Titanic Tragedy
This is a nice slideshow of the Titanic set to peaceful music. It shows the construction of the ship, the interior, and the ship in its present state. No narration. Run time 06:41.
How To Set Up A SmartBoard
This video demonstrates the step-by-step to set up a SmartBoard. (2:55)
Haiti Poem: Bebe's Wish
Poem by Kwame Dawes
Images by Andre Lambertson
Music by Kevin Simmonds
Editing: Robin Bell
BEBE'S WISH
When you leave from here, head down
Canape Vert to your cooling hotel room,
to the breadfruit casserole and barbecue
chicken, to the closed in peace of your
life, say my name to Bon Dieu, say
the name Bebe—he is going to look
for me somewhere in Petion Ville
in the courtyard of L'ecole de la Republica
de Guatemala; behind the low white
wall, where a crowd of blue tarpaulin
huts, a home like
The Scientific Method Song
In this student made video, Matt Fisher sings a song about the Scientific Method using the music from the theme to the Brady Bunch. Lyrics are not included. Run time 0:42.
Frog Life Cycle Video-Running Time is 2:11
A video that describes the life of a frog from the stage of an egg, to a tadpole, to a frog. It also gives a description of the living conditions of the tadpole in water and its eating habits, and it also describes the living condition and eating habits of the frog. Running Time is 2:11.
Ulanov, Ukraine: Mass Murder of the Jews
Holocaust survivor Elizaveta Gelfond, born in Ulanov in 1924, testifies about the murder of the town's Jews. Gelfond describes the murder in June 1942 of elderly and sick Jews who had been taken from Ulanov to the Kalinovka labor camp.
For more details, click here: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?site_id=166
Actualité de l'animal-machine (audio)
Colloque La représentation du vivant : du cerveau au comportement
Session Pensée et identité / sous la présidence d'Olivier Faure
On a pu croire que la théorie cartésienne de l’animal-machine avait perdu toute vertu heuristique, et que l’animal Ã
Hommes, institutions et sociétés : Acteurs du développement durable
Face aux enjeux et aux risques auxquels la planète est confrontée, le concept de développement durable cherche à concilier trois dimensions : le progrès économique, la justice sociale et la préservation de l’environnement. Dans ce documentaire nous allons approfondir comment ce concept prend corps dans les activités économiques mais aussi comment les institutions politiques et plus largement la société civile intègrent une autre manière d’aborder le développement.
RES.18-002 Introduction to MATLAB (MIT)
This course was offered as a non-credit program during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month. The course, intended for students with no programming experience, provides the foundations of programming in MATLAB®. Variables, arrays, conditional statements, loops, functions, and plots are explained. At the end of the course, students should be able to use MATLAB in their own work, and be
RES.TTL-01 Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching (MIT)
This handbook includes 16 Guidelines on Learning based on the research literature on student learning and accepted good teaching practice, that inform the teaching at MIT. Each Guideline is explained with appropriate quotes and there are links to examples of the guideline in action. The handbook was adapted by The MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory from the "Guidelines on Learning that inform teaching at the University of New South Wales" and it's associated Toolkit. This has now be
RES.21F-01 Kana (MIT)
Learning hiragana and katakana is an important part of reading and speaking Japanese. The following pages contain: Hiragana - stroke order videos, pronunciation, and vocabulary for each character; reading and listening audio exercises; handouts on how to construct words and sentences; interactive quizzes testing character recognition; and printable worksheets to practice writing characters. Katakana - pronunciation and vocabulary for each character; reading and listening audio exercise
December rally continues
Business update summary: Wall Street opened higher on investor optimism about economic growth, Groupon set to raise $950M, China cuts export quotas of rare earth minerals, crude oil hovers near $91.
The Cask of Amontillado - Rap Song
A fun rap about Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." You can watch the remix video or read the original short story by Poe. Many of Poe's best stories were his simplest, and "The Cask of Amontillado" is no exception. Imagine yourself for a moment in Fortunato's shoes: about to taste your favorite rare drink, instead you are buried alive in a wall. Wow. Flocab artist Dillon Maurer gets on the mic and sticks close to the original text to bring Poe's tale dramatically to life. Lyrics
L'individualisme - François de Singly (video)
Une conférence de l'UTLS au Lycée
L'individualisme par François de Singly
Lycée Richelieu (92 Rueil Malmaison)
Take Care of Supplies-Be Kind to Your Erasers
This amateur video discusses the importance of taking care of erasers in the art classroom. The narrator is a finger person who shares a story of good erasers going bad when they aren't taken care of. Not much educational content but a cute way to stress the importance of using supplies appropriately(Running Time 3:30).
Le déferlement des techniques contemporaines : la mobilisation générale des organismes (audio)
Colloque La représentation du vivant : du cerveau au comportement
Session La représentation du cerveau par les neurosciences
Michel Tibon-Cornillot s'intéresse ici à des problèmes qui relèvent de la philosophie des technologies. Dans le contexte de la crit
Duke research: Soda tax would have little impact on Americans' waistlines
As some fans of sugary soft drinks have already heard, health policy makers and government officials are considering additional taxes on sweetened drinks.
And although a "soda tax" could generate billions of dollars in tax revenue each year, a new study finds it would have virtually no effect on America's bulging waistline.
Researchers at Duke University's medical school in Singapore analyzed data on u.s. consumers who recorded all of their food and beverage purchases over the course of a year
