Questions:
1. What are your take-aways from this video?
That you CAN have the strength to get past these things, to keep them from affecting what you do. That your parents allow you to be anything you want to be, they HELP you get there. It's incredible what we take for granted!
2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
She's passionate and can continue on without stopping because she enjoys telling us her story.
3. What is his/her presentation style?
She walks around a little but also, looks out. Also, she doesn't really have a slideshow.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
What matters is the love and support that her parents gave her to make it anywhere near possible for her not to know she was legally blind for 17 years. To me it means that I should work even harder to puush past my "roadblocks" because I don't even begin to encounter the problems she is facing in her life now and when she was younger. To education it shows that you can be legally blind and still be treated normally in your classes, and by your peers. She was never sent to a "special school" because her parents wanted her to have the opprotunities she would have if she didn't have problems. To the world...it shows that we can all learn alot. We don't need to judge people bacause of their problems, we need to love them because of their strengths. We should NOT let our disabilities be a reason to get down and not work. We should ALL learn from this story.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
TED Talk 7: Becky Blanton "The Year I Was Homeless".
Questions:
1. What are your take-aways from this video?
That there is ALWAYS someone worse off than you are. This is what my parents always told me when I was younger. When we want to complain about whats wrong in our lives, we need to take a look around us.
2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
She is calm and not emotional as some people telling this story might be. It shows that she is a strong and confident person/journalist.
3. What is his/her presentation style?
She reads from her notes to keep her on track. She also looks out and makes eye contact to make the audience feel like a part of it.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
What matters is how well she handled this situation she had to go through. To me, it means I should look at my life more carefully if I am going to sit and complain, when there are people going through worse...I don't feel okay doing that. To education it means that kids need to take the same approach with bullying as adults need to take towards the homeless. We look down on those who are different from us, and it's never okay whether you are an adult to student. To the world...it means that we need to think more carefully about, well, everything. As a world, as multiple nations and countries, cities and towns, down to every community and household, we need to just treat the other 7 billion people in the world with the same respect we expect and deserve from them.
1. What are your take-aways from this video?
That there is ALWAYS someone worse off than you are. This is what my parents always told me when I was younger. When we want to complain about whats wrong in our lives, we need to take a look around us.
2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
She is calm and not emotional as some people telling this story might be. It shows that she is a strong and confident person/journalist.
3. What is his/her presentation style?
She reads from her notes to keep her on track. She also looks out and makes eye contact to make the audience feel like a part of it.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
What matters is how well she handled this situation she had to go through. To me, it means I should look at my life more carefully if I am going to sit and complain, when there are people going through worse...I don't feel okay doing that. To education it means that kids need to take the same approach with bullying as adults need to take towards the homeless. We look down on those who are different from us, and it's never okay whether you are an adult to student. To the world...it means that we need to think more carefully about, well, everything. As a world, as multiple nations and countries, cities and towns, down to every community and household, we need to just treat the other 7 billion people in the world with the same respect we expect and deserve from them.
TED Talk 6: Dave Eggers
Questions:
1. What are your take-aways from this video?
That you can make these big changes, getting kids to do homework and really try, through something small. You just have to think that you can make a change, and go for it. They thought that kids needed this, so they went for it. Also, that it can be fun, that school, doesn't have to be school, it can be the back of a pirate suupply shop.
2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
He is funny and joking, but still serious and on topic. He used examples of the stores and kids from the tutoring business to show how well it works.
3. What is his/her presentation style?
He uses slides and pictures to show how well it is working and how much people like it.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
What matters is how much the kids care about it, they honestly like writing after being there. They learn how to write not just that they have to write for school. To me it means that I should think about my writing, not just push through finishing it because I have to, but look at it as something I want to do. To education it shows that there are people who actually want to learn, they enjoy it. To the world, it means that we can move on, we can create more of these "right brained" people and actually change the world.
1. What are your take-aways from this video?
That you can make these big changes, getting kids to do homework and really try, through something small. You just have to think that you can make a change, and go for it. They thought that kids needed this, so they went for it. Also, that it can be fun, that school, doesn't have to be school, it can be the back of a pirate suupply shop.
2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
He is funny and joking, but still serious and on topic. He used examples of the stores and kids from the tutoring business to show how well it works.
3. What is his/her presentation style?
He uses slides and pictures to show how well it is working and how much people like it.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
What matters is how much the kids care about it, they honestly like writing after being there. They learn how to write not just that they have to write for school. To me it means that I should think about my writing, not just push through finishing it because I have to, but look at it as something I want to do. To education it shows that there are people who actually want to learn, they enjoy it. To the world, it means that we can move on, we can create more of these "right brained" people and actually change the world.
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