Useful resources

TED website
The TED website offers hundreds of high quality presentations on a wide range of topics. It’s a great place to go to look at presentation styles.
www.ted.com

Some of my favourites are:

Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

Hans Rosling: The best stats you’ve ever seen
You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen

The paradox of choice
Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice

 

Great Speeches

Martin Luther King Jn: I have a dream
On 28 August 1963 Martin Luther King made his I have a Dream speech that is probably the most recognised speech of all time. (youtube)

The text of the speech
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Winston S Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc&list=PL4A1446D924B9C895

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address