PBS
When the Book is Better than the Movie (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
It's an age-old debate: The Book vs. The Movie Since the dawn of cinema, film has been sort of the little brother of the more heady, intellectual medium of novels. And many film adaptations of literature leave viewers and critics saying…...
Bedtime History
Walt Disney’s Cartoons
The name “Disney” is known globally as an entertainment giant that includes animated films, TV shows, and theme parks. In fact, one cannot fully understand the growth of children’s entertainment in the 20th century without knowing more...
ACDC Leadership
Capitalism- EconMovies #10 Hunger Games
EconMovies explain economic concepts through movies. In this episode, I use The Hunger Games to explain the idea of specialization and comparative advantage. I also discuss the advatages and disadvantages of capitalism including the...
Easy Languages
Polish Idiom Compared: Not My Circus Not My Monkeys | Easy Polish 139
Polish Idiom Compared: Not My Circus Not My Monkeys | Easy Polish 139 Easy Polish is a project created to help you learn Polish in an authentic and fun way. We interview people in the streets of Katowice and other cities in Poland. All...
Coto Japanese Academy
How to ask your friends to the movies in Japanese.
How to ask your friends to the movies in Japanese.
ACDC Leadership
Marginal Analysis- EconMovies #2: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Reupload)
EconMovies explain economic concepts through movies. In this episode, I use Monty Python's classic to introduce the concept of marginal analysis. Good luck studying economics.
Oxford Comma
Transiance: Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Romantic poet John Keats wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn" less than two years before his death from tuberculous. Though an ekphrasis (a piece of art about a piece of art), the poem's final message goes beyond the titular urn to explore...
The Noted Anatomist
Autonomic innervation of the Bladder
This video tutorial briefly covers the sympathetic and parasympathetic role on bladder innervation. It focuses on the following: - Sympathetic neurotransmitters (epinephrine and nor-epinephrine) and receptors (adrenergic). -...
Curated Video
Organizing Ideas for Writing: Step-by-Step Storytelling
This video lesson teaches students how to organize their ideas when writing to a prompt. It guides them through the process of imagining their story, saying it step-by-step in their mind, and jotting down the beginning, middle, and end....
National Parks Service
Redwood National and State Parks - Land of the Giants
The official orientation film of Redwood National and State Parks. This short movie is shown in our visitor centers. CREDIT: NPS
Curated Video
Generating Story Ideas: Choosing the Best One
In this video, the teacher guides students on how to generate a storyline for their writing by using a web of ideas and choosing the one they can visualize the most. The teacher explains the prompt and the need to imagine and write a...
Extra English Practice
Bored vs. Boring - Adjectives with -ed and -ing endings
Learn about the difference between adjective pairs ending in -ed and -ing. Watch some examples and guess which adjective is correct. Learn specifically about the words bored/boring, surprised/surprising, interested/interesting, and...
Fun Robotics
Movie Recommendation System
Implementing Item-based collaborative filtering approach to build a movie recommender system
Neuro Transmissions
IT and the Neuroscience of Fear
AHHH! A CREEPY CLOWN! Stephen King's IT is bringing fear back to the theater in 2017, so it's the perfect time to explore coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. Alie and Ali dive into the psychology and neuroscience of why the murderous...
English Tree TV
Where Are You Going? | Places Song
Where are you going? It’s a places song to teach English locations in cities and towns! Sing and learn the question “Where are you going?” and answer, “I’m going to the grocery store / school / park / hospital / beach / movie theatre /...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tony Wagner - Most Likely to Succeed
TONY WAGNER currently serves as an Expert In Residence at Harvard University’s new Innovation Lab. Prior to this appointment, Tony was the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, and the...
Wonderscape
Great Authors: Roald Dahl
This video is a lesson about the life and works of Roald Dahl, a famous children's book author. The teacher discusses Dahl's early years and his adventures as a young adult. The teacher then focuses on two of Dahl's most popular books,...
Espresso Media
Journey to the End and Beginning of the World
This video series features the filmmaker Jason Rodi on an exciting expedition to one of the most remote places on earth - Bouvet Island. The plan is to plant a time capsule filled with messages from all around the world. In this video,...
Curated Video
Properly Formatting Titles in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how to properly format titles of books, movies, stories, poems, and other works in writing. The teacher provides examples and guidelines for using italics, underlining, and quotation marks based on the...
PBS
When the Book is Better than the Movie
Which is better, the book or the movie? From The Golden Compass to The Great Gatsby, from The Hobbit to Harry Potter and The Giver, we find ourselves wondering why adaptations of beloved stories tend not to live up to the source...
Science360
Physics Of Animation
In the multi-billion dollar movie and video game industry, making animations come to life is a crucial and revered skill. It takes a solid understanding of physics. For example, animators need to know things like how to cast shadows, how...
Curated Video
Constructing Two-Way Frequency Tables
This video is a tutorial on how to compare two sets of data at once using a two-way frequency table. The instructor uses a class of 31 students as an example to teach viewers how to identify the independent and dependent variables in a...
Curated Video
Organizing Ideas and Telling Your Story
In this video lesson, students learn how to organize their ideas when writing to a prompt. They are guided through the process of imagining their story as a movie in their mind's eye, saying it out step by step, and jotting down the...
Curated Video
'Napoleon Dynamite' star Shondrella Avery reflects on 20 years of impact, fans' hopes for a sequel
Avery played LaFawnduh Lucas-Dynamite in the 2004 film. (Scripps News)