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The 2014 Webby Award nominations were announced this week, and one particular nomination stood out. Because once again, in the Online Film & Video: Variety category, TED is pitted against Kid President. And once again, we’re so conflicted.

If you are too, vote for TED where you can; we’ll understand. Here are all of TED’s nominations in the People’s Voice ballot. Sign in to vote in support of TED.com, TED-Ed or one of the other amazing nominees:

TED.com is nominated in Social: Education & Discovery and in Online Film & Video: Events & Live Webcasts, as well as the hotly contested Online Film & Video: Variety.

Our app is nominated in Mobile & Apps: Education & Reference, and the  iTunes audio podcast series is nominated in Mobile & Apps: Podcasts.

Meanwhile, TED-Ed is up for the Web: Education category.

Voting is open until April 24, and winners will be announced April 29.

Bonus: As you go to each page to cast your vote, scroll down to the “Honorees” listing as well, for even more amazing websites, apps and social campaigns to explore.

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5 Webby nominations for TED.com

On Tuesday, the Webby Awards announced their 16th annual slate of nominees, and we’re thrilled that TED.com has earned five nominations across three categories. Check out the other nominees — what an honor to be in this company:

WEBSITE:
Radio/Podcasts, Best Use of Video or Moving Image, Education

MOBILE & APPS:
Best Use of Mobile Video

ONLINE FILM & VIDEO:
Variety

The awards will be given out on May 16 during Internet Week in New York City.

Two sets of Webbys are given each year — one by a judging panel and one via a public vote. So if you’d like to, you can vote for us! (Sad face: As of Wednesday morning, the People’s Voice voting site was down … check back or follow @thewebbyawards for updates.)

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Do you have a lesson to teach? Seeking nominations for TED2012: The Classroom

For the upcoming TED conference — TED2012: Full Spectrum — we’re looking for 10 of the world’s best teachers to take the TED stage during a special session we’re calling The Classroom. We’re accepting nominations to help track these people down. You can nominate yourself or a remarkable educator we should know about — who doesn’t have to be a teacher in the traditional sense.

After TED, these talks will have a life online as part of TED-Ed, a new initiative we’re launching in 2012. With TED-Ed, we are creating a library of videos sepcifically for educators and students. The videos will be arranged using teacher-centric/learner-centric categories and tags, designed to help teachers quickly discover the perfect video for the lesson at hand. The videos will also be arranged into playlists to give students a multidisciplinary, immersive insight into a learning concept.

The talks we’re looking for will each:

+ be shorter than 10 minutes
+ contain informative material, not just inspiring messages
+ be delivered with a huge amount of passion for the topic
+ engage an audience from age 14 to adult
+ be something you might imagine a teacher using in the classroom as video to supplement a lesson.

We’re especially keen to include brilliant EXPLANATIONS, meaningful A-HA moments, powerful STORIES, indelible IMAGES.

Here are a few links to talks that fit the bill:

Vilayanur Ramachandran on mirror neurons

David Gallo shares underwater astonishments

This explanation of special relativity

Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?

Now, a couple of notes about what we’re not looking for. For this session, we do not want talks about teaching methods, education reform or education in general. We are not looking for an inspiring, “go forth,” commencement-style talk. We do love those sometimes, but they’re not a fit for this session.

The deadline for nominations is November 30, 2011, at midnight Eastern, and we’ll contact the speakers we’ve chosen with invitations (or more questions) by December 12, 2011.

TED2012 takes place February 27-March 2, 2012, in Long Beach, California. The Classroom session will take place on March 2. We’ll cover coach travel, good accommodations, and a pass to TED for those 10 amazing teachers who take the stage.

We hope you’ll share your best lessons (or teachers) with us. Good luck!

Nominate yourself or another person >>

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