Jeff Hancock is an associate professor at Cornell University who studies deception. He gave a TED talk aimed at making the audience more aware of deception in everyday conversations. To engage the audience, he asked them a personal question about lying. While he maintained their attention by asking questions, some parts of his talk seemed to lose energy. Compared to Sir Ken Robinson's presentation, Jeff's speech was assessed as getting boring at times and potentially losing some of the audience's attention.

1. TED
Ideas Worth Spreading

2. Jeff Hancock
Associate Communication Professor at
Cornell Univesity
Studies deception
The thesis of Jeff’s speech is to make
people more aware of themselves and
when others use deception during
everyday conversations.

3. He started Capturing the
attention of his audience by
asking them a personal
question, “Who in this room
has lied today? Raise your
hand.”
I feel he maintained the
audience’s attention by
asking them questions and
having a task for them to
complete. He also had their
attention by relating just
about everything to their
everyday life.

4. Dynamism
I feel that his amount of dynamism
was about a 3. There were a few parts
where he really had the attention of
the audience. A few parts though he
seemed to calm down about the
subject. He also stayed very closed. He
didn’t move his arms very much. They
stayed relatively close to his body.

5. One thing I learned about watching my presenter was
that you need to relate everything to the audience
because that help keep them entertained. One other
thing is that you need to move, just sitting there
watching the crowd. The audience starts to lose interest
if you aren’t moving about.

6. Sir Ken Robinson vs. Jeff Hancock
I enjoyed Ken Robinson’s presentation more than Jeff Hancock. Ken
continued to keep the audience laughing and really entertained. He had a
lot of stories and good facts that continued to maintain the audience’s
attention. Jeff had a good speech, the only thing is that his overall speech
got boring at some parts and lost my attention. This makes me assume
that he lost the attention of some of the people in his audience.

7. Tips for classmates
One big tip that I can tell to my classmates is to do
your best to keep your speech entertaining. You don’t
want to lose the attention of the audience. One other
thing that I enjoy to see, I am not to sure if everyone
does, but that is to see diagrams if facts are discussed. It
give the viewer something to look at and catches their
eye.