Patrick Winston - How to Speak

Every year during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), Professor Patrick Winston gives a wonderfully reflexive and recursive talk about giving talks titled How to Speak. This lecture provides some useful speaking heuristics, especially if you’re in the business of helping people learn. This year the talk will be given Friday, Feburary 1 at 11am in room 6-120, but for those not in Boston, you can watch his 1999 performance in full (albeit a tad bit out-of-date):

January 30, 2008 #
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  1. Adam Williams
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 6:23 am | Permalink

    Great video. Even though the guy himself doesn’t have a very captivating personality, he still gives a very captivating lecture. That gives me hope.

    One more point: This is an arch. This is not an arch. GLURB! Watch out for it!

  2. Simeon
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 6:44 am | Permalink

    Not that this matters, but I think that this lecture may have been from 2001. In the beginning, Professor Winston references President Bush’s recent State of the Union address beginning with a joke.

  3. Brad Weikel
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 7:24 am | Permalink

    What’s that weird board he’s writing on?
    And where is his laptop?

  4. Dan Oelke
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 9:00 am | Permalink

    There is another version with better editing and better quality video available at:

    http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.html

    Based on what I watched that overlapped I think it might also be a little bit more recent version.

  5. Bradley Mazurek
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 9:21 am | Permalink

    The references to Bush’s state of the union address, the skier ten years prior, the reference to Dan Quayle, the lack of reference to digital tools and the use of a blackboard rather than a whiteboard all seem to imply that this is from 1989, not 1999.

    Regardless, excellent lecture. I’m looking forward to trying some of the ideas.

  6. cal
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 11:27 am | Permalink

    looks like it’s been taken down :(

  7. James
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 11:36 am | Permalink

    Yeah, any idea where another version could be procured from? Keen to see this, and Google has failed to help me do so..

  8. cameron
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 11:50 am | Permalink

    There is a DVD that is for sale, so maybe someone yelled at YouTube. Bummer because it’s a super obscure academic-type publishing company. You can always watch it in bits at the address @DanOelke posted.

  9. cyneron
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 11:52 am | Permalink

    somebody please upload it…not available on google….

  10. Stephen Palmateer
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 11:54 am | Permalink

    Hoping someone can send me a working link. I would love to see this in its entirety but YouTube seems to have pulled the video.

    thanks and happy speaking.

  11. luke
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 12:00 pm | Permalink

    Another version here:
    http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.html

  12. Slardi Bartfast
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 2:01 pm | Permalink

    Where’d it go?

  13. mistersquid
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

    Really what one needs are a set of clickable links from which one can download the videos directly. Thanks to Dan Oelke, above.

    (If for some reason the series of links following don’t work, you can also try here: https://secure.dreamyskies.net/shimmering/clickon.html )

    01-prelude.mov
    02-introduction.mov
    03-starting.mov
    04-bigfour.mov
    05-time%26place.mov
    06-blackboard.mov
    07-overheads.mov
    08-props.mov
    09-style.mov
    10-stopping.mov
    11-questions1.mov
    12-questions2.mov
    13-postlude.mov

  14. Graham Freeman
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 10:00 pm | Permalink

    Like others, by the time I got to the contiguous video it had been removed. Then, I found the segmented nature of the Harvard site to be too distracting. So, I created an .m3u playlist for use with VLC - much better!

    If you’d like the full, high-quality, uninterrupted video, you can save the following text as “Winston-HowToSpeak.m3u” and open it with VLC:
    (in case the formatting gets screwed up, note that each line either starts with ‘#EXT’ or ‘http:’)

    #EXTM3U
    #EXTINF:96,01-prelude.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/01-prelude.mov
    #EXTINF:165,02-introduction.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/02-introduction.mov
    #EXTINF:134,03-starting.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/03-starting.mov
    #EXTINF:390,04-bigfour.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/04-bigfour.mov
    #EXTINF:180,05-time&place.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/05-time&place.mov
    #EXTINF:199,06-blackboard.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/06-blackboard.mov
    #EXTINF:243,07-overheads.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/07-overheads.mov
    #EXTINF:156,08-props.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/08-props.mov
    #EXTINF:252,09-style.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/09-style.mov
    #EXTINF:240,10-stopping.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/10-stopping.mov
    #EXTINF:210,11-questions1.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/11-questions1.mov
    #EXTINF:228,12-questions2.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/12-questions2.mov
    #EXTINF:188,13-postlude.mov
    http://ice.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ebok_cen/booksvid/vids/hts/13-postlude.mov

  15. jeffrey
    Posted February 20, 2008 at 12:56 am | Permalink

    where is the video? it’s gone!!

    mit has pulled it from youtube???? or?????

  16. jim
    Posted February 20, 2008 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

    I hate when short sighted intellectuall property owners have a hissy and pull their stuff off the web like this. They get good publicity and the chance to have thousands/millions of new people exposed to their stuff, but oh no they might lose an iota of money so they’d rather hide it in their shitty catalog or whatever where no one sees it. real intelligent!

  17. Dan Phiffer
    Posted February 24, 2008 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

    I put together an XML file that makes it easy to download all the videos into iTunes (or any other video podcasting software).

  18. vill
    Posted April 5, 2008 at 11:53 am | Permalink

    http://valerianki.net

  19. sasa
    Posted May 13, 2008 at 9:55 am | Permalink

    thank you a lot for this informative video

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