Puna Flamingo--An Overview
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of a Puna Flamingo in its natural environment. The puna flamingo has the unmistakable long neck and legs, and a distinctive down-curved bill characteristic of all flamingo species. The flamingo holds its long neck straight in flight and calls with a nasal honking sound. This species is unique among flamingos as it lacks the hind toe. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world conne
Example of a Good PLC Meeting
Arty Smartypants: snail/nail
In this video segment from Between the Lions, Arty holds up a snail and then shows the word “snail.” He then takes an “s” from snail to make the word “nail.” He holds up a nail, then pulls out a hammer and starts to hammer the nail into the wall. Then he hits his finger with the hammer and jumps up and down in pain. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Letter Knowledge Awareness, and Phonological Awareness. (0:4
Drawing a Net For Rectangular Prisms And Square Pyramids
This student-created video provides directions for making a net for a rectangular prism and a square pyramid. Demonstration includes use of a ruler to make sides the correct lengths. ( 2:52)
Teaching Tomorrow's Economists I am happy to announce that the Teacher's Manual is now available for my introductory textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. For those readers who are unfamiliar with it, let me explain that the student text was
Announcing BoxingBots: Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots At the SXSW Interactive Opening Party hosted by Frog Design and Microsoft, the Coding4Fun team has unveiled their latest invention, BoxingBots! With BoxingBots you are the controller except this time, forget the screen. You're controlling a 6-foot tall metal robot that's trying to punch out your opponent's 6-foot tall machine. It's Real Steel in real time. BoxingBots combines Kinect's motion sensing technology with pneumatic robots in a 6-foot square ring. Two players face off to
Yangtze
This eight minute video explains how this river is impacted by modern technology and presents some pro and con arguments for this movement. Excellent visuals and interviews.
Gettysburg Battle Strategy
In the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, 3,000 Union soldiers prepare to face the onslaught of 60,000 advancing Confederate soldiers. In this video clip, learn about the strategy of the two conflicting armies in this battle. (2:53)
Cloud Part 4
This video segment from Nature chronicles several years of Cloud’s life documented and narrated by Emmy-winning producer/director, Ginger Kathrens. Cloud, a young colt, moves in a band of wild horses (a group or family of horses that travels together) in the Arrowhead Mountains of southern Montana. In this segment, Kathrens finds helicopters herding the wild horses into a corral. Later, forty-six of the horses are sold at auction, never to be free again. Cloud and his family are
Cloud Part 3 - Age Four
In this video from Nature, Cloud is a four-year-old bachelor who lives in a "group" of wild horses in the Arrowhead Mountains of southern Montana. Although he seems to live a carefree life as he rolls in the muddy water and plays with the other horses, he also has to face and survive the dangers with which he is confronted in nature. There may be conflicts with other horses. Lightening can also be a dangerous force of nature that can strike at any time, killing unsuspecting horses. Learn mo
Robert E. Lee's Great Regret
In this video clip, biographer Liz Pryor reveals Confederate general, Robert E. Lee's greatest regret about his military career. (1:35)
PSYC 303-01, Psychology of Health, Fall 1998
Informational Goals:
1. To provide students with a preliminary understanding of the important ways in which psychological states and behaviors are involved in health and illness
2. To provide students with a basic knowledge of chronic illnesses and their incidence rates, as well as the effectiveness of psychologically based treatment modalities
3. To provide students a closer look at some illness of interest or relevance to them, and to consider the psychological risk and treatment factors
Skill
Squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle
Dr Noor Nieftagodien (University of Witwatersrand) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre on 8th March 2012
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the most pivotal battles of World
War II. It was fought between August 7th, 1942 and February 9th, 1943.
The Allied forces in the Pacific launched their second major campaign
against the Japanese and it resulted in one of the longest and most
significant battles of World War II. Please enjoy this video on the
historic Battle of Guadalcanal.
Muslim Scholars
Muslim Scholars developed institutions of learning and even created encyclopedias as learning facilities. Learn more about the Muslim Empire in this video clip from Discovery Channel's "Assignment Discovery." (2:32)
Gandhi's Fight: Saving Endangered Animals in India
This nine minute video presents a sad look at the state of animal preservation in India. The interview provides good insights and the images are superior. The video also presents some insights into the customs of the people. Could be used to motivate students to get involved and/or do more research.
Formation Médicale 2011 – Qualité et évaluation des Facultés de Médecine – CIDMEF : discuss
Titre : Formation Médicale 2011 – Qualité et évaluation des Facultés de Médecine – CIDMEF : discussion.
Intervenants :
Résumé : Atelier : Partage d’expériences : Qualité et évaluation des Facultés de Médecine – CIDMEF. Discussion.
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enregistrée lors des Etats Généraux de la Formation Méd
Formation Médicale 2011 – Check-list au bloc opératoire et au-delà.
Titre : Formation Médicale 2011 – Check-list au bloc opératoire et au-delà
Intervenants : Philippe CABARROT (Saint-Denis).
Résumé : Atelier : Partage d’expériences : Qualité des Pratiques et Sécurité des soins : une valeur professionnelle. Introduction au nouveau séminaire du second cycle.
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enreg
Grant or Lee?
In this video clip, see notable personnel choose which of these admired Civil War generals they would want to lead our country. Robert E. Lee was an outstanding general on the battlefield and could do a lot with just a little. Grant was understanding and thought beyond the result of individual battles. (2:19)
Authors at Google & Google Play Presents: Anne Rice
Anne Rice is the high mistress of contemporary gothic fiction, best known for her Vampire Chronicles series and its unforgettable anti-hero, the vampire Lestat. Here she joins Authors@Google and Google Play in a Q&A about her latest novel, "The Wolf Gift," in which she reinvents the werewolf myth and imagines a man turned beast who's both enthralled and terrified by his transformation.
Be sure to grab a digital copy of "The Wolf Gift" from Google Play:
US/AU Stores - http://goo.gl/IBpiY
UK/CA
