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Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Public Speaking Anxiety Tips
These public speaking anxiety tips will help you overcome nervousness when giving a presenting.These time-tested tips will help take the edge off. This video looks at the both the mindsets and the practical steps to help...
Curated Video
Using Voice and Body Language
Using Voice and Body Language explores effective communication skills by reviewing ways to use one’s voice and body language to communicate effectively when giving a speech.
Curated Video
Cyberbullying: What's Crossing The Line
Students meet ELA Common Core State Standards by analyzing case studies to determine whether cyberbullying is taking place. They learn skills including evaluating a speaker’s point of view and reasoning, and presenting information...
Psych2Go
10 Public Speaking Tips
Whether it’s to inform, to persuade, or to entertain, everyone has tried public speaking.We shudder at those memories. We’ve all been there: show-and-tell, class recitals, oral participation, PowerPoint presentations, graduation speech,...
PBS
Documenting Rural Southern Black Culture
"Sweet Speech," the vernacular of southern blacks that Zora Neale Hurston captures in her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is the subject of a resource from the PBS American Masters series. An anthropologist, Hurston drew on her...
Crash Course
History of Media Literacy Part 1: Crash Course Media Literacy #2
Even Plato understood the importance of media! Part of an ongoing series of media literacy videos, the resource takes viewers to where it all began ... ancient Greece. The video covers the emergence of media and the written word, the...
PBS
Resurrecting Zora Neale Hurston | American Masters: Alice Walker
Zora Neale Hurston, her life, her work as an anthropologist recording the customs and speech of southern Black people, and her novels would have remained largely ignored if not for the efforts of Alice Walker. An American Masters video...
TED-Ed
The Taino Myth of the Cursed Creator
A Taino myth recounts the origins of the oceans. It's the tale of Deminan, the first caracaracols who was both cursed and blessed to be the link between the gods and people.
TED-Ed
How Miscommunication Happens (And How to Avoid It)
The transactional model of communication is used in this short video to explain how miscommunication happens and to offer suggestions for how to improve listening and communication skills.
The School of Life
Philosophy - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Why does communication between people go wrong? According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, it's because the words we use make pictures in our minds but do not create the same picture in the minds of our listeners. Introduce young philosophers to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Comic Cam: Expressive Reading
In this video [1:43], Jennifer Barber introduces the different characters she created for her stories when she was seven years old. She reads one of her stories using different voices to differentiate between the three characters. This...
Other
Youtube: Blending for Kindergartners 2 (Faster Speed)
Beginning readers can practice decoding with the nonsense words presented in this video. [1:00]
Other
Youtube: Blending for Kindergartners
Beginning readers can practice decoding with the nonsense words presented in this video. [1:35]