TED pt I - Ideas worth Spreading?

1) What is the TED organization about?

The TED organization is about sharing ideas with the world. They share ideas about whatever they like, and prepare presentations about them explaining what they are trying to teach.

2) What is the purpose of their website and how does the functionality of their site support that?

The purpose is to bring new ideas and share what they feel about them. The functionality of their site supports it by showing videos about a lot of things and separating them into different categories.

3) As Engineers and Problem Solvers, which topic areas (the choices from the "Show talks related to:" section on the sidebar) are of most interest to us? Justify your answer.

The categories that are the most relevent to our class are the design and technology ones, mainly because our class is Engineering design and we use computers.

4) Based on your previous answer, what are 3 talks (videos) on the site that appear like they would be of most interest to you as an Engineer/Problem Solver? Justify your choices.

1.) Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now
2.) Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
3.) Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines
These three videos seemed like they were the most interesting out of all the videos I looked through. They teach us about how technology is so advanced now, and how we are able to amazing things that we weren't able to do years ago.

5) Each student will watch a unique video. Claim your video on the following period specific posts: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th. If no one else has claimed your video, leave a comment on that post to call the one you want. If someone else has already claimed the talk, go back and pick another one. Watch the video. Embed the video in your blog post and create a bulletized outline of the key issues presented in the talk.

6) How could you get involved in the field/technology/issue you chose to hear about? What experience/skills/training/education would you need to learn to get involved with this field?

The video I chose was the one about how we are cyborgs now. It doesn't really have an issue, but to be able to talk about it, you would probably need experience in the field of engineering and design. You would need to learn about what goes into making a cyborg and what a cyborg really is.