TEDx SUU

This year's TEDxSUU event will be held on April 20, 2011, at 7 pm, on the campus of Southern Utah University, Eccles Education Building, room 104.

Once again, students enrolled in the Honors TED Seminar course will be vying for the chance to present their Idea Worth Sharing. Chosen by their peers, these students will be sharing the "stage" with several TED Talk stars from the TED.com archives.

History of TED at SUU
In the Fall of 2007, the Southern Utah University Honors Program launched a new interdisciplinary course using TED as its text and the model for its assignments. In the course, called Discourse in the Disciplines, students seminar over TED talks, then prepare and deliver their own eight-minute talk on a topic of their choosing. These pre-TEDx conferences have been called PAM talks. PAM stands for Passion, Academics, & Media, and is named for what the creators imagined as "TED's little sister."

The PAM talks are recorded with multiple cameras, then edited by honors students into a final form, using the aesthetics of the TED talk as their model. The videos to the right are trailers of the entire class efforts during the first two years.

TEDxSUU presenters are the best of PAM, chosen by their peers, and re-worked and perfected for presentation at the campus-wide event.