Chamber Speakers Circle Toastmasters
Attendees: Aditi,
Chris, Joe, Lara, Lefteris, Randy Lee, Samya and Trey
Guests: JP,
Sergio
Theme of the day: Spring
Word of the day: configuration
Samya reminded everyone about the upcoming
district conference. She mentioned
there are funds available to apply to someone’s trip to the District
conference. Samya proposes having a special event with
multiple speakers or a raffle to determine who would go. District conference is in Santa Clara on May
16th. Trey and Aditi are interested in attending, Samya will send an email to follow up with missing club members. All the winners of the division contests
will be competing.
Aditi reminded everyone about the video
contest and wants to get lines from people after the contest.
Trey was the Toastmaster, Joe led Table
Topics, Lara was the General Evaluator, Sergio was the timer, and Randy Lee was
the Ah Counter
Table Topics: Joe led Table Topics, on the subject of work:
good days and bad days. Lara, Randy Lee,
Chris, Trey and Lefteris shared stories using the word of the day:
configuration.
Speaker: Samya
Speech: How
to Prepare and Present a Speech Communicating on Video Project #5 Instructing on the Internet
Part 1: Presentation recording
Chris introduced the objectives.
Samya started her equipment and after
getting set up, she went over how to select a project, outlining the objectives
and sharing images of the pages from the book.
Samya verbally explained the content such as the executive summary,
detailed description and advised on how she customized her presentation based
on the project criteria.
1.
Executive
Summary
2.
Project
description
3.
Objectives
– what she will be evaluated on
After points 1, 2 and 3, develop a strategy:
·
Where –
selecting a room
·
Selecting
a time – offering online training available anytime
·
Choosing
the equipment, rehearsing the speech
·
Don’t
read the slides, focus on main points
·
Select
the best tool for the presentation
o
Example:
preparing a PowerPoint, recording the audio and slide transitions.
Samya ended her presentation by encouraging
others to develop and implement their own strategies for communicating with
video.
Speaker: Aditi
Speech: To know
or not to know, that is the question, Project #9 Persuade with Power
Lefteris introduced the objectives.
Aditi spoke about the availability of
information, and how much data can be recorded. She spoke about how information is collected and then pondered where
the collected information goes. Aditi
declared that we should all know what happens to information on ourselves and
saying there should be more transparency, since someone is making these
decisions in secret.
She spoke about Julian Asange and Edward
Snowden as well as Sony’s information security breech. Aditi thinks the public should decide what
information should be public and what should be private.
Political information should be shared in
order to hold governments responsible.
Aditi gave an example of an actress
disputing a salary discrepancy with Sony based on information shared from the
Sony information leak. Wikileaks had released information about
brutality, letting everyone know what water-boarding really was and that this
was happening in prisons run by the United States.
Instead of condemning the people who reveal
information, we should educate ourselves on what we should know and what should
be kept private and we should have the right to dictate where our information
goes.
Aditi encourages everyone to think about it
and get involved in the politics.
Lara called on her team of evaluators.
Evaluator #1: Chris
on Samya’s speech: How to Prepare and Present a Speech
Chris
thought Samya’s voice was consistent and gestures were good. He said
she was making eye contact with her audience, but not with the camera.
Chris
thought Samya was informed and connected well with her physical audience. He recommended being more aware of camera presence
Evaluator #2: Lefteris on Aditi’s speech To
know or not to know, that is the question
Lefteris
said Aditi has a natural stage presence that always comes across.
He said she met her objectives when she encouraged everyone to be more politically
active about data privacy issues.
Lefteris said Aditi made logical arguments, had an easy to follow structure,
with short and effective sentences.
He said
Aditi should share where she works to improve credibility. Lefteris said her examples (show business
versus human rights) should be aligned with her calls to action.
There was no
Table Topics contest
The meeting
ended late at 7:20
Roles for Meeting 4/27/15:
Toastmaster:
Aditi Theme:
General Evaluator: Trey
Speaker 1: Joe
Evaluator 1: Lara
Speaker 2: Samya
Evaluator #2: OPEN
Table
Topics: Randy Lee
Grammarian: Chris
Word
of the day: _______
Timer: OPEN
Ah Counter: OPEN
Vote
Counter: OPEN
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