First week Creative Presentation Assignment: Ted Talks analysis

Presentation Analysis: Ted Talks Lectures

Jack Watson

What I liked

• Amazingly well done demos of new technology
• The drone tech being shown off here interests me in that it can make drones of the future safer
• Have you noticed the theme? I'm really into tech and science, so drones are a good way to round it up

• Uses light humor to keep the audience engaged
• The topic being discussed taught people about something that is happening now in a country and how it can to a certain extent have an effect elsewhere
• The way this guy dresses is honestly super cool and I want one of those giant pocket shirts

What I liked

• Hugh Knowledge of his subject is Very in depth
• His lecture melded story as well as technology in his craft
• He used Humor in order to engage the audience
• Used Examples that the audience can relate to
• The addition of multiple visual aides such as the video of people using the bionics as well as showing how they work and are fitted helped keep the audience engaged

Raffaello D'AndreaL: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future

Tshering Tobgay: This country isnt just carbon neutral - it's carbon negative

Hugh Herr: About New Bionics

What made it powerful

What made it powerful?

What made it powerful

• Use of strong visual aids in the form of a slide show and his own way of dress
• The well planned structure of the lecture starting with an introduction to his topic at the beginning, an explanation of what is happening or will happen in the middle, and how it affects change in conclusion
• Strong, well thought out use of What is/what could be

• Use of Physical examples in the lecture to convey the information being given
• The lecture had a very defined structure
• Using examples of how the technology was in the past to illustrate how it has changed now
• The Small drone demo created a very Strong S.T.A.R moment

• Used stories as a method to engage the audience. Ex: His Story about how he lost his legs and the stories of the other amputees that bionics have helped live more normal lives
• The Lecture has a defining plot point in the story of how he lost his legs in an accident and how he learned to overcome his disability with bionics
• The lecture had a well defined structure of the past, present, and future of Bionics outlined

New Bionics Let us Run, Climb, and Dance| Hugh Herr| TED Talks youtube.com/watch?v=CDsNZJTWw0w

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lc_dlVrg5M

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXGpEmFbOw

What Could Have Been Done Better

• I felt that Hugh Herr put too much focus on himself in the lecture and that could have made some of the audience resonate less
• Some of the information in the lecture was delivered in a way that I felt to be too flat and emotionless to really create a connection with his audience

What could have been done better

• The fact the entire lecture revolved around only a singular story, although it worked here, didn't create an experience the audience could fully resonate to in my opinion. The addition of examples of what he was talking about elsewhere would have helped the audience find examples slightly more close to home

• The lecture focused more on the speaker and his team and didnt really include the audience in any major way
• The Lecture was structred, but in a way that made it more of a report than an element of telling a story
• The lecture didnt direct the audience in any real way, for a Ted Talks Lecture it sounded more like he was at a tech expo doing a demo

In my opninion I believe great presentations have:

Image of Tshering Tobgay from Vancouver sun taken by Bret Hartman: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/2016+highlights+from+week+ideas/11731831/story.html

Image of Raffaello D'andrea taken from Robohub.org:

http://robohub.org/raffaello-dandrea-at-ted2016-novel-flying-machines-and-swarms-of-tiny-flying-robots/

Sources:

Fallout's Vault boy property of: Bethesda Softworks and Zenimax Media

Picture of Hugh Herr taken from the Tim Jones website at link: http://mrtimjones.com/?p=807

Ted Talks emblem taken from Ted Talks website: www.Ted.com

Hugh Herr Running Gait Picture taken by Steve Jurvetson: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/13480667874/in/photostream/

Thanks for Reading!

• A good sense of direction
• More focus on how the idea the lecturer is presenting can help the audience or the world in general over what it can do now
• Well defined structure that conveys clearly without being a report (Don't think I got this down yet myself)
• The ability to be serious on topic while still being able to add humor to the report
• Use of visual aids to further the idea that the presenter is trying to get across to the audience (ROBOT LEGS!)
• The ability to speak TO the audience rather than speak AT
• Tshering Tobgay has a great technique to get the audience to pay more attention, by educating the audience more about his country and culture, he keep the attention of the audience for a longer period and also invests them in what he's talking about.
• Raffaelo D'Andrea used the work him and his team have been working on to engage the audience with magnificent Demonstrations to keep the audience engaged in the lecture, although doing it in this way meant a much shorter lecture
• Use of stories other than the lecturer's experiences such as Hugh Herr's stories about other amputees the bionics being created are helping
• So yea #10 is cake, because any audience can probably be won over with a large portion of confectionaries. I realise this has nothing to do with anything else but I'm putting this here anyways.