TED Talks in Written Form

TED is now creating e-books available through Kindle. The authors of these books were asked to cover a topic concisely within 10,000 to 20,000 words. TED is launching this idea with the following books:



• The Happiness Manifesto: How Nations and People Can Nurture Well-Being by Nic Marks



• Homo Evolutis Please Meet the Next Human Species by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans



• Beware Dangerism! Why We Worry About the Wrong Things, and What It’s Doing to Our Kids by Gever Tully

Can Math Teachers Rap..?

At Westerville South High School in Ohio, math teachers Dave Schultz, KC Murphy, and Tyler Winner created “Getting’ Triggy Wit It” a parody of Will Smith’s jiggy.


Lamar Queen, an 8th grade math teacher in Los Angeles, regularly performs songs to reinforce lessons.


Mrs. Lee, a teacher at Grafton Middle School in York County, Virginia, wrote this fraction rap.

History Lessons for Music Lovers

The videos below were created by two teachers from Honolulu, Hawaii. They change the words of popular songs to give the basics of some historical people and events. The teachers have reworked songs for almost 50 lessons, and you can find those at historyteacher’s YouTube Channel.

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Imagine Cup 2011

Registration for Microsoft’s 9th Imagine Cup
is now open. The competition is made up of passionate and creative young people that work to find solutions to our world’s social and environmental problems. This year a new program is added to the competition called “Imagine Cup Solve This”. The program will provide needs submitted by organizations that students will be challenged to solve creatively.

You can click here to see the winners of the Imagine Cup 2010. Below is a video for the 3rd place winner in the Digital Media category, Team Woolgathering.

Good Article for Ed Techs…

…and anyone else trying to get a group to shift towards more innovative technologies in a classroom or organization. This ZDNet Education article, “If I only knew then…” lists the top ten principles and knowledge Christopher Dawson believes Ed Techs should keep in mind. I agree with most of his advice, but I recommend disregarding the last paragraph. While I love coffee more than I should, SLEEP IS IMPORTANT.