Inspirational Videos for Students (Update)

This week, I’ve decided to reblog some of my more popular posts with some updates. The post below has remained in the top 5 ever since I published it.  Beneath it, I’ve decided to add a few other favorites. #3:  The Power of Words – I also mentioned this in yesterday’s post of Inspirational Videos … Read more

How to Fix a Broken School

@VideoAmy, curator of Edutopia’s “5-Minute Film Festival,” always finds the best education videos.  If you don’t follow her on Twitter, you should! The other day VideoAmy tweeted about this recent TEDWomen 2015 talk by Linda Cliatt-Wayman about how to fix a broken school.  Linda’s passion for children is so clear throughout her presentation.  It’s appalling to see … Read more

Are We Almost There?

Today’s Phun Phriday post is another amazing work of art from Nicole Smeltzer.  If you have ever been on a road trip with family, you will identify with this stop motion paper craft video! Make sure your sound is turned on to experience the true irritation of the family road trip 😉

What’s a Cookie?

If you are in the United States today, you may be stuffing yourself with turkey and cranberry sauce.  But Cookie Monster wants only one thing – regardless of the country he is in.  In this hilarious video with John Oliver, Cookie Monster learns the devastating news that cookies go by a different name in the … Read more

#SimplyGiveThanks

Kid President has joined with Gener.us this week to promote their #SimplyGiveThanks campaign.  He is producing a short video on Facebook each day with a challenge to give thanks.  In Tuesday’s video, the wonderful young man asked for people to give thanks to teachers.  To participate in this, or to give thanks to anyone in … Read more

Goldieblox and the Movie Machine App

You may already be familiar with Goldieblox toys.  I’ve featured a couple of them on this blog.  I recently visited their site, and they’ve added quite a few more products to their selection – all with the aim of getting children, especially girls, interested in engineering.  One of the kits available for purchase is “Goldieblox … Read more