Informative Speech: How To Shoot A Basketball

Last week in my communications class, I gave an informative speech on How to Shoot a Basketball. During my speech, my teaching Dr.Coleman had everyone in the class write two positives and two improvements on how I presented my speech. I received about 17 evaluations from my peers so I got a lot of feedback. Some of the positive feedback I got were good eye contact, seemed confident and that I was loud and clear. While the negative feedbacks said; I need to slow down, project my voice better, and I need to move more. Although these are some of the feedback I got I want to focus on the top two positives and improvements. Lets begin with the good news first which are the positive comments. The top two positive feedback I got were encouraging to hear. The number one positive feedback were from nine students that said I had used a good demonstration to help them better understand how to shoot a basketball. The second highest positive feedback I got was by six students who said my information was good, very clear, and transitions and points were easy to follow. I will keep these in mind for my persuasive speech knowing that my audience likes demonstrations and well organized speech.
The biggest improvement I need to make according to eight students is that I need to have better eye contact and scan the room. The second highest complaint was that I lost track or seemed lost during my speech. When I see these improvements that I have to make I can tell you that I won’t make the same mistake in my persuasive speech. I am confident I won’t hear these improvements because for my persuasive speech I will better prepare myself and practice enough times to where I don't get lost or have to look down so much. Also, I will right “scan audience" on my note card just in case I begin to look down for no