Favorite Presentation Moments Day I

Highlights from today:

1:

Team "Starfished" used  maps, charts, disease steps, personal anecdotes, and video to make the issue more about the future than the present state of marine biology. MI starred as Ms. Clearwater, the reporter with a starfish in her hand, imploring the "hoi polloi" to care about this topic just as much as she. This was definitely one of my favorites of the entire day -- and it was the first one to present this morning. You definitely set a standard for the remaining evaluations.

Team Temple did not even introduce Temple Grandin until halfway through the presentation. Instead, they utilized ethos (especially from NO and her confident, knowledgeable voice) and provided background information regarding autism, social isolation, and emotional concerns to set up Temple's ideas of autistic education and her own struggles as an autistic person.

Team Boko's MS pronouncing with ease (or at least appeared to the audience) Nigerian words! Her ethos added to the Prezi work, a strong visual artifact that gave a great deal of digestible information to the group. The addition of the John Green video also provided another voice to augment your own foreign correspondent.

2:

Skit characterization of people in horrendous situations -- the pregnant couple from Syria, the man overcome with grief of his daughter's near assassination, the father of a kidnapped girl. Each characterization created pathos for the audience.

4:
Team Temple's SH took on the role of Temple Grandin with passion, knowledge, and fast talking -- all characteristics of the autistic education advocate.

Team Malala created what they called a "spoken word/slam poem" that created a voice for all the girls without an education. Using numbers - the numbers of western culture's 12 grades, the numbers of foreign culture's 9 then 6 then 3 grades, the numbers in reverse, the numbers in correct order - they presented a united front that clearly presented the dissonance of education across the world. Wonderfully clever, thoughtful, and emotional work.

7:
Team Syrian's poem, a chorus of Syrian women from different religions, different educations, different likes and needs, resonated with the class. Even the incorporation of the various fruits and food items reflected the symbolism of the culture that is slowly migrating into other nations.

Team Boko certainly made us, the American audience, question our response to international crises that do not involve our own people or boundary lines. You asked if we would remember this presentation and the content of Boko Haram's terrorism in 20 minutes. The answer is yes, we will remember due to your skit of a terrorist, Nigeria, and the U.S. government.

Team Malala began with audience participation -- the index cards delegating which students would be educated in Pakistan (not that many) and which students would not have the opportunity (the remainder of the class). When one student said he wanted to keep the card and have an education, E's response (something akin to definitely not you) reflected ethos on how people view education in other societies.