“Natural delivery is more like a conversation between friends or coworkers than a formal, one-way lecture.” – Garr Reynolds
You’ve learned how to craft a strong message and to develop a slideshow to support your presentation’s content. Next, it’s time to practice your ability to deliver a message in an authentic, natural, and engaging fashion. For your Module 7 – Assignment: Delivery Practice, you will submit a video presentation of yourself completing a delivery exercise face-to-face with an audience member of your choice.
Please proceed to the “Instructions” section for detailed instructions.
Step One – Identifying Your Audience: To practice your delivery, first identify one live audience member. You have two options for this project. First, you could practice your delivery with an audience member in the very same room with you. This person can be a family member, friend, neighbor, or significant other. If you are selecting this option, be sure to capture both yourself and your audience member in your video presentation.
Your second option is to practice your delivery with a classmate using an asynchronous video presentation tool such as FaceTime, Skype, or Google Hangouts. Since your classmates also have to complete this assignment, you could find a partner with your Group Project assignment or by submitting an inquiry on the Community Discussion Forum. To record this session for submission, you could use a free screen-recording tool such as the QuickTime® Player or a free trial of a product like Camtasia®.
Step Two – Delivery Warm-Up: Once you’ve ensured that both you and your chosen audience member are being recorded for your video presentation submission, briefly introduce yourself and your partner.
After your introductions, have your partner select an object and show it on camera. To make your warm-up as impromptu and as fun as possible, ask your partner not to share the object with you beforehand! Once the object appears onscreen, introduce yourself again by making up a fictional story about your life. Somehow incorporate that object into your story.
For example, your partner might show a keyring filled with keys on camera. You might say, “Hello again, everyone. I actually lead a double life… I am a secret agent, and these keys are actually keys to my 19 different homes around the country. My favorite place to live is Ireland where I am posing as a yoga teacher. I also have an apartment in Spain where I have a chicken farm on my roof.” Your goal is to be as silly and creative as possible to warm up on camera.
Step Three – Delivery Exercises: After your warm-up, complete 2 of the 3 delivery exercises below with your partner. Be sure to announce the title of the Delivery Exercise you will be completing before practicing the exercise.
- “Desert Island” – Begin this exercise by asking your partner to list three random items one might find in a house. After your partner lists these three items, your job is to read the scenario: You’ve been exiled to a deserted island for one year. In addition to food and water, you are allowed to bring three items with you to the island. List the three items named by your partner, and explain why these items are so critical to your survival on the desert island.
- “One Sentence At A Time” – With your partner, make up a story one sentence at a time. Begin with “Once upon a time…” and have the first teammate finish the sentence. After the first sentence, the second teammate will make up the second sentence. Alternate back and forth for 60-90 seconds until the two of you create an impromptu, fictional story.
- “Who Am I?” – Ask your partner to write down the name of a famous person – living or dead. Have your partner show the camera the name of this person. You are allowed to ask your partner 20 questions to try to guess the name of the famous person. Only yes or no questions can be asked! For example, you could ask, “Am I a man?” or “Am I alive?” If you don’t guess the person in 20 questions, have the partner reveal the answer.
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