What Is Extension? (One Minute Dictionary Video Series)
In this short video, students will learn about the vocabulary word "extension". Extension is defined as an additional period of time that someone can use to finish a job, pay money, and so on, the process of making something bigger or longer, a set of numbers that belongs to a telephone line in a company, or a family that includes parents, children, grandparents, and so on. Good examples are given. This is a good resource to introduce a new vocabulary word into the classroom. (1:20)
What Are Duties? (One Minute Dictionary Video Series)
In this short video, students will learn about the vocabulary word "duites" Duties is defined as 1. something that is required or expected or 2. a tax or a charge. Good visual examples are given. This is a good resource for introducing a new vocabulary word into the elementary/middle school classroom. (1:14)
What Is Philosophy? (One Minute Dictionary Video Series)
In this short video, students will learn about the vocabulary word "philosophy". Philosophy is defined as the investigation of the truth and nature of knowledge, being, and value.Good examples are given. This is a good resource to introduce a new vocabulary word into the elementary/middle school classroom. (1:12)
Special Topics at Edgerton Center:Developing World Prosthetics, Spring 2010
D-Lab World Prosthetics is a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Jaipur Foot Organization to improve the design, manufacture, and distribution of rehabilitation devices in the developing world. The course welcomes individuals interested in physical rehabilitation to work on multidisciplinary teams of students with bioengineering, mechanical engineering, material science, and medical or pre-medical backgrounds. Students will learn about the basics of human walk
The Rise of Modern Science, Fall 2010
This subject introduces the history of science from antiquity to the present. Students consider the impact of philosophy, art, magic, social structure, and folk knowledge on the development of what has come to be called "science" in the Western tradition, including those fields today designated as physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, astronomy and the mind sciences. Topics include concepts of matter, nature, motion, body, heavens, and mind as these have been shaped over the course of history.
Roberto Cavalli kicks off Israel's fashion week
Nov. 22 - Tel Aviv holds its first fashion week in more than 30 years. Alicia Powell reports.
Doc Holliday
This episode of Stories of the Century has railroad detective Matt Clark tracking down Doc Holliday of the famous O.K. Coral shootout. (26min)
History of the British Empire
This is a lighthearted view of the spread of the British empire and the various lands that they claimed. It is five minute in length. A good overview, but very fast moving.
Paint with Ice
This one minute video shows how to use ice cubes and paint to create some interesting ice painting.
Reading a Thermometer
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad learns how to read a thermometer as they try to keep their chocolate sculpture from melting.
Conservative Leadership - What Works and What Doesn't [Audio]
Speaker(s): Robin Harris | Drawing on his new book, The Conservatives-A History, Robin Harris will review the different styles, strengths and weaknesses of successive Conservative leaders, and analyse the problems which they and the Party faced at different junctures. He will consider whether there are lessons to be drawn from this historical experience for the present and future. Robin Harris began to work for the Conservative Party in 1978, becoming Director of the Conservative Research Depar
RSC Wednesday Seminars 2011: Transnationalism: a fourth durable solution?
Recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's third Wednesday Public Seminar of Trinity Term 2011, on Wednesday 1st June 2011 at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
Taking the long view
Dr Michael Pollitt defends the energy industry in the wake of criticism over their rising profits by their regulator Ofgem
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
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Another financial meltdown looms
The chair of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Phil Angelides, believes nothing has changed since the financial meltdown of 2008 and that the U.S. is potentially heading towards another economic disaster. David Cay Johnston, Reuters Columnist, tells us why Congress and the next president need to intervene quickly and stop listening to Wall Street.
De l'Oeuf à la grenouille
Comment, à partir d'un oeuf, s'édifie un nouvel individu?
C'est ce que nous montrent les grenouilles Xenopus laevis qui se reproduisent dans les étangs africains. La ponte et la fécondation, le clivage des oeufs qui conduit au stade blastula, les mouvements cellulaires lors de la gastrulation, le corps du futur têtard qui se modèle pendant la neurulation suivie de l'organogenèse, enfin, la période larvaire sanctionnée par la métamorphose, transforment l'oeuf en une gre
Le Paradoxe des empereurs
Ce film qui s'adresse au grand public mais aussi aux chercheurs, présente dans son intégralité le cycle reproducteur du manchot empereur, seul animal capable de se reproduire pendant les neuf mois de l'hiver antarctique. De remarquables images montrent les pariades et les chants, les accouplements, la ponte, la couvaison, l'élevage des poussins, leurs chances de survie, jusqu'à leur départ au début de l'été austral suivant. La bande son révèle la communication entre adultes et po
De ruimte in : De bewegingen van de aarde In deze multimediale les ontdekken de leerlingen alles over de gevolgen van de bewegingen van de hemellichamen in ons zonnestelsel. De bordles wordt vergezeld van een uitgebreid lesscenario. Deze les vind je eveneens terug op de DVD …
