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Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas

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Public Broadcasting Atlanta's (PBA) Forum Network is an online, on-demand archive of discussions given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy-makers and community leaders. These discussion events are hosted by cultural and educational organizations in metro Atlanta and beyond. Through the Forum Network, people across the world can now listen and watch these events online. We encourage our audience to browse our featured, new, and popular lectures. Explore all lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide our viewers with added information lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio. **About Atlanta Public Broadcasting ** Great cities are known by their museums, theaters, symphonies and parks. But the greatest impact on a city's cultural life radiates invisibly through the air. For Atlanta, that cultural force is Public Broadcasting Atlanta. WABE 90.1 FM and PBA 30, brings NPR News, music, the arts and PBS programming to hundreds of thousands of listeners and viewers each year. Today, people turn to public broadcasting for their news, music, arts and entertainment. Yet, few people realize that public broadcasting began as "educational television" -- strictly a learning resource. As a broadcast service of Atlanta Public Schools in partnership with the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative (AETC), PBA has never lost sight of its original mission. Education remains at the core of our operation at every level, from preschoolers to our elders.

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  • Mike Thomas: Busting Myths About the Creative World

    Thu, Dec 9, 2010
    Mike Thomas, Vice President of Production for Turner Original Productions offers advice on getting into the creative world and tells about his rules for getting and keeping a job. He says that it's important to make sure that you are having fun at what you do. He also explains that 'Nice Trumps Good' when it comes to success. People who get laid off first are the ones who can't get along with other people. Mike spends an hour with a group of students at Atlanta's Grady High School for Gradytalks.info.
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  • Denis Brosnan: Models, Mentors, and Membership

    Thu, Feb 3, 2011
    Denis Brosnan, CEO of Prommis Solutions, talks to a group of high school students about necessary evils in life. He tells about three tools that can help propel you forward in life. Modeling your behavior after others can help you fit in and do what people do. We join groups to accomplish more than we can do on our own. We can get great guidance from mentors. Denis talks about the pitfalls of using the three tools. This talk is part of Liz Lieberman's Grady Talks program at Grady High School in Atlanta.
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  • Lawrence Toner: Using Common Sense and Building Relationships

    Thu, Feb 17, 2011
    Lawrence Toner, VP at Turner Studios in Atlanta, talks about the TV business and how using common sense and building relationships is the key to job search. He tells a group of high school students at Atlanta's Grady High School to be fearless and stop expecting that life is about fairness. This talks is part of Liz Lieberman's Grady Talks series.
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  • Jeff Reeves: The Art of Branding Yourself

    Wed, Feb 16, 2011
    Jeff Reeves, former Seattle Seahawks football player, business executive, and author of *The Art of Branding Yourself: How to Advance your Career Quickly* talks to a group of high school students about their future. Jeff tells the young people to not let other define who they are. He talks about responsibility, making good choices and building your brand.
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    Chris Webber: Achieving Your Career Dreams

    Thu, Sep 16, 2010
    Basketball Legend Chris Webber talks with freshman students at Atlanta's Grady High School on how to go through a process of achieving career goals. He tells kids that the thing that's your hobby today, might be your talent. Find something that you love to do, find people that you love to work with who will encourage you, don't listen to the "haters" when they say you can't do it, write a list of all the negative things and the reasons that you shouldn't make it, and then go get what you are looking for.
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    Situational Awareness: Avoiding Distractions and Adapting to Change

    Thu, Oct 21, 2010
    Don Walker, former Delta Airlines pilot, talks about Situational Awareness to a class at Atlanta's Grady High School. Don explains why "texting while driving" will get you killed--sucking you in with what's known in the airline industry as "Target Fixation". He also talks about the importance of writing down your plans, and learning how to adapt those plans when necessary, so that you can achieve your goals.
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  • Joy Goodman: When the Heart Speaks, Listen

    Thu, Jan 27, 2011
    Joy Goodman, an educator for over 35 years, talks to a class at Atlanta's Grady High School about how her heart told her to leave her job and start teaching public speaking to kids. Joy talks for Liz Lieberman's *Grady Talks* program on how public speaking builds self-confidence. She tells stories of amazing success in getting shy students to stand up and present to others. Joy's offers tips to help young speakers find inner strength.
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  • Amanda Plumb: StoryCorps Celebrates Stories of Immigration

    Tue, May 24, 2011
    Amanda Plumb leads a discussion of immigration stories of Atlantans who have emigrated from their home countries to the United States. Their stories span the past half century and around the world — from as far way as Poland, Vietnam, and Ethiopia; to right across the border in Mexico.
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  • Lori Chambers: Finding Empowerment Through Education

    Thu, Nov 18, 2010
    Lori Chambers talks to a group of high school students at Atlanta's Grady High School about how to use education to create empowerment. She tell how little decisions can make or break you. How in college, you can find like-minded people and change the world. She says that if you want to be an asset in your career, you've got to be different and authentic.
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    Whitney Munn: Freedom Writers

    Thu, Dec 16, 2010
    Whitney Munn, associate director of Social Responsibility for Kilpatrick Stockton law firm, talks to a class of students at Atlanta's Grady High School about their future careers. She tell of her success creating the firm’s award-winning community involvement initiative, “IMPACT” and the firm’s highly successful Booker T. Washington High School (BTW) Freedom Writers mentoring program. Whitney was recently named one of Georgia Trend’s 40 Under 40, which showcases young achievers in business, government, politics, education, and nonprofit.
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