For this weeks weekly discussion the topic was blogging. I found an article on a website called northeast. The title of the article is Like it or Not: Blogging is Public Speaking and it was written by Mark Hayward. This site is particularly for people to post articles about blogging. People submit their articles and just one is chosen to be the article of the week. The article I read was this weeks top pick. The article basically talks about how the art of public speaking is compatible to blogging on the Internet. Both skills require you to make immediate connection with the audience. In both you choose how to present yourself which lets the people reading it view your tone, image, and brand. Speaking and blogging make a person put their selves out there in large masses. Public speaking and blogging are both acquired skills. They also require a person to be able to effectively communicate a message they are trying to make. The other part of the article talks about how a person can improve their blogging by doing public speaking. To take blogging to the next level, a person can improve their skill by talking in front of a group of people. When a person conquers their fear of public speaking they can improve their blogging. There is an event people can partake in called Toast Masters' Meetings. It is where people gather to work on their presentations and talents together. This event helps people speak in public better then that person can blog better. Mark Hayward gives some tips to help people start on their way to blogging. First start with a title and go from there. Use visuals to enhance the presentation. Get someone to provide constructive criticism. Never apologize. Make points to support your main topic. Provide information of value and seek input from the audience. He ends the article by stating that there will always be negative people, and to just focus on the positive every time all the time.
This article does relate to teaching and learning. Blogging is a technique that needs learning involved to understand how to do it correctly. A person has to be taught how to make their blogging better with different strategies, one being public speaking. We as a class are using blogging as part of our required assignments. I did not know what blogging really was and I am not to sure if I am doing it correctly yet. I have taken the public speaking class at our school and hopefully by already doing that it will help me express my thoughts my coherently. Blogging could be used in classrooms starting in high grades, helping kids become familiar with the Internet and to help kids express themselves in a different way rather than verbally.
I think this article gives many great tips and feedback about the skill of blogging. There were many tips to help me with my blogging. I think this article would be an advantage to anyone who is a beginner in this skill. I think speaking in front of people is a very hard aspect to overcome, but once you have done it it comes to you like another language. Just like with blogging, once you are familiar with it, it is a piece of cake.
I also think that further investigations about relating public speaking as a helper to blogging would be great. Maybe some statistics of people that have had experience speaking in front of audiences and people who have not. Comparing those statistics to the workmanship of their blogging.
http://northxeast.com/blogging/like-it-or-not-blogging-is-public-speaking/#more-197
3 comments:
I agree with you that blogging is a skill that has to be learned.
I like that you compared blogging to public speaking, I had never though of that. I was always comparing blogging to writing.
I think that it is an excellent idea to have students blog and learn how to express themselves in more ways than just verbally.
Hi Lori,
I like how you compared blogging to public speaking. But, I have a little different view on how they are related. I am very shy, and I think that blogging can improve my public speaking more that public speaking can improve my blogging. I feel more confident by writing or blogging than I would speaking to a large group of people. I feel that the more confident I am in my writing the more confident I can become in my public speaking. So I feel that it can go both ways. If you are great at public speaking but not so great at writing or if you are great at writing but not so great at public speaking then by doing you can learn more about the one you are more afraid of by doing the one you are more confident in. All in all I think you did a great job comparing the two.
Have a great weekend,
Eleanor
I never connected public speaking and blogging but after reading your article, it seems so obvious. I too have taken a public speaking course in college and your article said it perfectly with all the tips they give for being a successful at both. I think because it is closely related to speaking it may help students if before they give a speech or presentation if they blog about it for a week. This way the student knows tons about their topic and feels comfortable about it before speaking. In addition, a teacher and classmates could ask questions on the blog so the presenter could be prepared during the speech to answer those questions. I would also like to see statistics about how closely public speaking and blogging are related.
Carolyn Sullivan
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