Jun 03 2009
The Best Teacher Resources For “TED Talks”
I’ve written several posts recently about TED Talks, and thought I’d pull together a short list of resources that would be helpful to other teachers (and me) as we consider how to use them most effectively in our classes.
I’m going to start off with a quote from their website explaining what these “things” are:
“TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
This site makes the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 400 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks feature closed captions in English, and many feature subtitles in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.”
Here are my choices for The Best Teacher Resources For “TED Talks”:
The number one place to go is a wiki created by Jackie Gerstein that is called Teaching With Ted. It shares videos along with lesson ideas connected to each one.
Jeff Mummert has just today published an incredible post titled TED Talks Demystified For Teachers. In it, he highlights the videos that he thinks are particularly useful and divides them by subject area.
Links to a Google doc that lists all of the Ted Talks, including links and descriptions, has been circulating on Twitter for weeks. It’s not clear, though, who created such a helpful document. If it was you, let me know!
Tim Longhurst uncovered The TED Commandments – rules every speaker needs to know. They’re the list of ten presentation rules that are given to each TED speaker, and they’re good to keep in mind for any type of public speaking.
Tom Woodward has created a neat searchable website utilizing all of the TED Talks. He is using software from MIT called Exhibit and just posted it. TED must be “in the air” today!
Here are two lists of favorite TED Talks made by education bloggers whose judgment I trust:
Top Ten TED Talks by David Deubelbeiss
Dangerously Irrelevant has posted the Top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy school administrators.
Learn Out Loud also has lots of audio and visual resources that I’ve found useful in my own teaching. They have their own list of favorite TED Talks.
There’s now an application that lets you watch all the great TED Talks from your desktop without having to be connected to the Internet.
Suggestions and feedback, as always, are welcome.
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Great resource, Larry. I think that for focus and length TED talks are ideal for teaching either language or subject matter. Thanks for putting this list together.
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I have listened to a number of TED related sites. I find the dramatized productions better than the single reader. NewFiction.com is one I use a lot.
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