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Welcome to TED Books: an imprint of short nonfiction works designed for digital distribution. Shorter than traditional books, TED Books run fewer than 20,000 words each -- long enough to explain a powerful idea, but short enough to be read in a single sitting.  

TED, a nonprofit organization that produces a popular annual conference on ideas, is launching TED-Ed, an online collection of lessons it hopes will bring the best educators to any classroom with an Internet connection.(march 2012)

TED-Ed's new free platform allows anyone to "flip" any video on YouTube by adding custom content to play alongside it, making it possible to turn any piece of video content into a teachable moment.

Ted Mann's Wordpress site.

by CEO of Public Radio International,

Radbox works through a simple bookmarklet that you click whenever you're on a page with a video you want to save. The basic compatibility list reads "YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, DailyMotion, CollegeHumor, Hulu, Blip.tv, Megavideo, TED, etc." In my own testing, I liked the way Radbox lined up and played my selected videos with a note about when I saved them, but found that, about half the time, I'd need to click on a video and bring it up on its original site (i.e. click embedded YouTube clips and view them on YouTube) to ensure the Radbox bookmarklet picked up the video for sure. Radbox is a free service, requires a quick sign-up to use

Univ of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Va class based on TedTalks. Students had to create their own

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Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong.

Ted Mann might be interested in this. I sent it to him and Mike G

Yellow cohort KSC Craig Sylvern Craig Lindsey Ted Man

Spreadsheet of TED talks