Public Speaking Online Assignment for week 2

2. Sarah Kay(sera)
Poet, Performer, and Educator! Co-
Founder of Project V.O.I.C.E she travels the
world educating others on the art of expression
through the use of Spoken Word Poetry.
Starting at the
age of 14 at the
Bowery Club in
New York City,
she uses her
passion to figure
out life.

3. Her opening was dynamic
and descriptively visual.
Sarah Kay: “If I should
have a daughter, instead of
"Mom," she's gonna call
me "Point B," because that
way she knows that no
matter what happens, at
least she can always find
her way to me.

4. Sarah Kay: “I was a live
wire of nervous hormones”
She uses her nerves speaking
publicly to constantly connect
with her audience. Constantly
moving her arms and hands she
engages you with her prose.

5. Dynamic and Passionate and never standing still as
her words flow the audience minds....

6. Dynamism: 5/5
Sarah Kay makes her living from public speaking constantly and perhaps the only thing that I
would have liked to see was some color on her in this presentation. Though with the underlying
grey that is in her poetry there is no doubt that her appearance is reflected outwardly by her
clothes.

7. Garr Reynolds and
Nancy Duarte
advised on uniform
appearance with
fonts and color
schemes. It was
recommended to
use cool images to
help keep
attention, while I
thought about
adding a nuclear
cloud to one slide, I
thought that might
scare people.

8. TED commandment:
“Reveal thy Curiosity and thy Passion.”
Watching Sarah Kay is like watching a picture unfold before you. From
the love of a woman that plans on what she will share with a baby, to a
gut explosive description of Hiroshima. She pours herself into her poetry
and takes you with her.
Comparatively, Sir Ken Robinson is just as passionate but doesn’t show
signs of nervousness or the energy like Miss Kay, or move around like
her. He shows his distaste for the current education paradigm with
humor, a straight man pointing out the flaws of the system. But both
have PASSION for what what they love. Educating others, opening their
eyes to something different, a new way to think.

9. Don’t be afraid to be afraid, get out there and swallow
your fear, use that energy to show your passion.
Don’t be afraid to move. Move a hand, move an arm to,
only cause its connected to the hand.
(yes that is an attempt at humor)
And try to slip in some humor as well.
If you can’t slip it in, drop it on them like a bomb.

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13. REFERENCE
IMAGES WEBSITES
Images taken from TED conferences and TED.com
(Screen captures done with Wacom Cintiq, edited with PhotoShop) http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/
sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter.html
http://www.kaysarahsera.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/
ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html