That would probably be a good idea, Annisis!

Annisis,

That sounds great! For geography, I think it makes the most sense to do just the locations.
For art, I think it will be very difficult to choose 10, but that seems reasonable.
As for the phonics families, that was EXACTLY my plan!!

I didn't choose my History or World Religion sections. I will take:

History: Greek Gods
World Religion: Baha'i

Absolutely, Heather - the more the merrier!

Everyone can start choosing what they might like to do for their first video based on my example and we'll go from there.

Don't worry "computer challenged" folks - I will make a tutorial!

Great everyone!

It looks like so far the interested parties are (though anyone else is still welcome!):

Ann2010
tlyoung
arvi
sashimani
TracyR4
lelask
annisis

So, if everyone could choose what they might like to do for each category and answer the questions following, we can get moving right along:

Art –
Science –
Culture –
Perfect Pitch -
Vocabulary -
Math –
Phonics -
Whole Words –
Poetry –
Music –
World Language -
Eye Tracking
Geography –
History -

Some questions for the group:

- Would you like to include the soothing background music present in the original TW videos?
- Would you like to include the "affirmations" TW has at the beginning and end of their lessons?
- Would you each like to choose a world language and stick to that one through each video you make?
- For rhythms, would you like to do the "real" names (whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc) or the common elementary names (too-oo, ta, tee-tee, ticka-ticka, etc)?
- Are there any other categories that I am forgetting that you might like to add?
- Would you like to have one person do all of the voice-over for consistency, or each do our own?

Okay, so for all of us who are interested in participating, here is (based on the original forum posted video and TW's free preview video, here are the categories I came up with and what I though I might do for each:

Art – Works of Vincent Van Gogh
Science – Minerals
Culture – Canada (Location on map, flag, national symbols, national landmarks, provinces, provincial flags)
Perfect Pitch - C (in whole note, half notes, and quarter notes)
Vocabulary - North American Birds, Fruits, Arctic Animals, opposites (tall/short. short/long, wide/narrow, big/small, thick/thin)
Math – Dots to ten, skip counting by twos to ten
Phonics - “at” family words
Whole Words – first 20 from dolch words
Poetry – The Caterpillar by Christina G Rosetti
Music – Musical instruments (different set from what was shown in Annisis' video), rhythm (ta, ta, teetee, ta), Composer portraits (Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart, Bizet)
World Language - Colours, shapes, farm animals, children's toys (I am not fluent in any other language – I will do French if nobody else wants it. If not, I can choose another and get a friend to record)
Eye Tracking
Geography – South American Countries

Some questions for the group:

- Would you like to include the soothing background music present in the original TW videos?
- Would you like to include the "affirmations" TW has at the beginning and end of their lessons?
- Would you each like to choose a world language and stick to that one through each video you make?
- For rhythms, would you like to do the "real" names (whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc) or the common elementary names (too-oo, ta, tee-tee, ticka-ticka, etc)?
- Are there any other categories that I am forgetting that you might like to add?
- Would you like to have one person do all of the voice-over for consistency, or each do our own?

Let me know your thoughts!

I haven't used either of these, but here is my opinion solely based on the videos you posted:

The first one, which uses the phonetics used to read pinyin, is very well made but if you plan to teach your child English phonetics as well, I would steer clear of it. The Pinyin phonics system is not the same as the English, but close enough (yet not the same) that teaching the two would be VERY confusing. I have a set of Pinyin phonetic cards, but I don't use them with my girls yet. You are much better off going with a whole-word-recognition (the Chinese characters) approach when it comes to Chinese.

The second video looks great! I liked that even as someone who is not completely fluent in Chinese I was able to understand the song because the words and the animation are very cohesive. In fact, I liked it so much that I may look into purchasing it myself!

Good luck and I look forward to seeing if anyone else has reviews based on experience. 

...true! Not much time left here!

Awesome, Lelask!

I'll try to find the time to make a quick tutorial over the weekend! There are 4 of us, so far. Hopefully we can recruit some more over the weekend!

I would say we'll start as soon as we have...5 people?

I think that this would be a great way to teach my two year old to play piano and is exactly what I was planning to do! any chance someone out there already has some music made up that would be printable?

Let me know!

If not, I'll make some of my own over the next couple of months and try to scan them in so others can print.

Awesome, Tracy!

I's really not technically complicated at all. My hubby and I will try to make up a tutorial over the weekend.

Anyone else??

Recently, there was a thread ( http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-encyclopedic-knowledge/great-video-in-gallery/msg66403/?topicseen#new) about an AWESOME video done my one of the forum members. It is very much in the TW style and extremely well done. Also, what a GREAT idea!

I was hoping that if I could make a tutorial explaining the process, there would be other parents willing to form a group with me to make similar videos. We could collaborate on what subjects we would include so as to not overlap and share all of our videos. The more of us interested, the more videos we have for our little ones!

So, who's in??

My son loves the one lesson that BK uploaded on the website.

I must have missed that! Where can I find it?

Yes, I have confirmed with my husband what I already thought - very easy (though, of course, time consuming and such!). But yes, technically not complicated!

I'm overflowing with ideas here - somebody respond so we can get started!

Hi all! I'm pretty sure it's fairly simple to do! I think we should all get in on the action. Perhaps we could form a group and co-ordinate. Maybe if the original creator (who did a fantastic job!) doesn't have time my husband (who teaches computer science) or I could make a tutorial.

If anyone is interested, let me know and then we can all have "poor man's TW!!"