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PROFESSOR: All right--
so end of day three.

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This was probably maybe the
more challenging lecture

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for you guys, which is
funny because it's probably

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the one that I was most
comfortable with coming

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into the class because George
and I had done it before.

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That's basically what
happens during pre-production

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of "Science Out Loud" is we work
with the students one-on-one

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honing their scripts
and their ideas.

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But I do recognize
that it's very

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uncomfortable from the other
end and very challenging

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to think outside of
your perspective,

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to anticipate an audience, to
learn how to host-- hosting

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is really hard and maybe you
have a better sense of it now.

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But I'm going to
try to figure out

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how to get some of the raw
footage from Open CourseWare

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up today.

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But it's really stunning
to see the difference

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when you guys are just
talking during class, which

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is inherently very engaging.

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For anyone who thinks that
they're not good on camera,

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I challenge you to watch
some of the footage

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from Open CourseWare because
that's just not sure.

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You guys are very
engaging on camera

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when you're not aware
that you're on camera.

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But the difference between
that and when you're just

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reading out loud--
I don't know what

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it is about just human nature
that you sort of inhabit

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this completely different
persona and completely

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different talking voice.

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I do hope that you
found today productive,

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even if it was a lot
of getting rid of stuff

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that you had written last
night or a lot of stuff

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that you had made beforehand.

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I do believe that
this is collectively

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a process that propels forward.

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And its very normal.

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For George's draft, we literally
went back and forth 10,

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15 times-- same for mine.

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And it's what makes it fun.

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I feel really good
about everyone's ideas

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for their episodes, at least.

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It's really just a matter at
this point of figuring out

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the best way to structure things
and the best way to phrase

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and delivers things.

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And that's really what's going
to make the big difference

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in the end but when it comes to
the core ideas and the topics,

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they're all quite
fascinating and they're

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all videos that I would watch,
that George would watch.

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So that's a really
good place to be.

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I can see that people
are being challenged

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outside of their traditional
modes of thinking

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or maybe their comfort
zones, which I think

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is a really great thing.

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I also totally empathize with
it and know how uncomfortable

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it can feel sometimes.

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But I'm really happy with
where we are right now.

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There's definitely a lot
of room to grow from here

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but that's sort of the point.

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So hopefully, we're
supporting you enough on this.

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Let us know if there's
anything we can do.

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I loved the Hourglass piece
that George showed today

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just because it's funny to see
that a person like Hourglass--

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who's really great on
audio, a really great host--

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even he struggles with
delivery sometimes.

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In taking his sort of
jumbled mess of words

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and hearing him
deliver the point of it

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and seeing the big
difference between the two,

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I hope that you
guys see that that's

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sort of what we're trying to get
you all to the point, of being

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able to distill
this cloud of ideas

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into a message that is very
concrete and very compelling.