Professional Journey - GradProSkills
http://graduatestudies.concordia.ca/gradproskills/
GradProSkills is a graduate and professional skills training program at Concordia University launched in August 2011. The program encourages graduate students to develop their networking skills at various events held throughout the year. In March 2012 we invited Concordia Alumni to participate in a speed networking event and to also share their professional journey -- from graduate to professional career. This video is a montage of professional
Happy Birthday Smokey Bear from Joe Acaba
Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba wishes Smokey Bear a Happy Birthday. For 68 years Smokey Bear has been promoting fire safety and prevention through the message, "Only You Can Prevent Wildfires." A Smokey doll rode with Acaba into space when he launched aboard a Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft.
Wrong Statements in Proofs, Example 1 - Khan Academy
Example of working through this module. (02:49)
Fill-in-the-Blank Triangle Proofs, Example 2
Sal Khan works through this example in a little more than six minutes.
Organization: A Well Structured Essay
This is a quick talk on how to successfully organize an essay. It includes a good graphic to help students understand how an essay should be organized. (01:19)
Your Teacher Isn't a Mind Reader
This is a quick talk about why it is important to explain points made in an essay and rules to help a writer better explain those points. (01:20)
Market Pulse: perfect ten for European stocks
Aug. 10 - Europe's Eurofirst 300 blue-chip index racks up its tenth straight weekly gain - the longest winning streak since 2005.
Kaleidoscope Middle School with WITS and Aurora on Vimeo
In Spring 2012 Kaleidoscope Middle School students, with
the help of artists from Houston's Writers in the Schools Program and Aurora Picture Show, created stop-motion animation shorts based on poems they had been writing all year. The Kaleidoscope students come from all over the world. Their films are about the places they left behind, the places they now call home, and the places they imagine. This is a good example of writing routinely over an extended time frame (W.
News #162 - How far will your Japanese go with this new feature?
We can tell you this much: You’ll be speaking a lot more Japanese than yesterday! Don’t believe us? Go see your progress for yourself with the newest JapanesePod101.com feature. Just log in and it’s the first thing to greet you! The JapanesePod101.com Dashboard tracks your learning progress, tells you which lesson to study next and [...]
Emmeline Taylor - Watching the watchers: The steady creep of CCTV
The steady creep of closed circuit television into our lives is raising big questions about our privacy. In this video, Dr Emmeline Taylor of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences discusses her work looking at the impact of CCTV on our lives. This video accompanies a feature in the Spring 2012 edition of ANU Reporter, the quarterly magazine of The Australian National University.
To read the article go to: http://news.anu.edu.au/?p=16451
To view an online version of the magazine: http://i
Best Nest
Office 911: One Note | Office 911 Tablets, phones, Office or no Office, OneNote Web App can be just the thing for pulling together a big student team project. Check out www. office.com/onenote for more info and links to download the iPhone app.
Power Management
Upal Sengupta
This module gives a brief overview of the Texas Instruments power management portfolio, how to read a data sheet on power-management devices, and how to pick the right one for some sample […]
Pride Parade 2012 and the Empty Closet
Rocky and friends participate for the second year running in Rochester's Gay Pride Parade. This year, marchers also handed out facsimilies of the first issue of The Empty Closet and the University's new Diversity brochure. The Empty Closet, one of the country's longest-running LGBT publications, was started by members of a UR student group, the Rochester Gay Liberation Front, and first distributed in 1971. Access the online archive at http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=4769
Overview of the ARM Embedded Processors from Texas Instruments
Gene Frantz,
Miguel Morales
This module is a brief overview of ARM architectures from Texas Instruments, including a guide on how to select the ARM architecture that is right for your application and a deep dive into the […]
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Structural and Lithological Controls upon Fluid Migration within the Chalk and Upper Greensand Aquif
The influence of lithological heterogeneities, structural discontinuities and discontinuity surface mineralisation upon groundwater migration within the Chalk and the Upper Greensand of southern England has been investigated.
Lithological heterogeneities in the Chalk succession include marl seams, hardgrounds, tabular flints and nodular flints. Each of these heterogeneities has a lower intrinsic porosity and permeability than in the calcite rich chalk. The influence that each of these hetero
Italy Surrenders to the Allies
In this video clip, a September 8, 1943, war report from Allied Force Headquarters outlines Italy's unconditional surrender, known as a "volte-face," announced earlier that day by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. (3:00)
Gravity-defying slope illusion
Read the full article here:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/05/best-illusions-of-2012-gravity-defying-slope.html
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