Hi I'm glad Mike P mentioned Rosling and Gapminder. For several years, I have used the site for class activities in culture and psychology (e.g., health around the world). Rosling has very impressive displays for numerous statistics relevant to psychology (and other disciplines). For example, you can see dynamic displays of health statistics like life expectancy going back many years and for many nations. Dramatically illustrates the marked improvement especially in the developed world, and the huge variation across nations that remains.
Going back to TED talks (TED Lectures?), I'm not sure whether the distinction between a job talk and a lecture hinges so much on the content and mode of delivery rather than the audience (i.e., expertise?). I guess one could ask the same thing about the standard conference spoken presentation, perhaps especially longer invited talks. Aren't they all just variants of lectures? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology [email protected] Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA >>> "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> 26-Jan-13 8:02 AM >>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:52:04 -0800, Jim Clark wrote: >Hi Howdy, >I often hear or read about how "bad" or "outdated" or >whatever lecturing is. And yet TED talks appear to get >lots of good publicity. But aren't TED talks just lectures, >albeit very good ones (usually good, that is)? What do people >who disparage lecturing think it is that they are criticizing? I admit to having seen only a few TED talks but what impressed me about them was (a) their high production value and (b) the focus on a specialized topic. It seems to me that TED talks are more like "job talks" than ordinary lectures where one, of course, really, really wants to impress the audience in contrast to a giving a lecture sandwiched between a departmental committee meeting and a lab research meeting. I think that what is needed is a comparison of how much time is devoted to making up a TED talk relative to an ordinary lecture. I'll bet that TED talk has many more hours devoted to them than an ordinary lecture (unless one is at an instruction where all one has to do is teaching ;-). By the way, one TED talk that I ask my students in statistics to watch is by Hans Rosling on "Stats the reshape your world view" and point out that only descriptive statistics are used; see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w NOTE: Rosling uses the software "Gapminder" for his presentation and here is a link to the Wikipedia entry on the organization that does research on/with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapminder_Foundation However, if you do a Google search on Gapminder, Google warns that this website might have been compromised, so one should be cautious in going to this website. Google provides a tool called "trends" which is supposed to be something like gapminder but I haven't used it much; see: http://www.google.com/trends/ -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=23295 or send a blank email to leave-23295-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=23298 or send a blank email to leave-23298-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
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