TEDx Jax
The largest city in area in the United States.
What is Jacksonville?
Written down succinctly in one or two sentences.
What is an idea ready for a talk?
Start by making your audience care, using a relatable example or an intriguing idea; 2. Explain your idea clearly and with conviction;3. Describe your evidence and how and why your idea could be implemented, and, 4. End by addressing how your idea could affect your audience if they were to accept it.
What is a good structure for a TEDx talk?
Can help clarify or distract the audience.
What is should I use slides?
Rehearse. REPEAT. Rehearse. REPEAT. Rehearse. REPEAT.
What is, how many times do I have to practice my talk?
Viewed over 1,400,000 times
What is TEDx Jax Speakers’ online video views?
Telling people something you’re pretty sure they have not heard before
What is a new idea?
Communicate an idea effectively within a structure that is invisible to the audience.
What is a goal for your TEDx talk?
Simple photographs, very little text, and ditch the bullet points.
What are good slide choices for TEDx talks?
A clock winding down in front of you.
What is practicing my timing?
TED is an acronym for
What is What is Technology, Entertainment, Design
New research that is backed by data and peer-reviewed.
What is factual and realistic?
Draw in your audience with something they care about, get your idea out as quickly as possible, avoid focusing too much on yourself, and ditch opening with a string of stats.
What is a strong Introduction.
Only use images that you own or have permission to use. If you use an image under Creative Commons license, cite the source at the bottom of your slide.
What is avoiding plagiarism and citing sources?
Practice standing still, feet planted firmly in one spot...overcome the urge to rock side to side and walk around.
What is fine tuning my posture?
Dedicates hundreds of hours each year sharing TED’s mission in Northeast Florida.
What are the AWESOME TEDx Volunteers!
Is my idea new (never heard), is it interesting (applies to many), and is it factual and realistic (backed up by data)?
What are three guiding questions for a refined idea?
Give a brief context, provide information on your idea from least to most exciting or the latest, use empirical evidence, name and briefly speak to controversies, and explain new terminology.
What is presenting the body of your topic and the evidence?
Conduct a Google search and then filter for appropriate sizes and usage rights.
What is searching for images online?
Whether your are a beginning speaker or have presented 1000 times...
What is to embrace your coaching sessions and final rehearsal?
A showcase for presenting well-informed ideas under 12-minutes.
What is a TEDx Talk?
You do not need to be the world’s foremost expert on the topic, but you do have to be an expert.
What is a TEDx speaker!
Find a conclusion that leaves audience feeling positive to your idea, how it might affect their lives if implemented, and if appropriate, a call to action.
What is a solid conclusion to a talk?
Widescreen format, use broadcast safe zones, select large images not pixelated, and use font size 42 or larger in Sans-Serf: Helvetica or Verdana.
What is how to format my slides?
The dress-rehearsal time the day before the event.
What is stage time rehearsal?