I got an extension on my TED Talk, so I can’t talk about mine as I’m still finalizing it for tonight. Instead, I’m going to talk about someone else’s TED Talk. I watched group member Emma Foley’s TED Talk and thought it was really good! Her quality of voice (pitches, stops, etc) was really good, and I thought that her vocabulary (for example, the freedom of the 40s coming to a “crashing end”) was also very nice. As I’ve noted in comments before, the slides were amazing and seemed very professional. The only negative I have is that she was reading off of something for the majority of the VoiceThread post, so there wasn’t a lot of eye contact. Nonetheless, her TED Talk was incredibly well done and interesting.
Some ideas for the History of a Public Controversy:
-The OJ Simpson trial. We all saw how he handled the gloves, and it’s pretty much quietly acknowledged that most people think he did it- however, he got off without that conviction.
-A more recent example of public controversy could be something from the QAnon movement. We all know how well Trump’s loss in the most recent presidential election was handled by them, and their reaction to the COVID vaccine.
Hi Tyler,
You have some solid ideas for your project, I would just be careful to try and stay nonpartisan in your research!
Yes can we please do OJ Simpson it’ll make Supermega proud! And thank you very much I was pretty nervous doing the speech so this means a lot to me!
Interesting ideas for the history of a public controversy project! And I really look forward to seeing your TED Talk– I’m sure it’ll be great!
The OJ Simpson trial sounds like a super good idea for a project! I know discussion about it dominated a good part of the mid 90’s, so we shouldn’t have many problems coming up with source material.