TED Prep Day 4

Starter: Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs  
The art of the slide-based presentation - Today we'll take a close look at slides by comparing Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.  We'll also see how Bill Gates evolved over time into an excellent slide-based presenter.   Follow the directions and do EVERY STEP of this!  A hard copy is in your TED Talk packet I gave you on Monday.

TED Invites
Send an invitation email to your TED Talk to the following people.  Make sure your email includes a polite salutation, the time and date of your TED Talk, your research question, and a brief description of what they can expect at the TED Talk.

1. Family
2. Senior Project Advisor
3. LINK Mentor (if your talk is at all related to the field you interned in)
4. Any other teachers/students you would specifically like to attend
5. CC your Humanities teacher on this email

Initial Feedback and Critique Scheduling
Get into the assigned groups that are on the board and posted here.  No matter where you are in your process, you should do the following:

1. Have each person talk through their presentation in turn.  They should address:
   1. What are you thinking about for your presentation?  Where are you right now?
   2. What are you feeling good about right now- where are the strong points?
   3. What are you concerned about?  Where do you need help?
   4. Show the group your slides (if you have any), talk them through what they mean.
   5. What kind of help do you need?  Are there questions you have that the group could help you with?
2. After each student talks through their presentation, the group will give informal verbal feedback on their slides and their presentation ideas.
3. The presenter should commit to an area of focus for upcoming work time.

SCHEDULE CRITIQUES
Once every member has talked through their presentations, you should schedule your critiques for either TOMORROW or the Tuesday of the week after spring break (April 2nd).  You can do 2-3/day, as the critique protocol should take around 30 minutes. Write on the board who is being critiqued on what day.

Develop TED Talks

1. Develop slides and outline what you want to say
2. By the end of this time, you should aim for being done with initial slides and outline.

HOMEWORK
Have a complete outline of your TED talk, and complete rough draft slides ready for your critique!