Identifying Details
Given a book, students will be able to identify the details that support its main idea.
Alfred Hitchcock et ses femmes d'extérieur. Conférence de Marie Anne Guerin
Comme beaucoup des personnages féminins qui l'ont précédée, mais plus encore, Marnie néglige les lois et ouvre un espace cinématographique inédit de fuite et de filature. Et c'est dans sa période américaine qu'Hitchcock, systématiquement, flanque ses héroïnes à la porte. Sans foyer, ce sont des délinquantes dont le destin s'accomplit dehors, dans les rues, sur les quais de gare, dans les cimetières et les motels...
Critique aux Cahiers du cinéma pendant douze ans, M
Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
Phoebe Hoban, author of Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, will read from and discuss her new biography of painter Alice Neel. Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty was named one of the ten best books of 2010 by the Village Voice, included in O Magazine's 15 books to watch for in 2011, and picked as an Editors' Choice in the New York Times Sunday Book Review in January 2011. This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on February 2, 2011. Video courtesy Elizabeth
Smith Jackson speaks at College Coffee on 9/13/11
in a show of solidarity for the values espoused by Elon University, people gathered for a special College Coffee to demonstrate their commitment to tolerance and diversity following two recent incidents of demeaning behavior directed at African-American students. The Academic Village program included remarks by Elon President Leo M. Lambert and Smith Jackson, vice president of Student Life and dean of students. An estimated 2,500 students, faculty and staff crowded the Phi Beta Kappa Plaza and t
Number Sequencing in the Real World
A video created for educational purposes that focuses on numeracy. The man in this video must know how to tell time, read a map, count how many flights of stairs to walk up, and read decimals. (01:54)
U.S. economy stalled in August, growth anemic: Trucking index
Sept. 13 - A drop in August U.S. trucking activity signals very weak economic activity ahead, and possibly zero GDP growth in the third quarter, says Ceridian-UCLA Economist Ed Leamer.
Haunted Memories and Complex Loyalties
This Maguire Public Scholar Lecture by William Abraham, SMU's Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, focused on terrorism's ties to religion and other causes. It was given September 8, 2011, as part of a series of SMU events commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorists attacks.
Lesson 310 — Brazil and its geography Ch 1 - 36 Orbis Sensualium Pictus Comenii ISS Update - Sept. 15, 2011 Earth Viz: El Niño to La Niña Folding an Origami Crane The Revolutionary Origins of the Civil War Integers Rap Music Video hereti.webnode.com Business in the cloud A Student's Explanation of Numerator and Denominator An Interview With a Photographer Engaging Diaspora: Facilitating initiatives to create change in their places of attachment Word Prediction
In this lesson you will learn about Brazil and its geography and will practice sentence building. This is a continuation and an English version of lesson 269
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Comenius’ Orbis Sensualium Pictus.
The Orbis Sensualium Pictus contains a vocabulary of 3 000 root words.
I will only be reading the text in Latin, and I will follow the 1810 Hoole edition, so you can inspect the pictures, and follow along with the vernacular translation.
The Hoole edition has two extra chapters, one on the flood, and another on Botany, so the chapter numbers don't match the other editions, however, the ordering of the contents in the chapters is otherwise identical.
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The International Space Station video update for Sept. 15, 2011.
Watch the 2010 El Niño switch quickly to a strong La Niña, and the resulting wild weather, in this data visualization by AMNH Science Bulletins. For background information, educational resources, and more, visit El Niño to La Niña on the Science Bulletins Web site: http://www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins/
Science Bulletins is a production of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology (NCSLET), part of the Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural Histor
The paper crane is a symbol of peace and custom says a person will live a long life if they fold a thousand paper cranes. In this video, a teacher demonstrates folding a paper crane step-by-step which the directions for each step shown in print. ( 1:31)
Abraham Lincoln makes good on the founders' promises of freedom and equality. Author Gordon Wood lays out the Revolutionary origins of the Civil War.
This is a fun music video stating the rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers. The video is a student-made project. (04:24)
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In this video, a student defines and explains the terms numerator and denominator while showing an example on a white board. He stresses that the denominator refers to equal parts. ( The student's work is messy but legible. Students may enjoy seeing someone their age explaining the concepts.) ( 2:03)
This selection contains an interview with a photographer who owns her own business. She describes her typical day, the training she has received, and benefits of this career. Her website is shown highlighting examples of her work which is primarily photojournalisitic. ( 2:59)
From September 2010 -- September 2011 Simon Fraser University and community partners convened a series of public dialogue and learning workshops diaspora and development.
Together we explored the ways Canadian based diaspora are involved in development projects in the global south.
This video captures some of the people and projects involved. This project was made possible with financial support from CIDA's Public Engagement Fund.
For more information, visit: http://www.sfu.ca/diasporas/
