November 2013
Beginner
208 pages
5h
English
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How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World's Most Inspiring Presentations, revised and expanded new edition, with a foreword by Richard St. John
by Jeremey Donovan
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CHAPTER 16
Using Props
TIP 90: Hide your props when not in use.
Though a rarity outside of technical demonstrations, using contextually relevant props is a great way to mix things up during a presentation. During his TED Talk outlined in Table 16.1, antipoverty activist Bunker Roy1 donned a hand puppet to share how he uses it to solve disputes in the villages he advises:
TABLE 16.1
Outline of Bunker Roy’s “Learning from a Barefoot Movement” TED Talk
Where the percentage of illiteracy is very high, we use puppetry. Puppets is the way we communicate. You have Jokhim Chacha who is 300 years old. He is my psychoanalyst. He is my teacher. He’s my doctor. ...
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