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Personal TED Talks Speech

Student Name: _________________________________________________________________

Assignment:

You will create your own TED Talk based off our essential question "What Matters?" You will select a topic based on something that truly “matters” to you. Remember "Spread an idea worth spreading." Your speech should last between 5 to 8 minutes. When creating your TED Talk remember SCORE - Simple, Clear, Original, Relevant, Enjoyable (©2011 Ideas on Stage) If you can take a simple, original and relevant message, and deliver it in a clear, original and enjoyable way, then you will certainly SCORE with your audience.

Simple - The first is that the message needs to be simple. In 5 to 8 minutes you don’t have time to deliver anything complex, and your audience wouldn’t get it anyway. Your presentation should not be like a crossword clue, where the audience needs to spend time working out what the answer is and what they should do with it. You should be giving them the answer so the audience can use their brain-time to think about what to do with your message. In order to be simple, you have to be very clear in your objectives and your messages. First, set your objectives by completing this simple sentence: “After my presentation, my audience will…” Remember the Rule of 3: Three keys, three steps, three examples… three is a very good number, since we can usually remember three points but rarely many more than three. So keep your message simple.

Clear - Having a simple message is not enough: it also has to be clear to the audience. Clarity is about giving your talk a clear structure so it is easy for the audience to remember what you said, realize where you are, and have an idea where you are going. It is also about repetition, because as Lewis Carroll wrote, “What I say three times is the truth”. If you say a key message once, it will be forgotten. Twice is good; three times is better (the number three again). If the audience can remember your key messages and the structure of your talk, then it was clear enough. Even a simple message like “Eat more vegetables” can get lost in a mire of graphs, statistics and boring facts. Don’t let that happen. If you’re not sure your messages are clear enough, they’re not. Don’t compromise on clarity. Your audience is not psychic, and they are not detectives. They might be smart, but even if they are clever, your talk should not be an Agatha Christie whodunit. If the butler did it, say so clearly – ideally three times.

Original - Here is where many TED talks distinguish themselves. Make your talk original in terms of the way you deliver your messages. There is no rule that says you can’t open a jar of mosquitoes to make people feel the immediacy of malaria. There is no rule that says you can’t use props. In fact other than common sense and decency, there’s only one rule: don’t show the audience something they’ve seen before. Originality is therefore partly in terms of your strategies to communicate your messages memorably, but it is also about the messages themselves.

Relevant - TED audiences expect new and interesting ideas – “Ideas Worth Spreading”. A good talk is one which meets or exceeds its audience’s expectations. So for a TED Talk, the message not only needs to be original and simple: it also has to be relevant to the TED audience. A simple test for this is as follows: at the end of the talk, will anyone in the audience shrug their shoulders and say “So what?” If so, that’s not a good sign. What you want is that your TED audience thinks at the end “I didn’t know that, and I’m glad I do now” or “I must change how I act” for example.

Enjoyable - The final part is perhaps the most difficult but the most important. People want to be entertained, and TED audiences know that if you enjoy something, then you are more attentive; and if you are more attentive, you take more in and remember more. So you need to entertain your audience. This is partly in what you say and do, and partly in how you say and do it. You need to capture their attention at the beginning, and make them want to listen. You need to keep their attention by being interesting and passionate, and by saying things in a clear and memorable way. Try to deliver at least one clearly “tweetable” statement every minute or two. Use humor whenever you can (and assuming you are good at using humor – make sure it is properly rehearsed). Remember that humor is a high-risk strategy but being humorless is also a high-risk strategy. Make your talk enjoyable.

|Elements of Personal TED Talks Speech |Level 1 |Level 2 |Level 3 |Level 4 |

|Has an interesting attention-getting opening that made the audience want to listen | | | | |

|States topic clearly and gives sound reasons for choosing it | | | | |

|Follows a clear organizational outline pattern | | | | |

|Gives clear points that are easy to follow | | | | |

|Uses an anecdote, story, statistic, or quote | | | | |

|Give an indication of when the speech will end | | | | |

|Had a memorable conclusion | | | | |

|Used SCORE - Simple, Clear, Original, Relevant, Enjoyable | | | | |

|DELIVERY/OTHER SPEECH ELEMENTS | | | | |

|Consistently employs eye contact and posture, not reading the speech | | | | |

|Consistently speaks with appropriate volume, tone, pace, and articulation | | | | |

|Spoke with passion and vocal energy | | | | |

|Effective, natural gestures and body language | | | | |

|Very few interrupters (um, like, you know, etc.) | | | | |

|Organizes information coherently and stays on the topic | | | | |

|Consistently uses standard grammar, avoiding expletives | | | | |

|Evidence of planning (notes, power poetry, index cards, etc.) | | | | |

|Speech lasts 5-8 minutes | | | | |

17 Total Elements

Due: Speech Grade: ___________

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