Improving Literacy Through Technology
Improving your child’s literacy skills is a very important goal for a parent and luckily there are many tools out there that can help. Paige and Gretchen sit down with Gail Lovely, literacy and technology specialist, to discuss some programs available.
Israeli train blazes near Tel Aviv
Passengers escape without serious injuries after an Israeli train catches fire.
Rethinking Charity Charity is big business. Americans gave more than $307.75 billion to their favorite causes in 2009. That's impressive, considering the prevailing economic conditions of that year. Giving has gone even more big time this month, with Mark Zuckerberg's signing on to the Giving Pledge
The New Deal and Prohibition [This article originally appeared in the American Mercury in March 1936. An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Donna Orlando, is available for download.] I believe that when the historian looks back on the last 20 years of American life, the thing that will puzzle him most is the
Leerlingenraad In deze bijdrage vind je een lesplan om de leerlingenraad van de school voor te bereiden. In het document vind je een aantal afspraken die voor structuur zorgen tijdens de praatronde.
How to Crochet a Hooded Baby Blanket #1
This video can be used by teachers who are instructing students who need an activity for enrichment/enhancement, or for students with special needs who need to find a way to channel energy into positive reinforcement. It gives detailed instructions and video footage on how to create a hooded baby blanket. (04:47) Students who are not famaliar with the craft of crochet will need more information on basic stitches.
Discovery Channel-Planet Earth-Pole to Pole-African Animals Return to the Wet Season at Kalahari
This video beautifully illustrates how African animals including hippos, giraffes, baboons, and zebras return to Kalahari as the wet season begins. (Running Time is 3:01.) (There may a short commercial before the video commences.)
Performance 11: On Line/Trisha Brown Dance Company, Jan 12-16, 2011
For more information, please visit http://MoMA.org/online
In conjunction with the exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
Roof Piece photo by Babette Mangolte
Video produced by Ben Coccio and David Shuff
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Mir During the Holocaust
Holocaust survivors from Mir, Belarus talk about the daily life of the Jews in Mir before the Holocaust. The video is part of the exhibition "The Story of the Jewish Community in Mir" on the Yad Vashem website.
This exhibition was prepared with the support of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Click here to enter the exhibition: http://bit.ly/hKeW1u
La venganza de los cuentos Una leyenda coreana Érase una vez un niño al que gustaba muchÃsimo que le contaran cuentos. Sin embargo, a pesar de lo mucho que disfrutaba escuchando las historias, él no se las contaba nunca a nadie. Cada cuento nuevo que…
How to Write an Introduction for an Essay
How to Write an Introduction for an Essay. Part of the series: How to Write an Essay. Learn how to write an introduction for an essay in this video on writing essays. (01:12) This is just a BRIEF video--this is not a definitive source by any means.
The Dewey Decimal Rap
This video is a rap about the Decimal Classification system. Students will like it. Librarians may wat to try it first (Running Time 4:15).
Eight Parts of Speech Powerpoint
Well done with lots of content and examples. You can even click on videos that add depth to lesson and accompanying text.
ISS Update - Dec. 30, 2010
The International Space Station video update for Dec. 30, 2010.
5 new lines for Beijing's subway
Five new subway lines open in Beijing, with more planned as the capital struggles to balance transportation gridlock and residents' desire for cars.
After Climategate and Cancun; What Next for Climate Science?
The last year has been a difficult time for climate science, with leaked emails undermining public confidence and perhaps contributing to the failure of Copenhagen to reach an agreement on emissions cuts. On top of this, mid-term elections in the US suggest it will be difficult for President Obama to carry into legislation any substantial agreements on emissions cuts that may be made in Cancun, making the chances of such agreements less likely in the first place.
How does climate science move f
The ties that bind
INSEAD Professor Randel Carlock talks to Knowledge editor Stuart Pallister about succession and stewardship in family businesses.
