Creating Your Own TED Talk

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Mrs. Cirrotti –Creating Your Own Ted Talk

TED:  IDEAS WORTH SPREADING

TED  began as a conference to spread insightful ideas through short powerful talks in technology, entertainment and design.   Today, TED talks showcase powerful ideas in every area of culture, technology and science. TED Talks have become the “gold-standard” for great presentations.   Over a billion people have enjoyed and learned from TED Talks, which can be watched on Youtube.  

Warren Middle School offers Creating Your Own TED Talk as an 8th grade cycle class.  

In our class, students develop an “idea worth worth spreading,” research credible sources, and create  presentations with powerful visuals. We then practice delivering talks with excellent public speaking skills to present an engaging “TED” style talk.  Students present their talks to the class, record them, and assess their strenths and weaknesses.  

"All great TED Talks rely on the speaker’s ability to be authentic. Authenticity often means being vulnerable enough to speak about personal experiences of all kinds. Within TED-Ed Student Talks, we assign a lot of importance to creating space for students to feel empowered and safe to share their opinions and explore others’ ideas freely." (TED-ed)

 Students will work hard in the 6 week class, building skills that will help them in future academic and professional capacities.  Students say this class is “hard, but worth it!”

 Class policies

  1. Be Kind
  2. Be honest
  3. Work Hard
  • Be on time
  • When in class, stay in class
  • Use the bathroom, water fountain, or locker BEFORE class
  • Be prepared
  • CHARGED chromebook
  • Headphones
  • Pen
  • Paper
  • Folders will stay in class
  • Do the “Do Now” as soon as you get to class
  • Make up all work from when you are absent -- Google Classroom
  • Don’t chew gum in class
  • Late work will have points deducted
  • Make sure you know how to submit in Google Classroom

Grading

Each student will start with a 100 for class participation. 

 Points will be deducted for :  chromebook not charged or not here, being late, being unprepared, disturbing others, chewing gum or other violations of class policy

Each step of TED talks will be given points for completion and accuracy

  • Coming up with an idea
  • Research 
  • Works Cited  
  • First Draft 
  • Revised draft 
  • Visuals
  • Recorded practice

The final TED Talk presentation is worth 200 points and serves as your “final exam”.

Each step  submitted in Google Classroom

Each  step will be graded and awarded points.  Late assignments will have points deducted.

If you miss class due to band, E2, chorus, Freshman for a Day, or any other reason, you are still responsible to keep the due dates in Google Classroom

Homework:   All due dates and materials for each step of building the TED talk are posted in Google Classroom.