CHAMPION STRATEGIES – PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP – DECEMBER 13, 2020
CHAMPION STRATEGIES – PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP – DECEMBER 13, 2020 A Zoom meeting brought me to tears Logging in for our first day of class, peering at the gallery of unfamiliar faces over Zoom, my students and I were understandably apprehensive. Could we really take the intimacy of an in-person classroom and create community and trust online, especially when we had never met in person? One of my students was still on the fence and openly shared her fear that class would be a waste of time and an ineffective way to learn public speaking. I told her that, if she would make the commitment to participate fully in the class, then I would make the commitment to ensure she would learn from it.…