Monthly Archives: June 2009

Theme: Patriotic; Role: Grammarian

Public Speaking Blogs

http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/public-speaking-blogs/
http://www.greatpublicspeaking.blogspot.com/
http://blog.ericfeng.com/
http://www.publicspeakingforgeeks.com/
http://coachlisab.blogspot.com/
http://fripp.blogs.com/

In|Decent Iceland

My most recent trip to Iceland was fraught with food poisoning, over-priced cocktails and salads, a trip to the hospital, and a fraud charge on my Visa. (It was also ruggedly beautiful.) A perfect personal story!
Objectives:

To learn the elements of a good story
To create and tell an original story based on a personal experience

Assignment
For this [...]

Theme: Vision; Role: Grammarian

Today’s meeting was excellent. Grammarian is one of my favourite roles, although it has never occurred to me (until today) to match my word of the day with the weekly theme of the meeting. However, my word “Prophet” lost itself in the world of the homonym and it’s usage during the meeting was more appropriate [...]

A Modern Day Fairy Tale

Snow White 2009: A Modern Day Fairy Tale. Today I’ll be presenting my first speech from the Advanced Communication Series – the retelling of a fairy tale. I find fairy tales to be entertaining but generally offensive to my mildly feminist sensibilities. Is there ever a case where the leading lady doesn’t need to be [...]