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The TED-Ed team wants to learn about people who could create great videos with them. They have a page on the site that asks for recommendations for Educators and Animators.

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Each of the topics in the Create A Lesson template gives you a window to input your lesson information. The "Think" topic is the area where you can input questions to the class, using a test format (multiple choice, etc.)

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There are space limitations on the amount of information you can input. Each topic on the template opens a screen that tells you how many characters are available (400 for the title page, for example.)

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A lesson creation tool for a method of teaching known as a "flipped classroom." Students are given assignments to read material or watch videos outside the classroom. The time spent in-class centers on what would normally be done for homework - writing essays, test taking, etc.

TED-Ed content can supplement curriculum as well as introduce new concepts to a class via it's video-based learning platform.

Introduce students to collaborative, online information sharing by forming TED-Ed clubs in their schools.

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Watching videos online is a solitary process. The need for discussion and additional educational input will help reinforce the information shared and round out the experience.

For the Lesson Plan creator, care needs to used when selecting videos. This isn't a weakness, just a fact of online life. Appropriate material is available, but YouTube does have it's pitfalls, too.

There are very few weaknesses to list. TED-Ed offers a great tool for lesson creation.

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Content is created by experts in each field. The quality of the artwork and information is very impressive.

The videos are short in length. The age of the viewers is considered when deciding how much information to present, as well as the complexity of the information.

The site encourages participation by users. It requests suggestions for content creators and for topics to be created. This interactivity helps build the sense of a TED-Ed community.

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TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. They list their mission as "to spark the ideas of teachers and students around the world." The entire website supports learning by:

producing a library of original animated videos

providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons

helping students bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills

they support innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers.

As stated on their website: "TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week."

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TED-Ed Originals are the program's signature content: short, animated videos about ideas that spark the curiosity of learners. Every TED-Ed Original represents a creative collaboration between experts. These experts can include TED Speakers and TED Fellows, as well as educators, designers, animators, screenwriters, directors, science writers, historians, journalists and editors. These original animated videos, paired with questions and resources, make up what is known as TED-Ed Lessons.

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TED-Ed Clubs are education based initiatives to get young people (ages 8 to 18) to share their ideas with peers and others by giving a TED-like presentation on a topic they're passionate about. TED provides curricula and limited support for the Clubs. There is no fee involved to join or participate in the Clubs.
The TED-Ed Club program involves grammar to secondary schools, not college or university level. They also include educational organizations working with students in these grades. They do hope to expand the program to include colleges and universities in the future, and their site directs people to the TEDx University events - events that are TEDx hosted at a college or university, and organized by current university administration staff, faculty or students.

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TED-Ed offers a set of tools that allows instructors to create interactive lesson pages around current TED-Ed videos, as well as YouTube video content. The steps involved are very well explained, and with a minimum of "learning time," an instructor will have their  own lesson created, with an url they can send to their students. There is also a function to manage the lessons you create by accessing a personalized lesson activity page.

To show the ease of use, I've included the three steps they list on their site to create a lesson:

1. To get started, visit our video search page to select a video. You can search by keyword, or paste in a YouTube URL. TED-Ed Lessons can be created around either public or unlisted YouTube videos. Note that the videos here have not been filtered or vetted by the TED-Ed team, so make sure that you review the contents of any video you're not already familiar with!

2. Once you have selected your video, click through into the TED-Ed Lesson editor. You'll be able to add multiple choice questions, open answer questions, discussion prompts, and additional resources to your lesson.

3. After you publish your lesson, you'll receive a unique URL for your lesson page. Only you have access to this link, so you can share it with your class in whatever way works for you.

As students submit work on your lesson page, you'll be able to monitor their progress and view their answers.You can also use any of the sample lessons that we provide in our  public lesson library with your students. To do this, visit any of our lesson pages that you're interested in, and use the "Customize This Lesson" button at the bottom right to copy the lesson to your account. Keep any of our content that you like, or feel free to add your own! When you publish your copy of the lesson, you'll receive a link to your customized copy of the lesson - share this with your students to track their work.

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Wikipedia TED-Ed information, retrieved from:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)

Common Sense Media review of TED-Ed, written by Polly Conway, retrieved from: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/website-reviews/ted-ed

EdTech review of TED-Ed, written by Saomya Saxena, retrieved from: http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/956-amazing-features-of-ted-ed-that-teachers-would-love-to-know