{"id":30868,"date":"2018-02-01T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=30868"},"modified":"2018-02-01T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:03:49","slug":"tad-talks-featured-on-lakeland-public-televisions-common-ground-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/01\/tad-talks-featured-on-lakeland-public-televisions-common-ground-series\/","title":{"rendered":"TAD Talks featured on Lakeland Public Television&#8217;s Common Ground series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 clearfix my-4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Common Ground 907 - TAD Talks in Bemidji\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-W5DL3xehZI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Bemidji State University&rsquo;s annual TAD Talks event, a production of the School of Technology, Art &amp; Design, was featured on Lakeland Public Television&rsquo;s Common Ground series.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-minute feature, hosted by Lakeland PTV&rsquo;s Scott Knudson, gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the production for the third annual TAD Talks, held in April 2017. TAD Talks are a multi-disciplinary event featuring live presenters modeled after the famous TED Talks series. The TAD School hosts industry-leading speakers who share their professional insights with BSU&rsquo;s students. Student organizers get hands-on, real world experience producing the event and designing and building sets.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The TAD Talk event is a very unique event in that it&rsquo;s not run by faculty; it&rsquo;s a student-run event,&rdquo; said Sachel Josefson, assistant professor of technology, art &amp; design. &ldquo;What we try to do with TAD Talks is take students from all different disciplines, put them in a room and say &lsquo;we&rsquo;re going to make a really awesome event &mdash; and you&rsquo;re going to do it.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The feature also included interviews with Angela Gareri, currently a senior design major from Bovey, Minn., who was one of the lead student organizers for the 2017 TAD Talks; co-project manager Ben Winkleman, a May 2017 BSU graduate in engineering technology; and Shane Fjerstad, a quality systems engineer for Polaris Industries in Roseau, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>Fjerstad was a presenter at the 2017 TAD Talks event, sharing tips and best practices to help students manage their social media presences.<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State Universit&rsquo;y&rsquo;s School of Technology, Art and Design is planning for the fourth annual TAD Talks event, scheduled for April 26.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All disciplines come together making sure it&rsquo;s a quality event that the industry, the university and the community is coming to expect,&rdquo; Josefson said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;TAD Talks in Bemidji&rdquo; aired on Lakeland Public Television as part of Common Ground&rsquo;s ninth season; it is archived on the station&rsquo;s website and on YouTube.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Contact<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/sjosefson\/\">Sachel Josefson<\/a>, assistant professor of technology, art &amp; design; (218) 755-2949, <a href=\"mailto:sjosefson@bemidjistate.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">sjosefson@bemidjistate.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Common Ground: &ldquo;TAD Talks in Bemidji&rdquo;: <a href=\"https:\/\/lptv.org\/common-ground-907-tad-talks-in-bemidji\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/lptv.org\/common-ground-907-tad-talks-in-bemidji\/<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;TAD Talks in Bemidji&rdquo; on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-W5DL3xehZI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-W5DL3xehZI<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scott Knudson on Twitter: http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/scknudson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Bemidji State University<\/b>, located in northern Minnesota&rsquo;s lake district, occupies a wooded campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji. A member of the colleges and universities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnstate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Minnesota State<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>, Bemidji State offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and 11 graduate degrees encompassing arts, sciences and select professional programs. Bemidji State has an enrollment of more than 5,100 students and a faculty and staff of more than 550. University signature themes include environmental stewardship, civic engagement and global and multi-cultural understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bemidji State University&#8217;s annual TAD Talks event, a production of the School of Technology, Art &amp; Design, was featured on Lakeland Public Television&#8217;s Common Ground series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[953,9,681,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mybsu","category-news","category-news-updates","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30870,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions\/30870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}