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"It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom has gone viral. Will Nancy's humiliation get the best of...
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"To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst--but Kayleigh needs money. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. It's grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing...
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition: Opening day celebrations / crowds at the entrances / pan of Exposition proper / parades on Market Street and Van Ness Avenue / Tower of Jewels / Fountain of Energy / other buildings / day for night shots / submarines / Fun Zone at night / nighttime illumination of buildings showing use of fog machines and special lights / Uncle Sam's submarines. No audio. (13 minutes)
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In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph.
Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard was of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as flying cars. Indeed, these were the widely accepted laws of the land in 1997, when
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The odds of getting a video onto YouTube's front page are 1-in-2,000,0000, but Tim Staples, founder and CEO of Shareability, knows how to make the algorithms of Youtube, Google, Facebook and Instagram work for you – and he has the results to prove it, with a thriving business that has gotten their videos onto YouTube's front page an amazing 25 times. Here he shows savvy marketers, entrepreneurs, and online celebrity wannabes how they, too, can...
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Offers tips and information on how to create and post online unboxing and reviewing videos. Activity prompts explain how to do research, set up a video, choose a product to review, and post it to a platform. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, and an index.
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This video clip begins with two boys, Jaylin in green and Ethan in a blue shirt, standing against a brick wall in anticipation of a start signal for the race from Jeriah, wearing blue pants. Jeriah stands away from the wall as if to establish his role as ‘starting gun’. He sees that Ethan is looking at him, so he raises his hand to signal that the starting word (“Go”) is about to be spoken. But Jaylin is not looking at Jeriah, nor is Jeriah...
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In this video clip, four year olds Evan (in yellow) and Alex (in red) rearrange bottomless wooden boxes into play props that have qualitatively different functions: a train to sit in, a tunnel to crawl through, a bridge to walk over, an enclosure to hide toy animals inside, and a chute to toss a ball into. When a child is able to change the function of an object by changing his perspective to that object, he learns an important lesson. When I want...
11) Taking Turns
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This video clip shows a group of two-year-olds working to voluntarily control their behavior in order to engage in turn-taking with peers. The children know that taking turns involves a period of waiting and a period of activity. One child asserts the “five-minute” rule as a means to negotiate turns swinging. While the children understand that time can be measured, they have trouble determining the actual time span of five minutes. The teacher...
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Four toddlers are walking on contact paper, sticky side up, taped to the floor. Most often such an activity is called “sensorial play” and justified with phrases such as “they are exploring their sense of touch.” Such phrases, perhaps derived from Montessori’s phrase of “educating the senses,” imply that the children are learning what objects are smooth, what objects are rough, what objects are sticky, what objects are not. The emphasis...
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In this video clip, Chaislyn and Maddie play a game of Duck, Duck, Goose with their teachers. The girls use many strategies during their play. Chaislyn loves being the goose, but she knows that this role is supposed to be avoided. How does she handle this restriction? She invents an expression of feigned disappointment (“Oh man!”) in order to cover her deliberate strategies to “lose.” This feigned expression is an indication of her ability...
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Briefly describes various world records as recorded and uploaded on the platform YouTube and features photographs and QR codes that allow readers to see the videos. Includes such records as the largest rabbit to the world's tallest water slide to the most-watched movie trailer.
15) Half-pipe panic
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While practicing for the Tower Hills Half-Pipe Challenge, Payton Park suffers an embarrassing wipeout, which his friend and competitor Matt posts to the internet where it becomes an instant sensation; now he is having trouble putting the fall behind him, and remembering that having talent is only part of success--it also takes a lot of hard work.
16) Australia
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When Homo sapiens arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between the First Australians and modern-day Aborigines. The ancient and modern story intersect here as nowhere else in the world. The secret to this continuity is diversity. Intuitively, they found the right balance between being...
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For decades, we believed the keys to personal wealth were a college diploma and marketable job skills--but no more. Today, your best hope for financial security is literally right at your feet: it's your cat. The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar "personalities" and global multimedia brands--but how can a human cash in? How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity has the answers. Readers will learn the secrets...
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Ensure the continued health and well-being of mother and baby as they make the transition from hospital to home. This video presents the most current need-to-know discharge information-including postpartum recovery tips, feeding basics, newborn care, and when to call healthcare providers. Content includes: Mother Care & Warning Signs, Baby Blues & Postpartum Mood Disorders, and Breastfeeding Basics. This special version includes all the same essential...