Podium

The Podium is from The Sims 3: University Life, is used by professors in Lectures, and has three main, notable features. The first being the typical Charisma building action, Practice Speech, which now negates the need of a mirror in an area to do so. The second interaction is Announce Protest At... which allows the Sim to start a protest without using the megaphone. The tertiary and final interaction (and most useful) is to lecture about a skill the Sim has. This is comparable to the ability to tutor with the Logic Skill because Sims around the area of the podium will listen to the lecture if they aren't currently doing an action. This is a slower rate than tutoring and Sims will eventually get bored of the lecture if it's repeated, so mastering the Logic Skill might be more beneficial. However, tutoring only gains the skill of one Sim at a time, while giving a lecture will improve skill of any Sim in the room.