Video clips bring training and teaching to life.
Video clips help emphasise ideas and lessons, and promote discussion.
Funny and entertaining clips also make learning a lot more enjoyable.
Here are some examples.
These video clips are also Safe For Work. And fun too. Everyone needs a little fun sometimes.
These clips are links to the content in YouTube; they are not hosted on Businessballs. The availability of the clips on this webpage therefore relies on the material remaining on YouTube, which cannot be guaranteed.
Send your own suggestions of video clips for teaching and training.
Unsolicited cold-calling, especially the type which seeks to mislead and exploit people, is irritating for the people receiving these unwanted calls, but it also carries risks for telephone canvassers..
There is a sense of karma to this. If you engage in unethical methods you become vulnerable one day to becoming exploited yourself.
(Thanks JG)
Gregory Pike and his animals Booger, Kitty and Mousey, in Santa Barbara, California. Seemingly they support a homeless lifestyle with donations from the public. Apparently the clip was produced by Santa Barbara's mayor who sent it as a Christmas video message. Contact me if you have better information about this.
Aside from the obvious peace-love-understanding-racial-harmony message, the clip is also a demonstration of entrepreneurial innovation and the power of the web in achieving global publicity at zero cost. Potentially, a great idea is all you need.
(Thanks EP for suggesting this item.)
Important: at this clip, click on the bottom-right button in the clip frame to display the clip in full screen.
The David Davis resignation speech of 12 June 2008 is a remarkable piece of political and leadership theatre.
The speech and situation surrounding it, and how events unfold, offer an excellent and unique opportunity to examine and discuss a wide range of issues relating to:
and virtually any other aspect of human behaviour you care to examine.
David Davis's powerful speech especially provides a wonderful opportunity to assess and better appreciate the different effects of style and content within communications and actions which seek to influence people and situations.
To what extent are certain types of leadership and strategy 'counter-intuitive' - i.e., an action appears not to make sense, but actually it does?
The early signs are that while the 'experts' in the media are unimpressed by David Davis's decision, wider society might take a different view.
It's an absolutely compelling situation, and a fascinating case study.
This unusual and innovative cartoon about the Town of Allopath can be used to illustrate various themes and issues, including:
My thanks to Douglas Miller for pointing me to this video. The Mercola.com website behind the video is interesting and full of other ideas.
This is Sir Ken Robinson at the 2006 TED conference. Ken Robinson is a world-renowned expert in creativity and innovation in business and education. He was knighted in 2003 for his achievements as a writer, speaker and leader in this field.
This amusing and powerfully inspiring speech lasts 20 minutes. It addresses fundamental aspects of education and development, and incidentally relates strongly to ideas of multiple intelligence, and the need to develop passions and potential within people, rather than merely teach and train what the system says they need.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, a conference and website movement for brilliant ideas, typically fuelled by amazing talks given by leading figures from the three areas. Don't be put off by the BMW ads at the start and finish. They are main sponsors of TED.
(My thanks to Doug Miller for suggesting this wonderful item.)
A very funny illustration of the challenge that we all face when learning new things, and a particularly amusing slant on the common issues arising between staff of technical helpdesks, notably IT support, and users.
The learning and support difficulty is created by something that is new and strange to the learner or user.
The level of technology, skills, experience do not in themselves create the problems - what matters is simply whether task is understood at a personal individual level.
(Thanks Shane for sending me the clip originally; also thanks to J Harland for pointing me to the YouTube version and origin: from the show "Øystein og jeg" on Norwegian Broadcasting, NRK, in 2001, featuring Øystein Backe as IT support, and Rune Gokstad as monk-user, and written by Knut Nærum.)
Another remarkable TED talk. Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor speaks about her stroke and its empowering and illuminating effects. Within this talk is also a fascinating demonstration of left and right brain functionality. And all presented in a context of great humour and humanity.
As she says, "Cool, I'm having a stroke... How many neuroscientists have the chance to study the effects of a stroke - from the inside out?..."
(Thanks CB for suggestion.)
The Two Ronnies sketch is wonderful for illustrating communications, especially for customer service. This might be removed from YouTube at some stage subject to BBC policy. Meanwhile, enjoy.
The early BBC Blue Peter children's TV shows were broadcast live, which added extra pressure on planning and preparation, which as illustrated here was not always perfect. These amusing examples demonstrate the need for solid planning and rehearsals, especially when working with unpredictable elements. Again, this clip will remain on YouTube subject to BBC policy.
Ensure you plan and practise all sales demonstrations. Especially if your demonstration is to be broadcast on live TV.
Quality is sometimes easier to demonstrate than to explain.
Especially when modern technology is involved.
For a coffee break quiz maybe see who can name the most of these screen stars.
The answers, according to the YouTube posting are below, and by the way, the music is given as: Bach's Prelude from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma.
Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry.
The creator of this particular work of genius goes by the name of eggman913.
A fine example of added value and standing on the shoulders of giants if ever there was one.
More beautiful added value from the same genius..
Unfortunately details are not available for all the paintings, the painters or the painted. Answers on a postcard please...
While not directly linked to any particular learning or teaching theme, these clips feature excellence and creativity of various sorts, which relate to the more general ideas of personal development and achievement. None of these people just woke up one morning and discovered these capabilities - they had a passion or a dream, and they made it happen through practice and persistence.
A fine juggler once explained jokingly to me that the difference between juggling five balls and three is as follows: "Imagine the degree of difficulty in juggling being measured on a scale of one to ten. Juggling three balls is about two on the scale of difficulty. Juggling four balls is about three on the scale. Juggling five balls is between fiften and twenty on the scale..."
World juggling champion Jason Garfield makes it look easy. He's confident too, as shown in his interview, amusingly..
Stanley Jordan, guitar 'tapping' pioneer, didn't just develop expertise, he changed the rules too...
Stanley Jordan is self-taught. His work was first released in the 1980s. He is an advocate of music therapy, and as with many great minds, applies his thinking to wider humanitarian issues as well as music. His website explains more.
Jake Shimabukuro - ukulele master - he's a rare talent for sure, but he also found something to excel at which not many had been bothered with before. Sometimes it's easier to make an impact in a less crowded field.
Here's the wonderful ukuleledisco website, for ukulele fans and teachers. And Jake Shimabukuro's website.
And incidentally here's the origin of the word ukulele.
Where Stanley Jordan led, others were inspired and developed their own ideas. Here's a fine example.
Andy McKee electro-acoustic guitar brilliance, and an different sort of tapping..
Andy McKee is one of several brilliant acoustic guitar players on the fast-rising Candyrat label.
Please send your own suggestions of other helpful video clips for teaching and training
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