Lecterns and Podiums Course

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Introduction to Lecterns and Podiums 4 Topics

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The goal of this course is for you to master lecterns, podiums, and their function within communication spaces. You will learn strategic positioning, effective gesturing, and techniques for maintaining audience connection despite these physical barriers. Through deliberate practice, you’ll transform lecterns and podiums from obstacles into powerful platforms that enhance your communication. This course provides tools for leveraging these presentation fixtures to your advantage, ensuring your message retains its impact while navigating the unique challenges that lecterns and podiums present.

Intro to Lecterns and Podiums 6min

Communicating with an audience from a speaking platform requires that the speaker rise to the amplified baseline and sense authority that the platform creates.

Using Fixed Mount Microphones 5min

A microphone mounted at a podium or on a conference table will confine range of motion. But gesture and physicality can contribute to dynamic expression from a stationary position.

Behind the Lectern 6 Topics

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The goal of this course is for you to master lecterns, podiums, and their function within communication spaces. You will learn strategic positioning, effective gesturing, and techniques for maintaining audience connection despite these physical barriers. Through deliberate practice, you’ll transform lecterns and podiums from obstacles into powerful platforms that enhance your communication. This course provides tools for leveraging these presentation fixtures to your advantage, ensuring your message retains its impact while navigating the unique challenges that lecterns and podiums present.

Lectern and Horizontal 4min

Although a lectern physically locates the center point of a speaker’s performance, small steps to either side of the structure can be combined with gesture in space to add dynamics and create meaning using horizontals.

Lecterns and Plane 4min

Plane can be used behind a Lectern to provide an audience with nonverbal cues.

Lectern and Level 5min

The elevation of the stage, or the elevation of the audience in a performance space, can be managed and compensated for by considering the Level dynamics of a speaker behind a lectern.

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learner expectations

The goal of this course is for you to master lecterns, podiums, and their function within communication spaces. You will learn strategic positioning, effective gesturing, and techniques for maintaining audience connection despite these physical barriers. Through deliberate practice, you’ll transform lecterns and podiums from obstacles into powerful platforms that enhance your communication. This course provides tools for leveraging these presentation fixtures to your advantage, ensuring your message retains its impact while navigating the unique challenges that lecterns and podiums present.