Stagg High School Science Teacher Dan Dulek recently had his second animated lesson published on the TED-Ed website.
"I enjoy teaching and sharing knowledge, " said Dulek whose most recent lesson has reached more than 169,000 viewers in just one week. "The TED-ED animations are a fun way to teach not only your own students but other students all over the world."
TED-Ed is a free educational website. It is a global and interdisciplinary initiative with a commitment to creating lessons worth sharing. Its approach to education is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas.
In the summer of 2012, Dulek attended a conference where he met representatives from TED who were looking for teacher lessons to help launch the TED-ED site.
Dulek wrote a five-minute lesson on The Mole and TED liked it. He collaborated with an animator to develop the final lesson that has garnered nearly 34,000 views on the TED-ED website and more than 77,000 views on the organization's YouTube Channel.
His second lesson idea, The Haber Process, was just released last week. It has already been viewed nearly 1,900 times on the TED-ED site and 168,00 times on the YouTube Channel.
Links to both lessons can be found in Recent Media on the Stagg High School website www.stagg.d230.org.
There is more to come from Dulek who has entered into an agreement with TED to volunteer to collaborate with animators to create more lessons. He has three ideas in the works already. Each lesson takes about two months from concept to finalization with several drafts being shared between the teacher and animator along the way.
Other teachers who are interested in submitting lessons can do so at http://ed.ted.com/suggest_a_lesson.
