18 Oct Please introduce yourself to your classmates and instructor. As a part of your introduction, please share with the class your career goals and the essential steps you are taking to achieve your goals.

Let’s get acquainted! Please introduce yourself to your classmates and instructor. As a part of your introduction, please share with the class your career goals and the essential steps you are taking to achieve your goals. Provide some detail about who you are, your background, your interests, and so forth. You may include things like work that you are doing outside of class, the city and state where you live, how far along you are in your degree program, and when you expect to graduate.

Please be sure to check your spelling and grammar in each of your posts that you make in our course; for example, always use uppercase I when referring to yourself and avoid “textspeak.” We want to use our best writing at all times in the discussions. Good writing leads to good speaking.

Feel free to introduce yourself “out loud” by using the Kaltura video creation software that you will find under My Media or the Canvas Record/Upload Media tool that is built into our discussion toolbar. This is a great opportunity to practice being on camera, which will be required for your upcoming speaking assignments.

DQ2 Managing and Overcoming Speech Anxiety

Nervousness about giving a speech is normal; even the most successful public speakers feel a bit of stage fright. Are you nervous at the thought of giving a speech? Share your thoughts about taking this speech course and in what ways you think this course will help you meet your personal, academic, and professional goals. What strategies can help you control your nervousness? In what ways can you use what our text calls “positive nervousness” to manage your speech anxiety? Review the Checklist for Speaking With Confidence in Chapter 1 and tell us how you plan to overcome any speech anxiety to achieve success.