Curated Video
History of Photography
A video entitled "History of Photography" which covers instrumental developments and advances in the field of photography.
TED Talks
TED: How your pictures can help reclaim lost history | Chance Coughenour
Digital archaeologist Chance Coughenour is using pictures -- your pictures -- to reclaim antiquities that have been lost to conflict and disaster. After crowdsourcing photographs of destroyed monuments, museums and artifacts, Coughenour...
Curated Video
Word Stress Rules in English - IELTS Energy Podcast 1184
You may not realize that the Pronunciation score is the fastest and easiest to increase! Today we teach you the rules for syllable stress in English so you can score 7+ on test day.
National Parks Service
Redwood National and State Parks - Rangers and Chainsaws
Ranger Greg finds out what it takes to restore old growth redwood groves decades after they were logged. CREDIT: NPS
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Did You Know? Early 20th Century Photography
Learn more about life on the plains with the photography of Frank Sadorus.
Vlogbrothers
Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images
In which John and Hank get Deepfake mustaches, which makes John think about the history of forged, shopped, cropped, and airbrushed images. Can humans learn not to trust their senses? Or are we doomed to be duped by images even when we...
friEdTech
Collaborate on a Document using Google Drive
Here is an easy way to use Google Docs collaboratively in your classroom
The Art of Photography
PHOTOJOURNALISM VS STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
I had someone ask in the comments this week what the difference is between photojournalism and street photography. Photojournalism is a vocation and street photography is a genre. Photojournalism definitely includes elements of street...
The Met
Constructed Truths: The History of Photographs as Legal Evidence
Jennifer L. Mnookin, Professor of Law at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law, outlines the history of photography in the courtroom and the inherent problems in regarding photographs as true. This lecture is presented...
Tate
Sir Elton John’s Modernist Photography Collection – A Home Tour
Sir Elton John introduces us to his passion for collecting and his Modernist Photography collection which he lives with, in a home tour. Made up of over 70 artists and nearly 150 rare vintage prints on show from seminal figures including...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone - Eva Timothy
The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later...
TED Talks
TED: Everyday objects, tragic histories | Ziyah Gafić
Ziyah Gafić photographs everyday objects—watches, shoes, glasses. But these images are deceptively simple; the items in them have been exhumed from the mass graves of the Bosnian War. Gafić, a TED Fellow and Sarajevo native, is...
Curated Video
Victoria & Albert Brought to Life: History & Facial Re-Creations Revealed
Queen Victoria and her consort Albert have one of the most fascinating stories in English history. Victoria came to the throne at only 18, after a sheltered childhood. The handsome Albert of Saxe Coburg was an instant attraction for...
The Art Assignment
The Art History of the Selfie | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Artists have been taking selfies since the dawn of photography. Cameras allowed people to capture their own image in a way that had never been possible in all of human history, and today most of us carry these magical devices in our...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard Ovenden - Teachers Make a Difference - Mick Judd
Richard Ovenden has been Bodley’s Librarian (the senior Executive position of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) since 2014. Prior to that Richard held positions at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the...
Crash Course
The First Movie Camera: Crash Course Film History
After serial photography became a thing, it wasn't long before motion pictures started to develop. And, at the front of that development was Thomas Edison, who you may know as an inventor and business person. In this episode of Crash...
TED Talks
Jon Lowenstein: Family, hope and resilience on the migrant trail
For the past 20 years, photographer and TED Fellow Jon Lowenstein has documented the migrant journey from Latin America to the United States, one of the largest transnational migrations in world history. Sharing photos from his...
TED Talks
James Nachtwey: Moving photos of extreme drug-resistant TB
An ancient disease is taking on a deadly new form. James Nachtwey share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a newly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that has developed due to misused and inadequate medical treatments -- and that...
Curated Video
The Galloping Horse (1878)
In June of 1878, at a racetrack in Palo Alto, California, Eadweard Muybridge made history by capturing every stage of a horse's gallop as it sprinted around a track. To accomplish this, Muybridge arranged 12 stereoscopic cameras along...
National Geographic
See How Ancient Past and Present Meet in This Coastal Town | National Geographic
Archaeologist and National Geographic explorer Gabriel Prieto returned to his hometown of Huanchaco, Peru to tell the story of its 3,500 years of cultural continuity and involve the local community in discovering their past. ➡ Subscribe:...
National Geographic
How Scientists and Citizens Are Protecting Ancient Ruins in Peru | National Geographic
Pachacamac is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the longest inhabited ancient settlements in the Americas. An important religious center, the vast complex is today just 30 miles outside of the Lima, the most populous city in Peru....
National Geographic
How Scientists and Citizens Are Protecting Ancient Ruins in Peru | National Geographic
Pachacamac is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the longest inhabited ancient settlements in the Americas. An important religious center, the vast complex is today just 30 miles outside of the Lima, the most populous city in Peru....
National Geographic
Scientists Rush to Save This Melting Piece of Earth's History | National Geographic
A team of scientists is rushing to preserve a vital record of the planet that is literally melting away. Around the world, the team is extracting ice cores from glaciers that are disappearing. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe...
Natural History Museum
Getting the best from landscape photography - a 360° tour of Northumberland | Natural History Museum
Getting the best from landscape photography - a 360° tour of Northumberland Join local landscape photographer David Taylor as he takes us on a tour of some of his favourite locations around Northumberland. David explains how the changing...