The document provides 12 tips for online public speaking, including raising the camera to a flattering angle, paying attention to physical appearance and lighting, ensuring a strong internet connection, imagining the audience, making eye contact, using visual aids, and practicing an opening, closing, and rehearsal. It also gives 4 examples of how to open a speech, such as with a shocking statement, quotation, rhetorical question, or statistic.

1. Online Public Speaking
Tunas Mekar Indonesia
Senior High School
2021
Wirathama Hazera Putra, M.Pd.

2. PUBLIC SPEAKING IS A
PROCESS, AN ACT AND AN
ART OF MAKING A SPEECH
BEFORE AN AUIDIENCE.

4. Online Public Speaking Tips
1. Raise your camera: The most flattering angle for the
camera to capture your face is from the same level
or a little above your face.

5. Best Angle

6. Online Public Speaking Tips
2. Physical appearance: relaxed and smiling face with
suitable dress, standing position, and gesture.

7. Good Appearance

8. Best Position

9. Online Public Speaking Tips
3. Adjust your lighting and virtual background.

10. Suitable Lighting

11. Virtual Background

12. Online Public Speaking Tips
4. Ensure you have strong internet connection, clear
voice, and audible volume.
5. Imagine your audience and relax your face.
6. Watch your eyes contact and speech rate.

13. Online Public Speaking Tips
7. Use attractive visuals like PowerPoint or 3-5
minutes video.
8. Open your speech with statement, quotation,
question, or statistic.
9. Greet the viewers with a smile, introduce yourself,
and explain your objective.
10. End with a brief summary.
11. Close with a well-worded, memorable statement.
12. Do a rehearsal / practice before show time.

14. How to Open the Speech?
1. Opening with a shocking statement: “Cigarettes are
the number one cause of lung cancer in Indonesia!”
2. Opening with a quotation: “Elbert Hubbard once
said, ‘Truth is stronger than fiction’.”
3. Opening with a rhetoric question (a question that
does not need an answer, since it is used to
emphasize a point to the reader): “Have you ever
thought how dangerous smoking is?”
4. Opening with a statistic: “65% of smokers are
teenagers.”

15. Examples
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9b0OglZ
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