With your help we can finance about 1-2 new videos and month. Together we can make our contribution to change education and allow more students to learn in better, more effective ways.
To maximize our global impact, we use as little english writing as possible, so each video can be translated into other languages fast and inexpensively. So far our videos have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, Mongolian, Dutch, Polish and many other languages.
Note: All videos that are funded by our Patrons will be made available under the Creative Commons NC ND license so that any non-profit educators can use and share them free of charge. That means if you are a school or education company you can link or embed all our youtube videos to your page. Please just provide clear credits with a link to "www.youtube.com/sproutsvideos" If you download our videos for educational purposes to show them offline, you can do so as well. Again, always provide clear credits. However, you are not allowed to edit them in any way or re-upload them in a public domain.
Some Video Comments from 2017
"Very few times one comes to a YouTube videos and actually learn something. Your videos are most productive videos on YouTube. Thanks for the knowledge."
nuclearwintercool 92 on Learning with Passion and Enthusiasm
"Thank you very much,I'm going to learn Japenese"
Twilight Fernando on 7 Tips to Learn a New Language
"My teacher shared this video with the class and told us we'd be trying it out for a term. I am SOOO excited to learn like this as I believe it would be a more stimulating learning process that suits me better!"
Shallot Cat on The Flipped Classroom Model
"This has really Inspired me to watch more videos and has made me realize how I need change the way I think. Incredible and easy to watch videos."
Peter Lingi on Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
"I love your channel. Thank you!
Thank you! for all the effort you guys put in."
Cherry Cheri on Learning by Doing
"Great video! i've just learned about this a few days ago in college! it's so accurate and it made me think about my insecurities and why they've stuck with me."
Wanderer of Elantris on 8 Stages of Development by Erik Errikson
"so well explained 😍"
Clara Noor on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
"It helped me a lot!! Thank you very much! I love you're videos!"
bacan stefania on Focused and Diffused Thinking
Channel Facts
- We started Oct 2015
- 40+ videos published (1-2 each month)
- 150,000+ subscribers
- Our videos have been watched over 6 million times
- Our largest audience are teens and young adults from US, India, UK, Philippines and Germany
- Universities and schools from across the worlds have downloaded them to use them in their schools
- Our videos have been translated by our fans over 50 times, covering languages like Arabic, Chinese, Romanian, Hebrew, French, German, Italian, and many more
- Our 3 most popular videos are: 13 Study Tips, Feynman Technique, Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
Video Production
It takes us around 1-2 month to make a video, depending on the time we spend on research, the length of the video and the amount of revisions it takes. To pay for all people involve and the recording we need between 800-1,500 USD for each clip. Even though our videos are just 3-5 minutes, they do require a lot of different steps and a team of people working together.
Usually there is:
- Research and script writing by Jonas (thats me!)
- Brainstorming for the story-board by Jonas, Jacky and Pascal
- Cartoon drawings by Pascal Gaggelli
- Live hand-drawing by Milk and others from the MinuteVideos team
- Voice Recording by Matt *
- Video editing by MinuteVideos *
- Uploading :)
* My friend Marc and his team at MinuteVideos are doing the production, which means they are bringing all the different talents together, record the video and make sure the final results looks great - whatever magic that requires. Our music comes from Premium Beats.
Support Us!
Pledge $1 per video
Updates by email and on the Patreon Feed that inform you about every new video. Each update includes more background information on the topic, links to additional resources plus an image with a drawing from one epic scene.
Pledge $3 per video
Get a Welcome Postcard with one of our favorite scenes from our videos. We will send you the postcard by regular mail and include a handwritten thank you note. We will also add your name to the description below each new video. + All above rewards
Pledge $25 per video
Get 3 Learning Poster (A3) for your office, living room or school. Each poster will feature one of our 3 most popular scenes from the Study Tips video and will be sent to you by regular mail. + All rewards above
Pledge $250 per video
Get an Original Drawing of one of our older videos that were still drawn on paper. We will send it to you framed with insured express shipping. This offer is limited to 2 donors. + All above rewards
Pledge $1000 per video
You can suggest a topic (if you wish), comment on the final script before we produce (we keep full independence to follow your suggestions or not ) and your name will be shown at the end of the video as the donor. + All other rewards.
Our Vision for Education
We hope that one day traditional education becomes more practical and cheaper so that all people, regardless of their background or social standing, get a chance to learn how to use their brains at full potential. With Sprouts we hope we can do our little contribution supporting this goal. In a few years we hope to turn our YouTube Channel into a real school to become model for others who want to bring inexpensive quality education to inspired minds.
Try Fail Do!
Besides the YouTube Channel we also work on an experiential learning platform. Each of the mini-courses requires the students to watch videos and do hands on assignment using pen, paper or other means. As per 31.122016 we had around 1000 students who signed up for one of our first courses, which we all free of charge and in Thai. We are now working on making our first course in English. For more details visit Tryfaildo.com
My Own Story
I - that's me Jonas - was born in Munich, went there to a Waldorf School that I loved with 7 and hated with 14. With 15 I dropped out and started jobbing, interning and then travelling. Although I later went back to school and then college, I never liked traditional education. Instead I preferred learning by doing or from experimenting, talking to other people or reading books. With 19 I started a Non-Profit Organization called We Do e.V. We organized charity hip hop concerts and donated roughly USD100,000 to Plan International to support various causes: such as building a school in Vietnam. With 23 I then moved to Thailand to study business and I started my first company (We Do Asia Co. Ltd.) which since grew into an organization with over 50 employees. Since 2012 I have more time to focus on my passion, which is education or more precisely inspiring others to realize their strength. I then started researching and writing about learning science and created the first YouTube video in 2014. In a few years I hope to turn Sprouts into a real school or college to become a model for a open source network of inexpensive private schools.
Updates by email and on the Patreon Feed that inform you about every new video. Each update includes the full script and links to additional resources plus an image with a drawing from one epic scene.
Get
a Welcome Postcard with an epic scene from our videos. We will
send you the postcard by regular mail and include a handwritten thank you note.
We will also add your name to the description below each new video. + All above
rewards
Get 3 Learning
Poster (A3) for your office, living room or school. Each poster will
feature one of our 3 most popular scenes from the Study Tips video and will be sent
to you by regular mail. + All rewards above