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
History of Photography
A video entitled "History of Photography" which covers instrumental developments and advances in the field of photography.
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
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
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
IT'S HISTORY
Say Cheese! - The Invention of Photography I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The desire to capture life in images is as old as humanity itself. But only with new chemical processes and inventions did it become possible to take the first photos during the Industrial Revolution. Brett tells you everything about...
IT'S HISTORY
War And Power Play at the Yellow River - The Chinese Bronze Age I HISTORY OF CHINA
When you talk about the history of China, you have to go back in time starting in the Bronze Age which is the time of China's first dynasties: namely the Xia-, the Shang- and the Zhou-Dynasty. The Powerplay among and within these Chinese...
IT'S HISTORY
Imperial China is born! - The Qin and Han Dynasty l HISTORY OF CHINA
Some linguists say, the name of today's China originates from the name of the Qin dynasty. Marking the beginning of the age of empire in China and founded by Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of imperial China. Qin arrange for the first...
IT'S HISTORY
Downfall of the Superpower China - Ming and Qing Dynasty l HISTORY OF CHINA
With the dynasties of the Ming and the Qing came social security and flourishing international trade. The White Lotus Movement advocated progressive thinking in the time of the conservative Ming dynasty. In 1616 the Qing dynasty came to...