An Educator’s Guide to the 21st Century Learner
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Connecting Early Career Researchers
The slides from the pres on "Connecting early carrer researchers working with Web 2.0 in TEL" at EC-TEL 10
Black Experience at MIT
A short demo of the Black Experience at MIT website. This website is in its initial stages with an ambitious plan: to document and celebrate the experience of blacks at MIT since its founding in 1861. This website is a lens for all members of the MIT community to understand our shared history.
The goal of the project is to uncover, record, preserve, and provide access to the history of the black experience at MIT in its full and appropriate context. For the past 150 years, MIT has been bot
Role of students in the creation African American Studies Programs
Excerpt from an interview with Dr. Badi Foster, former Afro-studies faculty at Harvard and current lecturer with Harvard's School of Education, on the role of students in the creation African American Studies Programs.
The Road to Revolution - The American War of Independence
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Episode 113: Catching insects in Africa: A window on 18th century English society Historian, literary critic and author Professor Deirdre Coleman connects naturalist Henry Smeathman's years in West Africa to the social norms and intellectual life 18th century England. With host Jennifer Cook. 5.7 Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century Laura Anderson Barbata, " 21st Century Living in the Amazon: In the Order of Chaos" 10/27/2010 Listen: WRVU co-founder remembers early days of campus radio An Examination of Interviews from the American Slave Narratives and the American Folklore Collection 17.202 Graduate Seminar in American Politics II (MIT) 11.014J American Urban History II (MIT) American Urban History I, Spring 2005 21L.512 American Authors: American Women Authors (MIT) Exposition Des Negres D'America: The American Negro Exhibit, Paris 1900 Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site Coming Out West Indian in the Twenty-First Century Professor Pat McGorry - Early Intervention, Clinical Staging in Youth Mental Health Tatung Early Bird Video-Crypt Encoder
This unit is intended to be of interest not only to people living in Scotland but to anyone wishing to know more about Scottish society and culture. It brings together a collection of free educational resources relevant to Scotland. The resources within this unit cover a wide range of subject areas, including education, environment, technology, history, law, literature, politics, social care and social sciences.
Laura Anderson Barbata worked with the Yanomami people of the Venezuelan Amazon Rainforest, teaching them to make paper and books so they could write their own history. Their first book Shapono tells the story of the gods Omawe and Yoawe who taught the Yanomami how to build their home as a communal dwelling. Contact with outsiders has brought with it industrialized materials and solutions integrated by the Yanomami into their building techniques, homes and lifestyle, posing new challenges and pr
Dr. Raphael Smith, one of the co-founders of WRVU, is one of six Vanderbilt alumni who will be inducted into the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame on Oct. 22. Smith, who is now a Vanderbilt University professor of medicine, emeritus, provided most of the technical expertise for getting the station built and on thekeep reading »
Students will examine and interpret interviews obtained by authors working for the Federal Writer's Project during the 1930s. A close study of the narratives will allow students to: Understand the specific tasks undertaken by men and women employed by one of the work relief programs of the New Deal; Obtain a more personal sense of the past by examining the lives and careers of ordinary men and women interviewed during the period of the Federal Writer's Project; Learn about the process and issues
This is the second in a sequence of two field seminars in American politics intended for graduate students in political science, in preparation for taking the general examination in American politics. The material covered in this semester focuses on American political institutions. The readings covered here are not comprehensive, but it is sufficiently broad to give students an introduction to major empirical questions and theoretical approaches that guide the study of American political institu
This is a seminar course that explores the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, tenements, suburbs, zoos, skyscrapers, department stores, supermarkets, and amusement parks. The course gives students experience in working with primary documentation sources through its selection of readings and class discussions. Students then have the opportunity to apply this experience by researching their own historical
Seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in urban America from roughly 1890 to the present. Among the institutions considered are political machines, police departments, schools, courts, hospitals, prisons, welfare departments, and universities. Focuses on readings and discussions.
This subject, cross-listed in Literature and Women's Studies, examines a range of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present. It aims to introduce a number of literary genres and styles- the captivity narrative, slave novel, sensational, sentimental, realistic, and postmodern fiction- and also to address significant historical events in American women's history: Puritanism, the American Revolution, industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century, the Har
This site offers visitors an opportunity to explore the context of the "American Negro Exhibit" and view some of the materials used by its curators to create a vision African American identity at the turn of the twentieth century.
examines life and work at the first successful integrated ironmaking plant in colonial America (from 1646 until 1668, 10 miles north of Boston).
Presented on October 6, 2010 by Dr. Bedilia Richards, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Richmond. This talk is a part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology's series entitled, "Racial and Ethnic Identity in the year of the Census."
Professor Pat McGorry, Executive Director, Orygen Youth Health and Director, National Youth Mental Health Foundation gives this public lecture entitled 'Early Intervention, Clinical Staging in Youth Mental Health' at The Australian National University. This lecture was held in conjunction with the John Curtin School of Medical Research Symposium: New Perspectives in Clinical Neuroscience and Mental Health which was held on Monday 16 August at JCSMR.
Professor Patrick McGorry is a leading intern
Tatung Early Bird Video-Crypt Encoder. Maker: Tatung. Date: 1989 (circa) - from the The Betty Smithers Design Collection at Staffordshire University.
