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Teaching Public Speaking Online: What Works (and What Doesn’t)

Effective Strategies to Get Students Engaged with Public Speaking Online

  • Event
  • On-demand
  • Introduction to Communication
  • Public Speaking
  • Higher Education
  • Composition Lunch & Learn
  • 45 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

Wondering about best practices for teaching public speaking online or incorporating online speeches into your face-to-face classes? Listen as we discuss how we can get students engaged with public speaking even when they are speaking from their dorm, home, or apartment and are tempted to approach their assignments informally. 

About Your Speaker

  • Paul Stob -

    Paul Stob

    Paul Stob is Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. A scholar of rhetorical criticism and American public address, his books include William James and the Art of Popular Statement and Intellectual Populism: Democracy, Inquiry, and the People, which received the James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address from the National Communication Association. An accomplished teacher, Professor Stob teaches courses on public speaking, social movements, and American public address. He has received Vanderbilt’s Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the Faculty Advisor Award in the Humanities. This is his first edition as co-author of The Art of Public Speaking. Paul Stob lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Sarah. They have one son, Elliott, and two dogs, Missy and Reggie.