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1 at 11am in room 6-120, but for those not in Boston, you can watch his 1999 performance in full (albeit a tad bit out-of-date):
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overstated 
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!
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.
What’s that weird board he’s writing on?
And where is his laptop?
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.
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.
looks like it’s been taken down 😦
Yeah, any idea where another version could be procured from? Keen to see this, and Google has failed to help me do so..
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.
somebody please upload it…not available on google….
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.
Another version here:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.html
Where’d it go?
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
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
where is the video? it’s gone!!
mit has pulled it from youtube???? or?????
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!
I put together an XML file that makes it easy to download all the videos into iTunes (or any other video podcasting software).
http://valerianki.net
thank you a lot for this informative video
i remember when i was still in high school, i always fear public speaking engagments..-.
when i were in high school, i am always afraid of public speaking;’-
i am also afraid to stand in front of the crowd and public speaking really cracks me up.:`
i think everyone would have an anxiety attack during public speaking. publick speaking requires a good deal of self-confidence.,.
i think that everyone have a fear of public speaking in one way or another -,`
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