My Speech Outline (With citations)

Preparation Outline

PREPARATION OUTLINE

NAME: _____William Schmidt_______________________ SECTION: _____017_     _____

TITLE OF SPEECH: _A Painting Is Worth a Thousand Words….. What About A Picture or Video? ____

 Be sure to label learning styles throughout.

Introduction

  I.        Attention Catcher: I love cameras but I hate myself for it. I have been to so many places and seen so many sights but all I think about while I am there is getting a picture. Do not take this the wrong cameras are amazing but they are sometimes too much.

 II.       Listener Relevance Link: Now I have plenty of problems with cameras, and I did not even know until I was enlightened to how cameras impaired my mind.

III.       Speaker Credibility: I have had a photography class before and I did pretty well, but after taking the class I realized what the camera does to us as humans.

IV.       Thesis Statement: I cannot live without cameras in my life and I doubt you can, but this is a cautionary tale.

 V.       Preview: Let me explain how cameras have changed the way we think, the way we learn, and why it scares me.

 

Body

  I.        First Main Point: How pictures change the way we think

            Listener Relevance Link: I watch the news quite a bit, and I am sure most of you do too.

            A.  Sub point: Let us take a look at how cameras have changed history

                  1.  Sub-Sub point: Anyone remember Vietnam, or at least learning about it. If so most of you know that we were doing pretty well in the war, but the Tet offensive changed all that. Pictures and videos got out showing the public the horrors of war. Within months of the public seeing those images the war was ended.

                  2.  Sub-Sub point: A little more modern example is Facebook. Most of us have one. Well how many of us have those friends on Facebook where their profile pictures are cool but in person the person is a gross… a few.

            B.  Sub point: What am I trying to get at?

                  1.  Sub-Sub point: For some reason humans can read about all the horrible atrocities in the world and maybe promise to throw a few dollars at them; when we see videos and pictures of the events we freak out and start entire movements…do you follow me?

                  2.  Sub-Sub point: Maybe it is because pictures bring to us what words cannot, or maybe we just became a society who is all about what we see. Seeing is believing

Transition: If cameras can do that to how we think, can they change how we learn…yes!

II.        Second Main Point: How cameras change how we learn

            Listener Relevance Link: I am going to take a wild guess and say most of you are visual learners (you and the rest of this generation)

            A.  Sub point: Where is my proof?

1.       Sub-Sub point: Any one in here not enjoy math. Thought so, and do you want to know why? The difference between math and every other subject is that math cannot really have pictures applied to it (except if we draw them out…which we are encouraged to do!)

2.       Sub-Sub point: Any athletes in here? How many of you would be lost if your coach wrote a critique of your performance instead of going through a video of it with you….yeah I know, crazy.

            B.  Sub point: How can I say that cameras are responsible?

                  1.  Sub-Sub point: Well look at our generation. We have videos everywhere, there would not be if they were not extremely effective at getting a point across.

                  2.  Sub-Sub point: This is also the first time in history where we can upload pictures or videos from our camera and instantaneously have it on the internet.

Transition: That sounds cool and awesome why is it worry some?

III.       Third Main Point: Why the first two points scare me.

            Listener Relevance Link: How many of you have seen the Grand Canyon. Do the pictures even come close to how it is in person?

            A.  Sub point: Cameras are giving us so much and taking away just as much too.

                  1.  Sub-Sub point: Cameras have made us think and learn differently, they make us faster.

 

2.       Sub-Sub point: But we almost rely on pictures to help us think we can no longer make the jump from a picture book to a novel (figuratively speaking of course)

            B.  Sub point: Arming ourselves with pictures (futher explain first sub point)

                  1.  Sub-Sub point: We use pictures to help us learn and think more and more. Agreed?

                  2.  Sub-Sub point: What happens when we only use pictures to learn and think, or can we even go that far?

Transition: To sum up.

Conclusion

  I.        Restatement of Thesis: I cannot live without cameras, is that a bad thing?

 II.       Summary of Main Points: Cameras change the way we think and learn, but it may not be for the best.

III.       Clincher: Now this is just my personal views…. but how many of you wanted to see pictures as proof Osama was dead, or said “dude the party was crazy just look at the pictures on facebook.”

 

 ISToulouseHumsweb. "Vietnam - Camera at War." YouTube. YouTube, 16 Feb. 2008. Web. 27 Sept. 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt1izoMRu6k.

 

"Scientifically Based Research on Graphic Organizers and Visual Learning." Scientifically-based Research on Graphic Organizers and Visual Learning. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2012. http://www.inspiration.com/Resources/Research.

 

 

"Are Smartphones Ruining Photography?" LockerGnome. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2012/09/22/are-smartphones-ruining-photography/.



 

 

I Cannot Imagine My Life Without…..(Overview Of Speech)

Now I did not really understand the assignment so originally I wanted to do modern medicine as my technology. My outline would be something along the lines of:

How Modern Medicine Revolutionized

1)      How we live

2)      How we act

3)      How understand our physiology

4)      How we learn

 

However, after reading the blog I don’t think I can do that so I also came up with this option:

How Video/Picture Cameras Revolutionized

1)      How we think

a)      “Seeing is believing”

2)      How we learn

a)      “Visual learners”

3)      How we act

a)      We need to record everything

My Digital Life: Final Draft

Facebook is supposed to reflect who we are, but is it really “who we are”? Facebook was created so you can keep your friends updated on your life. It was supposed to attract people like you who had the same to meet and keep up on your interests. We see that in the beginning of Facebook it was just that but it was evolving. People would share and post with close friends and interact more or less how they did in normal life; then the streamline information effect we read about in the “Is Google Making us Stupid” took effect. Instead of every bit of our lives being shared, we began only showing the parts of us we wanted to highlight. We highlighted our “party animal” side with endless photos of us at parties, or our “political guru” side with endless statuses about how we knew that our candidate could magically fix everything. We were no longer posting about the “boring” stuff. People were less concerned about using Facebook as a means to meet people and more as a web site to boast and show others how cool or popular they are. We no longer cared about connecting with people we actually knew but rather with how many people we were friends with. Facebook was destroying our social skills as well.( http://www.avoidfacebook.com/2011/04/28/facebook-effect-on-society/) We could argue with someone over comments on a status and then see this person in class and not say a word; if someone really pissed you off all you had to do was block them from your profile and you would never hear from them again.( http://www.thehalsreport.com/2011/01/the-social-impact-of-facebook-in-2011/) The way we would handle situations on Facebook could not be transferred over into the real world, Facebook was like a social armor that we could do or say anything in but when we took it off and were in public we would just shut down.

My Facebook history is an interesting one. I looked all the way back in my Facebook history and I found a few interesting things. When I first started “facebooking” (apparently because a girlfriend made me) I found most of my statuses were about her or about how much I liked her. We would have endless conversations with absolutely no substance on each other’s walls. I would “like” things on Facebook that I knew she would enjoy, and I would play her in games and pick out virtual buttons that I thought she would like. Looking back I’m extremely embarrassed with it but, that is what Facebook was to me, it was a way to interact with my girlfriend and occasionally my friends. If you were to see this you would see that Facebook’s only purpose was to show others my affection for my (now ex) girlfriend. You would not see any other side of me, only the side I wanted people to see. If you were to ask me about anything I had posted back then I would get all embarrassed because that was the Facebook me, not the real me.

 Facebook started to take on a new meaning for me. I began posting everything and sharing everything. If I got sunburn one day you can bet I posed one hundred statuses recording the whole experience of that one sunburn. The stupid me, the intelligent me, and just about every other me there was put on display for every one of my friends to see. There was no part of my life that I would not post about. I “liked” just about everything that even remotely appealed to me, and I had statuses all the time. I was also posting on other people’s walls more than ever before; I was just about as social on Facebook as I was in real life. Now judging off Facebook you would guess that I was super social and knew everyone, but again that was not the case. It was the Facebook me, the real me was actually pretty shy, but it made me look cooler. Facebook at this point was just a means for me to look cool and attract new friends.

 

 The last phase of my social transformation was my bare minimum/stream line/”cool me” stage. I would rarely post statuses and I never liked anything. I only posted the important things and I would “unlike” groups and pages that were no longer cool to me. I would post pictures of me playing rugby, of me partying, or of other things that were cool and were what I thought would get me the most likes. My statuses were always funny and would get a ton of “HAHA” comments, or they were really deep or smart and would start big long conversations in the commenting section. Now I find that I’m still using Facebook like I was in the recent past but only more stream line and more open. I only post interesting things or things I think are funny and my photos are starting to include family. So maybe I’m starting to grow into using Facebook how it was originally meant to be used.

The Facebook situation is an interesting one. You see that our use of it obviously evolves as we grow but is Facebook really portraying who we are? I think you can look at your own use of Facebook and see that it is not. We post only what we think is cool and not anything else. We do not want anyone else to see our not so cool sides so we don’t show them and when we get into public we become awkward and insecure because we don’t have our Facebook armor to protect us.( http://news.oneindia.in/2011/08/09/tech-negative-positive-effects-of-facebook-part-1.html)  We have to like everything and Facebook ends up consuming our lives leaving little time for real friends and real fun. Because of that we are growing into a reclusive culture where the online version of us is nothing like the real us and even I am a part of this problem which is kind of a scary thought. I have not actually examined my Facebook life and my real life until now, and I certainly did not expect that Facebook was more or less a prison. I say prison because we only post the cool us so in public we feel trapped to only act like the person our Facebook reflects

My Digital Life: Extremely Rough Draft

Facebook is supposed to reflect who we are, but is it really “who we are”? Facebook was created so you can keep your friends updated on your life. It was supposed to attract people like you who had the same to meet and keep up on your interests. We see that in the beginning of Facebook it was just that but it was evolving. People would share and post with close friends and interact more or less how they did in normal life; then the streamline information effect we read about in the “Is Google Making us Stupid” took effect. Instead of every bit of our lives being shared, we began only showing the parts of us we wanted to highlight. We highlighted our “party animal” side with endless photos of us at parties, or our “political guru” side with endless statuses about how we knew that our candidate could magically fix everything. We were no longer posting about the “boring” stuff. People were less concerned about using Facebook as a means to meet people and more as a web site to boast and show others how cool or popular they are. We no longer cared about connecting with people we actually knew but rather with how many people we were friends with. Facebook was destroying our social skills as well. We could argue with someone over comments on a status and then see this person in class and not say a word; if someone really pissed you off all you had to do was block them from your profile and you would never hear from them again. The way we would handle situations on Facebook could not be transferred over into the real world, Facebook was like a social armor that we could do or say anything in but when we took it off and were in public we would just shut down.

 

My Facebook history is an interesting one. I looked all the way back in my Facebook history and I found a few interesting things. When I first started “facebooking” (apparently because a girlfriend made me) I found most of my statuses were about her or about how much I liked her. We would have endless conversations with absolutely no substance on each other’s walls. I would “like” things on Facebook that I knew she would enjoy, and I would play her in games and pick out virtual buttons that I thought she would like. Looking back I’m extremely embarrassed with it but, that is what Facebook was to me, it was a way to interact with my girlfriend and occasionally my friends. Facebook started to take on a new meaning for me. I began posting everything and sharing everything. If I got sunburn one day you can bet I posed one hundred statuses recording the whole experience of that one sunburn. The stupid me, the intelligent me, and just about every other me there was put on display for every one of my friends to see. There was no part of my life that I would not post about. I “liked” just about everything that even remotely appealed to me, and I had statuses all the time. I was also posting on other people’s walls more than ever before; I was just about as social on Facebook as I was in real life. The last phase of my social transformation was my bare minimum/stream line/”cool me” stage. I would rarely post statuses and I never liked anything. I only posted the important things and I would “unlike” groups and pages that were no longer cool to me. I would post pictures of me playing rugby, of me partying, or of other things that were cool and were what I thought would get me the most likes. My statuses were always funny and would get a ton of “HAHA” comments, or they were really deep or smart and would start big long conversations in the commenting section. Now I find that I’m still using Facebook like I was in the recent past but only more stream line and more open. I only post interesting things or things I think are funny and my photos are starting to include family. So maybe I’m starting to grow into using Facebook how it was originally meant to be used.

 

The Facebook situation is an interesting one. You see that our use of it obviously evolves as we grow but is Facebook really portraying who we are? I think you can look at your own use of Facebook and see that it is not. We post only what we think is cool and not anything else. We do not want anyone else to see our not so cool sides so we don’t show them and when we get into public we become awkward and insecure because we don’t have our Facebook armor to protect us.  We have to like everything and Facebook ends up consuming our lives leaving little time for real friends and real fun. Because of that we are growing into a reclusive culture where the online version of us is nothing like the real us and even I am a part of this problem which is kind of a scary thought. I have not actually examined my Facebook life and my real life until now, and I certainly did not expect that Facebook was more or less a prison. I say prison because we only post the cool us so in public we feel trapped to only act like the person our Facebook reflects

Is Google Making us Stupid: Response

Is “Google” making us stupid? I think it really depends on how you define stupid. It was said in the article that the internet is not necessarily making us stupid, it is changing us. We no longer sit in libraries searching for books, we just type in what we want on “Google” and suddenly we have every source imaginable. We now, instead of reading every word of the one book we find, breeze through the vast expanse of text searching only for the very best piece of knowledge.  Some may call this stupidity but the world is changing and it would be stupid to try and hold on to the past. I love reading a good book, don’t get me wrong, but when it comes to research I wouldn’t be able to read book after book to only get a page of real info. So “Google” does not make us stupid, it may make us lazier but not stupid. We also may be able to argue that it is making us more efficient, we are now able to breeze through information and pick out important parts in a fraction of the time it used to. Look at grandparents for example; they take forever on the internet scanning every line of material for what their looking for. I do not think we will ever see the end of books but I think we can look at books today like we look at film cameras; they are outdated but they will always be used even though there is a much better and faster mean of talking a picture.

The Rhetorical Situation: Response (It was late and I was tired.)

Rhetoric is created when a person has an exigence, an urgent matter that needs attention. So a question is asked that creates a discourse opening the listeners mind up to the point of view of the asker. Bitzer says rhetoric is used to persuade a reader by never actually asking the audience to change. This paper has rocked my world. We live in a world where we are constantly told what to do and why. We are never given the option to see the other point of view. Rhetoric gives us just that, its whole purpose is to get us to negate our fidelity and open us up to a different perspective. The rhetorical question we are asked is supposed to sub-consciously make us see/understand something the listener does not believe in.  A rhetorical situation is technically not real, it is one polarized scenario created to avoid said scenario. Rhetoric is amazing though because ideally it is used to shift a stance from a negative to a positive. Though a rhetorical position or view is always going to be positive whether it is or is not. Looking again to the world we live in we see that everywhere. Everything is made to look beneficial to us by using one form of rhetoric or another.  A better example is in the Mad Men clip we saw, which basically said “Smoking is dangerous. So is driving a car. So is smoking really that dangerous.” Or “Our tobacco isn’t as bad as the other guys because our tobacco is toasted”. One other great example of rhetoric is in Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus” where he argues that even though Sisyphus is suffering eternal damnation he is in fact happy. I find that rhetoric is a good thing, in the right hands, which I know is very subjective from person to person. I also find that it is a part of life, and always will be in our imperfect world. It is cool to think about a perfect world where rhetoric would be non-existent, because there would be no need for it. That’s just fantasy I suppose.

 

My 5 Sources

"Facebook Effects on Society." - Avoid Facebook. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2012. http://www.avoidfacebook.com/2011/04/28/facebook-effect-on-society/.

"Facebook's Effect on Society - Facebook." Facebook's Effect on Society - Facebook. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2012. https://sites.google.com/site/percfacebook/lea-s-paqe.

Phillips, Sarah. "A Brief History of Facebook." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 24 July 2007. Web. 03 Sept. 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/25/media.newmedia.

"The Social Impact of Facebook in 2011." The Social Impact of Facebook in 2011. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2012. http://www.thehalsreport.com/2011/01/the-social-impact-of-facebook-in-2011/.

"Trending Stories." Mashable. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2012. http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/.