Learn Basic Computer Skills : Renaming Files in Microsoft Windows
Renaming files in Windows XP is a basic skill you'll need to know. This video is just a little over a minute long and features a transcript of the narration at the bottom of the screen.
Learn Basic Computer Skills : Finding Recent Documents in Microsoft Windows
Finding recent documents is easy in Microsoft Windows XP, get a tutorial of this operating system in this video. (01:42)
Expert: Ross Safronoff
Learn Basic Computer Skills : Finding a Lost File in Microsoft Windows
Finding a lost file in Windows XP is a basic skill you'll need to know to master this operating system. Find out how to recover a filel in this video. (02:23)
Expert: Ross Safronoff
Lecture with Kristen Hileman: Arriving at an Art Historical Anne Truitt
Baltimore Museum of Art's Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman gives an overview of the career of Anne Truitt and discusses the artist's unique approach to inflecting her minimal forms with allusive references, personal memories, and emotional power.
27. The Historical Regatta (Culture Shot)
Learn Italian with LearnItalianPod! This week's episode is about... "one of the most traditional Italian events ever, in one of the most beautiful Italian cities ever!" - The event is the "Venice Historical Regatta", which takes place every year on the first Sunday of September in the beautiful city of Venice. Our longtime friend and [...]
Lesson 7 - Working Within Your Language Skills
Knowing a few key phrases can help increase your understanding of others and vice versa.
My Morning Run: Students Using Physical Skills to Climb Building
A short video that shows two young men with exceptional balance and leaping ability climbing buildings. The beauty of this video is that it shows that the human body is capable of deeds far beyond what most people imagine. Be warned, that watching this video can give students ideas so know your audience.  Run time 2:01
Social Skills from "What Every Kid Should Know About Manners And Etiquette"
This video teaches children how to treat others with respect and promotes the notion that the world is a much nicer place when we follow the simple rules of manners and etiquette. This is a short video, but of good quality. This video is appropriate for children of elementary age. (1:13)
Teaching Reading Literacy Skills, Grade 3
Teacher presenting a language arts lesson from the Language
strand of SRA Reading Mastery Signature Edition. The program uses
language arts activities including passage writing and editing to
improve student literacy and reading comprehension skills.
Improving Reading Skills
Reading skills can be improved by doing something as simple as
filling the house with magazines, books, newspapers and other reading materials. An english Specialist shows how to teach children with tips such as how to use a public library to improve their reading.
Basic Math Skills : Rounding Decimals
This video shows rounding decimals, and how to round up to the next digit in the sequence if the digit is equal to or greater than five. Round decimals to specific decimal places using tips from a math tutor in this video.
Native American Historical Photographs
Black-and-white and sepia-toned historical photographs of Native Americans accompanied by music.
Handwriting Lesson: Improving Posture & Paper Skills
In this video, a teacher is shown working with an individual student on how he can improve his posture and use his non writing hand to help hold the paper. The teacher gives the non writing hand a "pep talk" and tells how the hand can help out even though it is not doing the writing.
Historical Basis of the Trojan War
BBC documentary that reviews the historical reasons for the Trojan War. It uses the modern discovery of a sunken ship's treasure to explain the possible reason that the Mycenaeans went to war with Troy. 3:51 min. Color video with sound.
Relationships Between Literature and Historical Period Using Concept Maps
This sample lesson uses an Inspiration concept map to provide 9-12 grade students a workspace to explain the relationships between literature and historical periods, cultures and society. An example of a concept map is presented in this lesson. While there are attempts to zoom in on individual slides, it is very difficult to read the concept map. The video does describe a good way to help students connect concepts visually through concept maps.
North America Historical Geography
This presentation outlines briefly the historical geography of North America.
Rick Lavoie: Social Skills & LD
Rick Lavoie talks about the importance of teaching a child with LD the necessary social skills to build solid friendships. (5:55)
How to Teach Reading Comprehension Skills
Reading comprehension is accomplished by asking oneself questions in the midst of reading something. Improve a student's understanding and recall of reading material. (1:11)
How to Teach Reading Sub-Skills
The goal in teaching reading sub-skills is to increase a student's
comprehension and vocabulary, and this can be done by using a variety of texts, such as textbooks, novels, poems, newspaper articles, diaries and advertisements. Teach children how to judge what text might be from the article's title with help from an English specialist in this clip.
Spelling Skills Using a Sound Stretching Technique
Teaching students to use the sound stretching strategy to improve spelling skills using the Early Interventions in Reading program from SRA/McGraw-Hill. Early Interventions in Reading combines direct and explicit teaching strategies with a scaffolded instructional approach that focuses on improving reading skills. (1:35)
