After feedback from Dr. Neal and my colleagues, I re-recorded my TED Talk with a few changes.
I added some visuals, and attempted to clean up the audio. (Admittedly, I have more experience with visual than I do with audio)
Here’s the link:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwNI_i50qjYuMDROOHJkaERLN1E
Hey Sonya,
I liked this very much! Well done.
Here it is in Neal’s three stars and a wish format:
1. Your speaking was down to earth, confident, and easy to listen to.
2. You presented all the aspects of this in a way that anyone could understand.
3. It kept my attention and 15-ish minutes blew by in no time.
Wish: As the very end, it seemed to loop back and have some of the begining audio with a lag on the last part showing the letters and what they stood for.
I learned a number of things. Thanks!
Lee
Sonya, I liked your presentation a lot. It was easy to follow and you structured your presentation around main ideas. You often came back to restate those ideas. Now they stuck with me. It was effective and well done! Congratulations!
Sonya, great job! Great use of visuals; I especially liked the overhead view of the seating arrangements. I also enjoyed the cast of characters, especially the angry teen girl–I’ve had that girl in class so many times!
I was glad to see the assumptions section. That’s an important part for teachers.
The layout was well done and easy to follow. You present the issue, considerations, ideas to practice, and finally how to defend against the principal, Mr. Modernity.
Looking forward to meeting you!
This was really good Sonya, I enjoyed it. I could not agree with you more. Your story about Mary made me think about a student that I had years ago at morgantown high. He happened to sit in the front of the class and would have his head down during the whole class and would not participate. One day after class, I sat down next to him and asked him if he was ok and why he did not participate. He was blown away and told me that I was the only teacher that ever asked him about him.
New teachers are often made to feel that a classroom has to be quiet and orderly and that is simply not true. You raised excellent points and offered well thought out suggestions for helping kids with ADHD. I loved your visuals, especially the classroom visual and the “frustrated teacher”…oh yes and the song! The presentation was easy to follow and the recap at the end really drove your points home! Great work!
Sonya,
One of the things I learned at Dale Carnegie class is to speak about issues that ignite a passion within us. It is evident that you did this when you selected this topic for your TED presentation. The things I liked best about your TED include: 1) Your comfort level with the material and your use of personal stories (i.e. Brady) to make the points come to life, 2) Your use of visuals to illustrate your main points, and 3) The way you utilized these key bullet points to alert the reader to the most important takeaways. You obviously feel very connected to this topic and your concern/enthusiasm comes through in your voice. I know you mentioned the sound quality in your previous comments. I was listening from my laptop with small headphones, and I could pick up an echo at certain points in the file. I struggled with the voice quality issue as well, and I’m going to investigate some better recording equipment to make the sound more effective.
TJB
Hi Sonya……I really enjoyed your visuals and I found your voice to be easy to follow. You obviously love technology and finding ways to make it represent your ideas well. For instance, I enjoyed the classroom structure section where the seats lit up as you talked about them. ADHD is such an important topic and one that is controversial as well. I learned much from your experience and am interested in following up with by reading more about this topic this summer.