Organise personal work priorities and development
This unit covers the knowledge and skills required to organise your own work schedules, monitor and obtain feedback on your work performance, and maintain required levels of competence. Topics include goal-setting, organisation, self-evaluation and professional development.
Planning programs and activities for children
Discover ways of planning fun experiences for children and helping them to learn new skills. Get to know the children in your care, design experiences that are appropriate and interesting to them, and gain the knowledge and ability to provide those experiences.
Work effectively in an education team
The learning object deals with the skills and knowledge for education support workers to comply with school administrative requirements. Topics covered include team goals, abiding by regulations, meeting and planning, setting goals, teamwork and co-operation.
Now we're cooking with gas! - Disconnect / Reconnect
This resource supports the training of licensed gasfitters, addressing the
skills shortages in these trade areas. The resource provides an action learning
environment where employees will undertake training suitable to all
parties
Furniture making and design - Task: CNC
Programming
This task contains information and activities that will assist
the learner to develop the skills and knowledge they will need to: understand the
basics of CNC Programming; work with different types of CNC programs; write CNC
programs; identify CNC tooling.
Provide housekeeping Services to Guests
This resource covers the skills and knowledge that will assist the learner to provide housekeeping services to guests in an accommodation establishment. Topics covered include: maintain establishment standards of cleanliness and services implement policies regarding security of both guests, their belongings and staff, knowledge of housekeeping procedures and personal services available to guests, assist with guests' requests for services.
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
Source and Engage Contractors
This task is concerned with the skills needed to source and engage
contractors.
Manage On-site Staff and Volunteers
This task is concerned with the skills needed to manage on-site
staff and volunteers.
Develop Risk Management Strategies
This task is concerned with the skills needed to develop risk
management strategies.
Develop a Budget for your Event
This task is concerned with the skills needed to develop a budget
for your event.
Identify Sponsorship Opportunities
This task is concerned with the skills needed to identify
sponsorship opportunities.
Source and Provide Destination Information and Advice
This resource covers the skills and knowledge required to complete Unit of Competence: Source and provide destination information and advice. It contains activities and resources to facilitate self-paced learning. Topics covered include competence in how to: Identify and access information sources for current destinations and general tourism products.
Develop and update destination knowledge and general product information through formal and informal research channels. Record and store informati
12.409 Hands-On Astronomy: Observing Stars and Planets (MIT)
This class introduces the student to the use of small telescopes, either for formal research or as a hobby.
This course covers background for and techniques of visual observation, electronic imaging, and spectroscopy of the Moon, planets, satellites, stars, and brighter deep-space objects. Weekly outdoor observing sessions using 8-inch diameter telescopes when weather permits. Indoor sessions introduce needed skills. Introduction to contemporary observational astronomy including astronomical com
21A.211 Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World (MIT)
Spiritual, magical, and "occult" aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic, ritual curing, trance, spirit possession, sorcery, and accusations of witchcraft. Material drawn from traditional nonwestern societies, medieval and early modern Europe, and colonial and contemporary North America.
Adelaida Sourdis: Independence in the Colombian Caribbean at ANU
Adelaida Sourdis gives this lecture at The Australian National University entitled 'Independence in the Colombian Caribbean: A History of Magic Realism' at The Australian National University.
This talk discusses and describes what happened in the Colombian Caribbean within and in relation to its geographical, political and social context, and the destruction of Cartagena, considered the centre or power in the region. Two historical moments are studied, the independence process and the price pai
Of Mice and Men - In Context (Part 1 of 2)
The first half of the BBC's on the social/historical context of the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
Of Mice and Men - In Context (Part 2 of 2)
The second half of the BBC's on the social/historical context of the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Kennedy-Nixon First Presidential Debate, 1960
On September 26, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon stood before an audience of 70 million Americans—two-thirds of the nation's adult population—in the first nationally televised Presidential debate. This first of four debates held before the end of October gave a vast national audience the opportunity to see and compare the two candidates, and ushered in a new age of Presidential politics.
Film footage © John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
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Filmmakers@Google: Vicki Abeles
Director Vicki Abeles turns the personal political, igniting a national conversation in her new documentary about the pressures faced by American schoolchildren and their teachers in our achievement obsessed public and private education system and culture. Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried students aren't developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what's best fo
