TED Talks
TED: Embracing otherness, embracing myself | Thandie Newton
Actor Thandie Newton tells the story of finding her "otherness" -- first, as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and then as an actor playing with many different selves. A warm, wise talk, fresh from stage at TEDGlobal 2011.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
David Jakes - Learning Spaces
David Jakes is the Director of Learning Spaces for EdTechTeam and leads the Learning Space Design Studio. The Studio, created to support schools in developing compelling and engaging learning environments , is the most recent addition to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
José Gustavo Calderón De Anda - Building Character Using Maker Spaces
Gustavo is a Global Teacher Prize 2020 Top 50 Finalist. He is passionate about education, technology and innovation. At his School in the City of Guadalajara, México, he works on projects with disadvantaged communities who deal with very...
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Glenn Robbins - The Mister Rogers Project: Getting to Know Your Neighborhood
Glenn Robbins is the proud Superintendent at the Brigantine, NJ School District. His passion is harnessing a school culture that thrives on design thinking skills, innovative digital spaces, BYOD/1to1, and Makerspaces. In addition, Glenn...
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David Held - Maker Spaces
David Held has worked in the field of educational technology for 25+ years at Poughkeepsie Day School, Teachers College and Trinity School (Manhattan). He has created maker spaces and taught making and STEAM integrated classes. David has...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Skeleton Bones with Mixed Media - Positive And Negative Space Grid Drawing
This video demonstrates a Mixed Media Skeleton Bones drawing using oil pastels and watercolors. The project is inspired by the pelvic bones and skulls painted by Georgia O'Keeffe in the 1940s, as well as a lesson available for purchase...
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Vivian Shipley - 'Pagurus bernhardus, the Hermit Crab'
Vivian Shipley is the author of several books of poetry, including All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 2010), Greatest Hits: 1974–2010 (Pudding House Press, 2010), and Hardboot: Poems, New &...
Healthcare Triage
Going Hungry is not Great for your Health
About 50 million people in the United States don't have access to enough food to support a healthy lifestyle. The technical term for this is food insecurity, and over 40% of people in the United States will experience it during their...
Let's Tute
Tricks to Remember Trigonometric Ratios and Value Table
As a trigonometry teacher, I explain how to remember the value table for commonly used angles and their trigonometric ratios. I also provide a trick to quickly calculate the values for sine, cos, cosec, sec, tan, and cot for any angle....
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Hand On The Bridge - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen performs the poem Hand on the Bridge. This poem comes from ‘Michael Rosen’s Big Book of Bad Things’ (Puffin Books).
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Peggy Sheehy - WoW in School The Hero's Journey
After a twenty-five year career as a professional vocalist, Peggy Sheehy received a BS in Musical Performance and Education from Empire State University. She began teaching in 1997 at Mt. Sinai Elementary School in Mt. Sinai, New York...
Curated Video
What do you think of space? | Easy Russian 19
What do you think of space? | Easy Russian 19 Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating...
EarthEcho International
Youth in Action: A Young Eagle Scout's Project to Promote Water Conservation
A young Eagle Scout in Southern California created a water-wise garden project at the Lenain Water Treatment facility, demonstrating to tourists how to plant native plants and succulents in a way that is much less water-intensive. His...
JJ Medicine
Ogilvie Syndrome | Pseudo-Obstruction of the Large Intestine: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Ogilvie Syndrome | Pseudo-Obstruction of the Large Intestine | Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment Ogilvie syndrome (also known as acute colonic pseudo-obstruction) is a condition involving signs and symptoms of a large bowel...
Professor Dave Explains
Celecoxib (Celebrex) and other COX-2 Selective Inhibitors
We know that NSAIDs can inhibit both COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes. But these enzymes perform slightly different functions, and it seems that inhibition of COX-2 leads to the beneficial affects of NSAIDs while inhibition of COX-1 leads to the...
Curated Video
DIY Craft: Space Rocket in a Bottle
This video has easy-to-follow instructions for making a rocket in a bottle, the coolest DIY toy ever. The best part is that you can make these toys in any number of styles, colours, and designs. So what are you waiting for? It's time to...
SciShow
4 Body Parts Discovered in the Last 10 Years
Did you know we are still discovering completely new pieces of our anatomies? Even in the last decade, we've found multiple new body parts, including some you can see with the naked eye!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message? - David B. Parker
In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is...
Curated Video
Science Experiment: Candle and Water
This is an impressive but simple experiment for children. We did it with Alex about two years ago, so it was Max's turn now. But this time I added a bit of a twist though. I spread food colouring on the bottom of tea candle, lighted it...
Curated Video
Creating Mini Stories to Match Fractions
In this video, students learn how to create mini stories to match fractions by sketching out numerators and denominators. The teacher explains that fractions represent equal parts of a whole and shows examples of different ways to...
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Marianne Malmstrom - The Cognitive Architect Follow the Learning
Marianne Malmstrom, aka Knowclue, is a recognized leader in the use of virtual environments, digital games and multimedia in education. A "cognitive architect" at The Elisabeth Morrow School, she draws on over 30 years experience as a...
Flemotion
Talk about your tastes in French - French communication 9
This video teaches how to talk about tastes in French. Learners will be able to talk about their tastes in French: what they like, what they love, what they adore, what they don't like, what they don't love, what they hate.
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Detra Price-Dennis & Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz - Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education
Dr. Detra Price-Dennis is an Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, in the Communications, Media, Learning Technologies, and Design program....
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Vineeta Garg - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. Nisha
Vineeta Garg teaches at Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School in Delhi, India. She is a Global Teacher Prize Finalist.She first started teaching in computer institutes to fund her own higher education studies. However, the experience of...