This Year’s 10 Best TED Talks To Share With Students In honor of the recent TED Live announcement , I thought it’d be a good idea to remind you why TED rocks. Below is just a small fraction of the amazing presentations put on by the folks over at TED. Each one of the presentations embedded below is perfect for sharing with students and showing in class*. Heck, assigning the viewing of these TED talks as homework isn’t a bad idea. Do you use TED in the classroom? I’d love to hear about it if you did and I know the rest of the Edudemic community would too! *There are of course many more presentations but I picked these because I thought they resonated with me and would do the same with students. Philip Zimbardo: The Demise of Guys? Philip Zimbardo was the leader of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment — and an expert witness at Abu Ghraib. Pavan Sukhdev: Put A Value On Nature! Annie Murphy Paul: What We Learn Before We’re Born Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Joe Sabia: The Technology of Storytelling Allan Jones: A Map of the Brain
10 ways Shakespeare changed the world The reading of Shakespeare’s work is still the tie that binds (and often gags) students across generations, but that’s far from the only way the Bard influenced our culture, as Stephen Marche reveals in his new book, How Shakespeare Changed Everything. Jamie Spatola at mental_floss has handpicked ten examples of how Shakespeare impacts our lives in ways you probably never realized…until now, of course. 1. He gave us a lot of new wordsJust say some words real quick and you’ll probably say one he coined – nearly 10% of his 20,000-word vocabulary was new to his audiences. Full story at mental_floss. Much more than writing.
The Top 20 TED Talks in The Last 5 Years TED videos have been making the rounds online for a couple of years now. I have personally shared several of them here and I am still amazed by the new ones that are released from time to time.TED is a video resource that I consider as a must for all educators and teachers to use. There are hundreds of videos you can share with your students and all of which are student friendly. Anyway, today as I was browsing through my emails I found this article : " the 20 most watched TED Talks ".
7 Writing Tips for Small Business Owners The following 7 writing tips for small business owners who dislike writing have little to do with grammar, vocabulary, or inherited talent. The reason many small business owners dislike writing is that they don’t give themselves a chance…they don’t have a simple structure, process, system, for creating the ongoing stream of content needed to build their brand, educate their customers, and maintain consistent visibility in today’s social media world. Successful authors understand that writing success is based more on writing habits and time management than on ability or talent. The following writing tips can help any small business owner develop the habits necessary for social marketing and writing success: Start early. Before investing in big ticket writing or copywriting courses, take a look at your current writing habits. Author:
Symbols, Storytelling and Corporate Culture | Story and Narrative You’re becoming an automaton inShare26 When I first started doing this whole “online thing” a year ago, there was one particular word that showed up in almost every conversation – human. You could be a human brand. You could now conduct marketing on a human-to-human basis. Your customers were now humans instead of numbers. Lately though, something weird is going on. Now what do I mean by that? Sharing Content When I first started tweeting, I believed strongly that the best thing to do was to share content from others that you thought was really good and/or helpful. Now, sharing seems to be something we want to do with as little thought as possible. The humanity has sort of seeped out of sharing content online. Saying thank you I’ve always been a big believer in saying thank you, most especially when someone shares a blog post of mine. Because of this change, I’ve stopped saying thank you as much. Thinking for your own darned self Social Media offers us an opportunity to think about everything in new ways.
Why American novelists don’t deserve the Nobel Prize America wants a Nobel Prize in literature. America demands it! America doesn’t understand why those superannuated Swedes haven’t given one to an American since Toni Morrison in 1993. America wonders what they’re waiting for with Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon. America wonders how you say “clueless” in Swedish. OK, enough. Boy, were we upset. It’s true that the Academy, like any body of judges, has made some ill-informed decisions. That only fed the vitriol directed at Stockholm, obscuring a valid point about American letters: We’ve become an Oldsmobile in a world yearning for a Prius. Stockholm has been trying to tell us this for a long while, and we would do well to listen. And yet here are the Americans who could win it this year, according to online oddsmakers Ladbrokes (in order of decreasing likelihood): Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates and Don DeLillo. But if we don’t win yet again, we are at fault. That makes for a small literature, indeed.
January 20 From My Shelf Handselling "Handselling." It's a word beloved by booksellers, because it's one of the things they do best--recommending books from a personal perspective. There are many ways to handsell a book: via conversations, e-mails, social networks. Nationally syndicated columnist and author Leonard Pitts, Jr., raised the bar for handselling in his January 15 editorial for the Miami Herald, "The New Jim Crow Alive and Thriving." Book Candy Book Coffee Table; Literary Siblings; Libraries & Librarians Instead of a coffee table book, what about a book coffee table? The "9 Coolest Literary Siblings" were showcased by BestOnlineColleges.com, which observed: "Great writers throughout the ages have had a field day with the sibling dynamic. For fans of both libraries and films, Buzzfeed featured a "supercut" of "Libraries on TV and in the Movies." And i09 featured "20 heroic librarians who save the world," observing: "If information is power, then there's no hero mightier than a librarian."