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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: Designing for simplicity

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We were a great model. So, I loved going to school. School was great, and maybe going to school helped me get to this Media Lab palce, I'm not sure. (Laughter) Thank you. But the Media Lab is an interesting place, and it's important to me because as a student, I was a computer sieccne undergrad, and I discovered design later on in my life.

And there was this person, miurel Cooper. Who knows Muriel Cooper? Muriel Cooper? Wasn't she aiamnzg? Muriel Cooper. She was wacky. And she was a tsedetr, exactly, and she showed us, she showed the world how to make the computer bfuaituel again. And she's very important in my life, because she's the one that told me to leave MIT and go to art school. It was the best advice I ever got. So I went to art school, because of her. She psased away in 1994, and I was hired back to MIT to try to fill her seohs, but it's so hard. This amazing pseorn, Muriel Cooper.

Open Cloze


We were a great model. So, I loved going to school. School was great, and maybe going to school helped me get to this Media Lab _____, I'm not sure. (Laughter) Thank you. But the Media Lab is an interesting place, and it's important to me because as a student, I was a computer _______ undergrad, and I discovered design later on in my life.

And there was this person, ______ Cooper. Who knows Muriel Cooper? Muriel Cooper? Wasn't she _______? Muriel Cooper. She was wacky. And she was a _______, exactly, and she showed us, she showed the world how to make the computer _________ again. And she's very important in my life, because she's the one that told me to leave MIT and go to art school. It was the best advice I ever got. So I went to art school, because of her. She ______ away in 1994, and I was hired back to MIT to try to fill her _____, but it's so hard. This amazing ______, Muriel Cooper.

Solution


  1. place
  2. beautiful
  3. science
  4. amazing
  5. shoes
  6. person
  7. muriel
  8. tedster
  9. passed

Original Text


We were a great model. So, I loved going to school. School was great, and maybe going to school helped me get to this Media Lab place, I'm not sure. (Laughter) Thank you. But the Media Lab is an interesting place, and it's important to me because as a student, I was a computer science undergrad, and I discovered design later on in my life.

And there was this person, Muriel Cooper. Who knows Muriel Cooper? Muriel Cooper? Wasn't she amazing? Muriel Cooper. She was wacky. And she was a TEDster, exactly, and she showed us, she showed the world how to make the computer beautiful again. And she's very important in my life, because she's the one that told me to leave MIT and go to art school. It was the best advice I ever got. So I went to art school, because of her. She passed away in 1994, and I was hired back to MIT to try to fill her shoes, but it's so hard. This amazing person, Muriel Cooper.

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Important Words


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