The Met
#MetKids—Our Words, Our Stories: Digital Storytelling Lab 2016
Go behind the scenes of our pilot #MetKids Digital Storytelling Lab for 8–12-year-olds, held July 18-July 21, 2016. Exploring artworks in the galleries, kids found inspiring heroes and villains for their original stories. Our young...
Curated Video
Comics: Visual Storytelling and Expression
Comics are a form of illustrated storytelling that combines pictures, text, and visual elements to tell stories and convey ideas. From classic comic strips to modern graphic novels, comics have a rich history that spans across different...
Visual Learning Systems
Geology of North America: the Interior Plains
North America's geology and topography is a fascinating and beautiful story. This video captures footage from throughout the continent to tell this captivating story. Major geological events such as the formation of the Appalachian and...
TED Talks
Jamie Paik: Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves
Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created "robogamis": folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform themselves. In this talk and tech demo, Paik shows how robogamis could...
Schooling Online
Powering Through Prose: John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men - Plot Summary
Welcome to California during the Great Depression, a time of hardship and broken dreams. George and Lennie are like countless other men who travel across America looking for work. But they’re an interesting pair; they’re best friends but...
Curated Video
Video Marketing
Dive into the world of video marketing and discover the art of captivating your audience with visual storytelling. Explore the strategies, techniques, and platforms that drive engagement, brand awareness, and conversions through videos....
EarthEcho International
Into the Dead Zone: Urban Runoff and Sustainable Solutions
This video explores the issue of dead zones caused by urban pollution and stormwater run-off, focusing on the Anacostia River in Washington DC. It highlights the work of a riverkeeper and a massive engineering project to reduce...
World Science Festival
Could Video Games Be the Future of Storytelling?
Human history is rich with stories, and as our culture and technology changes, so do the ways we tell stories. For example, from its roots in oral tradition, storytelling branched off into literature, artwork, and film. Where are...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jason Ohler - Teachers Make a Difference
Dr. Jason Ohler is a professor emeritus, speaker, writer, teacher and cyber researcher. He is also a lifelong digital humanist who is well known for his passion, insight, and humor he brings to his presentations, projects, and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael Hernandez - Teachers Make a Difference - Sue Scheibler
About Michael Hernandez I moved to Los Angeles to earn my M.F.A. in Film Production because what I really wanted to do was be a director.... After completing my M.F.A., I landed a job teaching cinematic arts and broadcast journalism, and...
Visual Learning Systems
Writing in Science: Video Quiz
The development and application of writing skills in science is the focus of this program. This video highlights some of the key ingredients of writing in the subject of science. Informative and explanatory texts focus on facts,...
The Wall Street Journal
The View From Washington: Part I
From nutrition, to food safety, to drug policy-how the Food and Drug Administration will shape the food industry in 2019.
TED Talks
Raghava KK: What's your 200-year plan?
You might have a 5-year plan, but what about a 200-year plan? Artist Raghava KK has set his eyes on an ultra-long-term horizon; at TEDxSummit, he shows how it helps guide today's choices and tomorrow's goals -- and encourages you to make...
World Science Festival
Why We Tell Stories: The Science of Narrative
Stories have existed in many forms—cave paintings, parables, poems, tall tales, myths—throughout history and across almost all human cultures. But is storytelling essential to survival? Join Jonathan Gottschall, Joyce Carol Oates,...
World Science Festival
The Neuroscience of Narrative
Because fiction is conjured up within our imaginations, our capacity for storytelling or engaging in stories is susceptible to neurological disorders. People on the autism spectrum are less likely to engage in storytelling and...
Natural History Museum
Fantastic Beasts™: The Wonder of Nature with exhibition creators and scientists | Live Talk
Join exhibition creators and scientists to hear how they brought Fantastic Beasts™: The Wonder of Nature to life. The exhibition is a spectacular immersive experience using props, specimens and interactives to bring a touch of magic to...
World Science Festival
The Moth: You Can Lead a Horse to Water - Sam Shepard
An actor's insistence on using his own horse in a film stunt has unpleasant consequences for his stunt double. Sam Shepard is an Oscar-nominated actor, screenwriter, director and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. The Moth and World...
World Science Festival
The Moth: Man on the Moon - Nathan Englander
"A writer moves to Jerusalem to be part of the peace process. Nathan Englander is the author of 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,' 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' and most recently 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.'...
World Science Festival
The Moth: It Took a Village - Michael Turner
An assistant professor is invited by Stephen Hawking, in 1981, to join a consortium of the twenty best cosmologists in the world to determine why the universe has "lumps." The Moth and World Science Festival team up to bring you...
World Science Festival
The Moth: Chasing My Memories - Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking, daughter of Stephen Hawking, reminisces about her family and discovers the limitations of physics. The Moth and World Science Festival team up to bring you poignant, hilarious and unpredictable stories of science....
World Science Festival
The Moth: Go Tell It on the Mountain - Jim Gates
A physicist climbs many mountains over the course of his career. Jim Gates is a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently exploring computer software codes hidden inside of superstring theory...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John Benton - Teachers Make a Difference - Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche
John Benton is a narrative designer whose work ranges from traditional film to emerging media. Most recently, he won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Mobile Storytelling Prize as well as London's PttPixel Market Prize for his interactive...
Curated Video
Origins and Styles of Anime
Anime is an abbreviation of the word 'animation'. Outside of Japan though, anime has come to mean a style of Japanese illustration and artwork. Explore the vibrant characters, colorful graphics, and fantastical themes that make the anime...
PBS
Ready Player One
Ready Player One has been praised as a novel that captures the vitality, the allure, and the essence of the virtual reality experience. Speakers in a short video share their rationale for why Ernest Clines' dystopian novel should be...