Colin Stokes gives a speech questioning the messages movies send about raising children. He describes allowing his daughter to watch The Wizard of Oz and noticing it only had female characters. This led him to compare it to Star Wars, which his son loved but portrayed different roles. Stokes argues movies influence how people see manhood. He keeps the audience engaged by telling stories from his own life and finds the movies teach different lessons through creativity.

1. TED TALKS EVALUATION
By: EvanKent

2. Colin Stokes
• Colin Stokes is a proud
father who has always
had a passion for
raising his son and
daughter the morally
best way possible. In his
speech he questions
how movies are raising
our youth and what
message they are
sending.

3. THESIS: How movies are teaching manhood
throughout time.

4. Capturing The Audiences Attention
Colin starts his speech by
describing how his children have
always meant so much to him. He
starts with informing the audience
about the first time he let his
daughter watch The Wizard of Oz.
He then describes how The Wizard
of Oz uses female characters
throughout the entire story. This
eventually leads him to more of his
speech to open up for the
audience.

5. Keeping The Audiences Attention
He keeps the audiences
attention by then
comparing The Wizard
of Oz to Star Wars. He
talks about how his son
saw Star Wars and fell
in love with it, but he
questioned why. Colin
identifies how similar
the two movies are, but
with a completely
different outlook on
the characters.

6. TED COMMANDMENTS
• Colin uses the TED commandments well he engages the audiences
attention throughout the entire speech by keeping focused on his topic,
but with a sense of humor. The commandment that he followed the best
was Thou Shalt Tell A Story. He uses real life incidents with his children to
show how movies are making people grow up thinking certain ways
because of the examples on the big screen.

7. Colin uses a great topic to get the
Dynamism Grade:4/5 audiences attention. Just at times
it seemed as if he was a little
nervous about his speech. This
was more towards the beginning
of the speech, but he eventually
overcame his nerves and
delivered a great speech.

8. CREATIVITY:
Colins view on creativity shows us that sometimes it can direct
us toward the wrong path. He emphasizes that creativity can
lead us in the right direction in teaching us what is right and
what is wrong. I don’t believe that this disagrees with Ken
Robinsons speech but it’s kind of a directional look towards
Robinsons speech

9. - In comparison with their
technical side of each speech
they both use real life situations
and visual effects to stimulate
the audiences attention.
-The biggest difference of the
two speeches was how much
more confidence in public
speaking Robinson has over
Stokes.

10. I’ve learned through Colin’s speech that I must
keep it direct but add some real life situations.
Keeping the audiences attention can be hard
without any comical relief.

11. Tips for my classmates
My Classmates:
• TED Talks has taught me some very
knowledgeable things when it comes to public
speaking I would recommend that every
classmate try would try to use the TED
commandments.
TED Talks has taught me some very knowledgeable
things when it comes to public speaking I would
recommend that every classmate try would try to use
the TED commandments.

12. Images
• http://laurajul.dk/category/education/
• http://www.geekscoop.net/tag/wizard-of-oz/
• http://fontmeme.com/star-wars-font/
• http://blog.copdfoundation.org/questions-about-insurance/c-
users-sschlegel-pictures-question-mark-man/
• http://worldofumm.blogspot.com/2012/02/prophets-
methods-of-teaching.html