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| On the bus on the first evening on the way to the Glasgow City Chambers |
(Here is a link to the ASC website that has lots of resources and info, and here to Craven Speakers Club)
At the conference I was surprised to find how many people have belonged to the ASC for many, many years -- until I realised I was no longer a newbie myself... Indeed, the date at the bottom of the Craven Speakers Club website reveals I have been a member for nine years now.
I looked at my own copy of the ASC manual -- and discovered the evaluation of my first speech was January 2005 - thank you Mavis for doing this - and thank you other people for writing up later evaluations. It does show I have improved. I don't look down at my feet any more (I hope)
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| In the Glasgow Civic Chambers watching the Topics Competition |
And ("phew") - I finally attempted my "masterpiece" (the level 10 speech) last month and passed.. So I just got it in before the end of my tenth year. (It was entitled "Falling in love with lichens", and I was evaluated and assessed for it at Bradford Speakers Club, having used the same speech in our speech competition the previous week at Skipton)
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Well, back to the conference:
We were based at the Radisson Blu hotel. But on the first evening we went to a reception at Glasgow City Chambers and watched the topics competition.
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| Clive and his trophy and certificate |
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| The reception |
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| A selfie at the Galsgow City Chambers Ladies' rest room |
Saturday morning was the AGM.
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| The 2014 ASC AGM |
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| The 2014 ASC AGM |
A group of us went to lunch at the travel agent next door - who were busy promoting a cruise
In the afternoon we had a seminar on development and publicity about the ASC.
Sue who organised it had expected 30 and was very pleased with the large number that turned up.
I brought some photocopies of my article Twenty Top Tips for Successful Publicity Posters and some posters for our club and the Table top sale on 10 May in Skipton.
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| Seminar |
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| Demonstration of Scottish Highland Dancing before the ASE Meal on 26 April at Radisson Blu hotel |
The highlight for me was the Evaluations Competition.
A gentleman gave an 8 minute speech "25 years of the internet" _ A really good summary I thought to getting up to date and to looking back back on the 25th Anniversary of the start of the World Wide Web.
The speech was a level 6 speech - being assessed for "Vocabulary and word pictures"
But I thought it was not a suitable speech for doing a word pictures talk There are so many long words involved in describing the computing - html (hypertext markup language) http, etc, that to add other descriptive and emotional phrases would have made it too complicated.
The evaluations varied - The first two people passed the speech and praised the extremely few (well I though one actually) word picture /simile that he gave -(that Tim Berners-Lee finding and sorting files was a bit like playing the game Happy Families.)
The following speakers were more critical and several suggested that he repeat the exercise using a different topic. They also tried to give illustrations of how he could use more vivid language.
I enjoyed watching how the different evaluators approached the topic. I was glad to see also that experienced evaluators could come up with different ideas about whether a speaker should move on to the next speech or not.
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| A quick reminder of the grand City Chambers |
Ingleton Overground Underground Festival 2014: 24-26 May 
Flowers of the Settle Carlisle Line 
