This week, I'd like to share two true Facebook stories with you. Each of them illustrates a problem in communication. Facebook is a very large and growing venue that facilitates communication between people all over the world. There are, however, several communication issues that crop up and can make your Facebook experience less desirable. In fact, these are issues that can alienate your Facebook friends. Since so many people establish relationships through Facebook for both personal and business purposes, I feel these two issues are vital to discuss and understand. It's Word Wednesday and this week's word is "inadvisable." One of the latest changes Facebook had made was to create new Facebook groups which allow you to add any or...
How’d you all do on the first Speech Challenge? Did you all get a bit more comfortable speaking? Great. Please share your experiences and ask any questions you may have here. Let’s move on to the next step. Sometimes you aren’t as much afraid to get up and speak as you are uncomfortable because you don’t know what to say. So this week’s challenge is to pick a speech you like from American history and get comfortable with a small part of it. Read it over several times and envision yourself speaking as if it were YOU giving the speech. Then…stand up and give the speech! The idea this week isn’t to memorize it or to deliver the entire speech. ...
From the guys at What You Ought to Know, comes this fun video on tips for public speaking...
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Those of you who remember my weekly internet radio show on the Communication Comedy Network will remember my character Professor Wordsmith. She (I) did the Word of the Week segments. In 2011, I'm going to be bringing back some of the old characters I played on the show as YouTube videos. I thought I'd bring her segments here to Communication FUNdamentals for Word Wednesday. This week's word is something most people do associate with communication: speech! But as we'll see, speech is much more than a formal recitation of gun control or abortion rights. According to Merriam Webster, speech is: "1a : the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words b : exchange of spoken words : conversation 2a...
This month I’m going to challenge all you homeschoolers to teach an intimidating subject, if even for only four short, weekly lessons this month. Each of my Monday posts here on Communication FUNdamentals this month will give you an easy and fun way to have your student(s) give a short speech. This week I’ll start with a very easy one. Have your students stand up and share for a maximum of two minutes on the blessings of winter. What do they like about winter? What are things they get to do during the winter that they don’t get to do at other times of the year? What holidays are there during winter? The goal here this first week is just...
