Better Public Speaking- A Low Stress Approach
Speech and Elocution
Training
Provided by Online Training Directory
The course leads you to use proven methods in becoming a more effective verbal communicator. It is comparable to 3-credit, 8- week courses costing $700.
Surveys demonstrate that a majority of people would rather face the issue of death than speaking in public! Other surveys in business management note that 80% of all business communication is verbal. We are then, judged to a great extent on how we say what we say. We hold the power to interest, to inspire, to lead if we present ourselves effectively. Much of that opportunity comes through spoken communication. With diligent practice and application of the principles of public speaking and with appropriate management of organization, information, delivery techniques and emotion control, you can become more verbally effective- in both your work and personal lives. All of us have desired many times to be more effective speakers.
This course can help you to attain that desire. Coursework focuses on reading the text and applying those ideas in an immediate and direct way. You?ll create sound files on a weekly basis to send to your instructor and will receive back, practical critiques and useful comments for each file you send. The sound files can be created on any computer and from a program every computer has in the Accessories section of the program list. You?ll send using your existing email program so no additional programs are necessary. A browser (either IE or Netscape) also is required, as well as an Internet connection. To reinforce what you have read and applied in the practical textbook, you?ll take weekly textbook website chapter self tests and send the results to me. These self-test results coupled with evaluations of your sound file speeches form the core of course assessment. Optimal results require continual practice during the term and incorporating the feedback you get from your speech submissions, as well as applying the practical textbook readings. Topics include controlling nervousness, organizing your speech, effective listening, considering the audience, finding and using materials effectively, types of speeches, wording the speech and effective delivery.
This course is substantially similar to for-credit, 8-week courses which typically cost around $700.
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Better Public Speaking- A Low Stress Approach
Outcomes
After taking this course and diligently applying course resources, concepts, facts and tips, as well as continually practicing public speaking on your own (alone and in the company of others such as your family and/or friends or at work), you will be able to; 1. Organize speeches more effectively and easily. 2. More easily control emotions, which interfere with smooth presentations. 3. Discover your particular weaknesses and work on lessening their effects. 4. Have the opportunity to become a more effective listener, which is key to being a more effective speaker. 5. Create speeches targeted to the topic and audience. 6. Increate your confidence in speaking to others as well as your self-image as a communicator. 7. Involve you in the process of your own education and improvement and emphasize the necessity to continue these practices for the rest of your life. There is no easy and quick way to become a superior communicator. However, if you don?t begin the process and practice continually, attaining that goal won?t happen at all.
Assessment
How can I determine if you have progressed in this course? There are several ways listed below, but essentially improvement is the key. This means I will compare your sound file submissions to ones you have submitted in past weeks and will look to see if you have adopted suggestions I?ve communicated to you by return sound file. 1. Have you adopted my suggestions to your sound file submissions? 2. Have you noticeably improved in the areas of timing, delivery pace and tone, enunciation and clarity of speech, lack of inappropriate connectives (?uh?, ?ah?), elimination of slang and the appropriate use of vocabulary, speaking volume and command of the audience (authority)? 3. Results of the textbook web site self-tests, which you will send to my email. 4. Timeliness of delivering assignments and self-tests, as well as positive attitude and cooperation. 5. Your expressed understanding that this course is the beginning of a lifelong process of awareness, practice and improvement and not a, ?course? with an end time.
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Course weeks run from Monday to Sunday. 1. Read Text, Chapters 1 and 2. Be sure you have the CD that comes with the book. The Text is Gregory, Public Speaking for College and Career, McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN 0-07-240053-6, part of the package, 0-07-249294-5. The package includes a CD, which we will actively use, so please be sure to get the CD along with the book, if you buy used. The CD ISBN is 0-07-247528-5. 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). Do this for every chapter we read. They are due by Sunday of the week in question. In the subject box of the email, please put the following- ?Public Speaking-Chapter x? (whatever chapter you are sending). This is important to be able to keep track of what you have sent. 4. For each week of the course, please send me a sound file of a topic you?ll find under the appropriate week. You may send the sound file in any conventional format. The most basic format is a .wav file. To record any sound file, you will need a microphone, which is available in any electronics store and costs between 4 and 10 dollars. Plug it in to the back of your computer in the small hole that has the microphone symbol next to it. It?s probably better to do this with your computer powered off. Then, go to ?Start? (lower left hand corner of your screen) then ?Programs? and then ?Accessories? and then to ?Entertainment? and finally to ?Sound Recorder?. (If your computer is a little different do a find for ?sound recorder?.) A small box will appear that typically says, ?Sound-Sound Recorder?. The red button will start the sound recording and a black square will stop it. When you?re done recording, go to ?file? and ?save as? the sound file you?re created to a convenient place on your computer. Then, bring up your email program, fill in the subject box with ?Sound File-Week x? (fill in the appropriate week number) and find the ?attach? command on your email program. The attach command will ask you for the location of what you want to attach, which is of course, the sound file. Follow those procedures to attach the file and sent it to me. Do this every week of the course for the weekly topic. Please don?t send the sound file before Thursday of any week, as you should be practicing for a few days what you are learning for that week. 5. Sound file topic for week 1- A maximum and minimum 3- minute sound file on ways to control nervousness and what methods worked best for you so far. You may send the sound file in two parts if it is large (over 3 megs). Please label each part.
1. Read Text, Chapters 3 and 4 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, it?s on evaluating yourself as a listener using the information in the Text (1.5 minutes) AND analyzing an audience of your choosing of 1.5 minutes (imagine that you have to deliver a speech to that audience). Use chapter 4 to help you.
Read Text, Chapters 5, 6 and 10 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, it?s on Chapter 5- describing to me the purpose of speeches to inform, persuade and entertain and deliver a 30 second speech from either an informational or an entertainment category. The 30-second speech is part of the 3-minute total sound file.
1. Read Text, Chapters 7 and 9 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, it?s on Chapters 7 and 9. Send a 3-minute sound file describing two points in each chapter that you felt were the most useful for you and why.
1. Read Text, Chapters 12 and 16 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, it?s on Chapter 16. Send a 3-minute sound file containing a persuasive speech of a topic of your choosing.
1. Read Text, Chapters 14 and 18 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, send a 3-minute sound file of ONE special kind of speech mentioned in Chapter 18. Please send this speech no later than Friday of this last week. Some individuals enjoy delivering a eulogy of their own lives, but that?s not required. This is the last requirement of the course.
Contact Hours: 24
After taking this course and diligently applying course resources, concepts, facts and tips, as well as continually practicing public speaking on your own (alone and in the company of others such as your family and/or friends or at work), you will be able to; 1. Organize speeches more effectively and easily. 2. More easily control emotions, which interfere with smooth presentations. 3. Discover your particular weaknesses and work on lessening their effects. 4. Have the opportunity to become a more effective listener, which is key to being a more effective speaker. 5. Create speeches targeted to the topic and audience. 6. Increate your confidence in speaking to others as well as your self-image as a communicator. 7. Involve you in the process of your own education and improvement and emphasize the necessity to continue these practices for the rest of your life. There is no easy and quick way to become a superior communicator. However, if you don?t begin the process and practice continually, attaining that goal won?t happen at all.
Assessment
How can I determine if you have progressed in this course? There are several ways listed below, but essentially improvement is the key. This means I will compare your sound file submissions to ones you have submitted in past weeks and will look to see if you have adopted suggestions I?ve communicated to you by return sound file. 1. Have you adopted my suggestions to your sound file submissions? 2. Have you noticeably improved in the areas of timing, delivery pace and tone, enunciation and clarity of speech, lack of inappropriate connectives (?uh?, ?ah?), elimination of slang and the appropriate use of vocabulary, speaking volume and command of the audience (authority)? 3. Results of the textbook web site self-tests, which you will send to my email. 4. Timeliness of delivering assignments and self-tests, as well as positive attitude and cooperation. 5. Your expressed understanding that this course is the beginning of a lifelong process of awareness, practice and improvement and not a, ?course? with an end time.
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Course weeks run from Monday to Sunday. 1. Read Text, Chapters 1 and 2. Be sure you have the CD that comes with the book. The Text is Gregory, Public Speaking for College and Career, McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN 0-07-240053-6, part of the package, 0-07-249294-5. The package includes a CD, which we will actively use, so please be sure to get the CD along with the book, if you buy used. The CD ISBN is 0-07-247528-5. 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). Do this for every chapter we read. They are due by Sunday of the week in question. In the subject box of the email, please put the following- ?Public Speaking-Chapter x? (whatever chapter you are sending). This is important to be able to keep track of what you have sent. 4. For each week of the course, please send me a sound file of a topic you?ll find under the appropriate week. You may send the sound file in any conventional format. The most basic format is a .wav file. To record any sound file, you will need a microphone, which is available in any electronics store and costs between 4 and 10 dollars. Plug it in to the back of your computer in the small hole that has the microphone symbol next to it. It?s probably better to do this with your computer powered off. Then, go to ?Start? (lower left hand corner of your screen) then ?Programs? and then ?Accessories? and then to ?Entertainment? and finally to ?Sound Recorder?. (If your computer is a little different do a find for ?sound recorder?.) A small box will appear that typically says, ?Sound-Sound Recorder?. The red button will start the sound recording and a black square will stop it. When you?re done recording, go to ?file? and ?save as? the sound file you?re created to a convenient place on your computer. Then, bring up your email program, fill in the subject box with ?Sound File-Week x? (fill in the appropriate week number) and find the ?attach? command on your email program. The attach command will ask you for the location of what you want to attach, which is of course, the sound file. Follow those procedures to attach the file and sent it to me. Do this every week of the course for the weekly topic. Please don?t send the sound file before Thursday of any week, as you should be practicing for a few days what you are learning for that week. 5. Sound file topic for week 1- A maximum and minimum 3- minute sound file on ways to control nervousness and what methods worked best for you so far. You may send the sound file in two parts if it is large (over 3 megs). Please label each part.
1. Read Text, Chapters 3 and 4 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, it?s on evaluating yourself as a listener using the information in the Text (1.5 minutes) AND analyzing an audience of your choosing of 1.5 minutes (imagine that you have to deliver a speech to that audience). Use chapter 4 to help you.
Read Text, Chapters 5, 6 and 10 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, it?s on Chapter 5- describing to me the purpose of speeches to inform, persuade and entertain and deliver a 30 second speech from either an informational or an entertainment category. The 30-second speech is part of the 3-minute total sound file.
1. Read Text, Chapters 7 and 9 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, it?s on Chapters 7 and 9. Send a 3-minute sound file describing two points in each chapter that you felt were the most useful for you and why.
1. Read Text, Chapters 12 and 16 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, it?s on Chapter 16. Send a 3-minute sound file containing a persuasive speech of a topic of your choosing.
1. Read Text, Chapters 14 and 18 2. View any CD video clips for the chapters. 3. Do practice test for the chapters and highlight and copy the completed tests into the BODY (NOT as an attachment) of an email to me at ivyhalls@attbi.com (after 7/15/2003 to ivyhalls@comcast.net). 4. Sound file- always 3 minute minimum/maximum. This week, send a 3-minute sound file of ONE special kind of speech mentioned in Chapter 18. Please send this speech no later than Friday of this last week. Some individuals enjoy delivering a eulogy of their own lives, but that?s not required. This is the last requirement of the course.
Contact Hours: 24
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