Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Seminar planning and inspiration

Links to help with seminar planning:

http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/presentations/planning-presentation

http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/presentations/delivering-presentation

http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/presentations/visual-aids


http://www.ralphelliott.com/uncategorized/twelve-tips-for-effective-seminar-presentations/


Some fabulous TED talks to show how to grab and hold your audience, and how to structure your talk to keep them involved:
Sarah Kay uses spoken word poetry to develop fluent and coherent ideas and engage her audience at the same time.  She shows how you can use creativity to develop and present your ideas convincingly.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter?language=en#t-250498


This one you may have seen in science classes.  It's heavy on clever image work, but the ideas are developed in a fluent and coherent way, and he uses statistics readily to back up his claims, and bullet points on the screen to consolidate his argument.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVvn8dpSAt0



Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is my personal favourite.  Her novels are great and she is a powerful and outspoken feminist role model.  Here is her 2009 talk on finding your authentic voice: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story



Her latest classic, We should all be feminists:


For a selection of particularly successful TED talks, see: https://www.ted.com/playlists/77/11_must_see_ted_talks