Tagged With: TED O’clock
TED O’clock – Extend Your Life by 10 Years! – March 31, 2017
Angie Bardsley, our amazing administrative assistant, shared one of her favorite TED talks with the group, showing Jane McGonigal’s “The Game That Can Give You 10 Extra Years of Life.” Her talk begins by discussing the five most common regrets of the dying and making the case for the importance of how play, including playing … Continue reading
TED O’clock – How Great Leaders Inspire Action – February 24, 2017
Danna Duncan, instructional technologist extraordinaire, presented this edition of TED O’clock and showed Simon Sinek’s “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” In his talk, Mr. Sinek discusses the premise of how people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. This is applicable whether you are marketing a product (like Apple) or a … Continue reading
TED O’clock – 404, The Story of a Page Not Found – January 13, 2017
Welcome to the new year everyone! I hope 2017 is your best year yet! ITS: met on Friday the 13th of January (nope, no superstitions here!) for TED O’clock and watched Renny Gleeson’s talk about “404, The Story of a Page Not Found.” It was a short and succinct discussion that boiled down to this: … Continue reading
TED O’clock – It’s Time for Women to Run for Office – December 2, 2016
In this edition of TED O’clock, we watched Halla Tomasdottir share why she decided to run for Iceland’s presidency and what she learned from the experience, as well as why it’s time for more women to run for office. Major themes included why role models matter, what was important to her successful campaign (although she did not … Continue reading
TED O’clock – Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator – October 28, 2016
Angie Bardsley facilitated the most recent installment of TED O’clock on Friday, October 28. She reported the following: Tim Urban presents a humorous look at why people procrastinate in “Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator” by using illustrations that feature the rational decision-maker, instant gratification monkey, and panic monster. The rational decision-maker wants to … Continue reading
TED O’clock – The Happy Secret to Better Work – September 30, 2016
Happiness was the focus for today’s TED O’clock, as we showed Shawn Achor’s talk titled, “The Happy Secret to Better Work.” Thank you, Eric, for your suggestion to watch this talk! The overall idea presented is to change the “normal” thought process of “working hard leading to success which leads to happiness (which is does not, … Continue reading
TED O’Clock – My Love Letter to Cosplay – August 19, 2016
With the New Student Orientation madness set to begin on Saturday, August 20, the TED O’clock talk on Friday, August 19, focused on lightening the mood for folks with Adam Savage’s, “My Love Letter to Cosplay.” Those in attendance shared a laugh as Mr. Savage talked about the many costumes he had made over the … Continue reading
TED O’Clock – The Habits of Highly Boring People – June 10, 2016
Katharina facilitated Friday’s TED O’clock (June 10, 2016) and showed Chris Sauve’s “The Habits of Highly Boring People.” The habits he discussed are: Write everything down. Reduce to the essentials. Stop and question. Here are the highlights from the discussion afterwards: As we are asked to be more innovative in our work, these habits can … Continue reading
TED O’clock – Try Something New for 30 Days – April 22, 2016
Weston facilitated today’s TED O’clock discussion based on Matt Cutts’ talk entitled, “Try Something New for 30 Days.” A few of the takeaways from the discussion that followed were: Time becomes more memorable when you have something that you are focusing on. An individual’s confidence can grow when accomplishing the task of doing something for 30 days. … Continue reading
TED O’clock – Got a meeting? Take a walk. – from March 25, 2016
We had our very first guest TED O’clock leader today…it was Chad Schonewill! Chad showed the talk by Nilofer Merchant titled “Got a meeting? Take a walk.” Here were a few of the key takeaways from the discussion that followed: Sitting all day is bad for your health. You can take care of your health … Continue reading
