The TEDTalks we’re sharing on Monday and Tuesday are part of our new short-video initiative for teachers and students: TED-Ed. Find more great video on the TED-Ed channel on YouTube: youtube.com/TEDEd And you are a big part of helping TED-Ed grow! If these talks inspire you to share your own lesson, we want to hear […]
Photo and video: James Duncan Davidson. Music: Tyler Walker Our photographer James Duncan Davidson made this great little video from all the hundreds of photos he snapped during Improv Everywhere’s prank on TED2012. Watch the whole prank … and learn more about how they did it.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9vnuaPGxrg&hd=1&w=560&h=315%5D Throughout today and tomorrow, we’ll be sharing incredible video from our new TED-Ed channel. In a new TED-Ed series designed to catalyze curiosity, TED Curator Chris Anderson shares his obsession with questions that no one (yet) knows the answers to. This introduction leads into two questions as follow-up films: Why can’t we see […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr4gWi9Jf6k&hd=1&w=560&h=315%5D Throughout today and tomorrow, we’ll be sharing incredible video from our new TED-Ed channel. By dissecting a cockroach … yes, live on stage … TED Fellow and neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and deliver electric impulses — and how legs can respond to stimulation via sound. Length: 6:16. This video is […]
TED’s Curator, Chris Anderson, writes this personal note on his blog: Today marks a big new chapter in the TED story, as we unveil the first part of our TED-Ed initiative. Viewed one way, it’s just the release on YouTube of a dozen short videos created for high school students and lifelong learners. But we’re […]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJ5XG5i2aw&w=560&h=315%5D This morning, we’re thrilled to introduce TED-Ed — a resource of short lessons designed to spark curiosity and promote further learning in and out of classrooms. Watch our introductory video above … read Chris Anderson’s personal note … and watch for more news and video throughout the day.
Photo: Michael Brands If watching a TEDTalk inspires insights (see this post for more) — imagine giving one. From speakers’ own blogs: Here’s what Brené Brown learned >> The first lesson I learned is about vulnerability (no suprise). The folks in the picture are raising their hands in response to two questions that I asked […]
Vijay Kumar and his autonomous flying robot. Photo: James Duncan Davidson People watch TED to find insights across many different disciplines — and over this past week, bloggers have been sharing what they learned, what insights struck them, at TED2012. Below are a few. (Find more writing about TED2012 in last week’s roundup … and […]
Speed Meeting at TED2012 — 3 minutes to share who you are. Photo: Robert Leslie This thoughtful blog post from Hadiyah at Engineers Don’t Blog contains four great takeaways for conference-goers: “TED2012 and why conferences will never be the same” From the post: 2. Attend a conference with a purpose. I previously despised networking at […]
Photo: Brian W. Jones / Coffee Common On the Tuesday before TED2012, artist Gabriel Dawe and assistant Sandi Edgar began work on a piece of art that would consume them until the following Saturday — stringing 37 miles of colored thread from edge to edge of the dramatic staircase at the Long Beach Performing Arts […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQPUntutX5Q] Jorge Colombo, the iPad artist (you’ve seen his work on the cover of the New Yorker), came to TED2012 to hang out at the Syfy space and draw. It’s fascinating to watch his process … as in the video above, where a few blurry swipes suddenly sharpen and coalesce into the TED auditorium. See […]
Photo: Duncan Davidson Bryan Stevenson’s talk inspired one of the longest and loudest standing ovations in TED’s history. And it provoked a blizzard of requests from audience members that we find a way to support the work of his nonprofit organization, the Equal Justice Initiative. When I asked Bryan about funding needs, this is what […]
To document TED, the photo team uses every camera at hand. Big digital SLRs with huge lenses are perfect for photographing the stages, but some moments can simply sing when captured with an iPhone and processed with Instagram. Here are a few of my favorites from TED2012 that I collected while in between sessions. Duncan […]
Photo: Tokey + Associates, Calgary, AB, Canada During TED2012, we asked TED Live members to submit their own creative ways to spell out TED, then had members vote on their favorite. The winner? Susan Macaulay’s TED Full Spectrum in the snow. Susan is from Magog, Canada, and is a longtime TED enthusiast and member. She […]
On Friday of TED2012, the Duarte Design team gathered up their colored markers and sat down to live-draw the great moments of Session 11: The Classroom. You can see some of their work on the @Duarte Twitter feed (until they too hit their Twitter limit; been there) or via the tag #IllustraTED. Or watch this […]
First of all, we counted, and the TED Blog live-bloggers wrote ~34,000 words about what happened at TED2012 over the past week. That’s enough to make word count on two young-adult novels, and there’s some beautiful writing in there. Someone on Facebook called it “insanely detailed” … you’ll see. Read our coverage of TED2012 >> […]