Week 6

 Mindset

When i'm doing my school work , my stationeries will be all over the place. Although i will get annoyed when I see the stuffs lying all over the place , I just continue do my work because I think that I could clean it up later. But, after doing the presentation on how to be creative , I learn that to be creative and to let the ideas flow out , you have to make sure the surroundings you sitting at is clean and neat. I think its really work because when i'm doing my work , I didn't think of how to clean up the mess later . So , its really change my mindset

Before

 After

The other thing that I learn is to think positive all the time. I always have the mindset that i cannot draw, but I really have to think positive because I know that if we try to do it , we can .


I did a research on best presentation on TED Talks. I watched one of this very interesting topic on "How to build your creative confidence" by David Kelley.

https://youtu.be/16p9YRF0l-g

He start of by showing a mind map on what to talk about during the presentation. Although its not colourful , I think the mind map is really useful for him to summarise on his topic.

 

  So here he is talking about that some people fear of judgement. They scared that if you don't say the right creative thing, you're going to be judge. 

He is saying about the words that was told by Dr. Bandura , a psychologist. You must have a confidence which is called as self-efficacy, the sense that you can change the world and that you can attain what you set out to do. He add on that we could take people who fear of not being creative to change it to familiarity , and they surprise themselves.

 

There's one guy who is a technical person, he designs medical imaging equipment. He get scared of not being creative after saw a girl crying as she scared of the MRI machine. He felt disappointed because before this time he was proud of what he did but he really hurt to see that the kids are scared of the machine. So after taking classes about design process and gain confidence , he redesign the machine make it much more interesting to children. 

The new MRI design for children

Overall , i think it is important to make the presentation interesting by having a great story to share if you have one. It is also good to make the viewer laugh as not to make the presentation boring.

Here are the 10 Tips on how to have a good presentation:

1. Write A Script
   -Make sure your script follows good storytelling conventions
   -Have a clear arc that builds towards some sort of climax.

2. One thing a time
   -Plan your presentation so just one new point is displayed at any given moment.
   -Bullet points can be revealed one at a time as you reach them.

3. No Paragraphs
   -Use notecards
   -Use memory

4. Pay Attention to design
   -Use decorative fonts only for slide headers, and then only if they’re easy to read.
   -Use a sans serif font for body text.

5. Use images sparingly
   -Use images only when they add important information or make an abstract point more concrete.

6. Think outside the screen
    -Give some thought to your own presentation manner how you hold yourself, what you wear, how   you move around the room.

7. Have a hook
   -Open with something surprising or intriguing, something that will get your audience to sit up and  take notice.

8. Ask questions
   -Build tension by posing a question and letting your audience stew a moment before moving to the next slide with the answer.

9. Modulate
   -Always speak as if you were speaking to a friend, not as if you are reading off of index cards.

10. Create a Worthy Leave-Behind
    -Give them something to remember you by.