The Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoD8RMq2OkU

The video that I have chosen is a TedTalk about engaging your audience through your presentation, in reference to my Learning Design activity “How to Design and Deliver an Effective Presentation”.

Prompt 1: 

After watching this video, the students would be required to reflect on their presentation and see how it relates to their own work. The speaker Phil Waknell brings up three key things to keep in mind while preparing a presentation: 

  • Tailor your talk to the audience context. Why do they care? 
  • Share why you care. Use examples from your own experience. 
  • Aim to transform the audience, beyond just informing. Change what your audience knows, but also what they believe, feel, and do. 

These points for the students to respond to what they are preparing by thinking about their audience how their presentation will impact them. 

Prompt 2: 

The learners will likely to the video by taking notes on it to respond to each of the points that were raised. There is a likelihood that they will reflect on what they have already prepared and apply the newfound viewpoints from the video. 

Prompt 3: 

The activity that I would suggest that they would do is write up a formal reflection and the changes that they will apply to their presentation. There is much importance within reflection and being able to critique your own work. The learners will write on each of the points brought up by Waknell and relate it to their own presentation. By doing this, it will narrow down their presentation and more engaging. They would respond to this by Google Docs, or another word processing platform of their choice. 

Prompt 5: 

Overall, this activity should not add much work to the workload that the students already have. It is a simple task, but still challenges learners to think about the purpose behind their work, which is worthwhile. Due to the fairly simple nature of this assignment, it can be scaled for a larger group to do, though could take longer to read through on the other end of it.