Dancing in Benghazi
Benghazi residents celebrate in the night-time rain as they continue to call on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's to step down. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Nato fuel tankers ablaze in Pakistan
Gunmen attack Afghanistan-bound NATO fuel tankers in Pakistan, killing four people.
HIV as you've never seen it before
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/02/hiv-as-youve-never-seen-it-before.html
Fashion@Google: Sheena Matheiken - Uniform Project
Uniform Project and the Little Black Dress: How a daily routine can kickstart a social movement
http://www.theuniformproject.com/
The Uniform Projectâ„¢ started in 2009 when a young woman realized she was drowning in the doldrums of an advertising career. To counter the uninspired demands of the corporate world, she came up with an unusual creative challenge; to wear the same dress for an entire year -- but, and this is where the real challenge came in, she'd have to make it look unique every
U.S. airlifts evacuees from Tunisia
U.S. military assists in evacuee relief in Tunisia as Libya looks poised for civil war.
Breaking Socio-Cultural Barriers: Musical Traditions, Street Performance, and Coherent Urban Design
Urban design and community development are often divorced from one another as disciplines despite the profound influence the form of urban space has on the cohesiveness of a community. Using street musicians and the phenomenon of spontaneous breaking of social barriers as a context, this study argues for a holistic approach to design with community development in mind by demonstrating how social relationships between strangers spring up and how they are affected by the nature of urban form. The
Literary Festival 2011 - Crossing Borders: Migration in Women's Writing in Poland
Three female Polish authors discuss migration in women's writing in Poland. Urszula Chowaniec is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow Academy in Poland. Izabela Filipiak is an author of several books of fiction and nonfiction who debuted after the fall of the iron curtain in Poland. Grazyna Plebanek – writer, author of best-selling novels Illegal Liaisons (WAB 2010) and Girls from Portofino (WAB 2005) as well as Box of Stilettos (2002, WA
Literary Festival 2011 - Reality Hunger
Is the novel dead? Is art theft? Can you copyright reality? David Sheilds’s Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. The questions Shields addresses- the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real- play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness'. This discussion of Shields' man
Audiology Videos
Audiology Videos - Steven Bell and Anna Morris and Adam Warren
Keywords:audiology
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology is a social science that explores how people understand—and act in—the world. But what, exactly, is it that Cultural Anthropologists do? How do they approach their research? In this short film, three members of MIT's Anthropology Department, Stefan Helmreich, Erica James, and Heather Paxson, talk about their current work and the process of doing fieldwork. (8:14)
Structuring and merging Distributed Content
A flexible approach for structuring and merging distributed learning object is presented. At the basis of this approach there is a formal representation of a learning object, called attribute structure.
Attribute structures are labeled directed graphs representing structured information on the learning objects. When two or more learning objects are merged, the corresponding attribute structures are unified, and the unified structure is attached to the resulting learning object.
Banking Crisis Hits America
Following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, thousands of banks collapsed
when depositors demanded their money back, money the speculating banks no longer have is the subject of this 2:50 video. The lacks of confidence by depositors created a "run on the bank" and a financial crisis developed. This resulted in legislation to make sure this did not happen again due to an insurance program that the president, Franklin Roosevelt, passed into law. Let this video run and another one starts that hel
TESOL & Applied Linguistics research video webcasts
TESOL & Applied Linguistics research video webcasts
ISKME's Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematice (STEAM) Design Challenge
This wiki page documents the STEAM Design Challenge Activity ISKME facilitated during the SLANT Summer Institute at San Francisco Unified School District July 19-23, 2010.
Participants designed prototypes for an arts integration project for students and posted their ideas on the wiki.
Conducting effective online discussions
Download the supporting PDF file for this episode http://bit.ly/fhEFBn from the Learning to Teach Online project website.
Discussions are an important component of many forms of online student interaction. For students to benefit from an online discussion, it is important for teachers to generate relevant topics, effectively moderate student activity and participate regularly. This episode will highlight several strategies to help you manage online discussions more effectively, and make them mo
A special report on food
Amid a global food crisis, John Parker examines what the world can do to ensure that it produces enough food for future generations
FORMATIC – Paris 2011 – question atelier 3 - TIC et pratiques innovantes
FORMATIC – Paris 2011 – question atelier 3 - TIC et pratiques innovantes au service de la formation des professionnels.
Conférence enregistrée lors du congrès international FORMATIC PARIS 2011. Atelier TIC et pratiques innovantes au service de la formation des professionnels de la santé. Président de séance Antoine TESNIERE (Université Paris Descartes projet ILumens), modérateur Lisette CAZELLET (Consultant formateur TIC Santé).
Réalisation, production : Canalu
CAV 2011 – Kinésithérapie et cancer du sein.
Après une description minutieuse des conséquences des traitements des cancers du sein (chirurgie, radiothérapie, chimiothérapie) et leur répercussion cutanée, circulatoire, articulaire, douloureuse et psychosociale, les différentes pratiques de kinésithérapie sont envisagées. Une place particulière et réservée au lymphœdème, qui bien que relativement peu fréquent oblige à un suivi et un traitement de longue durée. Une description détaillée de la pathogénie permet de mie
CAV 2011 - Chirurgie du cancer du sein
Les complications de la chirurgie des cancers du sein peuvent être cutanée, circulatoire, articulaire, douloureuse et psychosociale. Une place particulière et réservée au lymphœdème, qui bien que relativement peu fréquent oblige à un suivi et un traitement de longue durée. Une description détaillée de la pathogénie permet de mieux comprendre les difficultés occasionnées par ce type de complication.
Conférence enregistrée dans le cadre des présentations organisées pa
CAV 2011 - Cancer du sein, chirurgie, kinésithérapie - questions
Description minutieuse des conséquences des traitements des cancers du sein (chirurgie, radiothérapie, chimiothérapie) et leur répercussion cutanée, circulatoire, articulaire, douloureuse et psychosociale, les différentes pratiques de kinésithérapie sont envisagées. Une place particulière et réservée au lymphœdème, qui bien que relativement peu fréquent oblige à un suivi et un traitement de longue durée. Une description détaillée de la pathogénie permet de mieux comprend
