This project was a particularly fun one to create. I really enjoyed the idea of a collaboration video as it was a little different from other ideas. It resembled YouTubers that actually work together in real life to combine sources and to establish more credibility. It was beneficial because working along with someone also aided me in gaining new insights or perspectives on an bike ride that I also experienced, but maybe in a different way. In the video Lexie and I made, I also felt like my delivery style was better than my speeches in class. This is because I did not rely on reading directly off of a script, instead I was more “extemporaneous” in that I just gave a “speech” based on memorizing knowledge and presenting it more naturally. I could still definitely work on my delivery style, but I am proud and happy about the fact that I was not completely dependent on reading an exact script of what I wanted to say!

In this project, I spoke about a specific bike ride that I went on with our class so to establish credibility I just recounted events that I actually experienced. As W. Horner mentions in his text that a way to establish credibility is through intelligence. He wrote about how you can express intelligence on a subject through having  an experience and/or special knowledge on it. In my case, I had a personal experience that I wanted to share, establishing my own credibility to present this day to an audience of people who were not there on the bike ride themselves. For this project, there may not be any opposing viewpoints as it is just a recollection of events on this day.

Outline for Video 5:

• Our 14 mile bike ride.

1. Devyn and I tell all of our friends about how we biked 14 miles in this class on one day.
2. Made us feel empowered and like we could do anything.
3. Biked all down Market Street with our playlists. – I ran out of good songs to play that’s how long I felt we were biking.
4. Passed the thingy that counts how many bikers ride by.
5. Talk about how close we felt to the cars and busses
6. Kyle takes a tumble.
7. Humphry Slowcombre chain our bikes all together- we get brown butter ice cream
8. Workers were frustrated- Devyn held tiger
9. Bike down to bow and arrow look at bridge- we can ride on sidewalk
10. Rode by the water
11. Get at UCSF
    and met the Dr. Doug Bauer
12. Discussed arthritis and bikers
13. Professor Hunt asked me to explain my project on evidence to Dr. Doug Bauer.
14. We started our journey back
15. Can’t remember that  much about it because we were tired
16. There was a street where the lights would change at certain time intervals so bikers would not have to wait.
17. Pushed bike up the hill to USF because we were so tired.
18. Bragged to everyone about our journey.

(collaboration with Lexie)

The audience that I hoped to reach was anyone who was not there to experience our 14-mile bike ride. I wanted to share a unique experience that only the students of our Speaking of Bicycles class shared. For many outside people, they do not understand the significance of this particular day because they were not there to see themselves. No one else can understand how we felt as every student has their own bike skill-level, so sharing two perspectives provides some insight on this day. It was my favorite day of biking in the city so I hope to inspire others to embark on a journey similar to ours!

Hey what’s up? It’s your favorite YouTube Duo. Lexie and Devyn! (emphasize YouTube voice in intro). We are going to talk about our 14-mile bike ride! We will discuss some highlights! We chose to talk about this because this bike ride has been our favorite topic of discussion! We would tell all of our friends about that one time we rode 14 miles! This bike ride was empowering and liberating! We biked down market street. As we biked down Market Street, we noticed that there were no barriers between the bikes and cars and buses, so we got pretty close with them. But luckily we all got off pretty well! Except for our dear friend Kyle, who took a little tumble. So our good professor, Professor Jonathan Hunt, once said that when there are these cable car tracks, it is very important to walk your bike across them! As they are pretty dangerous. Yet Kyle did not listen to Professor Hunt’s warning and he thought he would be able to ride over them, resulting in a disaster! It’s okay because he got back up and pretended it didn’t happen! But unfortunately since Lexie and I are slow, we were in the back and saw it happen. We ended up being rewarded with some Humphrey Slowcombre ice-cream right after though. Before we could go in, we chained up all of our classmates’ bikes together. In our class, we have learned how to properly lock up a single bike, but now we learned how to lock up many bikes! And our whole class got ice-cream! After, we biked the bow and arrow, and rode on the sidewalk across the bridge. We then went to UCSF to listen to Dr. Doug Bauer talk about his research on arthritis and its relation to bicyclists and people as they age. He mentioned that it was part of his job to generate evidence which was an interesting point as we have been mostly collecting evidence in class. An overall enriching experience! We also related this back to our evidence gathering in the Panhandle and how these skills can be beneficial for our future careers. Then we embarked on our journey back to school, which was longer than expected. It was worth it, we hope you guys join us on our next ride! Thanks for watching! Make sure if you liked this video to like, subscribe, and comment below!

For my third Speaking Center visit, I came to the Gleeson Library more prepared than my previous visits. I also had the same Speaking Center coach that I got on my first time there, so I was already comfortable and familiar with her. I had not already written my speech yet, but instead I came with all of the ideas and information that I wanted to incorporate into the speech. My coach, Monique, helped me organize my ideas on a whiteboard. I chose to ask my aunt and uncle questions on their experience in the AIDS Lifecycle, so she helped me organize my speech based on their questions. We went over all of the aspects of my speech thoroughly so that I would try to not be completely dependent on a script like all of my other speeches. I think it was my best visit because I felt more confident and accomplished as I was genuinely excited to share the information in my speech with the class because I want us ALL to to the ride together!