Test your French skills - La Nourriture (Food), Part 2
Test your French skills. Look at the Part 1 of this series, then come watch this video and see if you can remember the French vocabulary. There is no sound...just the images and a countdown to test your recall.
Study Skills
See the importance of planning what you need to study. Always keep in mind the end result you are working toward. Working together with friends to teach and learn. The video is directed to the student at the mid or high school level, giving tips to help them study. Run time 04:47.
Tom Burns "Essential Study Skills"
See the obstacles that keep us from learning, and how to overcome them. Use strategies to develop good study habits - including developing confidence. Run time 04:06.
Map Skills: The Use of Color How are colors used on maps? They use colors to show different countries, provinces, or states. Colors are used to show different elevations on relief or physical maps, different vegetation, climate, or distribution of population. Video gives examples of each type of map and explains how to use them. Good video for beginning map readers.
Map Skills: Using Maps Together- Phoenix Learning Group
Professionally Made Video Clip- This program emphasizes the value of combining information from elevation, transportation, and physical feature maps and natural resource maps.
Geography Tutor - Map Skills
Professionally Created Video- Covers map directions, distances, scale, plotting latitude and longitude, common map symbols and features and more. The color variations are discussed.
Map Skills
Narrated picture book that describes map symbols and using a map. Â Covers cardinal directions. Â The geography is of Utah. Â The narration is a bit dry. Â (2:38)
Basic Algebra Skills, Part 1
This video illustrates the basic rules of Algebra using a whiteboard.
Algebra Skills, Part 2
This video continues with the basic rules of Algebra using a whiteboard.
How to Improve Your Math Skills
Excellent video from Jimmy Chang, who has a master's degree in math and has been a math teacher at St. Pete College for nine years. Â Mr. Chang discusses how a learner can improve their math skills.
Advanced Writing Skills
This extensive module develops effective writing skills at an advanced level for a variety of social, professional and educational purposes.It covers six different genres, or types, of writing:* Business Letters - A Letter of Complaint* Descriptive Writing* Essay Writing* Narrative Writing* Report Writing* Summary Writing
Video #17 - Would Your Spanish Skills Help You Out of This Situation?!
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You are walking through the streets of Barcelona, enjoying your time off from school and work, when suddenly, you hear crying and yelling just ahead. As you get closer, you see a Spanish storeowner and a teenage boy screaming loudly at each other! The storeowner is very angry and throws his [...]
3.9 Delacroix’s early career – exercise
In this unit you will be introduced to a variety of Delacroix’s work and see how his paintings relate to the cultural transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism. You will study Delacroix’s early career, his classical background, the development of Romantic ideas and their incorporation into his work. You will have the opportunity to study some of his most important paintings and compare them to works favouring a Neoclassical approach. You will also be able to see how his themes, subjects
Phonetics Lesson #2 - The Sounds from A to M
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Just how badly do you want to sound good while speaking Spanish? If it is bad enough, here is the second edition of the Phonetics series! Join Joe and Bea as they take apart the sounds of the Spanish level, piece by piece, and explain how the language is correctly pronounced. [...]
Why, who and where? Chinese OFDI on the world stage
The phenomenon of Chinese companies going global has become a defining feature of China’s current stage of integration with the global economy. While China remains a minor player in terms of global Outbound Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) flows, the financial crisis has afforded some of its largest state-owned enterprises, or SOEs, unprecedented opportunities for landmark acquisitions. In the ten months after Lehman Brothers became the defining casualty of the financial crisis, Chinese bidder
Mergers and acquisitions: Reducing the private firm discount
Owners of private companies normally sell their shares at a 20-30 per cent discount during mergers and acquisitions. The ‘private firm discount’ is one reason the stock market reacts more favorably when companies announce a private acquisition than whenthe target is a publicly-listed firm.
From the buyerÂ’s point of view, says INSEAD Associate Professor of Strategy Laurence Capron, the discount reflects a presumed higher risk associated with the value of private assets due t
The changing face of the CIO
As CEOs increasingly turn to technology to help them cope with a rapidly changing business environment, chief information officers (CIOs) are no longer simply ‘the IT guys’. Increasingly, they are expected to play a more strategic role. According to the 2008 ASEAN CIO Leadership Study – based on a survey of some 160 CIOs in six Southeast Asian countries - CIOs are finding that this change in responsibilities also means that a new set of skills is required to carry out the job.
Re-tooling the microfinance model in Asia
More than three billion people live in poverty around the world, but millions are managing to raise their living standards to some degree, thanks to microfinance. Even so, there’s plenty of scope for scaling up the current model of microlending to help others.
For-profit or not for-profit? Social enterprises seek a better way
Social enterprises must currently choose whether to be charitable non-profit organisations or money-making, for-profit companies. The choice is often hard to make since the legal status of each has positive points as well as drawbacks. Because of this, a leading social entrepreneur thinks it is time to create a hybrid legal status for social enterprises.
Fighting Monsanto at the Supreme Court
Student Group Speaker Series Fighting Monsanto at the Supreme Court September 15, 2010 Northwest Environmental Defence Center In this podcast, Professor George Kimbrell, staff attorney for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Lewis and Clark alumnus, will discuss the recent Supreme Court decision Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms. After plaintiffs secured injunctive relief prohibiting [...]
