The Map Animator

This is awesome: https://mapanimator.baldinger.se/

Draw your route or drop in a GPX file, add signs and a camera move, and download it as an MP4 video, up to 4K, ready for your editor.

The Future Of AI

Cool piece in Nature: The Future of AI

Nature spoke to six people at the forefront of AI development — people who are driving the technology’s development and adoption, and those who are preparing society to adapt to its rapid rise. In this video series, they describe their greatest ambitions for the technology, their expectations of where and how it will be adopted in the coming years, and their concerns for the future.

The usual caveats apply: selection bias, who signs their paychecks, etc.

Screen Recording with Zoom

Maybe I've been under a rock...but that's a quick & easy way to record short video of yourself, introducing an online class, etc. No need anymore for a different 3rd party app: just record the Zoom Meeting with yourself, share screen , use the whiteboard, save as MP4, upload to Youtube = done!

Mapping YouTube Videos with AI

Good stuff here on Maps Mania: Automatically Mapping YouTube Videos

• Using allStara
• Using deepseek

Become a data viz SUPERSTAR

This loks promising: Become a data viz SUPERSTAR is a 5-part YouTube series from the folks @ storytelling with data to become, well, a data viz superstar. Could be usefuf for teaching data analysis and data viz.

Amazing Geology of Gill & Vicinity, Franklin County MA

 

A Scientist & A Comedian Explain Climate Change

 

John Snow's Map: Animated

 

Climate Science 1956: A Blast from the Past

 

GIS Helps!

GIS Helps! is a nice 10-part video series explaining how GIS can help with all kinds of things, including getting a job, bringing people together, and solving 21st century problems.

Carbon Credits & Offsets

How Cell Service Actually Works

The Mendenhall Couloir

Nice video of a route we climbed/hiked/scrambled last summer: https://youtu.be/xlGJFqfKu98. The techical crux @ ~5.2 is right down at the start & certainly a little spicey when wearing trail running shoes. The rest of the route never felt sketchy: mainly 3rd class with some short 5th sections here & there. We traversed right onto a ridge rather than slogging through the scree to the top - that probably is the better way to finish the route.

Geology with RICHARD D. LITTLE

Great YouTube channel Richard Little about the geology here in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts: Geology with RICHARD D. LITTLE.

Bake My Day

This is just funny: https://youtu.be/2xBQQPSdqFE 

How sure are climate scientists? | Degrees of Uncertainty

 

Forest Ecology & Superheroes

Flipgrid

So I tried Flipgrid and here are some thoughts.

• First, to make one, you need to surrender your Google or Microsoft account to Flipgrid. I guess that's okay, but I would preferred a separate account.
• You have to respond by recording a video and that requires you to surrender your Google or Microsoft account. Recording a video is fun and easy for many, but terrifying for others.
• You can then comment on a video by text or another video.

So, I'm not sold. Its cooler than just a Padlet, but the mandatory video part is problematic.

Teaching and Learning with Green Screens

This may be of interest: What’s Possible with Green Screens in the Classroom

Is that a promise?

 Awesome - make it happen: Best Biden Ad Ever