gHacks technology news » science videos http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Watch Documentaries Online http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/10/watch-documentaries-online/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/10/watch-documentaries-online/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:05:49 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/10/watch-documentaries-online/ It seems that more and more specialized websites appear that list videos from sites such as Youtube and Google Video. At the beginning websites that would post lists of tv shows and movies were the most common ones and they are still very popular. Other websites emerge now that only list anime, sports or music videos.

One sector that was a bit neglected until now was documentaries. Best Online Documentaries is a website that tries to change that. They offer nearly 650 documentaries embedded in their website that are hosted on servers like Google Video or Youtube. Viewers can watch the documentaries online on their website.

Several categories like Biographies, History, Science and Mystery and numerous subcategories make it easy to find what you are interested in. All the videos that I tested worked and have a playing time of 40+ minutes. The language is English. Below is one of the videos that you can find on the website. You could really spend several days there.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/10/watch-documentaries-online/feed/ 7 TeacherTube learn while watching videos http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/15/teachertube-learn-while-watching-videos/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/15/teachertube-learn-while-watching-videos/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 10:02:19 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/15/teachertube-learn-while-watching-videos/ Specialized Youtube clones are appearing every day. Some are relatively weak while some offer videos targeted only at a certain niche that is grateful for not having to search Youtube for the videos that they would like to watch. TeacherTube is one of the better Youtube clones. It concentrates solely on the teaching aspect of videos which means that you will only find videos on TeacherTube that “teach something” to the viewer.

teachertube teaching videosThis targeted concept is working pretty well I think. Teachertube already got quite a big userbase who are uploading several videos every minute to the website.

You do find lots of interesting categories at TeacherTube some specially designed to suit the needs of a certain age group, others dealing with a subject like math, social sciences or sciences.

Several ways to interact with the community are used. You can vote for videos, comment on them, add them to your favorites or use tags to find new videos. It is also possible to embed videos in your own website which is the same feature that Youtube offers.

I did a search for computer and decided to list the first five results on this page to give you a better understanding of what you will find at Teachertube. Here we go:

  • 3D Modeling & Animation for Children
  • A Bit of PC Animation History – 1985
  • Animation with Flash MX2004 – ani. masking
  • Basic Computer Components
  • Basic Computer Troubleshooting

This sounds pretty interesting to me, I would probably watch all of them except the Flash MX2004 one because I do not use this program at all.

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