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resources for oral presentations

does anyone know of good resources for oral presentations? I'm often asked this question, but I'm mainly familiar with a small number of videos, many of which are now quite outdated. I'm sure there must be dozens of great DVDs, etc. which people are using to help students develop their seminar presentation skills. Please list them here for all to share ... Many thanks
alex

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TED presentations

Submitted by chriscook on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 14:51.

We've found that the TED presentations (www.ted.com) can be quite useful for highlighting aspects of good presentations.

Chris Cook

resources for oral presentations

Submitted by jrobins on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 16:38.

You may find this tutorial from Monash useful:

http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/s ... /index.xml

Re: TED presentations

Submitted by Mark Cherry on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 16:43.

chriscook wrote:
We've found that the TED presentations (www.ted.com) can be quite useful for highlighting aspects of good presentations.

This looks great Chris. I havent finished poking around in TED yet.

So far it seems like a site full of sample speeches that teachers can use as a basis for the design of their own activities . . .

If this is so - How do you usually exploit the individual speeeches?

Mark Cherry
Coordinator Learning Development
Centre for Teaching & Learning
University of Newcastle

thanks

Submitted by mrosse on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 09:24.

thanks guys Cool - will check them out ASAP - and maybe between us we could contribute some comments about them
this is such an under-developed area for resources, methodology, and research

Meg Rosse

visuals for scientific talks

Submitted by mrosse on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 07:03.

have you seen this material?
Michael Alley's "Rethinking the design of presentation slides"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2081759/rethinking-scientific-presentations-psu

(hope I've done the URL link thing properly)

It's a 12-slide PPT show that practises what it preaches.
Even tho all the examples are science/technology stuff, I think it could be applied to many fields

It's the best material I've seen for design of visuals, and there's a reference list on the last slide which I'm about to follow up, including some journal articles co-authored by the same guy and also a book . When I recommended the website to a colleague from Biochem she told me that she was already using his slides and that she had recently used stuff from a book by Alley to teach writing skills with her 2nd yr biochem class. Cool Meg

Meg Rosse