TED: Ideas worth Spreading
If you’ve never listened to or watched a TED talk, go to the site and watch one now. These are wonderful, 18-minute, talks from some of the brightest, most creative people around. There are talks on many different subjects and themes that you can use in your classes. So go get an idea worth sharing.
TED Talks Spreadsheet
This is a great, up-to-date spreadsheet of all the TED Talks. It gives the URL to the talk, the speaker’s name, title of the talk and a short summary. This is a great way of finding a talk if you don’t want to use the searching feature on the TED site or just want to scan quickly through the talks.
NSF Report on Strategy for Digital Scientific Data
A summary of the report and link to the full report about preserving digital scientific data. Very timely and talks about one of the greatest issues in ensuring longterm access to digital data–preservation.
