Rewind with MultiMedia

In grade school, which for me was long before personal computers existed, we occasionally had to do role playing speeches and I was once assigned to give a famous speech of John Kennedy's..."Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." I remember thinking I did a really good job and had memorized the speech perfectly. What I did not realize is that I delivered the speech in a perfect monotone and rocked from side to side like a metronome from beginning to end. I couldn't understand all the chuckling because I knew I had it down. Afterwards my friend told be what had happened and I was embarrassed because I had no idea and could have done much better. We did not have video recording equipment readily available and VCRs did not even exist back then (outside of television studios). Today's multimedia tools would have allowed recorded rehearsals, critique and refinement of such a speech in an excellent learning experience and a constructive environment and the assessment of the work could be done in stages from initial research, to preliminary work, to final polished delivery. We could even use PodCast from home to prepare the speech and when we are ready to post it, all students could access each others' work via a WikiSpace.