Final Reflection
Overall the past 9 weeks has been a new learning curve for
me. I have learnt and participated within activities that I never would have attempted
if I wasn’t enrolled within this course. Speaking has always terrified me, whether
it is speaking into a camera or in front of a big or small audience. However after
working my way through the assigned activities, I believe that I have slowly overcome
this fear. This can be seen through the activities that were completed within
weeks 1, 3, 4, 7 and 9. During these weeks I was asked to either read or write a
speech and then record myself speaking it. At the beginning of these weeks I wasn’t
confident with my voice. In my reflections of these tasks I wrote that I spoke
way too fast and due to this my voice wasn’t clear and I stumbled and skipped
certain words. However when competing each new activity, I focused on these weakness
and slowly became more confident with speaking. If it wasn’t for the repetition
with these tasks I don’t think I would be as confident with my speaking.
At this stage of the course I feel that I have a better
understand towards speaking and script writing. Before undertaking the activities
within this course I would have never completed a fully written script. This could
have been due to the fact that I wouldn’t have had the first clue on how to
write a proper script. However after learning about the different types of
speeches and what they entail, whether they are prepared speeches that inform
an audience or if they are on the spot speeches that reflect or state a topic,
each of these speeches require a different type of scripting. While I definitely
believe my script writing has improved greatly due to the activities within
this course, I still believe and know that I have a long way to go before
mastering and perfecting my script writing abilities.
Another aspect of this course that I have found most useful was
the idea that we display our work within the form of a blog. By breaking down
the activities over a 9 week course, I found the activities not so daunting and
more manageable. If I were to have seen this same task to be submitted within a
different format (for example showing these activities within a word document,
etc) I believe it would have felt more overwhelming. Another useful idea about
blogging my work was that I got to see my progression over the 9 weeks. I was able
to see my skills with speaking and scripting grow and develop throughout my
blog, as it was all together in the order I competed it. My final reason as to
why I found blogging my journey useful was that it helped me to develop and improve
my blogging skills. This can be seen as I have learnt a range of different ways
to upload videos, links and pictures within my blog that I didn’t know how to
do before. For example I have slowly started to develop my skills within Sound
cloud and Slide share, two useful and available programs I have never used or
thought I could use before this course.
Overall after completing each of the different activities
over the last 9 weeks, I feel more confident and have a much greater understanding
of the requirements for Assessment Task 2. When I first read what I needed to
do for Assessment Task 2, I had so much doubt within myself and was convinced
that I wasn’t going to be able to complete the task as I had little to know
idea what I had to do. However has I progressed throughout the final stages of
my blog, I have gained a better and much clearer understanding of what is expected
for the final assessment task. It was throughout the weeks 8 and 9 that I was
able to understand the tasks that would later need to be completed. By starting
to plan and discuss the task, most of my unanswered questions were addressed. While
I do have a couple of questions and inquires remaining, I do have a starting point
to work from and unlimited help from not only the course coordinator about also
the help from my peers within the course forum.
Therefore overall with regards to the activities completed
within my blog, I feel that I have gained and developed a range of new skills
and greatly improved my understanding towards speaking and script writing (which
I never would have been able to do if it wasn’t for the activities within this
course).
