What the f!#k is a Ted Talk?

Many of you know that I work in Public Education ( yes I know - bad career choice).

That said I generally avoid as much interaction with my "peers" as possible, however I occasionally make the mistake of reading staff emails as opposed to just deleting them (most don't apply to me as I function under SOS regs more that ISBE regs).

Anyway...in an effort to sound smart or whatever, many in education like to use "tacticool" industry terms, abbreviations, and slang/jargon.

So my question is - WTF is a Ted Talk?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)

www.TED.com

They've been going on for awhile now, where you been?

Just like most other sources there is lots of good content and lots of crap.

 

I’ve watched several of them. Sometimes it’s just celebrity on their soapbox but I’ve found the majority of them are quite informative.

 

Nerds

 

I watched the Rodney Mullen one. I enjoyed it.

 

I spend most of the day out of the loop in the DE car.

I'm good with that.

 

some are informative, entertaining; most are "opinion forming".

 

Ask @Steeltoe

 

You work in education, but can't research the most basic thing.

This is a cool one:

 

I think about this one literally every time I go to the bathroom:



Also, you're probably tying your shoe wrong.

 

Technology
Entertainment
Design

 

I always thought the show existed to push those stupid headsets on impressionable management types.

 

Its a bunch of pretentious twats giving lectures

 

Avoid TEDx talks.

 

Here it is

 

His part in the PlanB Questionable video is still one of my favorites... especially the debut of Casper slides and Blunt slides.

 

That's not nearly as fun as a morning rant on the beeb...