Practically Speaking 3e Student Resources

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NOISE: Julian Castro’s Daughter Flips Hair during DNC Keynote Speech (Video)

FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT: Mario Savio Speech: Berkeley, January 1964 (Video)

AUDIENCE ORIENTATION: Zach Wahls’s “Two Mothers” Speech (Video)

APPROPRIATENESS: Michelle Wolf Complete Remarks at 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (Video)

POWER OF PUBLIC SPEAKING: Greta Thunberg at UN Climate Change COP24 Conference (Video)

PUBLIC SPEAKING AND THE POWER OF ONE: Greta Thunberg - "Now I Am Speaking to the Whole World" (Video)

Robert F. Kennedy Speaks After Martin Luther King Jr. Killed (Video)

MANAGING SPEECH ANXIETY: “Terrified” Emma Watson UN Speech (Video)

MANAGING SPEECH ANXIETY: Harrison Ford: 2018 Global Climate Action Summit (Video)

THE ILLUSION OF TRANSPARENCY: Zach Wahls Talks about His Inspiring Speech (Video)

MANAGING SPEECH ANXIETY: Matt Abrahams: No Freaking Speaking: Managing Public Speaking Anxiety (Video + Quiz)

MANAGING SPEECH ANXIETY: Matt Abrahams: No Freaking Speaking: Managing Public Speaking Anxiety (Video)

GOOD BASIC SPEECH ANXIETY STRATEGIES: How to NOT Get Nervous Speaking in Front of People (Video)

Speech Anxiety/Delivery/Humor: Inspirational Speech: Student with Fear of Public Speaking by Roy Rosell (Video + Quiz)

Speech Anxiety/Delivery/Humor: “Inspirational Speech: Student with Fear of Public Speaking” by Roy Rosell (Video)

TED TALKERS FEAR PUBLIC SPEAKING: Joe Kowan: How I Beat Stage Fright (Video)

STORYTELLING AND IDENTIFICATION: Ann Romney’s 2012 Convention speech— Raw Video: Ann Romney’s Speech at the RNC (Video)

STORYTELLING AND IDENTIFICATION: Michelle Obama’s 2012 Democratic National Convention speech (Video)

GENERATION GAP: Millennials Show Us What ‘Old’ Looks Like (Video)

COMMITTED AUDIENCE: Emma Gonzalez’s Powerful March for Our Lives Speech (Video)

EXCESSIVE DYNAMISM: Gov. Jennifer Granholm 2012 Democratic National Convention Speech (Video)

APPROPRIATE DYNAMISM: Gov. Jennifer Granholm's 2013 TED Talk: “A Clean Energy Proposal: Race to the Top” (compare to her convention speech) (Video)

EXCESSIVE DYNAMISM: 2004: The Scream That Doomed Howard Dean (Video)

EXCESSIVE DYNAMISM: Full Speech: Rudy Giuliani - Republican National Convention (Video)

REALLY EXCESSIVE DYNAMISM: Phil Davison Gives a Crazy Speech (Video)

SUBSTANTIVE SIMILARITY (effective common ground strategy): Nikki Haley Delivers GOP Response to the State of the Union Address (Video)

APPROPRIATE DYNAMISM/COMMON GROUND/STYLISTIC SIMILARITY: The Speech that Made Obama President (Video)

LIKABILITY, COMMON GROUND, HUMOR (identification): Ellen DeGeneres: Responds to Anti-Gay Pastor (Video)

LIKABILITY, COMMON GROUND, HUMOR: Ellen DeGeneres: Mississippi Anti-LGBT Law

Malala Yousafzai: "The right to learning should be given to any child" (Video)

EMPOWERMENT AND TECHNOLOGY: How to Get Empowered, Not Overpowered, by AI (Video)

POWER OF THE INTERNET: What Everyday Citizens Can Do to Claim Power on the Internet (Video)

WIKIPEDIA: Is Wikipedia a Credible Source? (Video)

Noah Tavlin: How false news can spread (Video)

STATISTICAL COMPARISONS BUT MISSING CITATION: Chris Jordan: Turning Powerful Stats into Art (Video)

USING STATISTICS: Sebastian Wernicke: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics (Video)

MISUSE OF STATISTICS: “Bill Maher: Fun with Statistics” (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH/SUPPORTING MATERIALS: Informative Speech: The Causes of Homelessness (Video)

USE OF STATISTICS: The End of Average: L. Todd Rose ‘8x8’ (Video)

Wendy Troxel: "Why School Should Start Later for Teens" (Video)

MINDFUL LISTENING: Hilarious Southwest Flight Attendant (Video)

EXCESSIVE INTENSITY: Steve Balmer Going Crazy on Stage (Video)

FOCUSED ATTENTION: Volkswagen: Eyes on the Road (Video)

INTENSITY: The Greatest Movie Speeches: Mel Gibson BRAVEHEART Speech (Video)

INSPIRATION: Best Inspirational Speech Ever: Motivational Video Compilation (Video)

SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR: Dan Pink: ‘The Puzzle of Motivation’ (Video)

SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR: Tina Fey: The Mark Twain Prize Speech (Video)

SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR: Mark Twain Prize: Ellen DeGeneres’s Full Acceptance Speech (Video)

HOW HUMOR WORKS: “More Than Funny” (Michael Jr.: TED x University of Nevada) (Video)

Carl Aquino: The Valedictorian Speech that will change your life (Video)

EFFECTIVE INTRODUCTIONS: Conor Neill: How to Start a Speech (Video)

PROS AND CONS OF OLIVER’S INTRODUCTION: Jamie Oliver: Teach Every Child about Food! (Video)

FIVE OBJECTIVES OF AN INTRODUCTION; ANYTHING MISSING? Pamela Meyer: How to Spot a Liar! (Video)

STARTLING INTRODUCTION: Isaac Lidsky: What Reality Are You Creating for Yourself (Video)

INTRODUCTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS: How to Open and Close Presentations (Video)

Bailey Smith: Stress Informative Speech (Video)

THE POWER OF REPETITION: Barack Obama: “Yes We Can” (Video)

THE POWER OF LANGUAGE: The Greatest Movie Speeches: MALCOLM X (Video)

THE POWER OF REPETITION: Pink Accepts the ‘Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award’ (Video)

WRITTEN VERSUS SPOKEN LANGUAGE: Txting Is Killing Language. JK (Video)

CLICHÉ AND JARGON OVERLOAD: Mixed Metaphors (Video)

CLICHÉ AND JARGON OVERLOAD: Sean Penn Oscar Acceptance Speech 2004 (Video)

CLICHÉ AND JARGON OVERLOAD: Jessica Campbell's speech from ELECTION (1999) (Video)

CLICHÉ AND JARGON OVERLOAD: Gerard Braud: "The Worst Speech in the World" (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH: Thomas Altman: Swearing (Video)

MANUSCRIPT VERSUS EXTEMPORANEOUS COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES: Highlights from the Best Commencement Speeches of 2018 (Video)

STILTED, UNNATURAL, CHOREOGRAPHED DELIVERY: 2012 World Championship of Public Speaking: Trust is a Must (Video)

SPEED SPEAKING: Sean Shannon: The Fastest Talker in the World (Video)

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1963 Full Speech (Video)

PRONUNCIATION ERRORS: 25 Common Phrases That You’re Saying Wrong (Video)

PERILS OF WINGING IT: Clint Eastwood: 2012 Republican National Convention (Video)

POTENTIAL HAZARDS OF ONLINE SPEECHES: Warning: Do not Take a Public Speaking Class, Online (Video)

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING: How to Deliver an Extemporaneous Presentation or Speech (Video)

VOCAL FILLERS: Obama “Uh” Count (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH: Rachel Petty: Andy Warhol (Video)

Highlights from student speeches at Harvard College Class Day (Video)

EMBEDDING VIDEO: How to Embed a Video In PowerPoint (Video)

PLAUSIBILITY ARGUMENT: Jim Jefferies: Gun Control from BARE Netflix Special (Video)

USING VISUAL AIDS WELL: Tim Berniers-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide (Video)

PLAUSIBILITY ARGUMENT: Wayne LaPierre: NRA Response to Sandy Hook, December 21, 2012 (Video)

CONFIRMATION BIAS ONLINE: Eli Pariser: Beware Online ‘Filter Bubbles’ (Video)

TENACITY OF TRUE BELIEF: The Daily Show–Putting Donald Trump Supporters Through an Ideology Test (Video)

TRUTH DECAY: Truth Decay: a Primer (Video)

John Cortes: "Texting and Driving...Don't Do It!" (Video)

AD HOMINEM FALLACIES: Marco Rubio Mocks Donald Trump in Dallas (Video)

SMARTBOARD TUTORIAL: “How to Use a Smartboard”; and “Get to Know Your SMART Board 800 Series”; tutorial (Video)

AD HOMINEM FALLACIES: Trump Strikes Back at Rubio, Cruz’s Attacks (Video)

STATISTICAL FALLACIES: Emily Dressler: Don’t Be Fooled by Bad Statistics (Video)

HASTY GENERALIZATIONS: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story (Video)

EVEN EXPERTS CITE CREDIBLE EVIDENCE: Simon Sinek: Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH: A Different Kind of Beetle (Video)

Niklas Meyer: "High Tuition Cost" Persuasive Policy Speech (Video)

NARRATIVE AND EXPLANATION: Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality (Video)

POWERPOINT SLIDES TUTORIAL: PowerPoint 2013: Slide Basics (Video)

INFORMATIVE OR PERSUASIVE SPEECH? Dalia Mogahed: What Do You Think When You Look at Me? (Video)

POWERFUL INFORMATIVE SPEECH: Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (Video)

POWERFUL INFORMATIVE SPEECH: Jill Bolte Taylor: Stroke of Insight (Video)

EFFECTIVE NARRATIVE: REC2015, Period 4: Rev. Terry Hershey (Video)

DEMONSTRATION: James Randi Demonstrates How ‘Psychic’ Uri Geller Bends Spoons and Other Magic Tricks (Video)

NARRATIVE SPEECH: Dananjaya Hettiarachchi World Champion of Public Speaking 2014 – Full Speech (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH: Jack Mocherman: The Musicality of Hip-Hop (Video)

LED Flashlights Informative Speech (Video)

AMUSING CRITIQUE OF POWERPOINT, Don McMillan: Life After Death by Power Point 2012 (Video)

CENTRAL ROUTE USED EFFECTIVELY: Nick Hanauer: Rich People Don’t Create Jobs (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH USING MOSTLY CENTRAL ROUTE: TS149: Excellent Persuasive Speech Example (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH AND EFFORT REQUIRED: Persuasive Presentation: Blood Donation (Video)

PERIPHERAL CUES IN EXCESS: Joe Biden Smiles (Video)

OFFERING EASY SOLUTION: Jane Chen: A Warm Embrace That Saves Lives (Video)

SOCIAL JUDGMENT THEORY AND MARCH FOR OUR LIVES SPEECHES: March for Our Lives: Five of the Most powerful Speeches (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH: Thomas Altman: The U.S. Should Adopt the Metric System (Video)

ETHOS, PATHOS, & LOGOS: Mr. Rogers and the Power of Persuasion (Video)

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE, FEAR APPEALS, & CREDIBILITY: You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change (Video)

USE OF EVIDENCE TO PERSUADE: Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom: America Is Not the Greatest Country—Anymore (Video)

POWERFUL USE OF EMOTION: Mary Fisher: A Whisper of AIDS, at the 1992 Republican National Convention (Video)

FANTASTIC EXAMPLE OF POWER OF FRAMING: Climate Name Change (Video)

POWER OF FRAMING; GREAT AD: "The Power of Words" (Purple Feather) (Video)

TWO-SIDED PERSUASION: Jim Jefferies: Gun Control from BARE Netflix Special (Video)

FEAR APPEALS: “Montana Meth Project” (Video)

HOPE AS EMOTIONAL APPEAL: Barack Obama: Iowa Caucus Victory Speech (Video)

EMOTIONAL APPEALS: Michelle Obama’s Speech Moves Many to Tears in Charlotte (Video)

HUMOR AND IDENTIFICATION: McCain Roasts Obama at Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner 10/16/08 (Video)

HUMOR AND IDENTIFICATION: Obama at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner 10/16/08 (Video)

SEVERAL STRATEGIES: Ronald Reagan: Peace Through Strength (Video)

IDENTIFICATION: Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator (Video)

TRUE BELIEVERS UNAFFECTED BY COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: The Daily Show: Putting Donald Trump Supporters Through an Ideology Test (Video)

STUDENT SPEECH: Kyle Odum: Microexpressions (Video)

Jason Costa: "Ban Public Smoking Now" (Video)

SIMPLE TIPS: How to Give a Toast (Video)

TERRIBLE USE OF POWERPOINT: Hal Varian at RSS 2012 Conference: Statistics at Google (Video)

EULOGY: George W. Bush Cries Delivering Eulogy for His Father, George H. W. Bush (Video)

COMMENCEMENT SPEECH FROM A COMMUNICATION MAJOR: Linkin Park’s Brad Delson Speaks at UCLA Graduation (Video)

COMMENCEMENT SPEECH: The Most Inspiring Speech: Rick Rigsby - The Wisdom of a Third Grade Dropout Will Change Your Life (Video)

COMMENCEMENT SPEECH: Amy Poehler: Amazing Harvard Speech (Video)

President Obama Delivers the Commencement Address at Howard University (Video)

Ellen DeGeneres at Tulane Commencement 2009 (Video)

Smith College 2012 Commencement Speaker Jane Lynch (Video)

Senator Elizabeth Warren Speaks at Suffolk University Commencement 2016 (Video)

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: Tina Fey: The Mark Twain Prize Speech (Video)

CLASSIC EULOGY: Challenger: President Reagan’s Challenger Disaster Speech, 1/28/86 (Video)

COMMENCEMENT SPEECH: Stephen Colbert Offers Spot-on Life Advice in Wake Forest Commencement Speech: Have Your Own Standards (Video)

EXCELLENT EULOGY: Billy Crystal Muhammad Ali Funeral/Billy Crystal Imitates Ali (Video)

Vik Nithy: "Why We Procrastinate" (Video)

MIND MAPPING: Mind Maps for Speeches and Presentations (Video)

PROBLEM-SOLUTION ORGANIZATIONAL SPEECH: Hadyn Parry TED Talk: Re-engineering Mosquitos to Fight Disease (Video)

WELL ORGANIZED SPEECH: Matt Abrahams: No Freaking Speaking: Managing Public Speaking Anxiety (Video)

PROBLEM-SOLUTION SPEECH: Sheryl Sandberg: Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders (Video)

JODIE FOSTER DISORGANIZED SPEECH: Jodie Foster: Full 2013 Golden Globes Speech (Video)

Meghan Markle at UN Women (Video)

Ramona J. Smith: "Still Standing" (Video)

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