View videos of well-known speeches and read evaluations of their techniques. Andrew Dlugan, an award-winning public speaker and speech evaluator, breaks down the positive and negative aspects of each speech.

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Strengths

There are many and varied speeches on this site. It is a wonderful place for students to start to learn the vocabulary of critique. The links are embedded and all work well on the site. The evaluations are easy to read and well-formatted.

Concerns

Be sure to check out the specific rules of use on this material for copyright. It is encouraged for fair use in the classroom, but you may not take written materials and reproduce them into your own PowerPoint.  As long as you send the students to the Six Minutes site, the videos are free to use.

Recommendations for use

With a growing supply of speech videos readily accessible, video critiques can be especially useful teaching and learning aids. This site could serve as the “how to” before assigning student critiques of speeches. The link could be provided via Scholar as a homework assignment.