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Helpful Websites

CNN
CNN is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Global Issues
Welcome to the global issues web site; a site aiming to show how numerous global issues are inter-related.
Issues Briefs
Learn more about issues the White House consider priorities during current presidencies.
TED
TED is a non-profit that believes powerful ideas, powerfully presented, move us: to feel something, to think differently, to take action.
USA Today
USA Today is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia.

Public Speaking Tips

10 Tips for Improving Your Public Speaking Skills
Snakes? Fine. Flying? No problem. Public speaking? Yikes! Just thinking about public speaking — routinely described as one of the greatest (and most common) fears — can make your palms sweat. But there are many ways to tackle this anxiety and learn to deliver a memorable speech.
10 tips for speaking like a Ted Talk pro
Advice from the experts on how to make any presentation sing.
10 Tips to Improve Your Public Speaking Skills
Public speaking is a skill that many people want to improve. Here's some tips to help you feel confident when presenting ideas to a group of people.
16 Public Speaking Tips for Students
Public speaking tips for students aim to reduce anxiety that can interfere with giving presentations or speeches in class. These tips can also be helpful for those with social anxiety disorder (SAD)1 who have difficulty speaking in front of a group or telling a story among friends.
Before public speaking…
If you’ve got a presentation to give at work or school — or are perhaps getting ready to speak at a TEDx event? — we recommend these talks to help get you pumped up.
The Communication Quiz
For each statement, click the button in the column that best describes you. Please answer questions as you actually are (rather than how you think you should be), and don't worry if some questions seem to score in the "wrong direction." When you are finished, please click the "Calculate My Total" button at the bottom of the test.
How to make a great presentation
Stressed about an upcoming presentation? These talks are full of helpful tips on how to get up in front of an audience and make a lasting impression.

Breathing Techniques for Public Speaking

5 Public Speaking Tips To Overcome Stage Fear 😱Speak Confidently & Reduce Nervousness
Public speaking is an art that can be mastered by anyone, if they practice certain skills. In this Skillopedia Video, you will learn some useful public speaking tips to overcome, nervousness, stage fear, speech anxiety and speak more confidently in front of an audience. Learn how not to be nervous and speak with confidence. Either you are presenting to a small group in your office, college OR a large audience in an auditorium. There are certain rules of engagement great public speakers follow, that’s what you would learn today.
Breathing Exercises for Public Speaking
Breathing is really important for making you sound and feel confident when you are in front of an audience.
Breathing Exercises Guaranteed To Calm Nerves – Use These Strategies Before Any Public Speech
Have you ever experienced shortness of breath, a racing pulse and feeling like you’re not in control before speaking to an audience?
Breathing Is the Key to Persuasive Public Speaking
Have you ever wondered why two people can say exactly the same thing in a meeting, but only one of them gets credit for it? Many times it’s the way we sound that makes the difference between whether or not we are actually heard.
Breathing techniques for public speaking anxiety
Action: whilst holding your belly (or use same hand position as the ‘silent laugh’ exercise), make a short but firm ‘sh’ sound (a voiceless alveopalatal fricative) as if you were shushing someone. Result: Feeling the abdominus muscles and diaphragm push air through the lungs to control the airflow.
Public Speaking Breathing Exercises
Many new students in my public speaking training courses pose the question, “Why do I have shortness of breath while speaking?” or “Why do I feel I can’t get power behind my voice?” Fact is for many beginning public speaking students lack of effective breathing has a serious impact on their speaking capacities. This common experience of the beginning speaker arises from one of many places: Fight or Flight, Glossophobia or even social anxiety.
The Voice Foundation
Breathing is an involuntary process. There is no need to “work at” your breathing or manipulate your breath by pulling it in or pushing it out. Instead, release any light muscles in your throat and abdomen, feel your breath and voice as it flows through your throat, and maintain an open channel from your center to your lips.

Organizations

The Institute of Public Speaking
The Institute of Public Speaking is a Boston based international public speaking & leadership training organization. We live and breathe educating others on the skills of public speaking, leadership and communication.
The Voice Foundation
The Voice Foundation was founded in 1969 by the internationally celebrated voice specialist Wilbur James Gould, M.D.. At that time interdisciplinary care of the human voice was non-existent. Dr. Gould’s groundbreaking foresight brought together physicians, scientists, speech-language pathologists, performers, and teachers to share their knowledge and expertise in the care of the professional voice user. Since 1989, The Voice Foundation has been led by Robert Thayer Sataloff, M.D., D.M.A., F.A.C.S., an internationally renowned otolaryngologist who is also a professional singer and conductor, and author of more than 1000 publications, including 48 textbooks.