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A handy planning grid for preparing a speech. Includes useful tips and prompts such as opening with a punchy line, using a tone appropriate for the audience, and finishing with a 'weird or wonderful' fact!
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College alum surprised that his ayahuasca-inspired speech praising bitcoin got groans and boos
- An ayahuasca-inspired commencement speech didn't go too well at Ohio State University.
- Alum and jewelry entrepreneur Chris Pan lauded bitcoin and sang songs. He got booed.
- Pan said he was surprised by the hate and wants to talk to his critics.
A commencement address at Ohio State University (OSU) over the weekend took a wild detour.
Speaker Christopher Pan lauded the benefits of bitcoin — prompting groans and boos from the college students gathered in the stadium.
But Pan tells Business Insider he was surprised and pained that his well-intentioned speech became overshadowed by a "bitcoin rabbit hole," and that he's talking with angry detractors on social media in order to grow from the experience.
During his remarks on Sunday, Pan — an OSU grad who founded the inspirational jewelry brand MyIntent — called the cryptocurrency "a very misunderstood asset class," as the audience booed, according to a video posted on Reddit .
The boos could even be heard on the school's livestream of the speech, which featured Pan putting up a slide comparing bitcoin's value to that of a home.
He then did a magic trick on stage — calling up the university's president and turning quarters into a golden physical bitcoin.
He then tried to lead sing-a-longs and sang "What's Going On?" by the 4 Non Blondes and "This Little Light of Mine."
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During the speech, he promised audience members free bracelets from MyIntent as an apology for the bitcoin remarks.
It was an unconventional address, to say the least.
"Would I have done it differently knowing what I know now? Yeah."
Before the commencement, Pan wrote on LinkedIn that he'd taken ayahuasca to help prepare the speech.
Pan told BI that he's been working with ayahuasca since 2019 to heal lifelong bullying. OSU even operates a psychedelic research center , he noted.
He also told BI that he'd always intended to donate the bracelets, which he said cost his company $250,000.
The taunts in and out of the stadium were painful, he told BI.
"Have you ever been booed by 70,000 people? It fucking hurt," Pan said. "I've never experienced this much hate in my life."
He said he only brought bitcoin up to underscore the importance of investing, having gotten into the cryptocurrency himself three months ago.
Still, bitcoin supporters have been cheering him online , and Pan said he thinks the hate was coming from a "vocal minority."
"I came in heart wide open," he said. "I came in wanting to really give the best I could to this community."
In the aftermath of the speech, Pan said he is communicating with angry commenters, while also feeling grateful for support during a difficult time.
He's working on a letter to students and parents to bring whatever resolution he can.
"Do I stand by the speech? A hundred percent because it's my truth," he said. "Would I have done it differently knowing what I know now? Yeah. I would've reshaped it to make it more of a traditional experience."
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Ohio State commencement speaker says he got help from psychedelics while writing speech
Ohio State's chosen commencement speaker for the class of 2024, entrepreneur Chris Pan, was high on ayahuasca while he wrote his speech, according to posts he made on social media.
"Got some help from AI (Ayahuasca Intelligence) this week to write my commencement speech for 60k grads and family members at Ohio State University next Sunday," he wrote in a LinkedIn post before graduation.
Ayahuasca is a psychedelic liquid made from heating or boiling multiple psychoactive plants from South America, according to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation of Australia.
Pan also said he tried using ChatGPT and artificial intelligence to write his speech, according to his LinkedIn post and an Instagram post.
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In the weeks preceding graduation, Pan shared multiple drafts of his speech on Instagram. His earliest posted draft included a lengthy section about the Israel-Palestine conflict and a moment where he removed his shirt.
But on Sunday, Pan did not explicitly mention Gaza, Israel or Palestine (or remove his shirt). Rather, he remarked, how after holding multicultural events over the past few months, we must "end suffering on both sides."
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"What I learned is that there is so much pain and trauma in both communities. Pain causes hate and violence. Hurt people hurt people. Healed people help people," he said. "When we heal ourselves, we heal the world. World peace starts with inner peace."
Pan also led the crowd through two brief musical numbers — "What's Going On?" by the 4 Non Blondes and "This Little Light of Mine" by Harry Dixon Loes — and espoused how he thinks Bitcoin is "a very misunderstood asset class," which was met by groans from audience members. (He promised everyone in attendance a free bracelet from his company, MyIntent, "as an apology for listening to me talk about Bitcoin.").
Pan graduated from OSU in 1999 and went on to receive an MBA from Harvard Business School. He worked at consulting firm McKinsey and Company, PepsiCo and Facebook before starting his own business, MyIntent.org, in 2014, according to his LinkedIn profile.
MyIntent sells jewelry with a custom word of the customer's choosing etched in it, according to the company's website.
Dispatch reporter Sheridan Hendrix contributed to this report.
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Using powerful language. The language used in a speech should be interesting for the listeners. The acronym A FOREST is an easy way to make sure your language is powerful. It stands for: Watch ...
Speech writing is the method of conveying a thought or message to a reader using the correct punctuation and expression. Speech writing isn't much different from any other form of narrative writing. There are8 parts of speech in the English language. These parts are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and ...
Summary - A summary will briefly recap the main parts of a speech. This lesson may benefit from being set up for a homework task where pupils write their speeches over the weekend. Alternatively, children could work in small groups to write a joint speech. Teacher tip. Licence.
After reviewing speech rules, we will consider how to incorporate speech effectively so that it supports characterisation and advances the action. Licence This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.
This speech template is particularly useful, as it comes with 3 handy tips for your students to consider when preparing and giving their speeches. The template advises students to do the following: Practise reading your speech in front of the mirror or in front of people you are comfortable with. Remember to keep your head up and try to project ...
In this video, Twinkl Teacher Jack demonstrates some resources you can use with KS2 children to analyse famous speeches, and to help them write and perform t...
This is a fantastic resource and lesson planning ideas pack that can teach key skills in writing, punctuating and recognising direct speech at a KS2 level. This pack brings you 12 beautifully illustrated, teacher-made resources, including: Direct speech KS2 speech bubbles - brilliant for display or interactive learning to give your KS2 examples ...
Spoken language. A handy planning grid for preparing a speech. Includes useful tips and prompts such as opening with a punchy line, using a tone appropriate for the audience, and finishing with a 'weird or wonderful' fact! Suitable for KS2. 34.5 KB.
To write a persuasive speech (Part 1) Download all resources. Share activities with pupils. Slide deck. Lesson details. Video. Slide deck. Download slide deck. Lesson details. Key learning points. In this lesson, we will review our persuasion toolkit and write our first section of our persuasive text.
Next comes the argument - The bulk of any speech is a series of reasons and arguments for why the audience should agree with you. A key feature of speech writing is objection handling. As a speech is a monologue there isn't room to take questions, or objections. A strong speech will be able to address any objections that might arise in the ...
This speech template is particularly useful, as it comes with 3 handy tips for your students to consider when preparing and giving their speeches. The template advises students to do the following: Practise reading your speech in front of the mirror or in front of people you are comfortable with. Remember to keep your head up and try to project ...
This teaching resource guides students on how to create a persuasive speech through writing. Your students will write an introduction, three points, and a conclusion, while being encouraged to use speech techniques such as metaphors, repetition, rhetorical questions, etc. Simple, but clear and useful for the first lesson on persuasive speech.
This speech template is particularly useful, as it comes with 3 handy tips for your students to consider when preparing and giving their speeches. The template advises students to do the following: Practise reading your speech in front of the mirror or in front of people you are comfortable with. Remember to keep your head up and try to project ...
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This handy Speech Writing Guide PDF will help you to teach your class how to write their own speeches, using strong techniques and persuasive language. It comes with separate pages on guidance, planning and writing, making it a brilliant introduction for those who are new to this kind of writing. The templates provided will take away the pressure that comes with having a blank page, while the ...
docx, 26.72 KB. docx, 28.11 KB. pptx, 342.58 KB. doc, 27 KB. Lessons designed to assist GCSE students with writing a speech. The first lesson generates some discussion and recognition of features of a speech, with the second lesson focusing on the students creating their own speech. This was designed for IGCSE but can be used for any sessions.
Direct speech is a sentence where the exact words spoken by somebody are recorded in inverted commas (also known as speech marks). Inverted commas are used to show which written words are spoken by the character and other punctuation is used to help the reader understand when each character starts and stops speaking.
An ayahuasca-inspired commencement speech didn't go too well at Ohio State University. Alum and jewelry entrepreneur Chris Pan lauded bitcoin and sang songs. He got booed. Pan said he was ...
This is part of a series of weekly Live Lessons for Autumn 2020, designed to support children in catching up on literacy and numeracy as they return to school after lockdown. Each week, we ...
Ohio State commencement speaker says he got help from psychedelics while writing speech. Ohio State's chosen commencement speaker for the class of 2024, entrepreneur Chris Pan, was high on ...
A persuasive speech is a type of speech that aims to convince your audience of a specific point of view. A persuasive speech will usually start with a strong, relatable opening that will grab your audiences' attention and gain their trust. The speaker will then usually go on to make three to four logical and persuasive arguments for their point.
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This pack includes a candidate speech writing frame to help your students write a well-structured school council speech for Year 6 elections. The frame guides children through the speech writing process from introduction to reasons why they should be elected to a concluding argument. There's also an example school council speech to show children how to write a successful speech ...
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princi123456 - Verified member since 2016. Reviewed on 02 August 2017. One person found this helpful. Helpful. Thank you for your feedback. Twinkl KS3 / KS4 English KS3 English - Full Collection Seasonal Resources General Election. Use this checklist to self- and peer assess a persuasive speech in relation to verbal and non-verbal criteria.