March 23, 2009

Good Morning Developers,



One resource that I haven't had a chance to talk about yet is TED. Some of you may have heard of TED before and some of you are probably wondering who TED is? So I would like to start with a description of what the TED website consists of:



TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and 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 available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a creative commons license , so they can be freely shared and re-posted.



If you haven't had a chance to search around the TED website at http://www.ted.com/ I very much encourage you to do so. The videos that are shown are very "real life" and "relevant" and having students do an assignment that requires them to watch a TED video would also introduce them to this wonderful resource.



To show you an example of a video that is extremely relevant I would like you to watch the 8 minute video on Twitter. I have been talking about Twitter quite a bit lately and this speech is given by the creator of Twitter and he does a great job talking about the philosophy behind it and how to best use it in your own lives.



On a different note, please notice that I have started to give labels to my blogs and you can now see some of the labels on the right side of your screen. I have yet to get through all of my past blog posts to label them, but it is a project I am working on. For now, you can start to look at archived postings based on their subject. Have fun!



Have a great week!



Amy