This is a Ted Talk by entrepreneur Nick Hanauer where he challenges traditional economic assumptions. More specifically, the idea that self-interest and greed are the main drivers of prosperity. According to Hanauer, those old assumptions are misleading and need updating in light of real economic outcomes and social responsibility.

Coming out of the financial crisis, Wells Fargo was one of the world’s largest and most successful banks, viewed as a role model in how to manage in times of crisis. The news of its sales misconduct – opening more than 2 million fake accounts – in 2016 rocked consumer confidence and inundated the news. Professor Suraj Srinivasan discusses how sales culture, leadership, board oversight, and risk management all played a role.

Cold Call distills Harvard Business School’s legendary case studies into podcast form. Hosted by Brian Kenny, the podcast airs every two weeks and features Harvard Business School faculty discussing cases they’ve written and the lessons they impart.

This article explains the different pricing strategies businesses use to set prices for their products and services. It introduces concepts such as cost-based pricing, value-based pricing, competitive pricing, and psychological pricing, and discusses how businesses choose pricing approaches based on their goals, market conditions, and customer perceptions.

In this video, business consultant Amaryllis Liampoti informs her audience about how AI chatbots have become more personal and proactive, the line between tool and companion is beginning to blur, with some users even professing love for their digital aides. She presents three foundational principles for how brands can harness AI to build deeper emotional connections with consumers while prioritizing well-being, transparency and autonomy — ensuring AI enhances lives without undermining human agency. (Recorded at TED@BCG September 12, 2024)

Investopedia provides interactive financial education tools and simulations that help learners understand core financial concepts used in business decision-making. Through guided examples, simulations, and explanatory articles, students can explore topics such as financial statements, investment strategies, budgeting, and financial ratios. These tools allow students to apply financial concepts in realistic scenarios, helping them better understand how businesses interpret financial information and make strategic financial decisions.

The U.S. Small Business Administration provides educational resources designed to help entrepreneurs and small business owners understand financial management. The “Manage Your Finances” section includes guidance on budgeting, cash flow management, financial planning, and funding strategies. These materials introduce students to practical financial tools used by businesses to maintain financial stability and make informed financial decisions.

Through this video you can gain essential coaching skills to support employee development, motivate employees and improve retention, culture, and results in this practical course for managers and leaders. Hear from non-faculty instructor and co-developer, Inbal Demri-Shaham, professor emerita Margaret A. Neale, and professor Sarah A. Soule.

Professor Nancy Koehn shares tools that all great crisis leaders in the past and present have utilized. The resource helps students understand how management principles are applied within real business environments and how leadership and organizational structure contribute to business success.

This curated list highlights ten highly recommended entrepreneurship podcasts that provide insights into starting and managing a business. The podcasts feature discussions on topics such as innovation, leadership, business strategy, and real-world experiences from entrepreneurs and industry professionals. These resources offer practical advice and perspectives that can help learners better understand the challenges and opportunities involved in entrepreneurship.

The U.S. Small Business Administration’s “Launch Your Business” guide provides step-by-step information for individuals interested in starting a business. The resource introduces key concepts such as choosing a business structure, registering a business, obtaining licenses and permits, securing funding, and developing a business plan. Designed for new entrepreneurs, the guide explains the practical steps involved in launching and managing a small business.

HBR IdeaCast is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with business leaders and experts on topics such as communication, leadership, and workplace trends. Episodes often explore how digital tools, remote work, and evolving workplace norms are changing the way professionals communicate.

Ayesha explores human connections in the digital age, exposing the paradox of our hyper-connected world. Through personal anecdotes and reflections on social media, she reveals how tools meant to bring us closer can ironically hinder genuine relationship formation.

A comprehensive resource designed to equip professionals with the skills and insights needed to succeed in the workplace. Covering everything from mastering the art of introductions and written communication to handling ethical challenges and fostering inclusivity, this book provides a well-rounded approach to professional development. Each chapter is carefully crafted to address the nuanced dynamics of modern work environments.

Connecting with the people you work with doesn't just make your team stronger, it's good for you too. Whether you've just joined a new organization or you're managing a remote team, these three tips from collaboration expert Mark T. Rivera can help you strengthen your ties with your co-workers, so that everyone can thrive.

Katherine Hampsten’s TED-Ed video, "How Miscommunication Happens," serves as a foundational business communication resource by replacing the simple "transmission" model with a realistic transactional model, emphasizing how subjective filters and context alter meaning in professional environments. Learners will gain insights into active listening, the necessity of feedback loops for co-constructing meaning, and the impact of environmental context on message interpretation.

An example of a properly formatted professional business email with annotations to understand the key formatting conventions used in workplace email communications.

This TED-Ed video explores effective strategies for preparing and delivering a presentation. It emphasizes the importance of developing a clear script, becoming familiar enough with the material to speak naturally, and avoiding a delivery style that feels overly memorized or disorganized. The lesson helps learners understand how preparation, structure, and confident delivery work together to create more meaningful and engaging presentations.

This instructional video explains the purpose, structure, and formatting of a formal business letter. It introduces the key parts of a business letter, such as the heading, inside address, salutation, body, closing, and signature, and shows how these elements work together to create clear and professional correspondence.

This video explains how to develop a strong claim for an argumentative message. It focuses on the characteristics of an effective claim, such as being clear, specific, and debatable.

Business Plan Creation Activity lays out resources from the Small Business Administration for various steps of creating a business plan. Topics covered include employees, permits, and obligations by law and for taxes; tax ID number, registrations, and government forms; business structure, acquiring startup capital, and location; services available to small business founders, and writing a business plan.

In this video, students will learn about the eight essential sections that every business plan should have, how to write them and what kind of details to include. Whether they’re starting a new business or trying to get an existing one in order, they’ll understand that a detailed business plan is the perfect way to get organized.

This video explains how individuals and organizations approach ethical decision-making in business situations. It outlines a structured process for evaluating ethical dilemmas, including identifying the issue, considering stakeholders, evaluating possible actions, and selecting the most ethical course of action. The video emphasizes the importance of using logical reasoning and ethical frameworks when making decisions that impact others.

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University provides a collection of real-world case studies that explore ethical dilemmas across business, technology, healthcare, and public life. These scenarios present complex situations that require thoughtful analysis, encouraging learners to examine competing values, stakeholder perspectives, and possible outcomes.This collection of case studies presents real-world ethical dilemmas across a variety of industries.

This video explores the psychological factors that influence ethical decision-making and explains why individuals sometimes act unethically even when they know what is right. It discusses how pressures, biases, and situational factors can affect judgment, leading to decisions that may conflict with personal values. The video highlights the gap between intention and behavior and emphasizes how easily ethical thinking can be influenced by context and environment.

In this TED Talk, Michael Schur uses humor and personal examples to explain how ethical thinking can improve everyday decision-making. The talk introduces major moral philosophy approaches—including Kantian ethics, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics—and shows how these frameworks can help people think through difficult choices rather than rely only on instinct or convenience. Schur’s examples make ethical theory approachable while emphasizing that good decision-making often requires reflection, self-awareness, and a willingness to evaluate one’s actions carefully

Ann Skeet, director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, describes specific things leaders can do to show ethical leadership including creating community, including good conduct, "playing your position," clarifying culture, and ethical systems design.

As AI ramps up and challenges humans’ monopoly on intelligence, purely human skills like moral judgment and empathy become even more crucial for leaders. While machines can be taught to do things right, Seidman says, only people can lead others to do the right things. This interview is part of a series called “The New World of Work,” which explores how top-tier executives see the future and how their companies are trying to set themselves up for success.

This article, written by Irina Raicu for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, highlights a critical but often overlooked aspect of Artificial Intelligence: its environmental cost. The piece serves as a call to action for developers, organizations, and users to become more "discerning" about how and when they deploy these computation-heavy tools.

This 7 minute and 26 second video does include graphic images and content regarding child abuse. This is a video depicting the first known case of child abuse in America that established legal remedies for intervention inside a child's home.

This webpage link lead to the California Department of Education which provides guidelines to help educators recognize and report suspected child abuse and neglect. The resource explains common signs of different types of abuse and outlines the responsibilities of mandated reporters in California. It also explains how and when to report concerns to the appropriate authorities to help protect children and ensure their safety.

The Child Abuse Mandated Reporter Training Project website provides online training that helps professionals understand their legal responsibilities for reporting suspected child abuse and neglect in California. The courses explain the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, how to recognize signs of abuse, and the steps required to make a report. The site offers different training modules for specific professions such as educators, child care providers, medical professionals, and volunteers.

This video explains Munchausen syndrome, a condition where a person pretends to be sick or purposely causes symptoms in themselves to gain attention or sympathy. It also describes Munchausen by proxy, which occurs when a caregiver falsely claims or causes illness in someone in their care, often a child, in order to receive attention or praise from others.

This video highlights the work of the Child Abuse Prevention Center (CAP Center) in Sacramento, California, an organization dedicated to protecting children and supporting healthy families. It explains how the center uses safety, education, and advocacy to prevent child abuse, neglect, and abandonment, and features its three partner agencies—Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento, Lift the Children, and Prevent Child Abuse California. The video shows the impact of child abuse on individuals and society, including health risks, crime, and financial costs, and highlights CAP Center programs that serve children, parents, and professionals through education, training, and volunteer support. It also emphasizes the CAPC AmeriCorps program, which recruits and trains volunteers to provide tutoring, home visits, and community-based services while gaining professional development, illustrating how the center’s work is making a meaningful difference in preventing child abuse.

The video Safe Babies Court Teams: Building Strong Families and Healthy Communities highlights an innovative approach to supporting infants, toddlers, and their families involved in the child welfare system. It showcases how judges, attorneys, child welfare professionals, and community partners work together as a team to reduce trauma, strengthen parent-child relationships, and improve outcomes for young children. By focusing on collaboration, early intervention, and family-centered decision-making, the Safe Babies Court Teams model demonstrates how courts and communities can build safer, healthier, and more supportive environments for children and families.

This article discusses the arrest of an Anderson, Indiana couple for criminal neglect after their 2-year-old twins were found in unsafe living conditions and in need of medical care. It highlights the investigation that led to charges against both parents and underscores the seriousness of child neglect and the measures authorities take to protect vulnerable children.

This video highlights the dangers of Shaken Baby Syndrome, a preventable condition that claims the lives of hundreds of infants each year. It showcases University Hospital’s use of a high-tech training doll to educate adults on how quickly and severely a baby can be harmed by shaking, emphasizing the devastating consequences of frustration or anger. The video also underscores the hospital’s commitment to community education and outreach, providing resources to help caregivers prevent these tragic incidents.

This is the California Child Protective Services website that provides an overview of what CPS is and what steps are taken once a suspected child abuse report is submitted.

The Program for Infant Toddler Care website explains a relationship-based approach to caring for infants and toddlers. It focuses on how responsive caregiving, strong caregiver-child relationships, and supportive program policies promote healthy development. The site describes six essential policies that guide high quality infant and toddler care including primary caregiving, small groups, continuity of care, individualized care, culturally responsive practices, and inclusive care.

This 7 minute and 35 second video that explains the following: The attachment theory argues that a strong emotional and physical bond to one primary caregiver in our first years of life is critical to our development. If our bonding is strong and we are securely attached, then we feel safe to explore the world. If our bond is weak, we feel insecurely attached. We are afraid to leave or explore a rather scary-looking world. Because we are not sure if we can return. Often we then don't understand our own feelings.

This hyperlink will go to a webpage where you will find the title Principles of Caregiving By Magda Gerber.

The Infants section of A Journey Into Inquiry-Based Early Learning highlights how infants are curious, capable learners who explore through play and sensory experiences. For teachers, it underscores the role of guidance and communication: observing carefully, responding to infants’ cues, and supporting exploration without taking over. Educators are encouraged to create safe, engaging environments, foster back-and-forth interactions, and use intentional language to build early social, emotional, and cognitive skills.

This 2 minute and 4 second video that discusses the following, "Economic, educational, and other gaps between teachers and parents can sometimes make it challenging to build true partnerships. In this video, fatherhood expert Doug Edwards from Real Dads Forever discusses some strategies teachers can use to bridge those gaps and build stronger relationships with families -- including being vulnerable, sharing a few pieces of personal information, and taking the time to really get to know families."

The NAEYC article on engaging families highlights the importance of building reciprocal partnerships between educators and families. It emphasizes that families are experts on their children and should be actively involved in decisions about learning, development, and program planning. The article also explores how strong family engagement, combined with community connections, supports developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive early childhood education.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children Developmentally Appropriate Practice webpage explains what high quality early childhood education looks like for children from birth through age eight. It outlines guiding principles that help educators make intentional decisions based on child development research, individual children’s strengths and needs, and their cultural and social contexts. The page serves as an overview of NAEYC’s framework for developmentally appropriate, equitable, and effective teaching practices.

This 22 minute and 45 second video entitled It's Not Just Routine Feeding, Diapering, and Napping Infants and Toddlers helps caregivers to better understand how routines are incorporated into curriculum. "When done well, children learn valuable lessons."

This 15 minute and 22 second video entitled Project Approach Curriculum Map which gives an overview of how to complete a concept web to help guide creating your lesson plan and web for this week!

This 3 minute and 16 second video entitled Infant Toddler Environments sheds light on some of the essential benchmarks for infant/toddler indoor and outdoor environments.

This website to California Department of Education leads to the foundations & frameworks that can both be accessed as pdfs from the website.

This 5 minute and 10 second video explains the following: Dr. Nancy Segal has studied reunited twins for more than 30 years. With Lisa Ling acting as her research assistant, together they interviewed twins Linda and Doreen, who spent 35 years apart. The results of their interviews will help science understand the effects of nature vs. nurture on traits present in each twin.

This 6 minute and 52 second video gives insight into how to take an active role in the birthing process. This video provides tips on how to do this and ways to make the process as comfortable as possible.

This 5 minute and 9 second video shares some of the typical gross motor (large muscles) milestones babies move through in the first year of life.

Sensorimotor stage: from birth to age 2. Children experience the world through movement and senses (use five senses to explore the world). During the sensorimotor stage children are extremely egocentric, meaning they cannot perceive the world from others' viewpoints.

This article from the National Association for the Education of Young Children highlights the important role teachers play in supporting language development in infants and toddlers through everyday interactions. It emphasizes using responsive communication, modeling language during routines, reading and singing, and expanding on children’s attempts to communicate. The article reinforces that intentional, relationship-based practices help build a strong foundation for early language and communication skills.

This 14 minute and 11 second video’s …purpose is to illustrate the role of the teacher in using language to support children's development. The interactions you will see include positive language, expansion, questioning, and redirection. Teachers use these techniques to expand children's knowledge, encourage complex thinking and problem solving skills, and help children develop appropriate behavior and positive social skills.

This weblink will lead you to different pdfs that can be downloaded and utilized. To get to this activity, you will scroll down to the header that Module One. Under there you can access various handouts. For this one, click on 1.15 Examining Reactions. This will provide a handout that students may use in the classroom.

This chapter connects rhetoric to audience, ethics, interpretation, and message construction, then explicitly names the canons.

Very clean, teachable explanation of invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. This would work well as a short pre-class reading or a Canvas page pairing with a mini lecture or annotation activity.

Covers the Aristotelian proofs in an intro public speaking course. It explains logos, ethos, and pathos in explicitly public-speaking terms and ties ethos to good sense, goodwill, and moral character.

Covers the rhetorical canons and extends into how rhetoric functions in analysis, so it works nicely as reinforcement after students get the basics from the other readings.

This gives students an immediate way to apply the proofs by choosing a persuasive topic and planning how they would use ethos, pathos, and logos. It would be easy to adapt into a discussion prompt, worksheet, or low-stakes Canvas assignment.

This is a strong student-friendly overview of Aristotelian rhetoric, especially ethos, logos, and pathos, and it frames those appeals in terms of audience and purpose, which helps connect rhetorical theory to broader human communication principles. The TED-Ed lesson page also includes built-in questions and discussion prompts.

Presents the five canons as a guide for improving public speaking and explicitly names invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery, so it works as a focused companion to the readings listed here.

This is a clean, college-level explanation of logos, ethos, and pathos with concrete examples. It leans a little more toward argumentative writing than speech, but the core rhetorical concepts transfer directly to public speaking, persuasion, and audience adaptation.

Explains what rhetorical criticism is, why critics study speeches and other symbolic artifacts, and how the field widened from focusing only on famous speakers to including broader social forces, movements, and many kinds of discourse. Sets up analyzing both historical and contemporary public discourse.

This one is especially useful for students because it moves from theory into practice. It asks whether discourse fits its context, whether it manipulates audiences, whether it gives enough information for informed decisions, and it explicitly names artifacts like op-eds, speeches, YouTube videos, photographs, and political cartoons. That makes it very usable for analyzing public discourse across media and across time.

This site indexes 5,000+ speeches and related public-address artifacts, flags whether entries include text, audio, or video, and includes both a Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century collection and substantial 21st-century material. It is ideal for comparing historical and contemporary public discourse side by side.

This TED Talk explicitly compares Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” with Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, so students see how similar rhetorical structure can operate in very different historical and contemporary public contexts. It’s not a full rhetorical-criticism lesson, but it gives students a sharp comparative lens.

A list of questions that walks students through rhetorical situation, speaker, intention, audience, content, form, effectiveness, and what a text reveals about the culture that produced it. That last piece is especially useful for analyzing discourse historically while still asking how contemporary audiences might respond.

It explicitly frames ethics as something that applies to both speakers and listeners, introduces the ethics pyramid (intent, means, ends), and connects the chapter to the NCA Credo for Ethical Communication.

This is the best receiver-side resource I found. It covers the stages of listening and, more importantly for your topic, it explains ethical feedback as explanatory, respectful, and accountable rather than reactive or vague.

Broadens the topic beyond speech performance and makes the case that communication ethics applies across contexts, channels, and media. It also introduces the NCA Credo as a practical framework, which helps students think about ethical communication as everyday practice, not just public-speaking compliance.

Description: This TED Talk balances sending and receiving better than most speech videos do. It emphasizes honesty, brevity, clarity, and listening, which makes it a clean fit for ethical communication practices in dialogue, not just formal speechmaking.

This is the most assignment-ready piece in this set. Students sort brief scenarios into intent, means, and ends, and the page explicitly frames the pyramid as a habit for ethical speaking. It also reinforces that ethical listening begins with open-minded intent before judging a message.

This chapter covers the difference between hearing and listening, listening styles and difficulties, the stages of listening, critical listening, and ethical listening, so it gives students the broader framework they need before they practice giving feedback.

This focus on the constructive feedback side of this topic. It explicitly defines constructive criticism as feedback that is specific and descriptive enough to be useful, and it gives practical guidelines such as being specific, descriptive, and positive.

This is a nice low-stakes, student-friendly activity. It gives concrete active-listening moves like talking less, asking questions, watching body language, showing attention, and giving feedback by paraphrasing or asking follow-up questions.

This page includes a presentation scoring guide students can use to give constructive feedback on presence, language, organization, subject mastery, visual aids, and overall impression, and it also works as a self-evaluation checklist during practice.

This is a good media complement because it focuses squarely on what good listening looks like and frames listening as a skill that improves relationships, worldview, and even persuasion. The lesson page also includes built-in questions and discussion prompts, which makes it easy to assign.

This is the foundation piece for the topic because it treats audience analysis as more than demographics. It explicitly includes situational, demographic, psychological, multicultural, and topic-interest analysis, which helps students think about audience diversity without flattening people into stereotypes.

This focuses on the “diverse audiences” part of the topic. It explains why diversity makes audience adaptation more complex, warns against overgeneralizing cultural groups, and specifically recommends using the group’s preferred terms and seeking commonalities over differences.

This one gets concrete about inclusive language. It advises students to avoid totalizing people by a single trait, to ask how groups prefer to be referred to, and to match language to the audience’s likely knowledge and frame of reference.

This is the most assignment-ready resource. Students craft the same message for different audiences, then debrief how assumptions, unconscious bias, and context shaped their choices. It is technically from business communication, but it transfers very cleanly to public speaking.

The lesson centers on how hearing only one story about a person or culture produces misunderstanding, which makes it a strong companion to audience-analysis work and discussions about avoiding flattening, stereotyping, or speaking past diverse audiences. The TED-Ed lesson also includes built-in questions and discussion prompts.

This is the foundation piece for the topic because it treats audience analysis as more than demographics. It explicitly includes situational, demographic, psychological, multicultural, and topic-interest analysis, which helps students think about audience diversity without flattening people into stereotypes.

This is a simple, public-speaking-specific audience analysis chapter. It covers the purpose of audience analysis and walks through key audience factors such as demographic and situational considerations, so it works well as a basic introduction before students get into more nuanced questions about diversity or adaptation.

This is a clean, simple explanation of the rhetorical situation for students. It defines the situation through context, audience, and purpose and explicitly tells speakers to think about the “who, what, where, when, why, and how” of a presentation from the audience’s perspective. It comes from a business-communication book, but it transfers very well to public speaking.

This one gets concrete about inclusive language. It advises students to avoid totalizing people by a single trait, to ask how groups prefer to be referred to, and to match language to the audience’s likely knowledge and frame of reference.

This is the most assignment-ready resource. Students craft the same message for different audiences, then debrief how assumptions, unconscious bias, and context shaped their choices. It is technically from business communication, but it transfers very cleanly to public speaking.

This is a lecture from an Introduction to Public Speaking course at the University of Washington and says it introduces how context, audience, and purpose shape communication.

This is a strong overview. It defines the three main speech purposes—to inform, to persuade, and to entertain/mark a special occasion—and explains how each one differs in method while still allowing some overlap. It works well as the opening resource before students dive into each type separately.

This is the most direct video match covering the major speech types—informative, persuasive, and entertaining—and noting that each type has its own purpose, so it works as a straightforward media companion to the readings.

This site indexes 5,000+ speeches and related public-address artifacts, flags whether entries include text, audio, or video, and includes both a Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century collection and substantial 21st-century material. It can be used to find example speeches for each rhetorical purpose.

This activity asks students to identify the speech type, justify their reasoning, and then revise a topic for a different purpose. There are optional enhancements to the activity and debriefing discussion questions.

This is a strong chapter on informative speaking. It emphasizes that informative speeches should be accurate, clear, and interesting, and it distinguishes informing from persuading by stressing that the speaker’s job is to help listeners understand rather than push them toward a position.

This chapter persuasion as attempting to move an audience’s attitudes, values, beliefs, or behavior, and it helps students see how persuasive speeches differ from informative ones by aiming for change rather than explanation alone.

It explains that entertaining speeches often occur in special-occasion contexts, aim to stir audience emotion, and require adaptation to the occasion and audience rather than just trying to be funny.

This chapter ties topic choice to audience analysis and helps students narrow broad ideas into something manageable for an actual speech. It also explicitly lists outcomes like composing an audience-centered specific purpose statement and a thesis statement.

This chapter walks students through the difference between general purpose, specific purpose, and thesis, and it explains that the thesis should preview what the audience can expect from the speech

This is here for the organizational patterns piece. It moves from specific purpose to main points, explains that speeches need a coherent body structure, and then walks through patterns like topical and others while reminding students to choose the pattern that best fits the speech’s purpose, audience, and material.

A usable activity-oriented reading. Beyond explaining formal outlines and speaking notes, it includes concrete class activities on building introductions, creating abbreviated preparation outlines, practicing transitions, and converting full-sentence content into keyword note cards. That makes it more assignable than a chapter that only explains outlining.

This video offers an in-depth look at organizing a speech or presentation, including the introduction, body, and conclusion, so it pairs well with the outlining and organization readings.

A public speaking practice activity for outlining, organizing, and identifying where source support is needed.

This is a “how to actually begin” resource. It walks students through planning a search strategy, breaking a topic into smaller chunks, brainstorming keywords, using a mind map, and locating sources that represent multiple perspectives. It also includes built-in learning activities rather than just explanation.

This is a nice companion or supplementary material to the first resource because it gets concrete about search terms. It teaches quotation marks, AND, NOT, asterisk searching, and synonym generation, then asks students to build their own keyword sets for a topic. That makes it especially helpful for the “locating ideas and information” part of this topic.

This covers the primary vs. secondary sources piece by explaining the difference between primary and secondary sources, distinguishing reliable from unreliable online information, accessing reliable information, conducting interviews and surveys, and recognizing what should be cited.

This chapter walks students through the CRAAP test and includes multiple short practice activities on currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose, so students are not just reading about source quality but actually testing it.

This is a short video specifically framed around the CRAAP test so it pairs well with the evaluation reading above and gives students a quick review format before they try source evaluation on their own.

This is a good resource if you want to teach students how to identify fake news and information, because it is specifically about fact-checking and misinformation. The episode directly asks whether fact-checking is enough to fight false information. This fits well if you like to emphasize critical thinking, even in the face of standard verifying procedures.

This lesson (video, quiz, discussion) focuses on how false information gets repeated until it looks credible, especially through circular reporting. The TED-Ed lesson page includes built-in multiple-choice and open-response questions, so it is more assignable than a standalone video.

This is a good entry point for claim, evidence, and warrant. It explicitly defines those three parts and explains that each is necessary to build a compelling argument, which makes it a strong foundation for helping students support propositions of fact, value, or policy.

This is a resource here for credible evidence selection. It explains the major support types, stresses variety, relevance, and audience fit, warns against manipulating evidence, and introduces “reverse outlining” as a way to test whether support is actually doing the work you think it is.

This covers written and oral citation. It explains citing sources in written and oral speech materials, and it gives side-by-side examples showing how a written citation becomes a smooth oral attribution during delivery. It also makes the important point that a written outline alone is not enough; without oral attribution, the audience can wrongly assume the words are your own.

This is a straightforward media companion focused specifically on creating and delivering oral citations in public speaking, which makes it a nice practical add-on to some reading.

The video is explicitly framed around what makes a source credible and why it matters, so it works well as a short, practical intro to vetting sources before research.

This is good for the “various modes of delivery” part of the topic. It explicitly walks students through impromptu, manuscript, extemporaneous, and memorized speaking, and the page also includes a linked video component from Mohawk College Student Success.

This is an all-around foundation piece. It covers the four basic delivery methods, explains how to adapt delivery to different speaking environments, gives guidance on using notecards, and closes with concrete practice strategies for speech day.

This focuses on how verbal and nonverbal choices work together, warns against over- or under-doing delivery, and emphasizes rehearsal as the way speakers find a delivery style that feels natural instead of stiff or exaggerated.

This covers delivery as a full process, not just performance in the moment. It addresses rehearsal, anxiety management, reading audience cues, self-analysis, and giving/receiving constructive feedback, which makes it useful after students have learned the delivery modes and need to refine their actual speaking habits.

This is good for covering public speaking anxiety. TED-Ed frames it specifically around stage fright and explains the physical stress response speakers feel before presenting. The lesson’s “Dig Deeper” section also points to breathing and stretching as ways to help regulate that response.

This is good to show for preparing for a presentation. It is part of TED-Ed’s Public Speaking 101 series and is explicitly described as a lesson on how to share ideas while mastering essential communication skills.

This site indexes 5,000+ speeches and related public-address artifacts, flags whether entries include text, audio, or video, and includes both a Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century collection and substantial 21st-century material. It can be used to find example speeches for each delivery method.

This is the strongest resource here for the verbal side of the topic. It covers vivid language, projection, enunciation, punctuation, rate, and pausing, and it frames these choices as things that affect comprehension and audience experience, not just “sounding good.”

This covers the nonverbal side of the outcome. It focuses on eye contact, gestures, hands, posture, movement, facial expression, attire, and credibility, and it also gives a useful reminder that some audience interpretations of eye contact and credibility are culturally shaped rather than universal.

This is an all-around foundation piece. It covers the four basic delivery methods, explains how to adapt delivery to different speaking environments, gives guidance on using notecards, and closes with concrete practice strategies for speech day.

This is the most usable practice item. It includes simple exercises for breath control, humming, reducing fillers, and using silence intentionally, which makes it more than just a reading about delivery. It would be easy to adapt into a low-stakes rehearsal station or discussion post.

This is explicitly about using voice and body language to help an audience feel connection, curiosity, understanding, empathy, and conviction. The lesson page also gives students concrete prompts like marking emphasis, pauses, “aha” moments, and audience-friendly wording.

This is good to show for preparing for a presentation. It is part of TED-Ed’s Public Speaking 101 series and is explicitly described as a lesson on how to share ideas while mastering essential communication skills.

This site indexes 5,000+ speeches and related public-address artifacts, flags whether entries include text, audio, or video, and includes both a Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century collection and substantial 21st-century material. It can be used to find example speeches with various verbal and nonverbal behaviors.

This is a broad starting point because it defines communication apprehension, explains common sources such as inexperience, unrealistic expectations, previous negative experiences, and overthinking, and explicitly frames the chapter around strategies students can apply to reduce apprehension.

This is the clearest resource for helping students understand what is happening in their bodies. It defines communication apprehension, explains the evaluation/stress response, and describes common physiological symptoms like shaky voice, clammy hands, and rapid breathing, which helps normalize the experience before students work on reducing it.

This is good for covering public speaking anxiety. TED-Ed frames it specifically around stage fright and explains the physical stress response speakers feel before presenting. The lesson’s “Dig Deeper” section also points to breathing and stretching as ways to help regulate that response.

This is the most useful resource for turning anxiety management into an action plan. It explains that anxiety often peaks right before speaking, recommends cognitive restructuring and positive self-talk, and connects anxiety reduction to how students rehearse and deliver the speech.

This is a strong second video option because it is explicitly about handling communication anxiety and offering practical tools for speaking under pressure.

This is the best “why am I doing this?” resource in the set. It gives students concrete reasons people are called to speak publicly, from civic participation and leadership to introductions, toasts, award presentations, eulogies, and motivational speaking. It also frames practice and feedback as part of becoming a stronger communicator.

This informative speech guide gives students a sample assignment sheet, explains the informative purpose, and includes assignment expectations tied to topic choice, audience analysis, organization, research, and delivery. It also points students toward sample outlines and notecards as part of the prep process.

This is useful because students can see what a finished informative speech outline actually looks like instead of only reading rules about one. It works especially well as a model after students have read an assignment sheet and before they draft their own outline.

This is the persuasive companion to the informative models above. It gives students an actual persuasive speech outline with a clear specific purpose and organizational structure, which makes it easier for them to see how persuasive speeches are built differently from informative ones.

This is a nice companion if you want one media item. TED-Ed frames it as part of its Public Speaking 101 series, and the lesson includes a useful script-marking exercise that has students mark emphasis, tone changes, pauses, and “aha” moments, then read aloud and optionally record themselves.

This video introduces the basic features of the macOS operating system and demonstrates how users can navigate and manage their Mac computers. The tutorial explains key elements such as the desktop interface, Finder, the Dock, and system navigation tools that allow users to open applications, organize files, and manage settings. Because many students use Apple computers, the video provides practical guidance for navigating macOS.

This video introduces the concept of an operating system and explains its role in managing a computer’s hardware, software, files, and user interface. It helps learners understand how an operating system allows users to interact with a computer, run applications, organize files, and control system functions.

The GCFLearnFree Windows 10 Series provides a collection of beginner-friendly tutorials designed to help users understand and navigate the Windows operating system. The lessons cover essential skills such as managing files and folders, customizing system settings, using built-in applications, and understanding basic operating system functions. Each module includes clear explanations, visuals, and step-by-step guidance, making it especially helpful for students who are new to working with computers.

A 3-page document overviewing computer hardware components and their details with accessibility tips for online sharing.

This video provides a simplified explanation of how the inside of a computer functions. It takes the viewer on a look inside a typical computer and shows some of the main components. It shows what these components look like in a laptop and a desktop computer, and discusses some of the differences between laptops and desktops.

This video introduces the fundamental components of a computer system by explaining the difference between hardware and software. It describes key hardware parts such as the CPU, memory, storage devices, and input/output devices, while also explaining how software allows users to interact with and operate a computer.

This video highlights the importance of computer science and programming in today’s world by featuring business and technology leaders discussing why coding is a valuable skill. The video emphasizes how software shapes modern life, careers, innovation, and problem-solving, while encouraging learners to see computer science as an accessible and useful field of study. It introduces the broader role of programming in technology and explains why understanding how computers work goes beyond simply using digital tools.

This Khan Academy module introduces the basic principles of programming and how computer programs are created. The lessons explain concepts such as algorithms, problem solving, and the logic behind writing code.

This video introduces the basic principles of computer security and explains why protecting digital information is important. It discusses common security risks such as malware, phishing, and unauthorized access, and gives practical steps users can take to protect their computers and personal data.

This video explains how the Internet functions as a global network that connects computers and devices around the world. It introduces key concepts such as networks, data packets, routers, and the role of physical infrastructure in transmitting information.

The GCFLearnFree Word Foundations Series introduces the skills needed to create and edit documents using Microsoft Word. The tutorials guide learners through the Word interface and demonstrate how to create documents, format text, adjust page layouts, insert images and tables, and use basic editing tools.

The GCFLearnFree Excel Foundations Series introduces the basic skills needed to work with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel. The tutorials guide learners through essential concepts such as navigating the Excel interface, entering and organizing data, using simple formulas and functions, formatting worksheets, and creating charts to visualize information. Each lesson includes clear explanations and step-by-step demonstrations.

This Khan Academy module introduces the fundamentals of working with data and understanding how information can be organized, interpreted, and analyzed using digital tools.

This resource explains best practices for creating clear and engaging presentations. It discusses principles such as organizing ideas logically, designing visually effective slides, and using visuals and text to communicate information clearly.