TED.com (Ideas Worth Spreading)

Thanks goes out to Angela for sharing this website with me. TED is an acronym that stands for Technology, Education, and Design. TED is a national conference that started back in 1984 as a way to bring together "the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers" in all three of those areas. This website provides free access to videos of all the talks and presentations that take place each year at the conference. This is a great site to find video content for your classroom on topics such as: Technology, Global Issues, Business, Science, Design, and Entertainment. It's easy to find what you are looking for by using either the search window at the top, or by clicking on one of the topic links located on the left side of the homepage. The website works like most video sharing sites such as YouTube and SchoolTube. Once you find one video, links to videos on related topics or themes are listed on the right for easy reference. Users can download either the entire video or or just the audio. Below is an example of the video content you can stream or download from TED entilted: Paul Sereno: What Can Fossils Teach Us. Check it out!!