10.10.09—a day to go down in history!

TEDxDubai was certainly not my usual experience of TED, which typically involves watching an 18-minute clip on YouTube from my couch or listening to a talk here or there via my iPod car kit while on long drives through the desert. A normal TED experience for me involves taking in one talk, followed by countless thinking and dinner discussions with my husband before moving onto the next. Our discussions typically go something like… “What did he mean?” “Interesting idea, what if we apply it in another context?” “What can we take away from her idea that can be applied to our own business/thinking?” “If you could give the ‘talk of your life,’ what would you say? Do?”

Nope! Yesterday’s TEDxDubai was a whole different ballgame! Instead of a leisure stroll through virtual TEDland like I’m used to, TEDxDubai felt more like running a ...

Today we will be interviewing people throughout the TEDxDubai audience to learn more about them and their ideas worth spreading! To start, I've pasted a bit about myself and ideas worth spreading below...

Name: Anna Batchelder

Title: Founder & CEO

Organization: Bon Education (www.boneducation.com)

Hometown: Burke, VA (near Washington DC)

Why are you attending TEDxDubai?

• To be inspired by the amazing people in Dubai that do things everyday to make the word a better place.
• To share those ideas via @tedxdubai

What is your idea worth spreading?

Open Education Resources (OERs)! According to Wikipedia, OERs are “educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.” Imagine a world where students, teachers and anyone that wanted to learn and exchange ideas could do so freely and easily!

Thanks to the Internet, they can! Take a ...