TED Talks and Education

[Neudiin]

I dunno how many of you have heard of TED but its very interesting stuff. TED

TED on YouTube - The normal talks

TED Edu on YouTube - Educational talks

They are all educational but the TED Edu ones normally come from real teacher's lessons. =)

 

[Vanessa Jade]

I love these.

I don't watch television, I don't really enjoy seeing movies and I don't really listen to the radio so I have been very thrilled with the amount of educational programming that's been made available over the last few years.

Yeah, I'm that boring chick who basically watches nothing but documentaries. I also make people listen to NPR if they're in my car :lol:

 

[lordmagellan]

Been watching TED talks for a while. Just discovered that itunes has lots of them as podcasts and downloaded them to my ipod for work. I was so happy.

And yesterday I found this:



God dammit! Now I'm gonna be watching those all morning and won't go to sleep!

 

[AliciaLeigh]

TED talks are great! Do you have the App for your phone? In my quest to find two of my all-time favorites I came across this one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/mary_roach_10_things_you_didn_t_know_about_orgasm.html

My two favorite talks. I've even shared them on Twitter.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html

 

[waogo]

I think I saw TED stuff long ago, but the only one I remember is the one I watched after my stroke. I read her book, first, which scared the piss out of me, 3 weeks after my much less severe stroke at age 31. The talk doesn't make it nearly as "oh fuck, that coulda been me" though, somehow.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jill_b ... sight.html

 

[SoTxBob]

Zoom face BB.. Tell me you love me.. :mrgreen: :lol:

 

[LadyLuna]

TED talks are great! Do you have the App for your phone? In my quest to find two of my all-time favorites I came across this one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/mary_roach_10_things_you_didn_t_know_about_orgasm.html

My two favorite talks. I've even shared them on Twitter.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html

All very interesting talks Saw the second two a couple weeks ago.

I think I saw TED stuff long ago, but the only one I remember is the one I watched after my stroke. I read her book, first, which scared the piss out of me, 3 weeks after my much less severe stroke at age 31. The talk doesn't make it nearly as "oh fuck, that coulda been me" though, somehow.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jill_b ... sight.html

That is very enlightening.

Zoom face BB.. Tell me you love me.. :mrgreen: :lol:

I've always been fascinated with the whole truth vs lie thing. I give off a ton of the misconception lie signs all the damn time (I fidget a lot, and am very quiet, and get very angry when I'm falsely accused...), but I'm not capable of hiding guilt. I'm actually rather good at hiding lies if I don't feel guilty, for some reason O.O So much so, that I still distinctly remember a situation where my parents thought I'd lied (and punished me accordingly) even though I told the truth about something, and yet the next day I managed to evade punishment by lying about disobeying what I felt was an unfair rule.

I think one very very interesting thing she said, was that if a person who is honest thinks you suspect them, they will be very angry throughout the whole conversation. And yet, so many people think that when you accuse a person and they show anger at being accused, it means they really are guilty.

 

[IvyGirl]

I love TED talks! They always make me feel so motivated for anything. :dance: Plus you can really get a huge variety of opinions. On the education side though, I found a site that I've been trying to spread to other learning-addicts like myself, lol. https://www.coursera.org/ is a website that has free college level courses to take online. It doesn't count for actual college credit but if you just want something to keep your brain busy it seems like a good idea.

 

[luxxxie]

An amazing TED talk I came across the other day:



They've added some TED talks to Netflix instant as well!

 

[LadyLuna]

 

[Tia_Fae]

Yeah. I really like TED talks too. My college teacher would actually play them as part of our class sometimes which is how I first heard of it

 

[AllisonWilder]

For some reason I thought this thread was about the movie, Ted, and couldn't figure out why it would be in this section. Good to know I'm just an idiot. :lol:

 

[camstory]

GREAT TED TALK! Wade Davis, the speaker demands your attention in this talk, with every sentence barreling along through this brilliant examination of the diversity of cultures - the ethnosphere, and how the destruction of it is, either accepted with little thought, or more often not even noticed. This is well worth the 20 minutes, but leave it till later if you can't give it your full attention, - hang on and buckle up if you can. :geek:

http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_ ... d_cultures