TED-Ed: The Writer's Workshop

TED-Ed collected several videos to help students become better writers into their "The Writer's Workshop" playlist. It contains lessons on basic topics like how to use punctuation and videos on more complex topics like how to make your writing humorous. Take a look! 

TED Talks: Math in Unexpected Places

I found this TED Talk playlist of 8 videos on Math in Unexpected Places to be quite interesting!

TED-Ed: Superhero Science and more cool topics

Superhero Science is a playlist of science lessons published by TED-Ed. The lessons in the playlist feature explanations of what would happen in various scenarios if you had superhero powers like flight, strength, and speed. Each lessons explains the mathematics and science of scenarios frequently found in superhero stories. For example, in the lesson on strength we learn what would happen if a superhero did catch someone falling from the top of a skyscraper.

On that same link, there is alist of all the other TED-Ed lesson series that are available.  Some fantastic stuff!

Actions and Reactions

Animation Basics

Awesome Nature

Before and After Einstein

Behind the Curtain

Click You Fortune

Cyber-Influence & Power

Discovering the Deep

Ecofying Citites

Everyone Has a Story

Exploring Theories

Getting Under Our Skin

Government: Declassified

How Things Work

Ingenuity in the Developing World

Inventions that Shape History

Making the Invisible Visible

Mastering Tech Artistry

Math in Real Life

Mind Matters

Mysteries of Vernacular

Our Changing Climate

Out of This World

Periodic Videos

Playing with Language

Questions No One (Yet) Knows the Answers To

Reading Between the Lines

The Artist's Palette

The Big Questions

The Way We Think

The World's People and Places

The Writer's Workshop

Things they Don't Teach in School (But Should)

Troubleshooting the World

Visualizing Data

What Will You Do with Your Life?

You Are What You Eat

You Graduated... Now What?

If you have never used TED-Ed before, if you create a FREE teacher account, you can customize the questions and activities that go with the videos and you can assign them to your students.

Let me know if you are interested in learning more about it.  I’d be happy to help set it up.

TED-Ed Lessons by Grade Level

You can now search TED-Ed lessons by grade level! This is super handy to help narrow down results that may be more appropriate for use in your class.

For more information, see this article at Edublogs.

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2015/09/27/ted-ed-lessons-by-grade-level-might-be-useful/

Monica Lewinsky's TED Talk on Social Media and Public Shaming

In 1998, says Monica Lewinsky, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become constant -- and can turn deadly. In a brave talk, she takes a look at our “culture of humiliation,” in which online shame equals dollar signs, and demands a different way.

See her TED Talk.

#OurVoice: George Couros at TEDxBurnsvilleED

Worth a watch:

http://youtu.be/kZQKD83rsPw