples, her sorrow facial expression made the audience feel empathy for her.
Pakawatwong Bunluesak ID 6329031 Section 2
DeleteI can also see that the application of her content with the Lucas video we have reviewed. I agree with the fact that she used a lot of non verbal gestures such as her hands and her facial expression whilst she was making her speech. We have a similar opinion when it comes to how she presented her experiment making it easier for us to follow through and so we as the audience can more easily connect with her academic content that she is presenting to us.
Atikan Thangwatcharapong (6329026) section 2
ReplyDeleteShe started with her main point and explain what was the purpose of the research that was conducted and how does it connects to what she was saying. Then she mentioned the name of the researcher and where they work at. She gave credit to the sources she uses in the speech. For example, she talked about soundless 30 second video of physician and patient interaction conducted by Nalini Ambady, a researcher at Tufts University. She personalizes the speech by telling story of her car accident that relates to her student story. Her illustrations are easy to understand which makes the speech easy to follow. For instance, she uses simple bar graphs to show the increasing of testosterone and the decreasing of cortisol to help the audience relate to such scientific content. From observation, her conclusion is strong “to not fake it till you make it, but fake it till you become it” She also suggests the audience to raise their testosterone and reduce their cortisol by posing high-power poses before next stressful evaluative situation. Furthermore, she was not afraid to add some jokes in her speech which make her speech was not boring or too academic for listeners.
Hatailux Boontub 6329025 section2
DeleteI absolutely agree with you that by using illustrations and graphs, the audience could understand those scientific data easier. Also, the quote “to not fake it till you make it, but fake it till you become it” is a very strong conclusion that makes her speech becomes more captivating, and since she cracked some jokes during the talk, her speech was more interesting.
6061181 Uracha Wachirawuttikai (section 2)
DeleteI also agree with you that adding illustrations, like bar graphs, helps the audience to understand her explanation better. Also, I think her conclusion is very strong because she used the quote that is meaningful and relatable to everyone.
6329030 Uracha Wachirawuttikai (section 2)*
DeleteWattanawadee Ruangvanish 6329032 Section2
DeleteI totally agree with you that the way she give credits to the original one was very smooth and relevant to the speech. I also agree that she did personalize the speech very well by bringing up her accident story. This make the audience feel that she knows what she is talking about and understand how it feel.
Varit Lerdmaneepha 6329023 Section 2
DeleteI agree with you about the purpose of her speech, making the audience understand the main point which will gain the audience's attention. The diagrams make the speech reach the audiences more easily. Also, her strong conclusion makes the purpose of the speech very clear.
6329027 Anantaya L. from section2
Deletepersonally, I would say this is on point. She use a great way to deliver her speech like jokes but still have a clear main point in mind throughout the whole speech.
6329031 Pakawatwong Bunluesak
ReplyDeleteShe smoothly integrated her sources whilst she is giving her speech. Some examples in her speech would be when she was talking about 30 second soundless clip research where she credited her source Nalini Ambardy, a researcher from Tufts University, or she said dubbed as the Wonder Woman by the media.
She personalizes her speech by giving us a personal anecdote about a tragedy that occur to her when she was young. Then she linked her personal story to the informative speech she is giving. Illustration was another highlight of her speech. All the illustrations she uses was large, so it is easy to see, and it was shown at regular intervals to support or compliment the points she was saying. She also uses a small amount of text to highlight the key point she was trying to convey to the audience. Instead of standstill and boring graph, she uses a moving graph or animated graph making it more interesting for us to follow through with the result of the experiment making us more interested to understand the academic content that is being presented.
She state clearly the important thing that the majority of the audience are looking for is the real world application of what she has taught us. She also repeated the important points or an important statement three times making it easier for us to remember.
One point from the Lucas video that I can apply to this speech is the conclusion. She uses a quotation to end her speech such as “ small tweaks leads to big changes” making the speech more memorable.
A lot of good observations here. I particularly like you noting the Central Idea at the end. A nice, sharp, memorable statement at the end.
DeleteMd. Abdullah Al Mamun, ID: 6318028, Section: B
DeleteI can see someone with great observation skills here. I completely agree with all of your observations. And to be fair, I can learn something more from your observations as well. And absolutely, that last quotation was really an effective initiator for everyone of us as for long term memory section.
6329012 Nanthasak Kanchanathipkhachorn
ReplyDeleteProfessor Amy Cuddy effectively uses spoken reference to support her claims by mentioning the names, institutes, and their findings. She does this every time she brings up new supporting ideas or examples, such as Alex Torodov at Princeton. This gives the audience some sort of reassurance on the credibility of her speech. She personalized her speech by combining her personal anecdote and by using real life experiences as examples. Throughout the speech she uses illustrations and graphs to make it easier for the audience to understand, since she goes through a lot of information. This makes it easier for her audience to visualize what she is talking about and also keep them interested. She also smiled throughout her speech, and her postures and hand gestures are on point.
Good observations. Speaking out these references will be an important aspect of this next speech.
DeleteThidaporn Ratarsa 6329011 Section 1
DeleteI agree with you that Amy's usage of graphs and illustrations helps us as one of the audiences to be able to follow her along throughout the speech. Without the graphs, she could lose the interest of the audience.
6329002 Jirapat Chirachanchai
ReplyDeleteProf. Amy Cuddy used spoken references very effectively by citing many different sources and providing names of people and institutions when she wants to improve her point or claims as well as to help the audience understand more easily. She did well by providing spoken references that supported the ideas and facts she is giving and did not make it interrupt her speech.
She included many stories in her speech and the majority of them are about her experiences (at work, at school, in life, etc.) and the personalizes her speech and made it seemed to be more about her. However, she made the speech very relatable for the audience by giving relatable situations/ examples, for example, she mentioned job interviews as one of her examples, she made the audience feel empathy and thus feel more relatable to her story when she was talking about the tragedy of car accident and losing her core identity.
She used illustrations to effectively improve her speech and made her examples/ facts more easily to understand. She also shows her important sentences onto her slide to make her audience remember and focus more on them.
Tisthong Charoonmethee 6329009 Sec 1
DeleteI totally agree when you said she used many sources which makes the information in the speech more trustworthy, the information in the speech is very often focused on research papers or ideas, and she also presented detailed examples and outcomes of studies that were important to the subject she was addressing.
Nanthasak Kanchanathipkhachorn 6329012 sec 1
DeleteI agree with you when you said that her speech is very relatable for the audience as her examples are things that we can actually face. Her examples are also very detailed as some are from her own experiences and that makes it even more personalized.
Hatailux Boontub 6329025
ReplyDeleteWhen she made spoken references, she began with her main point. Then, she made examples, name the person and the institutions, gave details of the examples, and end up with the results or the conclusions. She personalized her speech by relating her real story of experiencing a car accident to her informative speech. She explained how it affected her IQ leading to the feeling of being in the wrong place and losing confidence, but she could overcome by pretending to be powerful, and that significantly changes her thoughts. What she wanted to deliver was to fake it till you become it. Moreover, she added the illustrations of different poses and related them to the changes in two hormones(cortisol and testosterone) by providing the infographic data. With this, the audience can understand data easily even though they are not specialized in science. An observation that I made is that while she was talking, her gesture was really helpful for the audience to get into the speech. Apart from including illustrations, she did the poses which could visualize the audience.
Arissara Kannasombat 6329028 sec2
DeleteI agree with you that her gestures throughout the speech were really helpful for the audience to easily understand the context and grab the audience's attention so that they can think along with the story. Moreover, I also agree that the use of infographics helps the audience to understand her speech although most of the context relates to science and statistics; not only the visual aids but also her easy-to-understand language which made all the contexts easier to understand.
Pin Ngenpisutsin ID: 6329014 (section 1)
ReplyDeleteIn the video, Amy Cuddy, the speaker, mentioned a variety of names of institutions and persons who are experts in particular fields such as Marianne Lafrance as the spoken references. This enhances the information in the speech to be more reliable; the information in the speech mostly comes from the research papers or theories which she also gave specific examples and results of experiments that related to the topic she was talking about. She gave an explanation to explain the experiments she mentioned as supporting. Even though this speech is more informative but it is also the personal one as well, she included her experience in the car accident as an example and relates back to her topic. She used her experience as an example when she felt powerless which makes the audience can follow what is really meant by powerless that Amy Cuddy wanted to mention. In her speech, she gradually introduced her sub-topic in order to build up the evidence for her main idea. This creates validity and makes the audience catches all important points and easy to follow her ideas. In addition, she used questions and phrases such as “do our bodies change our minds?” or “fake it till you make it” to attract the audiences’ attention along with the speaking. Personally, all of these questions and phrases also create the connection of audiences to her points because, at some part of her speaking, the information that was given is overwhelming for a person who does not understand or does not have a lot of knowledge about sciences; because of her questions and phrases, this helps the audiences to understand and can relate to her topic much easier and they also help the audience to come back into the trace where is speaking which they do not need any knowledge; they just need to think accordingly to the questions or phrases based on personal experiences.
Napat Pracharktam (6329007) section 1
DeleteIt is surprising how she can present a lot of information without confusing her main point to the audience. I agreed that she organized her subtopic very well, starting with general evidence (such as her observation in the classroom) and building on using more specific evidence like statistics from the experiments. Moreover, I did not realize the point that she used questions and phrases that are easy to understand and to remember for the public in order to ensure that all her audience regardless of their educational background understood her message.
6329019 Pipatra Tirapairojana (Section 2)
ReplyDeleteIn Amy Cuddy’s speech, she effectively uses spoken references to provide credibility towards her presentation. It is clearly seen that she provide citations for her references by mentioning researchers’ names and their whereabouts. She also provide statistical datas to support her speech. There were graphs, images, and clips displayed in order to help audiences visualize what she is trying to say. Most importantly, Amy personalized her speech by including her personal experiences as a part of her speech. She is trying to tell us that she is being truthful to what she is claiming as she quoted, “To not fake it till you make it”. One of my observation is that Amy provides audiences with some space to think about what she is saying. There were questions for audiences to follow and I believe that is what enhances the quality of speech she is presenting. Also, along with various visual aids, gestures, and facial expression she has put into delivering the speech, she allows the audiences to connect and relate to her messages.
6329019 Pipatra Tirapairojana (Section 1)***
DeletePin Ngenpisutsin 6329014 Section 1
DeleteI totally agree with this comment that illustrations are important because they help the audiences to visualize accordingly to Amy Cuddy's ideas. Moreover, as this comment mentioned about her car accident experience. She did use her personal experience in this informative speech to make the listeners can relate to the content much easier. All these make her speech to be attractive and approachable.
Nanthasak Kanchanathipkhachorn 6329012 Sec 1
DeleteI agree with her when she said that Prof. Amy uses spoken effectively as she always mentioned a source, and that could be an institute or a person, after her examples or ideas. This really helps woth the audience with the credibility of her words as the references provides a rigid support.
Arissara Kannasombat 6329028 sec2
ReplyDeleteAccording to the speech, Amy uses spoken references by naming and crediting many reliable sources; for example, she always mentioned multiple names of scientists and researchers from different institutions and universities followed by the information and the data those experts gave to support her speech and ideas. Amy also personalizes her speech by illustrating many examples and telling her past experiences relating to the topic which makes the speech easier to understand. For example, when she told the story about her car accident and her trauma. Moreover, providing various visual aids like pictures and infographics showing the result of her experiments also allows the audience to easily understand her story and points that she wants to communicate. Lastly, for my observation, her positive personality and body language where she always made some gestures and smiled throughout the whole speech and also was not afraid of making some jokes improve her speech to be more powerful and fascinated so it helps to make a connection between speaker and audience.
Some nice observations. So we can see that an informative/academic speech doesn't need to be boring.
DeletePribdao Charumattanont 6329017
DeleteArissara is so on point when she says that she uses about past experiences so the audience could see the bigger picture which related to the topic she was speaking about so they would believe her more. I also agree that the speaker has amazing positive energy making the speech very attractive overall.
Varit Lerdmaneepha 6329023 Section 2
ReplyDeleteDuring the speech, she uses spoken references by naming those people or the university as sources. The sources she provides give her a strong back up to what she says. She also relates her speech to her personal stories when giving out her points. This makes what she says feels more related and to her and the audience. Also, she provides visual aids by turning the data into pictures which makes the data she gives out more easy to understand and visualize what she is trying to say. I observed her body language and her voice tone. Her body language helps to bond and interact with the audience and the tone help to understand her emotions which makes the speech connected to the audience.
I agree that by saying the references will strengthen Amy's speech, and by giving the experience will make her more connected to the audience. In addition, body languages, and visual aids can make the audience more understandable about the information. I think that turning the data into images is a really useful technique because I have heard that people are likely to remember picture more than words, and, from my perspective, this can really help me in my speech
Delete(Palakorn Piyawnnasuth Section 1)(The replies above)
DeletePanachai Limninart 6329013 Section 1
DeleteI also agree that using data in terms of image is really useful. When she says her personal experience while giving out her points help her make her speech not boring. Her body language allows Amy to connect with the audience and her tone of voice helps her express her feelings in addition to her information. So Audience receive both information and her feeling about that information
Chinnawat Thotsaphonphaisan 6329004 section 1
DeleteI have no objection with Varit saying that Amy's body language and voice tone help her to bond an interaction with her audience and they also help her to convey her emotions to the audience. This speaker-audience interaction is a crucial factor that develop a successful informative speech.
6329017 Pribdao Charumattanont (section 1)
ReplyDeleteIn Amy Cuddy's speech, she credits herself by using references such as institutions, people, etc which provides almost like a "backup" for her presentation to be believable by the audience. There was around 6-7 sources that she provided making her speech very reliable. Not only this, but she uses visual aids for the audience to make it more interesting. She also connects with the audience emotionally as well because she had a tragic past and she uses her personal language to convey those emotions and tell people about her personal experience and how deep it was. On stage, she looks like shes being herself 100 percent of the time which makes her speech also sound more reliable due to her personality. Talking about visual aids, she uses statistics and graphs as well as percentages to show her parts of factual points. She seems very enthusiastic about her topic and her mood and tone was very real throughout her speech. This creates communicative emotions and personal connections with her and the audience making her a very good speaker to listen to. (her body language and tone of voice was my favorite aspects of her speech)
Atikan Thangwatcharapong section 2 (6329026)
DeleteI absolutely agree with what you wrote here that her references provide backup and made her speech reliable. In addition, her visual aids are interesting and easy to understand, for example, bar graph and pictures. Moreover, I agree that her accident story helps her connect with audience emotionally. There is not much classmate mention her confidence and mood and tone aspect yet, however, I also saw that in the video.
6329002 Jirapat Chirachanchai section 1
DeleteI agree with you because she mentions about visual aids. Having visual aids is very important towards giving a prompt and good speech. This is because the audience not only absorbs information with their ears but also with their eyes, and that is how you learn better as a human being and are able to connect through emotions with the speaker.She also mentions about Amy mentioning sources from professionals. This is very reliable and it will make the audience more engaged and respect her speech.
Tisthong Charoonmethee 6329009 Section 1
ReplyDeleteProfessor Amy Cuddy implements Spoken References by mentioning the researcher's name, followed by the research institute's name. This method of combining the identities of the references makes it easier for people to grasp where the origins of the content came from.
She adjusted her speech by showing a video clip of the presidents shaking and not shaking hands as an indicator on her visual aids. Even in her studies, she avoided presenting a myriad of pie charts, diagrams, and statistical results. However, she uses images to illustrate the steps of her tests and a few diagrams to demonstrate the results.
During her speech, I found that her facial expression shifted as the sound of the story changed, helping the audience to better appreciate her feelings. That's where I feel I'll be able to adapt it to my own speech.
Palakorn Piyawannasuth 6329018 (Section 1)
DeleteI am fully agree with this comment. In my opinion, the way Amy speaks the reference really helps the audience to get the origin of the information. Moreover, showing a video clip and picture can also help the audience to follow the speech better. I think this technique can truly help the audience becuase sometimes I may speak too fast, and the picture will connect that moment with the information that I make a mistake.
Wattanawadee Ruangvanish 6329032 Section2
DeleteI agree with this comment that her speech has become easier to understand even if she was talking about academic topics such as research or study. This is because her media was very easy to understand. When she was talking about the posture, she show the picture of the pose so the audience wouldn't have to imagine by themselves. Moreover, when she wants to compare the data, she made it very easy to understand in one-time look. This makes her speech related to audience more.
Varit Lerdmaneepha 6329023 Section2
DeleteI agree with his comment that she mentions the reference helps her to gain the audience's attention and make her speech more trustable. Also, she uses the images to make her data more easy and clear to understand rather than just raw numbers. This makes her speech simple and feels relate to the audience.
Pribdao Charumattanont 632901817
DeleteI agree with tistong because i also recognized that she uses a lot of reference to make her speech more trustworthy and factual. He also mentioned about her using visual aids during her presentation. This is good because it helps the audience to be able to see and relate to what she is talking about rather than if she didn't have any pictures to support it.
Omar ALshawwa 6318029 (section 2)
ReplyDeleteMs. Amy used many academic references and sources in her speech, and that helped her to make the audiences to believe in what she is saying. and also provided a strong evidence of the information she mentioned during her speech. it also my help the listener to relate the information with the institute name she mentioned so it will be easier to understand. Moreover, she used many academic content like bar graphs to show statistical information, but she was able to explain it and let the audiences to understand by using a simple language and other illustrations on her speech. Also, the audiences didn't feel bored or lost the attention while she is explaining the academic content. she was able to keep her audiences attention till the end. I think she tried to keep ours's attention by smiling all the time and her hand movements (gestures) was perfectly matching with what she is saying. At the middle of the speech she became emotional when she mentioned about her personal story when she had the accident and the struggles during her college, then her teacher told her (fake it till you make it). And later one when she became a teacher, she advised her student and she realize that you should fake it till you became it. and I guess one of her main messages in the speech that is we should fake it until we make it.
Sirada Sornchaitanasuk (6329024) Section2
DeleteI agree that Amy could perfectly keep the audiences for the whole speech, even if she had a bunch of academic content. And the technique that she used was to smile all the time and use hand movement while she was saying. Amy also added some personal emotional story to catch the attention and help the audience to get the feelings of those situations.
6329005 Yanon Tangmanpuwadol
DeleteI agree that throughout her speech, she always use hand gestures and her posture keep us feel interesting about what she is saying. She communicate well with the audience by showing emotions and smile.
Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, ID: 6318028, Section: 2
DeleteAs well, you have got a great observe skills. I do believe the part of personalizing the informative speech. I had an idea that, for an informative speech should be made of statistics, references, facts, algorithms and all tough tough brainstorming scenario. But, she made me realized that someone can make an informative speech, still make it more personalizing but at the same time credible and reliable.
Phornrawin Wongkarnjanapanich 6329016 Section 1
ReplyDeleteOther than the Spoken References Amy Cuddy used, citing the source of work she took from, she also provided statistics and experiments, which strengthened the credibility of her speech. Furthermore, she told a story of herself when she was 19, a story that personally connected to the topic, and how it has changed her life and her perspective on life. Not only has she presented her personal story, she incorporated simple illustrations on high-power and low-power poses. Illustrations are a very good way for grabbing the attention of audiences, and to also act as an aid for audiences to grasp the meaning of this topic. One more observation I made from this speech making is her powerful entrance to her topic. She started off with an engagement to the audiences, thus having an attention-grabbing effect. Then, she posed a question and gave real life examples in regards to her topic. By doing so, the audience could relate themselves more to the topic she’s presenting. In my opinion, a powerful introduction is really important because if the speech is boring right from the beginning, then not many people will pay attention to the main parts.
Napat Pracharktam (6329007) section 1
DeleteI agree that the illustrations she used are very simple and obvious. Also, she grabbed the audiences' attention well by using common example that can be seen in daily life and sometimes even her own personal experience. This connect Amy with her audience. Additionally, her tone of voice together with a strong eye-contact made her speech genuine and interesting.
Pipatra Tirapairojana (6329019) Section 1
DeleteI totally agree with your comments on how Amy Cuddy grabbed the audiences' attention by using illustrations and having a strong grabber at the beginning of her speech. It is true that a powerful introduction is important as it determines audiences' attentiveness towards the speech. Moreover, along with her examples of personal life experiences, audiences were able to connect and relate to her message. I believe this enhances her speech to be more meaningful and the audiences would be left contemplating about the message she tries to deliver.
6329030 Uracha Wachirawuttikai (section 2)
ReplyDeleteAmy uses spoken references by naming the researchers or institutions followed by providing the data the researchers gave. This supported her speech and made her speech more credible and strong. In addition, she uses numbers and graphs to help explain her experiment which makes her speech easier to understand. She also uses pictures and video along her speech to make her speech interesting and easy to follow along. Some of the pictures and videos are even funny which helps entertain the audiences. Furthermore, she personalizes her speech by providing examples relating to the topic and her past experience about her feeling of not belonging to the place. Lastly, she ends her speech by giving out a quote “Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it”, which I think it is very general and can be applied to anyone. An observation that I made about her speech is that she uses a lot of gestures and body language. For example, when she talks about high-power poses, she stretches her arms up. This makes her speech more interesting, grabs the audience’s attention, and helps the audiences to understand better.
Arissara Kannasombat 6329028 sec2
DeleteI agree with her that the way Amy included many pictures and funny videos in her presentation made her speech more interesting and really grabbed my attention so her speech did not sound too stressed or formal unless it was about science and academics. Also, her ending quote “ Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it”; although it sounded simple, that was impacted and touched all the audiences.
Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, ID: 6318028, Section:2
ReplyDeleteMs. Amy Cuddy made the speech informative and reliable by using the references. She used the names of scientist and the topics of research followed by the result made everyone believe about the total scenario. She used the credibility in a very nice manner. and one interesting aspect is that she mentioned her position inside the speech, not at the beginning that was a great credibility of herself as well. the way she use the relation of hormone to he gesture of human made the informative speech a bit more reliable.
Again, during the speech she used a few visual items like graphs, charts that was easy to follow. Besides, the funny video was engaging the audience at the beginning. The story of the student and the way she connect herself to the speech topics was incredible. The use of her non-verbal communication was great.
What I personally like of her is the proper use of non-verbal tools in the speech. I could feel and see, what she want me to see. And the overall point that she want us understand that ' Don't fake it to make it, but make it to become it" was really to the point.
So you can see how she follows up academic research information, with real stories about real people. This is a great learning to take from this.
Delete6329002 Jirapat Chirachanchai
DeleteI totally agree with you, the speech was very informative and she used a lot of different references. This made her speech very credible and reliable for the audience to relate to. I also like how you mentioned a very specific example from the speech about the relation of hormones can have an impact to human gesture. Apart from this, I also agree with you on how she uses visual aids to make her presentation more attractive.
Amy talked about how much our body language effect on our outcomes through speaking front of audience , she used reference's such as her story with her angel advisor to convincing her audience about The extent to which pretending to be powerful affects our ability to actually become powerful in addition to she ask from her audience try this experience just for two minute in close place before go to the audience, that will surly help the people arrive to what they want
ReplyDeleteShe also used an illustrative chart showing the relationship of increased testosterone to increased strength and energy in a person when he or she try to arrive idea with attractive manner .
Heba bashir / student ID 6318031/ Section 2
DeleteAmy talked about how much our body language effect on our outcomes through speaking front of audience , she used reference's such as her story with her angel advisor to convincing her audience about The extent to which pretending to be powerful affects our ability to actually become powerful in addition to she ask from her audience try this experience just for two minute in close place before go to the audience, that will surly help the people arrive to what they want
She also used an illustrative chart showing the relationship of increased testosterone to increased strength and energy in a person when he or she try to arrive idea with attractive manner .
Omar ALshawwa 6318029 section 2
DeleteI agree with you Abdullah, using the graphs, funny videos and pictures that kept our attention and made us more interesting in the speech. body language it is really a difficult topic to present, but because of her unique way she made the topic understandable for us.
Also, I think the main point in the speech the sentence she ended the speech with, you should fake it to became it. and her personal story made us more connected to her and to the speech. and that why it is one of the most viewed TEDX talk.
This journal blog is now closed. But please continue to respond to 2 classmates. Aj. M
ReplyDeleteChanisara K. (6329003) Section 1
ReplyDeleteBefore Amy Cuddy introduces the sources she is citing, she talks about the content and brings up some examples of it. The sources are all reliable and are casually mentioned, sometimes even speeding through them in order to not bore the audience. She uses a lot of hand gestures to help illustrate and emphasize on points she is delivering, making things easier to follow along. Even the experiment she mentions is a relatable example: job interviews. This is because she wants to maximize the number of people that will be able to make use of the information she gives in her speech and also keeping the listeners interested. Throughout the speech, her tone of voice is kept at the range where it is not too casual nor too formal. Although there are sometimes a few ‘ums’ between the words, she seems content in what she is talking about.
Sirada Sornchaitanasuk (6329024) Section 2
DeleteI absolutely agree that Any Cuddy used a lot of hand gestures and clear expression which help the audiences to follow along her speech. And also the point that she used the general and relatable examples like the job interview, help the listeners to understand and able to apply them in their real life situations.
Phornrawin Wongkarnjanapanich 6329016 Section 1
DeleteI agree with you that her use of different tones added some spice to the speech, not making audiences bored. Body movements such as hand gestures is also a good method for delivering, as mentioned in the Lucas Readings, it not only grabbed the attention of the speaker but also makes that understand what you are delivering. I also agree that her example of job interviews was very relatable, maximising the audience sample space as most of them are middle aged workers.
Panachai Limninart (6329013) Section 1
ReplyDeleteMs.Amy successfully made her speech reliable because she mentioned the researcher's name, followed by the research institute's name. She also relates her speech to her personal experience. Moreover, she also uses visual aid by using so many pictures to make her speech more interesting. Her speech also does not mainly include data and pie charts. Even though it is informative speech she can make it interesting by giving a question and real life examples. In my opinion, She can shift her tone or facial expression making the speech very attractive and can relate more to the audience making it the very strong point of her and make her speech accomplish successfully.
Akarapol Vichitvigrom (6329029) Section 2
DeleteRelating her speech to her own personal experience and how she implemented the topic she talked about connected the topic to us emotionally. The visual aids also kept the speech interesting even though it is an informative speech.
Wattanawadee Ruangvanish 6329032 section2
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, Professor Amy used the spoken reference by referring to the name of a person who said something that she wants to bring up. She then followed by the sentences or quotes. This allowed the audiences to know that the sentence was not original from her. She also personalized the speech by bringing up her own experience. She talked about her accident and how she felt powerless and that she understood how people feel. She suggested that people who feel powerless should fake and cheer themselves up so that they can do this by posing a powerful pose for a few minutes. She also mentioned that you should not only “Fake it til you make it” but you should “Fake it til you become it”. Moreover, she added jokes and provided examples that people who did not study in this field can understand easily. For example, when she talked about the postures of MBA students, I can totally imagine the picture of that student in a classroom. By combining this with all the connectives she used, I considered it as the best informative speech I’ve ever seen.
Sirada Sornchaitanasuk (6329024) Section 2
ReplyDeleteThroughout the speech, Amy Cuddy was able to catch all the audiences's attention and made them clearly understand what she want to tell. By giving a lot of examples, it really helped the listeners to visualize those topics. She mentioned a very clear references with their names and some basic backgrounds, which made her speech feel more reliable. Amy also put some of her personal experiences into the speech such as telling her own experiments and her real life situation. Moreover, she used the visual aid to help it easier to follow along the speech with plenty of pictures and short sentences. Amy also tried to avoid the complex graph or chart and keep it as simple as possible. Another trick is that she always asked questions, tried to interact with the audiences, and had some jokes to make it not boring.
And last but not least that every successful should have is a clear conclusion (central idea), she highlighted two quotes 'Fake it until you become it' and 'Tiny tweaks lead to big changes'. These two important points are the keys for this speech and she successfully made it clear and memorable.
DeleteHeba bashir / student ID 6318031/ Section 2
ReplyDeleteAmy talked about how much our body language effect on our outcomes through speaking front of audience , she used reference's such as her story with her angel advisor to convincing her audience about The extent to which pretending to be powerful affects our ability to actually become powerful in addition to she ask from her audience try this experience just for two minute in close place before go to the audience, that will surly help the people arrive to what they want
She also used an illustrative chart showing the relationship of increased testosterone to increased strength and energy in a person when he or she try to arrive idea with attractive manner
Thidaporn Ratarsa 6329011 Section 1
ReplyDeleteThroughout the speech, Amy uses spoken reference to support her claims by referring to names, and the names of the institution, and she would do this every time she brings new examples. This would give Amy credibility and the audience would trust her more. She also smiles throughout the speech and her posture is really good. Throughout the speech, she uses graphs and visual aids to help guide the audience through since she has a lot of information to go through. This way the audience would be more interested in her presentation and also be able to visualize what she is talking about.
Panachai Limninart 6329013 section 1
DeleteI agree that when she cites every source it increases the credibility of her speech. She uses her own experience to connect with the audience. Her movement, facial expression and tone of voice really make her speech attractive.
6329027 Anantaya L. from section2
DeleteI think it a great point that she mention a lot of names but still manage to add a personal touch to it. She also present us with some visual aid like acting out physically.
Ratchanon Nanagara 6329022 Section 2
DeleteI strongly agree that Amy’s usage of graphs and visual aids greatly help us as an audience follow along with her and understand what she is trying to say. Without the visual aids, the audience might not be able to follow along or might lost interest on the way.
Chinnawat Thotsaphonphaisan 6329004 section 1
DeleteI agree with Thidaporn saying that Amy always put a smile on her face along with showing good postures throughout her speech. She also provides easy-to-understand illustrations when it comes to the hard academic contents. All of these are proofs saying that she is a professional speaker.
6329005 Yanon Tangmanpuwadol
DeleteI totally agree that she uses the visual aids pretty well even though she talks about the statistic that is hard to explain. She has a good posture and talks interestingly that it is not boring though it is quite a long speech. Moreover, she always smile and that help the audience to communicate with her through her face expressions.
6329027 Anantaya L. from section2
ReplyDeleteFrom the ted video, it is quite inspiring to adapt the whole idea of fake it till you become it. Amy Cuddy has been mentioning a lot of references and in a manner where it is full of liveliness. She spoke about the references as some are the one she admires and some are her best friend’s work. It gives off the feeling about how she understands the whole message of each and every single one of her cited sources which also enhance her professional appearance. There is an emotional part during her example where it is easy to feel empathized with too. She also avoided being too deep into the topic and left people out of the fields, and tried to use physical illustration to enhance everyone’s understanding. The way she describes the action or posture we do can connect to how we feel is one of my favorite parts, because she reasoned it really well.
Ratchanon Nanagara 6329022 Section 2
DeleteI myself also find the concept of "fake it till you become it" inspiring as I believe that for someone to achieve something, they have to actually be it (even when they have to 'fake' being it). Furthermore, I agree how the different references contribute to the 'professionalism' of her speech.
Chinnawat Thotsaphonphaisan 6329004 section 1
ReplyDeleteAfter providing an example, she always refer the information to the source which she is citing from. She mentions name, the institution or the organization where the person is from and their career. She personalizes her speech with her style of speaking and her smile. She often provides illustrations such as bar chart for her audience to comprehend the point she is speaking with ease. Sometimes she will insert images related to the point she is speaking. For instance, when she talked about powerful and powerless postures, she inserted several images for each type of posture. After an observation for the speech making, Amy seems like an expert due to the atmosphere she has created from her style of speaking with eager. As a consequence, her academic contents seem to be more credible.
From Lucas readings, the section "choosing a topic" can be applied to Amy's speech. Since her speech is informative speech, the topic will be related to some academic contents. Everything on our Earth can be made into an academic content. Hence, there are lots of topic that you can choose for your speech. Sometimes choosing a topic is hard if there are too many good topics to choose from. With the tips for choosing a topic from Lucas readings, you can find yourself a potential topic for your speech.
Thidaporn Ratarsa 6329011 Section 1
DeleteI agree with you that by Amy mentions name the institution or the organization where the person is form and their career. This would give her credibility and the audience would trust her more. She also provide us with visual aids, which is very good for the audience considering she has a lot of information to go through.
6329005 Yanon Tangmanpuwadol
ReplyDeleteAccording to the speech she presented, Amy used many references by naming and crediting different sources. By doing so, she makes her speech very credible. The sources that she used are from different universities and the information she gained are from well known professionals that give more facts and life towards the speech. Not only does she use many references, she also has different gestures and her positive personality showed through despite her trauma. She also mentions about her past experiences, which is good because the audience can relate to what she has gone through and maybe they have too. Humor also plays an important role in this speech because despite her traumatic past, she still jokes about it to the audience making them feel very comfortable and making them feel like there is much more to life. My favourite part was when she told the story about her car accident. It was full of emotions and it made me feel like I was in the situation myself.