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"15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus. "

We watched this during #motm13 and discussed what is the difference between innovation, creativity etc. An inspiring video.

If you watch a lot of online videos for education or research, you'll find VideoNotes a really useful tool. It's as simple as this: sign in with a Google account (VideoNotes uses Google Drive for storage) and then paste in the URL for a YouTube video. Then as it plays you can start making notes on the right-hand side of the screen. The clever bit is that as you click on previous notes you've made, the video will jump to that point, making this a really useful tool for navigating documentaries, study guides and other long, involved videos.

Wow what a great chrome extension. This looks like a great tool for all writers. I especially like the 'collect highlights' tool. Make sure you watch the accompanying video to see how it works.  Read&Write for Google Docs is a cool extension I found on Web App Reviews that can benefit ELLs and struggling readers. The extension provides you with a special toolbar on the top of your Google documents.

Edcanvas is an excellent tool for creating digital packets of information for your students to read, watch, and listen to. Now you can have students check their understanding of the materials in those digital packets by having them take a short quiz.

"ABC Splash is a new education website for Australia, packed with 100s of videos, audio clips and games. Totally free to watch and play at home and in school."

Here at International Fertility Centre, a leading fertility clinic in India, we wish to be the leaders in creating awareness about Infertility and today we are going to discuss bleeding issues in the final pregnancy phase that might be a matter of concern.

As the post-PC era moves from interesting theory to cold, hard reality, one of the most pressing questions is: How can we use tablets, and especially the iPad, to help people learn? Most of the focus has been on ebooks replacing textbooks, a trend fueled by Apple's recent updates to iBooks. Specifically, the company released iBooks Author, a tool for creating immersive ebooks on the desktop. Plus, the new iPad is now the first tablet with a retina screen, making reading and watching multimedia on the device even more enjoyable. But technology is only as good as the system it's applied to. Much like a fresh coat of paint will not improve the fuel efficiency of a '69 Mustang, the application of technology to a broken system masks deeper problems with short-term gains.

Many of the 2011 conference presentations are here to watch. Serious gaming methods.

"The Ri Channel forms part of the Royal Institution's mission to "connect people to the world of science". Watch the very best science videos from the Ri and across the web." from the Royal Institution (UK)

Great inspirational video for us all to watch.

See what it's like to go Google.  A new way to talk, share, work, and do stuff together. Watch the video

Create your own MMO experience using Storybricks, our intuitive story building system Produce deep, engaging stories of your own making simply by clicking together bricks. Watch your stories develop as you play and create new connections between bricks.

Great article about the flipped classroom model and why it's about more than requiring students to watch videos.

The Australian version of Google TV isn't a television, it's a set-top box. This little box doesn't even include TV tuners for watching live broadcasts. Instead, Google TV aims to bring the best of the internet to your television.

Conference talks recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Games, Learning and Society. Cool to watch and learn. Another TED and POP! TECH conference.

"Watching this amazing high-definition video of Curiosity's hair-raising landing on Mars will make you clutch at your armrest. Compiled from the probe's MARDI descent camera, it is the best landing video yet and gives you a chance to experience what it's like to ride along with the rover down to the Martian surface. "

This is absolutely amazing. We know that Wikipedia gets additions, edits, and deletions all of the time, but without a visualization we just have to assume that's the case. With Wikistream, we can see exactly what's happening on Wikipedia in real-time. The background image on the page updates randomly, and sometimes the stream goes so fast it's impossible to even see what's going on.

"Streaming video websites are such a big part of our lives, it's hard to remember a time when they didn't exist. These websites revolutionized our computer video experience - no longer do we have to download every single video we want to watch - it's all right there! But the opposite is also true. Sometimes sending a link or embedding a video is not enough, and we need the actual file, or only its soundtrack. And when that happens, the default FLV file format rarely cuts it. Luckily, there are several downloaders-converters out there that make it easy as pie to download videos and convert them into almost every possible format."

For those of you who watch TedTalks, a spreadsheet with all TedTalks to date with links to the videos and descriptions of each. Works as a good index if you are looking for something specific.

This is the site to watch for open badge concept in life long learning. Will it catch on as a real "community college" accreditation concept?