This Day in History May 2: Loch Ness Monster Sighted
Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland's Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen "an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface." The story of the "monster" (a moniker chosen by the Courier editor) became a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and
Arthur Herman: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
Arthur Herman on his book "To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World".
Watch Now. Develop Wow. Visual Studio Launch and Channel 9 Live! Join us live from the Visual Studio launch event in Seattle beginning on September 12 at 9:30AM PDT. Keynotes will cover modern app development for the web, cloud, Windows 8 and more. A panel discussion moderated by Forrester's Jeffrey Hammond will discuss the changing IT landscape and how enterprises are responding followed by Channel 9 Live on the air with interviews featuring Soma, Jason Zander, Brian Harry, and other special guests. Watch it live here, and be sure to tweet your questions
TWC9: Kinect Roadmap, Photo->Cloud Tutorials, Windows 8 @ SourceForge, ILRewriting and more | This W This week on Channel 9, Clint and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including;
Edge Show 35 DirectAccess Deployment | Edge David Tesar recently met with Bala Natarajan, Program Manager for DirectAccess, to discuss the enhancements in Windows Server 2012. DirectAccess helps with the consumerization shift by providing Windows clients with seamless, more secure access to corporate data from virtually any Internet connection. In this interview, we cover:
Animation of Mars Rover Landing
This video shows the many steps in the launching and landing of the first Mars Rover. I don't think students fully realize the many phases needed for this successful endeavor and this video could be a great starting point on a discussion of the importance of math, science, and future space explorations. (6:30)
Making a scaled bar graph (Common Core 3.MD.3)
This video (running time 4:40) explains how to make a scaled bar graph by skip counting. Beginning by defining the word scaled as "using a shrinking machine," it explains the purpose of drawing things to scale. Data is given in table format, showing why a scaled bar graph is needed (the numbers are too big to count by ones). The instructor shows how to determine which number she will skip count by in drawing the bars. (NOTE: From 3:01 to 4:34, the video shows a black screen while
This Day in History January 26: Australia Day
On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia. After overcoming a period of hardship, the fledgling colony began to celebrate the anniversary of this date with great fanfare. (1:00)
What Makes You Beautiful PE Dance
