If you search out “Bobby Jindal” on YouTube, you may be surprised to find that Louisiana’s governor is a pretty good speaker. You’ll discover that his very poorly delivered response to President Obama back on February 24th was an anomaly. Sadly, when you’re that much in the spotlight and your delivery is that [...]

Want a visual way of analyzing word usage in your presentations? Then you’ll love Wordle.net. It creates a word cloud of your most commonly-used words, and gives you a lot of control over what it looks like.
I entered the text of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention last night, and you’ll [...]

What if you don’t have the time, the venue, or the people to run through some practice presentations in person? I’ve been trying out a free online tool that might help. It’s called Elluminate, an e-learning system used by a lot of academics to do virtual collaboration and teaching. Here’s a screenshot:

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