Colds and the Flu Explained

After years of not getting sick this winter I've had the flu and caught a few colds. My latest cold has knocked me back this week. The o...

A Helpful TED-Ed Lesson for Aspiring Novelists

How To Build A Fictional World is a TED-Ed lesson that I recently watched on Open Culture . In the lesson Kate Messner explains the key ele...

How to Privately Share Media from Your iPad via Google Drive

I recently had someone ask me how her students could privately share videos they made on their iPads. My suggestion was to use the Google Dr...

Science 360 - A Good Collection of Science Videos

Science 360 is an educational video site hosted by the National Science Foundation. Visitors to Science 360 can search for videos according...

engVid - 500+ Free English Video Lessons

engVid is a free service that has produced more than 500 video lessons to help viewers learn to speak and write English. Eight instructors ...

Video - This Is Africa

This Is Africa is a beautiful short video produced by Benjamin Bowie. The five minute video captures some of the essence of Uganda and Tanz...

Tropical Ice - A Climate Change Story

When we think of climate change we often think about the shrinking polar glaciers. There are other places in the world that have glaciers to...

Under H20 - A Nice Video Series from PBS Digital Studios

This morning on Google+ the Google Science Fair page shared a neat series of  videos from PBS Digital Studios. Under H20 is a series of t...

Copyright on Campus - A Six Minute Exploration of the Nuances of Copyright

Copyright and Fair Use are cloudy areas for many students and educators to try to navigate. This evening I found Copyright on Campus which ...

Ten Good Video Sources for Science Students and Teachers

One of the great things about teaching today is the wealth of educational videos that are available on the web. No longer do we have to flip...

Questions to Consider While Assessing Video Projects

In my previous post I shared a list of questions to consider while planning student video projects. Part of the planning should include thi...

Shmoop Now Offers History, Math, and Literature Videos

This evening I looked at Shmoop for the first time in quite a while and learned that they now offer videos . The videos are short summaries...

5 Tips for Writing DBQ Essays

Keith Hughes, history teacher extraordinaire and producer of the excellent Hip Hughes History videos, recently published a new video for stu...

C.G.P. Grey Explains How a Pope is Chosen

C.G.P. Grey is back again with a new explanatory video. This time he explains, in his visual and fast-talking style, how a new Pope will be...

BBC Nature Videos - Animals and Habitats of Africa

Last weekend I found myself lost in the BBC's wonderful maze of websites. One of the neat features that I stumbled my way upon is this c...

A Crash Course in Ecology

Last week I featured John Green's Crash Course on The Great Gatsby and literature in general. This evening I'd like to point out Gr...

Great Gatsby Crash Course Part 2

Yesterday, I shared John Green's new Crash Course video about The Great Gatsby . Today, Green released part two of that course. You can ...

Video - Why The Solar System Can Exist

Last week I discovered the Minute Physics YouTube channel and I have watched a bunch of clips since then. One video that I watched this mor...

A Guided Tour Inside the International Space Station

In the 25 minute video below former commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams takes viewers on an in-depth tour of the ...

Video - Could Texas Secede?

C.G.P. Grey produces all kinds of interesting and educational videos. Five days ago he released a new one that raises the question, "c...