Vince Talbert on the Key to Successfully Competing in the Global Economy
Vince Talbert (MBA '96)
VP Marketing
Bill Me Later Inc.
2011 Summer Campus Construction - Queens University of Charlotte
Lots of construction at Queens this summer! Check out the progress we're making outside The Lion's Den, in Wireman Residence Hall and at the site of the new Rogers Science and Health Building. For more info, visit http://www.queens.edu/blueprint.
GPS on the Move
During a scavenger hunt and an art project, students learn how to use a handheld GPS receiver for personal navigation. Teachers can request assistance from the Institute of Navigation to find nearby members with experience in using GPS and in locating receivers to use.
Shanta Driver, Alan Foutz: Political Science Colloquium Fall 2007
Affirmative Action - Shanta Driver, Alan Foutz. Guest speaker at Political Science 179: Undergraduate Colloquium on Political Science - Fall 2007. Political issues facing the state of California, the United States, or the international community.
Studying the Changes of Ice on Earth, 2/2
Studying the Changes of Ice on Earth, Part 2/2 - Learn about why the research team in Antarctica is taking samples of ice. (05:32)
Searching for life in Lake Ellsworth, and dead whales
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why scientists are planning on drilling three kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet in one of the most ambitious exploration projects ever undertaken; and how worms that feed on dead whale bones at the bottom of the ocean may be distorting the whale fossil record.
ESD.801 Leadership Development (MIT)
Students in ESD.801 Leadership Development work in a seminar environment to develop leadership capabilities. Readings, assignments and class discussion explore the topics covered in this class. In addition, students participate in an Outward Bound experience and participate in "leadership lunches" with global leaders.
Download Seasons 1 and 2 Today Hi everybody, my name's Mike and this is the Let's Speak Italian podcast. So you've been listening to the first few lessons, and hopefully you're learning how to speak Italian. Well with the first 100 lessons completed, I wanted to release the first few lessons for free as a little teaser so that you can see just how easy it is to learn to speak Italian. Now, by going to the website, you can buy the first 100 lessons for only $15.00. That includes 100 lessons, plus 20 review lessons as
Internet Marketing: A highly practical guide to every aspect of internet marketing Ten Tallest Buildings Mark Behrens Small group teaching 10 Amazing Facts About The Brain Wall St. hopes for last minute deal Gold hits record highs on default worries Inside the News: U.S. debt deadlock supports safe-haven bid "It's a Great Big Shame" by Edgar Bateman (poetry reading) How to Search for Files and Folders On a Mac Capturing the Beast - Movie Clip from Gulliver's Travels Dead Man Walking
This short video features images of these buildings and their heights. Would be a good project for art or math classes.
Professor Mark Behrens reviews in more detail and touches on key elements of his research that the students in video (Student Presentation #5) discussed. In describing his work, Behrens offered "think of looking through color filters." The filters eliminate any unnecessary or unforeseeable data, and when you combine all the filters together, the yield reveals amazing overlaps and patterns.
Small group teaching
This 1:40 video has some interesting facts about the brain that is sure to get students interested. Moves rapidly and it can be used for a good discussion or future study of the brain.
July 25 - Stock prices fell, bond yields rose and gold hit a record high, but the market's response to the threat of a U.S. default or credit downgrade was not as severe as feared. Conway G. Gittens reports.
July 25 - Investors flee to gold and world stock markets fall over default fears for Greece and U.S. Ruairidh Villar reports
The bid firmly back in safe-haven assets like gold, Bunds and the Swiss franc on the prospect of the first-ever US debt default after talks collapsed. Wall Street is seen following Europe lower.
This is an homage to Music Hall and Gus Elen. A reading brings out different nuances of meaning - well, that's my excuse. It appeared in the BBC's book "The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems".
You can see Gus Elen perform it here at the British Pathe site in about 1932 - and he's well worth seeing http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=82294
Some people will point out that this is not politically correct, because they believe that the way we feel now is correct and noble and the way they u
How to Search for Files and Folders On a Mac - Computer tutorial: this tutorial will show you how to search for files and folders on a Mac computer. (02:11)
Gulliver's Travels (1726) is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. It is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is considered one of Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
In this movie clip from 2010, Gulliver arrives on the undiscovered island of Lilliput, it's tiny inhabitants tie him up and capture him. It could be a nice introduction to a literature
