podium

(noun)

A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra, preaching at a pulpit, or delivering a speech.

Examples of podium in the following topics:

  • Utilizing Devices to Enhance Audience Understanding

    • Visual aids, microphones, video screens, and/or a podium can help enhance audience understanding.
    • A podium can help an audience understand a speech.
    • With the addition of visual aids, podiums, microphones, and video screens, a presenter can ensure that the audience is able to see, hear, and understand the material properly.

  • Etruscan Temples

    • Etruscan temples derive from Greek models but are distinguished by a high podium, deep porch, prostyle columns, and frontality.
    • Etruscan temples were usually frontal, axial, and built on a high podium with a single central staircase that allowed access to the cella (or cellas).

  • Volume

    • Stationary mics - These are permanently attached to a podium.
    • With an attached microphone, you are limited to the space immediately in front of the podium.
    • Some stationary mics are in a holder on the podium, which can be removed to allow you to move around at least the length of the connecting cable.

  • Context of Culture and Gender

    • It's helpful for you to anticipate not only the biases you might bring to the podium, but those biases of your audience towards you as well.

  • Make It Memorable

    • Ideally, not only are they informed while you are speaking, but they actually retain that information after you have left the podium.

  • Nonverbal Communication

    • Bush (the shorter candidate) insisted that his podium be altered so that he appeared to be the same height as John Kerry.
    • Bush (the shorter candidate) insisted that his podium be altered so that he appeared to be the same height as John Kerry.

  • Delivering the Speech

    • You might be confined behind a podium or lectern, in which case your largest range of motion may be restricted to hand gestures and your gaze around the room.
    • If you can walk out from behind a podium and across a stage, take the opportunity.

  • Presentation

    • If you're able to get out from behind a podium or lectern, do so.

  • Palladio

    • The Palladian villa configuration often consists of a centralized block raised on an elevated podium, accessed by grand steps and flanked by lower service wings.

  • The Flowering of Black Freedom Struggle

    • Representatives from each of the sponsoring organizations addressed the crowd from the podium at the Lincoln Memorial.