People in my group are easy to talk to and it wasn’t hard for us to choose the topic. We had several options but cultures around the world become our final topic because we all from different background and also talked about the specific food, places and shared why this culture values important to us. Since this is a public speaking class assignment, therefore, Jay and other classmates are our intended audience. This is another reason we why we choose our topic because we thought food and traveling around are the things our classmates will be interested. We used Panopto to record our speech as the assignment required. None of my group members used it before but Rohit (our tech guy) took the responsibility to doing all the technology integration besides his own speech part. I am glad that we have actually intended to imagine that what if someone fails to record his or her speech; therefore, we record our individual part separately and combine them together. Hence, even if someone made mistakes, she or he can do it again without ruin other’s speeches. I think we planned ahead well so we used our own time and delivered. It not only saved time but also with less pressure compare to record speech while people are watching you. This is completely different experience to complete group speech by using a mediated tool rather than presenting in the class. I think there are more strengths than challenges. Since we never used it before, so the attempt is already a succeed because there will be a point in the career that we have to it and by that time we won’t be a mess. Secondly, it really reduces time consuming and public speaking pressure due to its flexibility of competency. At the same time some challenges exist too. After watching the speeches online from Monday’s class. It seems that the volume of our speeches are different because we recorded them in different location and devices. It shows the lack of consistency. Secondly, the sound quality cannot compare to class delivery either. As one of the audiences while watching speeches of other groups, I can tell that using mediated technology distracted more than in-person speeches. I think the bad sound quality could be one major factor that distracting attention. There are definitely some changes for the mediated environment. Comparing to I Movie, Panopto isn’t the most ideal system to do this assignment because we all saw IMovie displayed better presentation from how the power point and speakers are combined. From our experience, we record our individual speech first, and watching our own speech, wrote down the time period where we want to insert every slide. Rohit, our tech hero manually did the entire adding slide task by his own time. This leads to another change I think should be as implement, which is how the grade would be. As the first time we had told that the whole group got one grade. I think this is really unfair for the process. Our group has been through a tough process to produce the very last product. There is one person didn’t show up at the first meeting, which caused the lack of communication on how our format and outline would be, and our outline grade wasn’t good enough. Three of us have to meet again to change the entire outline in order to get everyone at the same level. Second, there is one person didn’t submit his or her outline on time which made the rest of the group panic right before the deadline. There are other issues happened because someone didn’t take his responsibility and other people have to pay for him. However, it could be considered as a group work experiences and the exam on how to response to emergency or surprise situations. And I was glad that our final project is nice and what I should say all the efforts we had put in, have values. There are lots of differences between in-person and mediated speeches. Once you can see your own speech, you will found out your problems where you don’t realize when you only give speech to others. Such as: it is really obvious to see that someone is reading from notes or their outline, or if you looking somewhere else besides the camera, it means a bad eye contact. Therefore, I think mediated speech has to be much formal than in-person speech. Furthermore, there are improvements we can do, at least for my group. If we can plan well and meet before rush to record the speech, we can save much time and make it efficient. Overall, it is a fun assignment which I pretty like and let me to know the classmates more.