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

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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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