In the professional realm, most speeches and presentations we give are informative in scope. A scientist needs to explain her recent research findings. A financial officer needs to report on quarterly earnings to his company’s board. A technology professional needs to educate a consumer about a new product. Any time you need to convey ideas or demonstrate a process, you’re dealing with informative speaking.
Informative speaking is a fun puzzle. You need to think from the perspective of your audience to identify what they need to hear in order to understand the key ideas. How much does the audience already know? What are the most important elements to convey? How should one convey these ideas with appropriate breadth and depth given the time constraints of the speech? This demands a strategic approach to speech design that we’ll undertake in this class.
By the end of the course, you should be able to explain complex ideas vividly and accessibly, design clear and compelling presentation slides, convey your passion for a topic while maintaining your professional credibility, and speak dynamically from notes and/or a manuscript. Learners will record speeches, providing and receiving peer feedback.
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Speaking to inform: Discussing complex ideas with clear explanations and dynamic slides
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Woche
13 Stunden zum Abschließen
Week 1: Targeting your presentation
Welcome. This is a big week. Here’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll start with an overview of the course. This course is about developing interesting and informative speeches. The way we’ll work on these skills is through the informative speech assignment. Next, we’ll focus on the key challenge in informative speaking. remaining audience-oriented. This requires us to assess what the audience knows and how our speech can be of the most value. We need to design our goals for the speech. Too often, speakers simply just dump their information on the audience. We need to be precise about what we want our speech to accomplish to protect against being boring. After we think about audience and our goals, we can start planning out our speech. A good outline is the foundation for a good talk. We want to adhere to the principles of simplicity, balance, and order. In this module, we'll work through a case study of a TED talk. Once we have a sense for informative speaking, you’ll perform a short introductory speech. It’s a fun and easy speech that allows you to get to know some of your classmates.
15 Videos (Gesamt 82 min), 5 Lektüren, 4 Quiz
15 Videos
What's this course about?6m
Informative speech assignment5m
Your speech should be audience-oriented5m
What do I know about my audience?6m
What does my audience know about the topic?7m
Identifying goals. What do you want the speech to achieve?7m
Planning goals. Be concrete to be successful.4m
Revising goals. Be realistic given the time and audience.6m
Start with an outline that clarifies key themes.5m
Simplicity. Focus on a few key ideas7m
Order. Make the speech easy to follow along with.5m
Balance. Are you spending time in the right sections?3m
Sample introductory speech2m
Recording good speech videos (optional)4m
5 Lektüren
Week one overview2m
Informative speech assignment description (Optional reading)10m
Case study. Juliana Rotich at TED20m
Week one lesson summaries10m
Week one assignment check-in10m
3 praktische Übungen
Valuable talks4m
Speech goals5m
Week 1 quiz10m
Woche
23 Stunden zum Abschließen
Week 2: Designing informative speeches
Last week, we worked on developing the basic outline for of our speech. This week, we’ll take that structure and build a speech around it. We'll begin with discussing ideas clearly. This is the big challenge in informative speaking. With the body of the speech taken care of, we can now turn our attention to writing a full draft. This means thinking about the iterative process of good speech preparation. We also look at how to open and close the speech. Each speech will be arranged differently, but there are some broad genres. We'll talk about the various goals and arrangement models that might work for different types of informative speaking. Having discussed invention and arrangement, we'll watch and evaluate a sample speech. You’ll watch a speech, write up some feedback, and read how others analyzed the speech.
12 Videos (Gesamt 70 min), 8 Lektüren, 3 Quiz
12 Videos
Include clear examples and illustrations5m
Summarize complex information7m
Give the audience time to process what you're saying5m
Refining your speech5m
Good introductions set you up for an interesting and clear speech6m
Good conclusions allow you reinforce and end on a strong note.5m
Briefings and updates4m
Product and design presentations4m
Explaining research to a general audience7m
Teaching talks6m
Conference talks6m
8 Lektüren
Week two overview2m
Case study. Explaining bee death15m
Case study: Hans Rosling's magic washing machine10m
A note on these models2m
Speech analysis #1 overview10m
Matt's feedback (Optional)10m
Week two lesson summaries10m
Week two assignment check5m
2 praktische Übungen
Introductions and conclusions4m
Week 2 quiz10m
Woche
32 Stunden zum Abschließen
Week 3: Clarity through support and slides
This week is all about slides! They can make or break a speech. We’ll talk about how to design slides so that they support you as a speaker (not replace you). By the end of the week, you should have skills and experience explaining ideas richly and designing and using clear presentation slides.
12 Videos (Gesamt 65 min), 3 Lektüren, 1 Quiz
12 Videos
Slides aren't simply your notes5m
Keep slides simple5m
Use slides to clarify the speech's arrangement4m
Using text in slides5m
Using images in slides3m
Using video in slides4m
Presenting with slides5m
Case study. Slides and text8m
Michael Alley, Penn State: What's wrong with slides?4m
Michael Alley, Penn State: How to make slides better5m
Sara Battersby from Tableau Software6m
3 Lektüren
Week three overview2m
Week three lesson summaries10m
Week three assignment check-in5m
1 praktische Übung
Week 3 quiz10m
Woche
42 Stunden zum Abschließen
Week 4: Delivering informative speeches
Now for some delivery work. We start with the concept of ethos. It is that performance of credibility that all great informative speakers have. We'll dive deep into how you can refine your ethos as a speaker. We’ll finish this course by focusing on the unique delivery demands of informative speaking: using notes, mics, and podiums effectively. Interacting with the audience well. By the end of the week, you’ll have some strategies for speaking more smoothly and with greater credibility. Having discussed invention and arrangement, we'll watch and evaluate a sample speech. You’ll watch a speech, write up some feedback, and read how others analyzed the speech.
11 Videos (Gesamt 70 min), 5 Lektüren, 3 Quiz
11 Videos
Arete: Performing your passion6m
Phronesis. Showing your knowledge5m
Eunoia. Displaying your goodwill4m
Presidential ethos analysis9m
Using podiums5m
Using microphones6m
Using notes7m
Where and how to interact with your audience6m
Audience getting sleepy? Try a delivery change up4m
Sample informative speech8m
5 Lektüren
Week four overview2m
Speech analysis #22m
Matt's feedback (Optional)10m
Week four lesson summaries10m
Week four assignment check-in2m
2 praktische Übungen
Interacting with your materials4m
Week 4 quiz10m
Woche
55 Minuten zum Abschließen
Week 5: Review and assessment
Thank you for time in this course! I hope that the material has proven helpful to you. We concluded our discussion of the speech last week. This week, I would like to spend a bit of time reflecting on the course and talking about other exercises and activities that you can use to continue improving your public speaking abilities. We will end this week with your final informative speech.
2 Videos (Gesamt 5 min)
4 Stunden zum Abschließen
Week 5: Review and assessment: Lesson Choices
1 Video (Gesamt 8 min), 1 Lektüre, 2 Quiz
1 Video
1 Lektüre
Sample informative manuscript10m
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Excellent lecture structure. The logical progression of the lessons made it easier to understand and grasp the key concepts of the course. I would recommend this course to everyone.
I like this course so much. I like the way Dr. Matt McGarrity encourage and teach everybody to overcome the fear of public speech.
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Dr. Matt McGarrity
Principal LecturerUW Department of Communication
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Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of higher education on the West Coast and is one of the preeminent research universities in the world.
Über die Spezialisierung Dynamic Public Speaking
Good speaking is your most enduring job skill. This four-course specialization will provide you with the instruction, experience, and practice to develop and deliver compelling presentations. Drawing from the established knowledge in communication, rhetoric, linguistics, and argumentation, each course balances proven ideas with lots of speech practice.
The courses in this specializations should help speakers at all levels. If you are nervous about public speaking, this is for you! I have spent an entire career helping nervous novice speakers grow into confident communicators. We slowly work up specific skills that you can practice multiple times before putting together a longer speech.
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This class has peer review speech assignments. You need to have a digital video camera or smart phone so you can record your speeches for upload and review.
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