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At TED, our motto is “ideas worth spreading.” Our presenters are determined to bring to the widest possible audience the ideas that
they’re passionate about — whether those ideas are about science and technology, art and culture, politics and society, or the
development of the self.
To further that mission, we’re reaching out to college students, including those at the University of Denver, to ask for your help. What
ideas are worth spreading to your peers? What idea are you, personally, so passionate about that you want to educate other college
students about them and inspire them to join you?
Now’s your chance to spread your idea and share your passion. We are soliciting submissions of TED presentations from DU students.
Submissions should take one of two forms of sequential art: either a PowerPoint presentation or a comic. And, either way, your
presentation should make an argument. See below for details.
PowerPoint Presentation Comic
PowerPoint presentations should include not only a sequence of Comics should be sufficiently rich, in images and text, to fully
slides but the accompanying lecture. Lectures should be 10–12 develop and unfold your idea. Art Spiegelman’s one-page
minutes in length (which, when typed out, is about 1,000–1,200 “Remember Childhood?” is a good example of a very brief but
words). sufficiently rich comic; it’s more likely the case that your comic
will be longer than that, with less detail packed into every panel
For examples of great presentations, check out these TED lectures: — like the pages from In the Shadow of No Towers on our blog.
• Al Gore on the climate crisis: http://www.tinyurl.com/ylm9y74
• Han’s Gosling on poverty: http://www.tinyurl.com/kuogg4
• Seth Godin on advertising: http://www.tinyurl.com/nq5xbh
• Patricia Burchat on dark matter:
http://www.tinyurl.com/yaxv3g4
To create a PowerPoint with audio, sign up for a SlideShare
account and watch/listen to the instructions here:
http://www.slideshare.net/jboutelle/slidecasting-101
Interested students are to bring a rough script and storyboard to Centennial Halls on Tuesday, February 1, to get suggestions from peers. Revised
drafts are due to TED representative John Tiedemann on Thursday, February 3. Final drafts are due to John on March 13.
http://www.ted.com/