Griffin H - Scribe - 4/29/15

Homework:
-TED talk subject due Friday
-Read Play from AWNM - Fishbowl Friday

No More TED talk analysis blogs - focus on finals and finish the year strong

Schedule

Advice from past-Smith-students
-don't get to nervous
        -stress will hinder your ability to stay calm when you speak
-use gestures effectively but not too often
       -try and avoid nervous habits
-talk about something you can relate too and connect to the audience with
-rehearse and rehearse
       -take the day off before the performance
      -write out your speech - kinetic learning/memory


Empathy Fishbowl Video:
 Sorry for the angle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aon7MOe7Cdo

AWNM Empathy Period 5

Live Blog AWNM Empathy Period 5

 

AWNM Empathy Period 3

Live Blog AWNM Empathy Period 3

 

Abby Grammer Per. 3 Scribe - April 28th

23 minute class period today

Homework:

• Read Empathy in "A Whole New Mind" (fishbowl is tomorrow) 
• Have your final TED Talk subject by Friday 
• TED Talk Intro due next Monday 

What We Did/Talked About in Class: 

• How to make your TED Talk better and how to hold the attention of the audience. You have to be passionate about your subject. 
• End with TED Wish - give things out, tell the audience to do something, make them remember your topic. 
• Don't put tons of words up onto slides for TED presentation. Give visuals. 
• We saw a few examples of presentations that were mostly photos and had examples of the main idea. Use pictures and maybe have an automatic transition between slides. 
• Asked questions about presentations for TED Talks. 
• You can have a video in your presentation. 

Middleton - Period 5 Scribe - 4 / 27 / 15

HOMEWORK:

• Read Empathy (Fishbowl Thursday), 3 questions: extensions, 1 quote question
• Ted blog 5 - due tomorrow!

In Class

• watched Ted video for Blog 6 - Dave Eggers “My Wish: Once Upon a School”
• analyzed speaking style, visuals
• watched video (example of pecha kucha presentation)
• 20 slides automatically advanced every 20 seconds
• all about SIGNS
• Ted talk conferences- meet with Smith about topic
• topic must be finalized by Thursday (4/30)
• work time!

Abby Scribe 4-27-15

Due dates/homework:

• Fishbowl Wednesday
• Blog tomorrow
• Ted talk topic Finalized by Wednesday

Today:

• Watched the "My wish: Once Upon a School," by Dave Eggers
• notice Ted Wish
• Pecha-kucha, by Pink 
• learn about the way to make a pecha-kucha
• 20 slides in 5 minutes
• Smith talked to individuals about their Ted talk topics.
• 15 minutes of work time

April 24th, Period 5 Scribe - Kira White

*short class for pep assembly schedule*

Weekend Homework:

• Watch a TED video, either free choice or the one about Stress linked here or on Smith's website 
• Blog post 5 due Tuesday (or Monday if you don't want to turn it in Tuesday...?) Post to personal language arts blog
• Read the next section of A Whole New Mind, Empathy with questions (one quote based) and annotations
• Don't forget to get your schedule finished, signed, and turned in

Fishbowl:

• Negative space
• How do we use it everyday?
• in text
• in logos
• How do our brains put pieces together to create new things?
• cooking recipes
• science experiments
• has a function
• looks good
• works well
• improve everything
• Lazy people and anti-motivation
• still be passionate but overwhelmed
• Dyslexia
• how does it actually affect people?
• side note: Dan Pink is left-brained and struggles to learn in a right-brained manner, which is why he wrote the book; to prepare us for change in our world and to open our minds.
• work a lot harder
• Just because it's in the book doesn't mean it's necessarily true
• Left Brain v. Right Brain
• does it even exist?
• who is he targeting with this book?
• What's the meaning of Symphony?
• big picture v. one piece of the picture
• collaborate to create
• What will happen after right brained people take over?
• You can't be successful without left brained (strike a balance)
• Is there a left brain and right brain population? What will happen to them? (silent majority)
• can't have one without the other
• "The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot, the guy who invented three more was a genius."
• opinion: dumb quote
• somebody needs to spark an interest, others can build off of it but it was still the first guy's idea
• Henry Ford assembly line
• idiot inventor, genius marketer?
• Gender Stereotypes
• depends on the person
• girls more feeling, boys more thinking?
• "when tests of masculinity/femininity are given to young people, over and over one finds that creative and talented girls are more dominant and tough than other girls, and creative boys are more sensitive and less aggressive than their male peers"
• difference between thinking but judging
• acceptance
• Boundary Crossers
• People who excel at multiple things will be more successful
• Can you be successful without being versatile?
• it doesn't matter how many things you are successful at
• you have time to find what you are successful at
• Will multitaskers be better at life? (girls better than boys?
• Does cultural background matter?