Inspirational Video Clips

OK, the picture is inspirational, but only really for me and my wife, as it is a Tuscan view from our honeymoon hotel …. but there is a connection in the sense that over a few years I have found myself showing or referring to the same brilliant, short, subtitled videos in class or with colleagues.  So I thought it about time I started a list of them together for easy access.  Due thanks too, to the students who have sometimes recommended video clips to me….

Education:

what’s wrong with it (it kills creativity in the young) and what we should do about it… Videos by

Ken Robinson

• Do schools kill creativity? (Over 50 million views – poignant and very funny indeed!)
• Changing educational paradigms. (Brilliant cartooning with hsi voice behind it)

Sustainability:

Pam Warhurst: The Incredible Edible.  How to transform a community by using food / planting fruit and veg etc….. with no money… just community goodwill.  Inspiring and funny but you may need subtitles (she’s from the North of England).

Eben Bayer: Mushrooms – the new ‘Plastic‘.  You have to see this to believe it! Packaging that grows itself for free without need of energy (heat / light) or much at all in the way of human intervention.   We no longer have any need at all for Polystyrene!  And when you’ve finished with it – throw it on your grass or garden: it is a natural fertiliser!

The edible watter ‘bottle’.  Bite-sized globules of water contained in a natural material that melts in the mouth.

Please tell me if you have some favourites that merit inclusion…..  Thanks