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Jason, Hilliard and Jane Westberg. Making the Most of Instructional Presentations: Using the Audience Response System. A 13 page BROCHURE, available free from: The Upjohn Company, Healthcare Education Services, 7000 Portage Road, Kalamazoo, MI 49001.

A practical, how-to-do-it guide to making the best use of electronic audience interaction devices, for enhancing audience involvement, and for ensuring that the presenter is responsive to the audience's characteristics and needs.

Jason, Hilliard. Enhancing Your Presentations with the OptionFinder Audience Polling System. Option Technologies, Inc., 389 W 2nd St., Ogden, UT 84404 (801/621-2500), 1998.

This is a no-cost brochure on optimizing the interaction between a presenter and an audience using this company's audience polling technology. The issues discussed include: question design, question timing, question and response formatting, and the presenter's approach to discussing the audience's responses.

Westberg, Jane and Hilliard Jason. Producers. Making Presentations. Produced at the University of Miami School of Medicine, 1991. Distributed by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and Centre Communications (Boulder, Colorado).

This 32 minute-long VIDEO can be used alone or in conjunction with the GuideBook of the same name). The video can be used interactively by a faculty developer working with a group of educators, or it can be used by individual educators. Multiple vignettes illustrate effective and ineffective strategies. Viewers are frequently asked to stop the tape and respond to challenges that can either be presented by the series hosts or by the live faculty developer.

Westberg, Jane and Hilliard Jason. Making Presentations. Chicago: CLEARVUE/eav, 1991. (800-253-2788), 1991. 89 pages NOTE: Also available in Spanish (Haciendo Presentaciones Efectivas) from the PanAmerican Health Organization, Washington, DC.

Topics in this GUIDEBOOK include appropriate and inappropriate uses of presentations; characteristics and capabilities needed by effective presenters; stage fright; and steps and strategies for preparing for and giving effective presentations. A self-checklist is included.

Whitman, Neal A. There is No Gene for Good Teaching: A Handbook on Lecturing for Medical Teachers. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah School of Medicine, 1982. 24 pages

Topics in this HANDBOOK include organization of the subject, teaching techniques, and speaking skills. An evaluation tool is included.

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