 Hi, do you hear me at the back? Okay. I wondered what the response would be to our very odd request of asking you guys to see a TED talk and then write about it and then who puts a writer critique also. And we wondered how many submissions we'd get, but we've been overwhelmed to see that almost the entire class has submitted and they've also about 30 people have gone back to revise it also, which is a very good sign. So thanks for that and see, this is one of the other things that we wanted to do in this course. We're just going by attendance. We are not going to sort of grade your assignments. I feel that we should make this time that we spent together meaningful enough so you should want to come here and to participate. And if you don't feel like doing that, then we're doing something wrong here and you are right to kind of talk to me about it and to see how we can improve things. But we'd like this entire class to be interactive and we want it to be fun and we should learn something out of it. So I'll just share with you an interesting, this is the proofreading exercise results if you like. This is the table giving the errors 0 and the frequency of the errors going all the way down to 37 errors. So 7 errors, 1 person, 9 errors, 1 person, 10 errors, 1 person, 12 errors, 4 persons. If you plot the frequency 0 to 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 30, 30 to 40, you get almost no approximate of a Poisson distribution or a… So our goal is to objectively study you guys throughout the course and at the end we should be able to shift this towards the right. At the end of the course, we'll do another test and we'll show you that maybe you have shifted this distribution to the right. So that's the goal at least in this exercise and the TED talk by doing that you'll be learning a lot of skills and what our role is to give you all those skills that you need along the way. So up to next week, we'll keep it as a full attendance in both classes. We'll take a call on this by about Monday or so and then after that we'll split you up into two groups. So you'll be spending just about 1 hour in class after that from after Midsim because we presume that you'll be working offline as a group also. So at the end of this class, we'll start dividing you up into groups and then we'll take things as a group from there onwards. So today, we still have the presentation. We'd like to record each and every person on this, on the, well in the class here. I hope the TAs have got the marker and the sheets. Lohit, does everybody have a sheet on which they can write the name at least and roll number? We want to create a Rogues gallery basically where we have your name and your ID and a little recording of you that we want to see at the end what happens. So we'll continue with our presentations today but before we do that, we would, we've asked you to shuffle the summaries that you brought with you. How many have brought a summary with you today, a printout? Okay, almost the entire class, which is good. We've asked for you to shuffle it around. I hope your name is on it, name and roll number is on it, right? So what we'd like you to do is spend the next 10 or 15 minutes proofreading the summary that you have in your hand, right? Make sure it's not yours and it's your friends. So you'll do this two times, once for one person and we'll do another shuffle and one for another person. So the person who is doing the proofreading, please put your roll number and name also on it please. See, this exercise is very important to us because we are playing this as we are going along and we want to see what is it that concerns people, what you are passionate about because the TED talk that you should do should be something you are passionate about whether it's a scientific topic, it can be unscientific, it can be not unscientific, non-scientific, right? It could be something that really digs you, you know? And we'd like a consensus to arrive at each group as to what they would like to do. So we'll be reading your summaries offline to get a feel for what are the kind of topics to expect. Then after we've divided you into groups, we'll put up a Google spreadsheet and each group, each group should then select a topic that they want to present, right? And then we'll take you through the process and towards the end of the semester, mid-April or end of the first week of April. You'll be standing up here again and presenting your TED talk, right? If there are six members of a group, we'll have a five minute TED talk and you can divide the presentation work amongst yourself, so one minute each, right? So figure out how, so in the next few weeks, we'll figure out how to do that. So you'll be having a presentation, you'll be presenting, you'll be dressed properly while doing so, I mean, with whatever you like. As part of the presentation, you'll learn how to speak and communicate with the body also. You learn voice modulation and you'll also be able to structure your thoughts and pitch it to the right kind of audience, right? And we are going to make you presume that you're not going to present to a academic audience, right? It'll have to be something like school children, right? Nine standard, say, okay? Intelligent kids who can understand things but they might not be specialists. Or it could be, say, you're presenting to some MPs, some important concept or whatever it is. So who your audience is, who you have to pitch to, we'll give you as part of the exercise. You will not be pitching to faculty, right? Or to your own colleagues. You'll be pitching to somebody that you're not used to pitch to, right? You'll be pitching to somebody that you're not used to pitching to. So that will be the interesting exercise. You might be able to, you might be asked to, for instance, present an interesting technical idea to school children or present an interesting technical idea to MPs who are trying to make policy in a particular area, right? So you might be given that kind of a challenge, but that we'll decide as we go along, okay? So today, we'll continue after this exercise. So in the next, you have about five minutes more to correct, to proofread the script that you have. And then we'll do a shuffle again, and somebody else will also proofread. And when you proofread, please write your name, roll number, and how many errors you found. If you don't have a sheet, you can look at your neighbor's sheet and put your name also on that and help him or whatever, or find a neighbor who has a sheet. So you can, does anybody not have a sheet? Do you have a neighbor you can help? Okay, take a nam-lih-luh-ap-nav-skpe, and you can shuffle the sheets. We'll do it once more, and somebody else will also be able to do it. For those who come a bit late, we've asked you to shuffle your sheets, and to proofread, and to read your partner's script. Or somebody else's, at least, not your own. Those who've not brought their scripts, we are having some Xerox, and we'll give you those. So how many are done? How many need more time? It's one page. See how difficult it is to read if somebody else is writing. And faculty are expected to read 60 pages in one day. And they're at least four students. Everybody gives it at the last moment and expect you to read it. You have to proofread everything there, everything on the sheet. Summary and critic. Who does not have a script to proofread? Just raise your hands and we'll give you a sheet. Thiruza, the raised hands are people who don't have a script, so you can give them. So there's one person here whose script is going to get proofread by ten people. Should we stop in a minute, and you can do a totaling of what you have? Don't worry if you've not completed all of it, right? We'll stop in a minute, and please make a total of the number of errors you've found. So what we'll do is that we'll pass it around once more, and somebody else will look for errors, and they can add to those errors and give a new total. Fine, we can stop here, just do a totaling of the number of errors, please. Okay, have you completed totaling? Are you interested? How many have found zero to five errors? Zero to five, wow, one, two, five, 18 people. Six to ten, 11 to 15, 16 to 20, 21 to 25, more than 25, more than 25. One, two, wishes people, wishes, one, two, two people. That's interesting, okay? So put a total, and this time pass it back because I know your friends are sitting next to you and they might be kind, right? Pass it back this time and we'll do a shuffle this way. Loith, will you bring some scripts in front here? Pichai Paskaro, you have? Now count the number of errors. If there are any which have been missed out, just put a new total there at the end of that. And we'll do this in five minutes because you'll have less work to do. Loith, there's a, how many have finished? So who came in now, Meenakshi, is it? Whose script are you reading? Meenakshi, whose script do you have? Not your own, no? Yeah, you need a summary and critique of not yours, but kisi orka, or apna kisi orko dedo. So are we done? How many need more time? Okay, good. Shall we do a re-totalling and put our new estimate of the number of errors down there? So you had the old estimate. If you can add to it, give a new number so we'll average afterwards. How many need more time? Okay, now I think we'll stop here. Just do a new total. We'll do it there and we'll collect the scripts now. Fine. We are dying to read your stuff, right? So meanwhile, while these things are being collected, have you thought of the kind of TED Talks that you would like to make? How many have some ideas here as to what they'd like to, or how many have ideas for potential TED Talks? You might not do it, but somebody else might do it. Any ideas here? You have nothing interesting to say about your lives? Studying and passing exams, that's it. Why are you ending up at IIT? What's your mission in life? What would you like to do? If you were to die, say, in one year's time, what is the thing that you'd like to do? Not just, you know, take up a job and deprive some other poor sort of his job, you know. You should be doing something much more than that. Professor Fatak used to say that our M.Tech students, when they go out of our hands, we expect them at least to write a journal-level paper to get started in research, or we expect you to become a leader in industry. We don't expect you to just go and aspire to just take up a job and sort of make a bit of money. I mean, life is too short. You need to do something more. But anyway, TED Talk, there must be something about what you experienced along the way that you might want to speak about, something that you have a seed of an idea, and maybe with a little bit of research, you can present it, or we can also go. No, we should collect the sheets now. Or it need not be anything as way out, if you like, as that. We can even think of, say, computer science topics that we want to teach to youngsters. You might want to teach concepts that you've learned. You might want to talk about things that you've experienced. Maybe you're a bit shy to bring them up in class now. But any ideas at all as to what you'd like to, what might be worth presenting? Swapnil? Lauren, for instance? Amandip? What? Still thinking. Still thinking. Fine. Nothing wrong with that. Anybody else? Okay. Think about it. Right? We'd like to help you do that. If you have something to say, we'd like to help you bring it into existence. So what we wanted these scripts for is to get a feedback from you as to what you care about. Most probably the video that you've made a summary of here indicates an interest of some kind. So without knowing it, you've told us what you're interested in. And by your critique also, you've told us what you're interested in, and how you think. That we hope to get some insight into what kind of topic you might be comfortable talking about or presenting. Some people might talk about scientific things. Some people might talk about political things. Some people might talk about, you know, NGO type things and stuff like that. So we want to get a feel. So I'm going to stop our part here. This is where your time on the stage starts. Last time I think, who presented? Swapnil was the last person, and then Minakshi, your turn next. So I think you should come up, and this is a summary name, where you're from. You should have that sheet of paper with your name and roll number on it. Feldpen, there's a sketch pen here if you want to use this. Reflection on a past, communication deficit or a disaster, what you feel is an example of great communication and a wish list, right, from this course. I'm going to be in the audience now. Good morning. My name is Krithika Jain. I'm doing my seminar under Professor Pushpak Bhattacharya, and about my communication instances. The blunder which I did was, it was quite funny. A group of six of us participated in an event radio play in which all of us were shielded behind a screen, and we had microphones. So our topic was modern Mahabharata. So during that, I had to play the role of Parvath, I'm sorry. So this is another communication disaster. So while I was giving the speech, I did so many mistakes. The mic fell off my hands, and I said, oh shit, my mic fell and then the script fell. So I did many of such mistakes. That was quite funny, and the good one was my campus interview in which I was selected. And from this course, I would like to improve my communication skills and improve my writing. That's it. Thank you. It has a reference. We want it as a reference. So when we sort of edit your video, it will be more specific. Hello, everyone. I'm Vinit. I was born and brought up in Mumbai. I have a very long list of communication disasters. So let me tell you one of these. When I was in college, I was once told to give a workshop session. And let me tell you that I was very, very prepared for the workshop. And I was thorough with the content. But when I started speaking, I noticed that the audience was getting restless. And we started off with nearly 100 people sitting. But at the end of this workshop, there were only 20-25 left. And these are 20-25 also. Most of them were sleeping. Some of them were checking their cell phones and discussing among themselves. So that was one of the most disastrous experiences that I had. About the great communication experiences, I think my campus interviews were one of those. And from this course, I expect to develop good communication skills, as in good presentation skills and good technical writing skills. Hello, good morning friends. Myself Pallavi and I am working in spoken tutorial. As we are making new leaflets to promote free and open-source software, I was working on it since last six months. And we have already distributed so many leaflets in the tech-fest and other events conducted in different college. The day before yesterday, Professor Vaidya came to my place and he showed me that leaflet which we distributed. He told me to find error in that. So I was just able to find out only seven. And then he showed me the actual one which he corrected. There was total 72 errors. So I am going to reprint it, redesign it now. And soon I will be coming up with a new copy of it. I would like to say, really, thanks to Professor Vaidya. Hi, Myself Arun Mathew. I am coming from Kuchin. I will be doing my seminar under Professor Umesh Pellur next semester. And my major communication disaster is, I will tell my great communication first. So when I have to communicate some ideas or thoughts or anything, over chat I can communicate it very well because I get ample time to think and rephrase and rehearse in my mind before I type. And even if I find some error while I am typing, I can do backspace and correct it. But when I do the same in live session when I am talking to a person, I always get a little nervous because the words spoken out cannot be taken back. And you cannot wait for one minute before speaking the next thing. So this is a communication disaster that I face. And then, yeah, the wish list is I would like to express my thoughts. Maybe it's not having very scientific or very solid proof reasonings, but still I would like to convey the ideas or thoughts that I have. I would like to express it, at least as good as when I can do it in chat session. I am Rahul Mitra. So I am from Calcutta. My recent communication disaster would be probably when I presented my BTEC thesis. There I had a heated argument with my own guides. So there I completely failed to convince the faculty members present there about my project. So probably an example of great communication recent was that I had with my CS 101 students of my group. I make them understand about basics of C++ program. So that had good communication. And also, someone didn't understand English and also Hindi. So I have to specific wish list for this course would be probably to be more confident in stage speaking. That was it. When I presented, they had doubts in some points, but I couldn't explain that properly. Although later on we clarified it, but at that point I couldn't. Yes, probably. Hello, I am Piyush Dungarwal. I am from Nasik and I am doing my seminar under Professor Pushwak. Communication, I am still in search of the best one. What communication disaster? In my BTEC days, we were given a seminar to present and almost 30 days were given prior to prepare for it. But I started 7 days before and so I couldn't present it well and unfortunately I couldn't answer the questions. So what wish list? I would like to learn some teaching skills or how to explain particular thing. Hi everybody, I am Haroon Kumar and I am from Gwalya and I am doing my seminar under the guidance of Professor Parag Chaudhary. And one of the communication disaster that I made was in my first campus interview that was held in Bhopal. And it was that we all were given only one minute time to talk on some topic. And I thought that the one who talk more will get reference. So I collected means I just spoke one page completely in one minute without taking any breath also. So it was just, I don't know what I was talking about, I have to complete one page in one minute. So it was very much great communication disaster and definitely I was reacted. And from this course I want to learn to be more confident and when I go out of the IIT I can say to my friend that this communication has got from the IIT. Thank you. Hi, I am Vivek Chhabar from Jaipur. I am doing seminar under Newton Ma'am and I had many communication disasters and it all started when I was in 4th standard. I went to stage 4, thirsty crow story, but I started well, but I ended up with some other story. So great communication, maybe my placement interview. Virtualist would be, I haven't worked in a company, so I think I'll learn a lot the technical part of the communication. Thank you. Hello everyone. I am Pawan Singh. I am from Kanpur, UP. I am doing my seminar under Professor Uday Khidgasar and my great communication disaster was with one of my crewmate in Bitek first year. The problem was that he don't know Hindi and I don't know English. So the main problem was how to communicate. My every means to make him understand that what I want to say and what he wants to say, that I understand. So and still I am learning and I don't know. And for a great communication, till now I don't have any great communication. And from this list of this course, I want to be from such that students should be engaged more and more in this type of presentation. That's all. Hello everyone. My name is Shah Mounik. I am from Vadodara, Gujarat. I haven't faced any big communication disaster yet, but maybe because of this course, I don't have to face any communication disaster. And a great communication example would be, I say that my meeting with the sponsors of Footprints, Footprints was a technical event in MS University where I did my BEE. It was a meeting with the sponsors of Footprints and I say it was my greatest communication example. Thank you. Hi, I am Rohit Gupta. I am a PhD student but I am not having any guide yet. So PhD student without guide. I am full of many communication disasters. When I was first asked to speak, something in a small group, I could not speak even two words and I have to step down. Later on, I improved a lot and even continued improving and even I took lectures for some students so that I can improve and communicate well. Once when I was taking a lecture for 10th student, after 15 minutes, the student told me that they could not understand even single thing. I was talking on a different level, they were on a different level. So I was totally out of contact, disconnected with them. Regarding the successful communication, I took a course in entrepreneurship. At that time, we presented a project report to set up an industry and the judges, they were from the industry and they told us that our presentation was better than many of the presentation they received from the professionals. So that was a thing where I realized that the effective or the good communication not only require effort but also require feedback. That's it from me. Hello everyone. My name is Prasan Kumar Singh. I am from UP. So first of all, I am doing my seminar under Supratik Chakravarti sir and I would like to tell you, I would like to explain one of my communication disaster. When I was in 11th class, I was studying in Jawahar Naude Vidyalai, that is JNV. But generally the students of 11th of JNV take 11th as a rest year and they don't study at all in 11th. So we usually like to enjoy in whole the 11th class. So one day our principal ma'am told us that from now on she will call randomly any student from 11th and he will have to come to a stage and deliver a speech. So from that day, every day principal ma'am randomly calls any guy from 11th and he has to deliver a speech. So one day when I was called to deliver the speech, then what I, then I went there and then I was totally stuck. There was no views on my mind to what to speak. I was thinking all the time what to say but I didn't understand anything. Then at last what I said was sorry to all of you and then I came back and went to the line. So that was one of the communication disaster. And examples of great communication. So when I was called for the alumni meet in the last year for my college, then I was asked to deliver a speech but that was in Hindi and that was a good one. Specific wish list for the course. I would like to overcome my stage fear. So I think how we serve make me able to overcome this fear. Thank you. Fine. We still have to finish these. We'll give one more class I think if needed to it, right? And this is very useful indeed. So see you next week on Tuesday. You'll be there on Monday anyway at the class. Thanks.