The lesson of your life...
Thank you for taking the time to read our invitation. We're excited about the potential to work with you on creating a lesson for a TED-Ed video.
Why are we writing you?
The process for choosing educators to record a lesson for a TED-Ed video always begins with a nomination. We have been thrilled by the overwhelming response to the TED-Ed initiative - hundreds of nominations are coming in each week recommending an incredibly diverse group of educators and topics. Upon reviewing the nominations, we found yours to be particularly outstanding. If you didn't fill out the nomination form yourself, someone who has experienced your ability to educate believed you would be a good candidate, and gave us your contact information. If you are interested in exploring with us, we would love to discuss the general process and next steps.
What is TED-Ed?
TED-Ed aims to amplify the voices of great educators in the world. The service is designed to support teachers and learners in both high school and college, but the content will appeal to all lifelong learners.
The TED-Ed website, which beta-launced in April 2012, is a platform that features a variety of TED-Ed videos. TED-Ed videos feature auditory lessons from teachers and other experts enhanced by the visualizations of professional animators. All TED-Ed videos focus on lending clarity to a specific topic that is (or should be!) taught in schools.
We're asking you to explore ideas with us regarding a potential lesson. We feel you may be able to write and record the audio for this lesson, and that our TED-Ed animators can vivify your words for the benefit of teachers and learners around the world.
Why are we writing you?
The process for choosing educators to record a lesson for a TED-Ed video always begins with a nomination. We have been thrilled by the overwhelming response to the TED-Ed initiative - hundreds of nominations are coming in each week recommending an incredibly diverse group of educators and topics. Upon reviewing the nominations, we found yours to be particularly outstanding. If you didn't fill out the nomination form yourself, someone who has experienced your ability to educate believed you would be a good candidate, and gave us your contact information. If you are interested in exploring with us, we would love to discuss the general process and next steps.
What is TED-Ed?
TED-Ed aims to amplify the voices of great educators in the world. The service is designed to support teachers and learners in both high school and college, but the content will appeal to all lifelong learners.
The TED-Ed website, which beta-launced in April 2012, is a platform that features a variety of TED-Ed videos. TED-Ed videos feature auditory lessons from teachers and other experts enhanced by the visualizations of professional animators. All TED-Ed videos focus on lending clarity to a specific topic that is (or should be!) taught in schools.
We're asking you to explore ideas with us regarding a potential lesson. We feel you may be able to write and record the audio for this lesson, and that our TED-Ed animators can vivify your words for the benefit of teachers and learners around the world.
Here's the general process:
If you're interested in participating, you will begin by fleshing out an outline or a rough draft of a script.
Our editorial and animation teams will go over the script, provide feedback via email, and as a group (you included), we'll optimize it for potential visualization.
If we decide to move forward with your script, we'll mail you an audio recording unit for the final recording.
The final recording will again be reviewed, and if it's selected for animation, either our in-house animators or guest animators will bring the lesson to life. Again, we can’t guarantee that we’ll animate every script. However, we will work with you to ensure that your talk has the best possibility of being selected by the production team.
If your work is published:
You will be recognized for your work on the video on both the TED-Ed website and the TED-Ed YouTube channel. You will also gain exposure to TED’s millions of subscribers, many of whom are teachers and students.
If you're interested in participating, you will begin by fleshing out an outline or a rough draft of a script.
- The goal is for the final video to be 3 minutes, which is usually about 2.5-3 double spaced pages in script form (the video can be no longer than 5 minutes).
- Keep in mind that selected scripts will be animated, so write with visuals in mind! You can use a Word document or PowerPoint if you want to actually include visuals for our animators to reference.
Our editorial and animation teams will go over the script, provide feedback via email, and as a group (you included), we'll optimize it for potential visualization.
- We would love to be able to promise that we will develop every submitted script. However, we have to take your script into consideration with respect to all potential content.
If we decide to move forward with your script, we'll mail you an audio recording unit for the final recording.
- It consists of an iPad, a microphone and a soundproof hood. The hood serves to ensure audio quality and the iPad is set up so that you can upload the recording with the press of a button.
- If you're happy with your lesson, but you feel another voice could deliver it more effectively, we can utilize the talent of local voice actors to rerecord your script. If you choose this option, and your lesson is selected, you will still be credited in the video as the "lesson creator."
The final recording will again be reviewed, and if it's selected for animation, either our in-house animators or guest animators will bring the lesson to life. Again, we can’t guarantee that we’ll animate every script. However, we will work with you to ensure that your talk has the best possibility of being selected by the production team.
If your work is published:
You will be recognized for your work on the video on both the TED-Ed website and the TED-Ed YouTube channel. You will also gain exposure to TED’s millions of subscribers, many of whom are teachers and students.
Next Steps:
After you have had the chance to review this invitation, click here to schedule yourself a time to speak with the TED-Ed team. We realize this is short notice, but we're excited to begin working with you as soon as possible. Furthermore, we think there's a chance your potential role with TED-Ed could end up making a material impact on global education. We couldn't be more excited about the prospect of working with you.
After you have had the chance to review this invitation, click here to schedule yourself a time to speak with the TED-Ed team. We realize this is short notice, but we're excited to begin working with you as soon as possible. Furthermore, we think there's a chance your potential role with TED-Ed could end up making a material impact on global education. We couldn't be more excited about the prospect of working with you.
Warmest wishes,
Jordan Reeves
TED-Ed Program Facilitator
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Logan Smalley
TED-Ed Catalyst
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TED-Ed Program Facilitator
[email protected]
Logan Smalley
TED-Ed Catalyst
[email protected]
