My favorite quote from the TED Conference this year was from the (now former) head of DARPA, the defense agency that plans our strategic responses on surprise attacks, Regina Dugan. She said: “If you want to learn to fly, you have to FLY.” It seemed so simple. But for an agency that fails all the time in its […]
On March 8, 2012 I was privileged to give the hardest talk of my life – a eulogy for my father. This is an audio capture of the church service of the four remembrances with a slide show of images of him throughout his life. He died on March 3, a few hours after
Remembrances of the life of William W. Milligan Read More »
Every car has four wheels, a radiator and glove compartment. It is not those things that make a car fancy, fast or memorable. But without those things it would not be a car. After attending my second TED conference and beginning to preparing our 5th TEDx event, I thought it was time to take a stab at my interpretation
The arc, or rather petals of a TED talk Read More »
(Live from TEDActive 2012) I was asked to play Bob Costas, or rather Mary Corillo, by a fellow TEDactive attendee during session 8 at TED2012. In other words, sit next to me and give me a play by play of what these speakers are doing to rock the house or in contrast, find a way
How not to give a TED talk Read More »
Using a word like curriculum sounds rather formal, as we really intend for this to be a guide to inspire and adapt for your own TEDx kids/youth situation. This is a six week model with the sixth “class” being the TEDxKids event itself. We recommend keeping your student logistics to a minimum. Don’t try to
TEDxKids@NBCC: Our Curriculum (help yourself!) Read More »
At TEDActive 2012 in Palm Beach in a few days (the sister simulcast of TED in Long Beach) I’ll be presenting on our TEDxKids@NBCC experience to the TEDx workshop. It reminded me of my last national TEDx presentation in Roanoke, Virginia late last year to the CityWorks Xpoconference and that it was finally time to ‘out’ it! I
My 18 minutes on “TEDx” Read More »
It can be summed in one word: awesome. By the time 5pm on Feb 17th rolled around, the 15 kids who were participating in the TEDxKids@NBCC were bursting at the seams for it to begin. The momentum of the week, which included many rehearsals and cheering each other on, had hit a fever pitch. One
TEDxKids@NBCC Final Journal Entry: The Big Event! Read More »
While we practiced ideas during class #5, we rehearsed the talks this week! The big event was on a Friday so on the Wednesday prior, we stopped by school to make sure we had all of our technical needs covered (camera angles, power point feed, sound for video) so that on Thursday, we could do
TEDxKids@NBCC Journal #6: Rehearsal Read More »
In our TEDxKids@NBCC class, the age differences, enthusiasm, preparedness levels and interest have varied greatly. This has made it a bit challenging to be equally tough on everyone about getting to their best “why” of their idea, despite many conversations formally and informally. So… we didn’t worry about it. Instead for class #5, we just
TEDxKids@NBCC Journal #5: Practice, Practice, Practice! Read More »
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