Intial Skills Assessmet

For this assignment, you will begin by creating a preparation worksheet assessing your initial public speaking skills.  Please click the following link to complete the preparation worksheet.  After completing the preparation worksheet, you will create a two- to three-minute video blog in YouSeeU assessing the current state of your oral communication skills. This video blog will only be available for the instructor to view.

In your video blog, you will address the following things:

• Your current strengths in oral communication.
• The areas you believe you can improve upon.
• At least three goals that you want to achieve by the end of the course.

When recording your video, please utilize both the verbal component of speaking and presenting, as reviewed in the course text on pages 257-266 of Chapter 12 and the non-verbal component of speaking and presenting, as reviewed in the course text on pages 266-270 of Chapter 12.

Please submit your preparation worksheet as an attachment to your video blog in YouSeeU. Both the completed preparation worksheet and the video blog will be evaluated as part of the grade for this assignment.

YouSeeU Help:

If you need help on how to create and record on YouSeeU, please access the step by step tutorial here. For advice and information on the Do’s and Don’ts of webcam presentations, please click here.