- Jon Lapre
- Glendale, CA
- United States
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Who would be interested in having live webcam discussions on TED Videos?
I would like to know if anyone would be interested in participating in watching a TED video and create, discuss, and debate live over webcam/ google hangout/ skype. This also will create a place where TEDsters can meet other TEDsters.
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Lejan . 30+
Jon Lapre
Lejan . 30+
There are other advantages in writing too, as a written word usually takes more 'thought' than a spoken one, which, by the given intellectual level of TED talks, is not a bad thing to have and to avoid 'chatting'.
Another advantage in text is given to most non native English speakers, as it allows the time to check spelling and grammar in more detail.
But TED seems to optimize their user experience at the moment, so if you have not done it already, your idea may give them some useful input.
The fact that I would not use a live video option, does not degrade your wish to have one.
Jon Lapre
Providing a discussion or ideas that are generated after watching a TED video would be fun and interesting AND if it is streamed live you can have an audience participate with you live. Some benefits of having live discussions is that as the audience can ask their own questions while hearing others discuss their thoughts and feelings towards the videos.
I see that your TED story is that you "stumbled across it." When you did stumble across it? What was it like for the first time seeing amazing ideas actually put forth into reality. Have you shared a TED video and if so what kind of feedback did you get from it? Did you discuss it with a friend or family member? Did it have any significant affect on either you or the person that you shared it with?
Have you "streamed" video across the internet before?
The whole mantra of TED is "Ideas worth spreading" I am finding another ways to spread those ideas and others that would be interested in participating.
Lejan . 30+
In opposite to TED talk videos, in which the speaker is following a more or less structured form to present his(her ideas, which was edited before and with time at hand, a live video conversation is echoing mainly first thoughts and direct emotional responses, which, to be honest, is not really of my interest, especially from people I don't even know. But this is just personal experience and preference, not more.
I stumbled across TED some years ago and my first impression was to think, why on earth it happens so rarely to find those people who do exist in real life conditions... So I felt intellectually at home and challenged at times, and this is what I was looking for and still am.
I belong to a generation which entered their professional life right at the time where email became the main medium of communication, so I am used to type my thoughts onto a keyboard. And because I do not type with all of my fingers, my neurons have enough time to deliver also a second and third, sometimes even a fourth thought on something, especially when a single letter disappear again and untraceable off my keypad... :o)
So far I have not streamed any self-made video content publicly on the Internet, as there is nothing I would like to share in pictures to an unknown audience. As a tool and on the job, video conferencing became obligatory and not my favorite way of communication.
I would watch some of your video conversations to see, how different groups of different people interact, what they exchange and how a conversation develops freely and without moderation. A experiment worth trying, as I have just doubts no knowledge what it may become and if it was use- or helpful at the end.
Jon Lapre
Lejan . 30+