Great On-line
Speech Activities and Links

• Beebe's Listening Exercise
• Halverson-Wente's Listening Exercise
• Listening to Issues of Diversity

• http://www.realaudio.com/ (Real Audio downloading page)
• http://www.netizen.com/netizen/netizenaudio/ (Listen to speeches and interviews)
• http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html (Listen to classic speeches)
• http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/ (Hear oral arguments from the Supreme Court!)
• http://www.fednet.net (View video clips from Congress)

• Beebe's Small Group Activity
• Lori Halverson-Wente's Small Group On-Line Activity
• Lori Halverson-Wente's Leadership Assessment On-line Activity

• http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/vma/vms.htm

• http://www.psychiatry.ubc.ca/dept/rulesord/preface.htm

• http://www.aipparlipro.org/

American Institute of Parliamentarians
This site allows you to actually ask questions and obtain more information on Roberts Rules of Order (Beebe)

• http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/apo/robert.html

• http://www.sdsg.com/new/dmp.htm

Public Speaking

• McGraw-Hill's Site: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/comm/pubspeak/preparation.htm
• Allen and Bacon's Site and Public Speaking Site

Places to go to Browse Potential Topics:

• Lori Halverson-Wente's On-line Topic Selection Activity
  
  
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/select.htm (Allen and Bacon's Speechmaking Wheel covering selection of a topic)
  
  

• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/purpose.htm (Allen and Bacon's Speechmaking Wheel covering how to write a general and specific purpose statement)

• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/central.htm (Allen and Bacon's Speechmaking Wheel covering how to write a central idea or thesis)

• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/

• http://www.ipl.org/

Links Suggested by Allen and Bacon:

• http://www.health-center.com/english/brain/therapy/
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/har/les1.htm (relaxation)
• http://www.mtsu.edu/~jpurcell/Taichi/taichi.htm (Tai Chi)

Links Suggested by McGraw Hill

• McGraw Hill's Resources
• Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking

Ethics

Activities:

• Citing Sources (Lori Halverson-Wente)
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter3.htm

Links Suggested by Beebe's Website:

• http://www.wiesenthal.com (Free Speech, but stamp out Hate Speech)
• http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/homepage.shtml
• http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/publick.shtml (you can participate in an on-line chat!)
• http://www.aclu.org/issues/freespeech/hmfs.html (American Civil Liberties Union)
• http://www.fair.org/ (watchdog group looking at fairness in the media)
• http://www.aim.org/ (another group monitoring the media)
• http://www.newseum.org/ (international news updates)
• http://www.freedomforum.org (promotes free speech on the Internet)

Audience Analysis

Activities:

• Beebe's Analyzing Your Audience
• Lori Halverson-Wente's On-line Activity
• Lori's Survey Assignment

Suggested Sites by Beebe:

• http://stats.bls.gov/datahome.htm Bureau of Labor Statistics
• http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/ Data on families
• http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/ Census Information
• http://www.census.gov/ Census Information
• http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/    The Institute for Research in Social Studies

Evaluating Websites

• Lori Halverson-Wente's Evaluating the Internet On-line Activity
• READ This from Harris!

Suggested Sites from Beebe:

• Multiculturalism and the Internet
• Checklist for Evaluating an Advocacy Website
• Evaluate an Business Website
• How to Evaluate an Informative Webpage
• Evaluating a News Site
• Evaluating a Personal Site
• Purdue's Evaluation Criteria
• More on Evaluation of Internet Sites

Determining Your Main Ideas

Activities:

• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/mainideas.htm (Allen and Bacon's Speechmaking Wheel)
• Lori Halverson-Wente's Evaluation of the Multimedia On-line Activity

• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/support.htm (Allen and Bacon's Speechmaking Wheel)
• Lori Halverson-Wente's Speech Organization On-line Activity

• http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/organize/patterns.html (lists of organizational patterns)
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/organize.htm (the organization section on the "speechmaking wheel")

• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter10.htm (Beebe's exercise on introductions and conclusions

Outlines

Activities:

• Citing Sources (Lori Halverson-Wente)

Suggested Links:

• Outline Suggestions from Purdue
• http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/linksorganizing.htm numerous tips on how to organize materials, especially with outlines.
• http://webware.princeton.edu/Writing/outlines.htm (outlines from Princeton)

• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter12.htm (Beebe's language chapter exercise)
• Lori's Activity

Suggested Links:

• http://www.thesaurus.com/ (find other words to use!)
• http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/organize/dict.html (Allen and Bacon's incredibly rich  resource page with links to sites to help you develop a  larger vocabulary)
• http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm WWWebster Dictionary
• http://www.rhymezone.com/ Rhyming Dictionary which allows you to search for rhymes.
• http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kgolden/wordbot.html Find translations!  This site is called Wordbot
• http://www.islandnet.com/~wwlia/diction.htm A legal dictionary
• http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eeg_286.html Internet language!
• http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict This site will help you to pronounce your word

Rehearsing and Speech Delivery

Activities:

• Lori Halverson-Wente's Final Touches Activity (practice, deliver and visual aids)
  
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/deliver.htm (Allen and Bacon's delivery step of the Speechmaking Wheel)
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/rehearse.htm (the rehearsal step of the Speechmaking Wheel by Allen and Bacon)
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter13.htm Beebe's chapter activity for delivery.

Suggested Links:

• McGraw-Hill's Commcentral
• http://www.butterfieldspeaks.com/news.html (more tips)
• http://www.toastmasters.org/ (Toastmasters International Link)
• http://www.communicator.com/hard2say.html (tongue twisters)
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html (more tongue twisters)
• http://members.aol.com/SdShowBob7/twisters.html (and even more tongue twisters)

• Lori Halverson-Wente's Final Touches Activity (practice, deliver and visual aids)
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter14.htm (Beebe's chapter activity for visual aids)
• http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/audio.html Import Audio!  This is an incredible resource for using sound and downloading it from the Internet.

Celebration Speeches:

Activities:

• Assignment
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter18.htm#Links

Links suggested by this site include:

• http://zinnia.umfacad.maine.edu/~donaghue/toasts.html
• http://www.tmclark.com/JP/toasts.html (wedding toasts)
• http://www.wedhelp.com/Toasts.htm
• http://etext.virignia.edu/railton/onstage/speeches.html (after dinner speeches -- Mark Twain)

• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter15.htm (Chapter activity for Beebe and Beebe's text

Activities:

• Lori Halverson-Wente's Persuasion Activity
• Applying Universal Values
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter17.htm
• http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/shchapter16.htm#Links

Sites Suggested by this site include:

• http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/welcome.htm (fallacies)
• http://www.ling.rochester.edu/~duniho/fallacies.html (more fallacies)
• http://www.findlaw.com (check out the Constitution!)
• http://www.usscplus.com (look to the Supreme Court)
• http://www.usdoj.gov/ (US Department of Justice)
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/State_Government/
  (find your state Government)
• http://www.piperinfo.com/state/states.html (find more about state government)
• http://www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html (learn more about the US government)
• http://www.idealist.org. (Find a special interest group!)

Activities:

• Halverson-Wente's Family Analysis On-line Activity
• Feelings
• Nonverbal Communication
• Assertiveness
• Who Are You?

• Lori Halverson-Wente's Storytelling Activity
• Melting Pot vs. Tossed Salad?
• Applying Universal Values
• Guide to Evaluating Websites for Multicultural Concerns http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/net/comps/model.html
• McGraw Hill's Multicultual SuperSite!http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/
  • Defining Multicultural Education: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/define.html
  • A case-study narrative on multi-cultural education:http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/philosophy/2narrative.html
  • Activities: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/activities.html
  • Post a message on this chat area: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/discussion/index.html
• Multicultural Education
  • Teachers Corner: http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/centers/multicultural/teachers.html
• Diversity Web: http://www.diversityweb.org/
• Guide to Evaluating Websites for Multicultural Concerns http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/net/comps/model.ht
• Rochester, MN's Diversity Council: http://www.diversitycouncil.org/
  • Myth or Fact? http://www.diversitycouncil.org/mythfact.htm