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by Toecutter » Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:17 pm
I'm not afraid of public speaking, so long as I can take however long I want, and there doesn't have to be a structure. My mind naturally rambles, but it does it in such a way, that if I talk about a subject I know about just off the fly, it comes out about as well as a prepared public speech.
It's just when I'm forced to organize everything into a few minutes (when there's usually too many important topics to cover in that short of a time), and I have to approach it in a specific way, that I can't keep things straight in my head.
I remember for some of my best presentations in high school, I did the best ones with some general ideas of what I wanted, and just went for it when it was most convenient. For example, I gave this presentation on the Vikings for a King Arthur segment of my English Litterature class (the Vikings were the only interesting people or subject that occured during the time of King Arthur-around 500-800 A.D.).
For the speech, I explained the Viking strategy for warfare. I made a few crappy shields out of paper plates, got about five volunteers from the class, and made them perform shield formations. Then, just for added amusement, I made them pillage and loot the class, in the typical Berserker fashion. It was quite effective.
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