The speeches are best held in a supportive environment, e.g. a course or a speaking club meeting. As long as you make sure you have supportive people for feedback around, it can work almost anywhere.
I want to create a collection of freely available exercises that can be used to train public speaking.
First, Speech Projects focuses on practical exercises.
Second, I want to target specific topics and audiences like IT, scientists or situations, icebreaker activities etc. Much of those are under-represented in the available corpus on public speaking.
Third, I found very little material that allows reuse under legally clear conditions (like the CC license).
I would be happy to see 50 diverse projects from 10 or more individual contributors.
An English and German PDF and EPUB containing all speech projects is automatically generated on (Gitbook).
This book contains practical exercises in public speaking, meeting facilitation and communication in general. The projects should allow to rehearse these skills in front of a live audience, e.g. in a course or speaking club.
The projects themselves aim to be short, easy to write, and easy to read. Not a lot of theory. Instead, I want to lower the threshold for advanced speakers to share their experience.
The material is 100% open. Everything is released under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA or a less restrictive license. This means the material can be used by any non-profit organization with very few restrictions (e.g. printing and selling it is prohibited). At the same time the contributing authors are acknowledged.
You may publish and distribute modified, translated, extended or abbreviated versions of this document under these conditions:
Yes, given that you:
Yes, absolutely. Contributions are most welcome!
You find editable versions of this document can be found on https://github.com/krother/speech_projects.
First, create yourself an account on GitHub. If this looks too geeky, an account on Gitbook will also works.
Second, write to krother@academis.eu to be added as a contributor.
No, there is a web editor.
The format is called Markdown. It can be easily converted to a plethora of other formats. See the Markdown Tutorial at www.markdowntutorial.com.
All changes are tracked automatically. We can roll them back one by one.
If you want to generate DOCX, HTML or PDF documents, please install pandoc (www.pandoc.org/).
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See the Creative Commons FAQ at www.creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/version4.