Bee-ing in a Swarm
WOW! What you see in this video from Wild TV will amaze you! Wali, an actor, is working with an entomologist (insect expert) who is also a trained bee handler. With the entomologist's help, Wali picks up a bee cage that contains the queen bee of the colony. The worker bees swarm onto Wali’s hand while he is holding the queen bee’s cage. This shows one way that bee colonies work together in an organized way to survive. (3:35)
Cats
This video segment from Nature describes cats as independent, mysterious and aloof. While they have been domesticated for more than four thousand years, they are still powerful predators and survivalists. Cats have a reputation for being uncontrollable and leading solitary lifestyles, yet they compete with dogs as the most popular pet in America. Cats live in thirty percent of American households; however, they still demonstrate characteristics of creatures of the wild. Their hunting h
Book Reading and Learning from Context
Observe how a teacher helps students use context clues to develop meanings for words. (4:30)
Amazing Trampolini Brothers: Brave
In this video segment from Between the Lions, the circus MC introduces the incredible, daring, and animated Trampolini Brothers before they perform the Brave Human Canonball Hoopla. Arturo gets shot out of a canon through a small hoop and onto a small trampoline, proving that he is brave. Lorenzo gets shot out of a canon and flies between two smashing blocks, proving that he is braver than Arturo. This video segment provides a resource for Vocabulary, Language and Vocabulary Developmen
Amazing Trampolini Brothers: good
In this video segment from Between the Lions, the circus MC introduces the incredible, daring, and animated Trampolini Brothers performing the Good, Better, Best High-Wire Extravaganzaa. Arturo rides a unicycle across the high wire while he juggles three balls, which is good. Lorenzo rides a unicycle across the high wire while he holds two seals that are tossing a ball between them, which is better than Arturo. Felix rides a unicycle upside down with a clown juggling balls while standing on
Amazing Trampolini Brothers: Noisy
In this video segment from Between the Lions, the circus MC introduces the incredible, daring, and animated Trampolini Brothers performing the Noisy Balancing Ballyhoo. One brother holds a squawking chicken and a monkey that crashes cymbals, which is noisy. The next brother holds a trumpeting elephant with a roaring lion, squawking chicken, and cymbal-crashing monkey on top. That's even noisier. The last brother holds a trumpeting elephant with a roaring lion, squawking chicken, cymbal-cras
Amazing Trampolini Brothers: Tasty
In this video segment from Between the Lions, the circus MC introduces the incredible, daring, and animated Trampolini Brothers performing the Tasty Ice Cream High Dive.The first brother dives into a vanila sundae with chocolate sauce, which is tasty. The second brother dives into a sundae with two types of ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and sprinkles, which is tastier. The third brother dives into a sundae comprised of three types of ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, s
A Fellow Named Sig
In this video segment from Between the Lions, the limerick, "A Fellow Named Sig," is sung and danced to a lively beat. This animated poem is one example of the kind of wordplay that helps promote phonological awareness—the ability to hear and pay attention to the sounds and rhythms of speech—an important factor in learning to read and write. (0:28)
Caribbean Flamingo--An Overview
This short video gives excellent real life footage of Caribbean Flamingos in their natural environment. Students will enjoy the sights and sounds of the hundreds of flamingos moving around and wading through the water for food. With its brilliant pinkish-red plumage, long slender legs, and remarkably thin, flexible neck, the Caribbean flamingo is one of the most world’s most distinctive birds. Together with the greater flamingo, it shares the title for the longest limbs relative to bo
Caribbean Flamingos Feeding and Preening in Social Group
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of Caribbean Flamingos wading through water feeding and preening their feathers. With its brilliant pinkish-red plumage, long slender legs, and remarkably thin, flexible neck, the Caribbean flamingo is one of the most world’s most distinctive birds. Together with the greater flamingo, it shares the title for the longest limbs relative to body size of any bird. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and t
Formation Médicale 2011 – La simulation en pédiatrie.
Titre : Formation Médicale 2011 – La simulation en pédiatrie.
Intervenants : Nathalie RICHARD (Lyon).
Résumé : Atelier : Partage d’expériences : Expériences et projets numériques en formation médicale.
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enregistrée lors des Etats Généraux de la Formation Médicale (EGFM) : Enjeux, Parcours, Eval
Formation médicale 2011 – D2 et D3 : un enseignement « appuyé » sur les TICE, expérience de 2
Titre : Formation médicale 2011 – D2 et D3 : un enseignement « appuyé » sur les TICE, expérience de 2 ans
Auteur (s) : Jacques ARIES (Poitiers), Dagmara Brodniewicz (Poitiers), Caroline Tartary (Poitiers)
Résumé : En 2009, du fait de grandes difficultés logistiques liées au nombre d’étudiants, d’une désaffection de l’enseignement présentiel et enfin d’un contrôle des connaissances qui avait éliminé la moitié de la promotion avant le D3, nous avons opté
The Rise of Imperialism in Virginia [Conceived in Liberty (1975)] The survival of the Virginia colony hung for years by a hairbreadth. One major reason for the survival of this distressed colony was the changes that the Virginia Company Author(s):
Defending the Blackmailer [Walter Block will be teaching a 6-week online course on his classic work, Defending the Undefendable, starting March 26, 2012. Enroll today.] TED415 Session 8 Spring 2012 TechFest 2012: 3D Facial Animation TechFest is one of my favorite conferences each year because we get a little insight into what the powerful mids at Microsoft Research are working on. In this demo, you'll see what the future of 3D facial animation holds and how we can get from our current state to a near perfect simulation all created digitally. Watch out James Cameron! Announcing BoxingBots: Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots At the SXSW Interactive Opening Party hosted by Frog Design and Microsoft, the Coding4Fun team has unveiled their latest invention, BoxingBots! With BoxingBots you are the controller except this time, forget the screen. You're controlling a 6-foot tall metal robot that's trying to punch out your opponent's 6-foot tall machine. It's Real Steel in real time. BoxingBots combines Kinect's motion sensing technology with pneumatic robots in a 6-foot square ring. Two players face off to ECON 420-01, Econometrics, Fall 2004 ECON 333-01, Health Economics, Fall 2004
TED415 Session 8 Spring 2012
Multicultural Education with Jeffrey Miller
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This is a course in Health Economics that applies the tools of Microeconomic Theory to examine the market behavior of consumers and firms in the health care sector. The focus is on analyzing the economic fundamentals behind the actions and reactions of the players in the health care market. The emphasis will be on acquiring a tool kit that will enable a structured and analytical examination of the issues rather than a review of the issues per se. On the demand side the course will analyze the ec
