Top 25 Free Educational Video Sites

RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration.

Academic Earth

Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

academicearth.org

Big Think

Video interviews with 600+ thought leaders in a range of fields.

bigthink.com

Brightstorm

Short-form online video lessons by professional educators. Free math lessons.

brightstorm.com

CosmoLearning

Aggregator of free, online video lessons and documentaries.

cosmolearning.com

Coursera

Lectures taught by world-class professors and reinforced through interactive exercises.

coursera.org

EdX

Courses designed specifically for interactive study via the web.

edx.org

Futures Channel

High quality multimedia content ideal for use in the classroom.

thefutureschannel.com

Howcast

Professional and user-generated how-to videos.

www.howcast.com

Internet Archive

Collection of more than two-hundred thousand free historical videos, many academic.

archive.org

iTunes U

Free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more accessible via Apple iTunes.

Apple iTunes - Apple iTunes Software

Khan Academy

Self-pased learning with extensive video library, interactive challenges, and assessments.

khanacademy.org

Learner.org

Professionally developed programming for K-12 classrooms.

learner.org

Math TV

Professional video lessons in mathematics. Covers basic math through calculus.

mathtv.com

MIT Open CourseWare

Lectures and course materials for students, teachers, and self-learners.

ocw.mit.edu  |  Also see: OpenCourseWare Finder

MIT Video

Guide to more than 11,000 interesting MIT videos and lectures.

video.mit.edu/

NeoK12

Aggregator of high-quality educational videos from around the Web.

www.neok12.com

ResearchChannel

3,500 videos from distinguished researchers and scholars.

youtube.com/user/ResearchChannel

PBS

Free videos from your favorite PBS programs, including NOVA and Frontline.

video.pbs.org

SchoolTube

Video sharing platform for schools featuring original content created by students.

www.schooltube.com

SchoolsWorld

Engaging, professional videos and practical resources for educator development.

www.schoolsworld.tv

SnagFilms

Library of free, full-length documentary films.

www.snagfilms.com

TeacherTube

Online aggregator of educational videos.

www.teachertube.com

TED

Fascinating presentations by the world's leading thinkers and doers.

www.ted.org

Videojug

Collection of videos from professors, professionals, coaches, teachers, and consultants.

www.videojug.com

WatchKnowLearn

Comprehensive online directory of educational videos aggregated from across the Web.

www.watchknowlearn.org

WonderHowTo

Search engine and directory of free how-to videos.

www.wonderhowto.com

Open Yale Courses

Free access to a selection of introductory Yale courses.

oyc.yale.edu

YouTube EDU

Free lectures from more than one hundred colleges and universities.

www.youtube.com/edu  |  Also see: Talks@Google

Additional sites that are not free but offer outstanding content:

BrainPOP

Provider of original, animated educational videos. Subscription required.

www.brainpop.com

Cosmeo

30,000 video segments from Discovery Education. Subscription required.

www.cosmeo.com  |  Also see: Discovery Education Streaming

general interest

Hulu

Joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. Features TV shows and movies.

www.hulu.com  |  Also see: PBS, National Geographic

Metacafe

Specializes in short-form original video content.

www.metacafe.com

Vimeo

Upload, share, and explore user-generated videos.

www.vimeo.com

YouTube

Hosts millions of user-generated and professional videos.

www.youtube.com

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Where the world’s biggest coffee drinkers live

Not all coffee drinkers are made equal. By Roberto A. Ferdman @robferdman January 15, 2014

America might be famous for running on coffee, but it doesn’t run on much. Not compared to a handful of other countries, anyway. When it comes to actual coffee consumption per person, the US doesn’t even crack the top 15.

For much of Europe, and especially Scandinavia, the story is quite different. In a review in 2010 about Stieg Larsson’s hit Swedish trilogy, the New York Times wrote incredulously about how the books’ scenes seemed to always revolve around endless servings of coffee:

…everyone works fervidly into the night and swills tons of coffee; hardly a page goes by without someone “switching on the coffee machine,” ordering “coffee and a sandwich” or responding affirmatively to the offer “Coffee?”

But as it turns out—and as the Times soon thereafter learned—the coffee obsession has much less to do with Larsson than it does with Sweden. Or really, with all of Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, and bits of Eastern Europe. The Netherlands’ per-capita consumption of 2.4 cups a day is almost the same as those of the US, UK, Spain, and France combined.

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Why You Should Learn to Run a Server Before You Learn to Code

To the disappointment of everyone who wants to learn to code so they can get rich or powerful, developer Dave Winer tells us that's probably not going to happen. He lists good reasons why you might want to learn to code, but recommends you learn to run a server first.

Learning to code is good if you have a calling, if you feel it's what you must do to express yourself. If you have ideas that you can implement in code that no one else is doing. Or if you just love the puzzles that programming is constantly presenting you with. You have to have a certain amount of self-hatred to love programming, between, because it's a grind. And to do it well you have to have a lot of all of these things.

You might think that by learning to code you get to be the Man Behind the Curtain, the all-powerful person who makes the digital world work. But that's not what coding is about. If you want power, and I've said this many times — rather than learn to code — first learn to run a server. That's real power. And it's far easier than programming.

Plus, running a server, Winer says is a gateway into programming. 

This advice echoes a previous perspective about learning to work with technology 

(only it's less dismissive of the benefits of learning to code).

Learning to code will not make you rich

 (or particularly powerful) | Scripting News

Photo by gruntzooki.

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Is this the end of christianity ?

Christianity today is the most widespread religion of the world. Want to know how this
religion got such a popularity ? Well I am not talking about Jesus Christ. There are
lots of unanswered questions, and dozens of things still remaining to be proved, before
his existence can be proved, if you leave the blind faith apart, few have failed to bear
the testimony. The christianity religion got a huge support from very powerfull roman empire.
It assisted and involved itself in many activities such as rewriting of the bible, setting up
of religious head in Vetican city, and also initiating the crusades(religious war). The process
was further proceeded by the mighty british empire. They conquered, enslaved and colonised the
world , and they are the reason why we have churches and missionaries all around the globe.
Had they not been supported by these two, I personally doubt that christianity would had spread
as it has today. What do you think. I mean look at the other religions, Islam for instance. What
do you think ? Okkk...!

What you actually need to do is dig in deep down history, get some names, follow the trail,
study the cultures and compare them carefully with the minute details provided in the bible, and
you will come up with hundreds of mistakes. Study the history of Vetican city and Pope, look at the
series of events if you wish to know their intentions. Dig further deep in history and you will come
up with almost fifteen names whose biography is very much similar to that of Jesus Christ. "Horus" is
one among them who has biography 100 percent similar to that of Jesus Christ. Looks like someone has
created a religious figure for the world to worship.

"David Icke".

Hold onn my dear readers before you think that there is no God in the Universe. If a blind is not able
to see red color then does that denies the existence of red color ? No ! We have no extra senses to 
actually feel God, and very similarly that does not denies the exixtence of God. So what does that mean ?
Do Jesus Christ exists ? Search and thou shalt find...!

Note - Searching the history might take some unwilling effort, so I advise you all to go to "David Icke".
       Apart from getting the information about some extremely wierd stuffs going around the world, you
       will very closely come to know about Christainity. The name of book - "Biggest secrets of the world"

Warning - If you are afraid of change, then never read this book.

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10 Android Tips and Tricks

Many android users don’t know much about the hidden features of android phones. Today we are sharing an article with secret android tricks and hidden features of android phones. Different versions of android versions support different set of android tricks, so try them all

1) Force reboot

Many times android users face a problem of freezing in mobile phone, in case your android phone is frozen, you can reboot it.

Just press Power Button+ Home Key + Volume up button simultaneously.

2) Quick Google Access

Android phones is built primarily for the Internet, many of Android users don’t know that android phones provide a way by which we can access Google search in just a single click.

Press menu key and hold it for couple of seconds, it will launch the Google search.

3) Reboot Android in safe mode

As many computers, we can also reboot Android phones in safe mode. The latest Android- Jelly Bean version provides an option to reboot in safe mode, if something goes wrong.
To reboot your android in safe mode, follow the below given instructions.

*Long press the power button
*Long press on the power off option.

Android phone will show a confirmation message about rebooting it in safe mode, if we reboot android phone in safe mode then all the 3rd party application will be disabled. These applications can again be enabled when we reboot our phone normally. This is a great Android utility in case when, one of your 3rd party application is causing trouble for you and you want to hunt it.

4) Unlock android phones by face detection

In the jelly bean version, Android provides a way by which android phone can be unlock using face detection, to make this feature more secure, Jelly Bean version added another layer of protection in which Android phone can be unlocked only when the face is matched as well as we have to blink eyes in order to unlock phone. Blinking eyes tells the android security system that person is live and it’s not an illegal attempt of unlocking using a still image.
To activate this:

Go to Settings > Security > Screen lock > Face unlock.

5) Get detailed information about phone status

We can get the detailed statistics like phone information, battery information, usage statistics and WiFi information by just dialing *#*#4636#*#*

This is a handy USSD to get the details about battery usage, DNS check, Ping, Application time usage time and so on.

6) Move android apps to SD card

Its good idea to install android apps in SD card, but what if you installed apps on your phone memory. Don’t worry! Android phones provide a way by which we can move our apps to SD card. To move apps to SD card, follow these steps:

Go to settings > Application settings > Manage application > Select the application, You will see the option “Move to SD card”.

7) Hard Reset and Factory reset your android phone

Android phone can be formatted in two ways

a) Factory reset: In factory reset, your phone is being formatted to factory level. Means all the settings will go by default and all the internal data will be deleted. To factory reset a phone dial *#*#7780#*#*.

b) Hard reset: To hard reset a phone dial *2767*3855#, this will delete all the data (including internal and External SD data) as well as settings of android phone. Don’t try this code for testing purpose, until you are not sure. It will not ask for any confirmation.

Context menu in android:
Long press on the screen, will show you additional options for customizing android phones. This context menu is somewhat similar to the right click menu of most operating systems.

9) Taking screen shots on android phone

Android phones offer a great feature by which we can take the screen shot without using any 3rd party application. However the screen shot android tricks vary from one android version to another version.

Press the Home button + power button.
For Galaxy Nexus: Power button + volume down button.
For Galaxy Note 2 and S3: Swipe your palm on the screen to take screen shot.

10) Android Version Animation

Go to settings > about phone > Tab repeatedly on ‘Android version’.
After sometime, the Android version will be animated

Hope you find it useful and you will try it on your Android device!

See also :- How to Unlock Android Pattern Lock And Password Lock

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10 Quotes That Will Inspire You to Have the Best Year Ever

If you're like me, you're probably wondering where the past year went. You probably feel a sense of accomplishment about the things you did — and you should! But there are probably other things that you didn't get to and wish you had.

It's true that you can't do everything, but sometimes, you need some extra inspiration to put yourself out there and do the things that you really want to do. It could be to try something you've always dreamed about, like starting your own business, or skydiving, or taking on last year's winner in the New York state hot-dog eating contest (um, what? Let's move on).

Either way, you can make this your year. On this beautiful day, go get inspired.

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