WELL3

Zip Talks – UA’s version of a TEDTalk-like Presentation

Time range of 2 to 3 minutes

This will be a video project in the last part of the semester. Each person will create a visual presentation using pictures, videos, music, sound, and other elements to support and clarify key points of a strong argument that moves your audience. The finished video can be an MP4 (pc compatible), a Power Point (pc compatible), a PDF (pc compatible), Microsoft Stream, or posted and shared at YouTube.

What the purpose of your presentation is

You are creating an argument, using Logic, Emotion, and Credibility, in presentation form. Remember, arguments are to make a point about a topic or an issue. Good arguments are informative (this is important for you to know about and here is why) and persuasive (change the way people think about this, change what people do in regards to this, get up and do something about it). A Zip Talk also uses humor, empathy, sympathy, frustration, sorrow, and (logical) anger to convey emotion while simultaneously sharing facts.

Do something new, something you are passionate about. Make that passion contagious. Tell a story that also has meaning, a point, and/or a call to action. You can choose to have some fun with this project by looking at a less serious topic, such as hobbies, fandoms, habits, etc. Be approachable – let your emotions show while stating your facts and establishing credibility, BE AWARE OF YOUR AUDIENCE – their needs and expectations.

Elements to Use to Build Your Argument

As this is a Visual Argument as well as a Spoken Argument, here are elements you can use:

-Video

-created by others (no more than 10 seconds and CITE SOURCE)

-video clip of interview you do with “expert” source

-video clip you asking everyday people their thoughts

-Still images

-Photographs (CITE SOURCE)

-Illustrations (CITE SOURCE)

-Graphs/Charts/Misc. Graphics (CITE SOURCE)

-QUOTES (CITE SOURCE)

-Audio

-soundtracks of videos (CITE SOURCE)

-sound bites of quotes (w/o video) (CITE SOURCE)

-sound effects (CITE SOURCE)

-music (CITE SOURCE)

- INFORMATION (most important)

Research and find information from credible sources that support your argument.

USE FOR QUOTES AND/OR GRAPHS OR CHARTS

-Facts, Statistics = Logic

-Real life events that happened to real people = Emotion (also counts as logic)

Other things to consider (think about how to show audience)

-What ifs (What if “X” actually happened?) = Emotion

-What is “right” or “wrong” = Emotion, Logic/Reason

Research Notes - SAVE ALL YOUR SOURCES AS YOU WILL NEED TO CITE THEM

TIMELINE

Step One

Begin work on Zip Talk Projects. Select topic. Plan how to build argument, what rhetorical devices to use, possible sources of info, images, etc. Write out topic, argument plan, sources, images, sounds, - what is the argument you want to convey through sounds, images? Start gathering information and other materials (images, audio, etc.)

Step Two

Continue work on ZIP TALK outside of class. Keep gathering information and other materials (images, audio, etc.). In class checks on progress. Refine argument to make as strong as possible. Consider images and/or audio, decide what to use, where, and how. Look for and create videos that will make your point. Decide which order images/etc. should go in. Continue work on ZIP TALK outside of class. Keep gathering information and other materials (images, audio, etc.).

Step Three

ZIP TALK Research Notes DUE. Research Notes - What sources are you planning on using? What specific items will you be pulling from each? Were there sources you couldn’t use? Why? What alternate sources did you find? – Submit via Dropbox on Brightspace.

ROUGH Edit of video DUE. – bring to class for review.

And…

Final Step

Final Presentations will run in class Teams group for everyone to see and enjoy. Submit for grading via Dropbox on Brightspace.

Some Suggestions:

Intro Music and maybe Exit Music

Quotes/sources on screen

Infographics

Using Images – minimal – prefer for visual learners, background, not as a distraction, focus more on speaker/topic, something to focus on, help to reinforce what speaker is saying.

People learn differently – appeal to different learning styles (visual, auditory, tactile, reading, analytical)

Can speak directly to audience and then cut to video for a moment and then back to speaker(s)

Bring in a Commonplace – something that most people are familiar with, can relate to

Role Play

From Chris Clark on WordPress on doing a presentation of this type:

· A single word or line of text can have more impact than a paragraph.

· Text-heavy slides distract listeners from processing what a speaker is saying.

· In general, choose images over text.

· Slides should be easy to understand.

· Keep graphs visually clear.

· No slide should support more than one point.

· Cut any slide that does not have a clear purpose (Clark).

Clark, Chris. Assigning Students a TED-style Talk. Wordpress.com August 6, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2017. : https://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/assigning-students-a-ted-style-talk/