Final Project Exposure Ideas

Ted Talks. You know them; you love them. Did you know that TED has local conferences all around the world where communities have their own TED-style presentations? One's happening at BYU this March, and if we can get our DigiCiv final project exposure there, we just might get exposure everywhere.

Here's an example. One of the most viewed videos on the TED website is Brene Brown's speech called, The Power of Vulnerability. It has been viewed over 3 million times and it wasn't even delivered at one of TED's megaconferences. It was delivered at TEDxHouston, one of the local conferences, and it was so good that it caught fire in the TED community.

(Side note: using the phrase "caught fire" just now reminded me of Catching Fire, second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. That series is also about a young person realizing how much impact she can have on the world. "Catching Fire" is a term the author uses to describe her ever increasing influence and self-awareness of that influence. We could describe ourselves similarly.)

March 22 won't be the first TEDxBYU. Here's a link to last year's event. Professor David Wiley even has a video on the site of his presentation about the mass-personalization of education.

We could have someone represent us all in a talk. We could put together a video mash-up of us discussing our ideas, we could do interpretive dance. I vote for an on-stage pancake breakfast; maybe there's a way to make that educational.