Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Cerebellum Corp
• VHS Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1886156808
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,541 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Almost everyone has some fear about speaking before groups. You can improve your self-confidence and wow the crowds even if you're shaking on the inside using the tips and tricks found in Standard Deviants: Public Speaking. The Standard Deviants have won 19 Tellies for Best Educational Video, and it's easy to see why: educators, comic actors, and experts in the field team up to present the essentials of each subject in a concise and entertaining fashion. Public speaking is a natural for these folks--it's much easier to show viewers how to stand, gesture, and enunciate than, say, to calculate integrals or parse sentences. The program goes beyond simple stage fright to explore effective techniques of persuading, informing, and charming audiences. The scenes move quickly but never confuse the viewer, and the video comes with a cheat sheet so you needn't waste time taking notes. --Rob Lightner

Product Description

Whether you fear or crave the chance to speak in public, learn how to organize ideas, analyze an audience and make them sit up and listen. Deliver your speech in style and influence your audience with a clear message, sufficient supportive materials and appropriate anecdotes. Whether youre cramming for a speech or preparing ahead, these sure-fire methods are certain to win your audience!

Contributors: Dr. Kerry Riley, professor at George Washington Universitys Department of Education and Dr. Susan Faust, professor at Wake Forest Universitys Department of Communications.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is like Sesame Street for BIG KIDS!, May 23, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Standard Deviants - Aprenda Oratoria (Public Speaking) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Since it first came out I have been using this video to help me to teach public speaking fundamentals to college students. As the director of a speaking center at a public university, my staff and I have used many parts of it in interactive public speaking workshops.

The video starts off with communication apprehension as it is related to public speaking, very well received by all audiences!

I do not recommend using this video to replace interactive classroom teaching, but it does make a great supplement. The format works well with the learning styles of today's adults. The format is fun, it truly makes public speaking appear to be as simple to learn as any other lesson one might learn by watching Sesame Street!