Equality for all Sexual Orientations and Gender Expressions Speech

After watching my video a few times I guess I'll start with the most obvious thing I noticed which was my physical appearance.. While I was under the impression that I had stopped standing on one foot and swaying from side to side in my speeches, I clearly retreated back to my old ways this time. Not only was I not standing on both feet for most of my speech, but when I was I was making some pretty ridiculous angles with my legs. I think my posture attributed a lot to the shakiness in my voice and the discomfort I felt in front of our classroom.
If I had to relate all of my speeches I think I would say this was my worst one, which I am rather disappointed about for a number of reasons
As noted above, my voice was not confident or clear. My volume fluctuated too much and in the wrong places (ie. no for emphasis, but because I was trying to catch my place in my notes again. In addition, I used filler words as transitioning sentences because I was so flustered. This happened for two reasons, in the beginning when I would use a filler word it was because I was trying to get back on track and had lost my place in my note cards, but towards the end I was rushing because I realized I was quickly running our of and exceeding the time limit.
This brings up another negative part of my speech, while I typically speed up when I'm nervous in this case I slowed down and mumbled. In addition to making my over all points less clear this increased my speech time by almost 2 minutes... an obvious negative consequence.
The last bad thing that happened was because I was flustered and lost while giving my speech, many of my main points were not made. I even skipped slides on my power point and full sections of my speech to accommodate for the time restraints.
While in the past I would attribute all of these negative aspects of my speech to not practicing enough, I honestly thought I had this time. Clearly I was wrong.
I promise I am not trying to be the most negative person in our class!!! Even if it seems that way, I am just truly disappointed with how this speech turned out because it is a topic I am so passionate about. I have given speeches to talks about having equality for all sexual orientations and gender expression to my high school teachers, peers, strangers using offensive language in the mall and here in the library on our campus, my family members, and even the RF police department. I shouldn't have been as nervous as I was and I guess my speech was simply another example of how practice is th most important part of giving a speech.
As for positives, I do think I had some concrete examples of logical reasons discrimination against different sexual orientations is harmful and wrong and I think I pulled from ethos, logos, and pathos well by using some well known sources like the FBI and Human Rights Campaign, powerful statistics that I related back to our own campus, and by establishing credibility by talking about my time researching the topic and my experience with it in the past and present.
To summarize, my speech was less than satisfactory in my opinion and that could have been fixed with more practice, but there were still come positives in the end.

Self Intro Speech Review

After viewing my speech a few times I have come to a couple conclusions...
The first and most obvious is that when I talk I need to SLOW DOWN. Even I had trouble understanding some of what I was saying. I think this could have been helped with both more practice and taking a deep breath before my speech.
The second thing I noticed was my posture. While I stood in one place during my speech I looked like a flamingo.... One leg was almost off the ground.
While watching myself speak, I noticed I made a good effort towards eye contact and hand gestures, but more practice and planning will help those things seem more natural in the future and to make sure I was not just looking at a few students in front of my, but the entire, "U" shaped room.
I think my speech was structured well. I used my simplest explanation first and saved my more complicated one for the end once I had introduced the audience to my topic thoroughly.
Over all I think my speech was okay. I am happy with the points I made and how I structured things, I just think a bit more practice before next time could help hammer down some of the speech skills that are important besides the content.
On a scale of 1-10 I would give my speech an 8.