Rick's Reading Workshop: Overview
Rick Kleine structures his class with mini lessons, reading aloud, peer discussions and silent reading. He also speaks individually with his students, giving each a focused task for improvement to increase their comprehension and enjoyment, while making them better readers. (5:24)
Objects of Belief - An African Sculpture
Every culture produces objects of belief that express something about their place in the universe. This is a statue used in the burial ritual of the Kota people in Gabon; but it raises questions that are basic to every theology.
Reflecting on Professional Practice - Personal Development Planning
These slides support a module Reflecting on Professional Development and look at personal development planning. The resource has been developed through the Learning from WOeRK project and seeks to support learning in the work place. For an overview of all related modules and resources please visit http://cpdoer.net/collections/
China in Africa
Thunderbird School of Global Management Professor Mary Teagarden, Ph.D., talks 5 August 2011 about the miraculous transformation she has witnessed in China since the 1970s.
The Hallelujah Flight
Junior Geography - Quiz
How well do you know your Geography?
Sunny Street Online - Quiz
The pupils will test their comprehension of the Sunny Street English language program. They will consolidate their knowledge of the content.
Conversations with Berkeley Faculty: Steven Weber (4/28/03)
Conversations with History Presents Faculty Research at the University of California, Berkeley
A Conversation with Steven Weber Professor of Political Science
"Power in the Information Age"
This interview took place on April 28, 2003.
Steven Weber is a Professor of Political Science at U.C. Berkeley. His publications include Cooperation and Discord in U.S. - Soviet Arms Control; the edited volume, Globalization and the European Political Economy; and forthcoming from Harvard University Press,
Advanced Audio Blog S4 #10 - Top 10 Japanese Authors: Murakami Haruki
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Do you like to read novels? In fact, do you like to read your favorite novels so much that you’ll revisit them again and again? I do, and have met my soul mate in the Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Every time I read one of his Japanese works, I am surprised [...]
How to be a Great Navigator!
In this lesson, students will learn how great navigators of the past stayed on course that is, the historical methods of navigation. The concepts of dead reckoning and celestial navigation are discussed.
Obama calls for common cause on U.S. finance
Aug. 6 - U.S. President Obama says more work ahead to get U.S. finances in order. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Jung Chang Jon Halliday - Mao: The Unknown Story
In their new book "Mao: The Unknown Story" Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for a reevaluation of Mao - as a tyrant worse than Stalin or Hitler. Based on a decade of research into previously untapped sources worldwide and on unprecedented interviews with Mao's inner circle and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this book raises new questions about Mao's role in the rise and success of the Chinese Communist movement.
Jung Chang is the
Andrew - 60 Second Impressions, Mature Students' Summer School
We run a number of events throughout the year, giving potential mature students the chance to visit Cambridge, to find out more, and to have their questions answered.
The Mature Students' Summer School offers a taste of university life and the wide variety of courses available to study at Cambridge, including lectures, practical work and social activities.
In this 1 minute film, Andrew, a student who participated in last year's Mature Students' Summer School, explains what it's like to try out
Frederic Remington, Ford's favorite artist
William Howze
This dissertation demonstrates John Ford’s use of images from a wide range of sources in many of his films. In particular, it examines Ford’s use of images based on the conventions of American […]
MIT GSW 2011 Top Pitches
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Nature Vs. Grace: Movie Clip From Tree of Life
This movie clip focuses on the two ways that a person can choose to live his/her life, by nature or by grace. Themes addressed through this clip include choices, contentment, fulfillment, and joy. ( 2:10)
Pakistan celebrates independence
Pakistanis mark their independence from Britain as the prime minister asserts the nation's commitment to fighting terrorism. Lindsey Parietti reports.
Lesson 319: Politics vocab Hispanic Culture for the Spanish Classroom The Business Ethics Workshop
It’s election time in Brazil and BPP will start a series of lessons about Brazil’s politics history and how elections work here. As a warm up this lesson will serve as a vocabulary reference for the...
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Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson
This collection includes cultural-themed modules (in English and in Spanish) aimed at the introductory Spanish language classroom (high school and college). It includes reading passages and […]
On a good day in the business ethics classroom discussion charges forward; students have read the assigned case study, they’re engaged by the conflict and want to work through it. Then, there’s a bad day: students didn’t bother to do the reading and the hour sags listlessly. The key to going the first way is case studies that students want to read, and The Business Ethics Workshop by James Brusseau provides them with reality and engagement.
Reality: No stilted and contrived stories about
