Emerging Infectious Diseases
New diseases arise and old diseases, such as malaria and influenza, are returning with renewed vigor. This session studies the complex causes and far-reaching impacts of emerging infectious diseases around the globe.
Argument Essay Writing 1 (4 of 4)
The last part of our lesson on writing an argument essay. This video discusses the concluding paragraph. (7:22)
Pythagorean Theorem Proofs
The Pythagorean theorem is one of the most well-known theorems in mathematics and is frequently used in Geometry proofs. The Pythagorean theorem states that in a right triangle the sum of its squared legs equals the square of its hypotenuse. (5:06)
Sesame Street - Big Bird sings a verbal noun song (1994)-Running Time 2:08
Big Bird sings a verbal noun song about flies flying. flowers flowering, etc. Kids will be engaged by the music and words of the song. Running time-2:08.
Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan (1928 Newsreel Footage with Open Captions and Audio Description)
This newsreel footage has been described for the blind and captioned for the deaf. Helen Keller's loss of vision and hearing in infancy made comprehension of the outside world next to impossible—or so it seemed. When teacher Anne Sullivan agreed to work with Keller, that world opened up, especially when Keller comprehended the function and purpose of language. Keller and Sullivan appear in this newsreel footage from 1928, in which Sullivan explains and then demonstrates the methodology use
Challenging to Read: A Collection about Dealing with Reading Problems
An excellent series this details some of the problems students have in reading. This is not a one video and done series. It is especially important for teaching students with reading concerns of all types. Here is the main site: http://www.childrenofthecode.org/Tour/index.htm
English in 30 Seconds: Words of Chinese Origin
There are just three Chinese words shown and explained in this video. It might be a video worth showing when the subject is the origin of English words.
The Place Value Number Line - Virtual Manipulative
A number line is a common representation of integers used to teach concepts of positive and negative numbers, zero, place-value, and arithmetic operations. The Place Value Number Line manipulative is designed to introduce, practice, and test skills in representing place value on a number line. There are instructions on the right side of the Java applet.
News Article Writing Process: Part 1
Part 1 - Learn the process of writing news articles like a reporter in this video. An expert explains the process using a whiteboard.
Chicken Sunday
This story is about children wanting to buy a Easter bonnet for their grandmother. There are illustrations and the words appear on the screen as they are being read. (03:43)
C++ Console Lesson 22: Using the rand() Function
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This C++ video tutorial shows how to use the rand() function to generate random numbers in C++.
C++ Console Lesson 25: Type Conversion Operators
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This C++ video tutorial explains how to use type conversion operators in C++. type conversion or typecasting refers to changing an entity of one data type into another.
C++ Console Lesson 27: Switch Statements
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This C++ video tutorial explains how to use switch statements in C++ The main reasons for using a switch include improving clarity, by reducing otherwise repetitive coding, and (if the heuristics permit), offering the potential of faster execution through compiler optimization.
Parsnip meets a Snowman Parsnip is delighted to wake up to a snow-covered veggie patch, and wastes no time playing with the snow. But then he throws a snowball at what he thinks is a horrible monster! Scared to bits, he runs to find Big Parsnip, but is reassured when he finds out it is only a snowman. Parsnip then has the joy of making his very own Snow Parsnip
Introduction to Catholic Moral Theology
Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free educational resources for the course "Introduction to Catholic Moral Theology" in the Department of Theology. The course provides an overview of the history of Roman Catholic moral theology by examining how the Roman Catholic tradition developed certain distinctive ways of speaking about moral goods, obligations, and the forms of life. It explores basic principles, values, and patterns of thinking that have formed the tradition of Roman Catholic moral
Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis Deze website reikt Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis aan. Het is een digitaal leerboek over de periode van de middeleeuwen: van 1000 tot 1550. Je vindt er teksten over verliefde monniken, boosaardige vossen, dappere ridders, enz. Naast een …
Keeping children safe
Researchers from The University of Nottingham are going into hospital emergency departments to talk to parents as part of a national study looking at the causes of the most common injuries in pre-school children.
Every year in the UK, a quarter of a million children aged under five are taken into casualty by their parents after suffering a fall, scald or poisoning in the home.
The Keeping Children Safe project aims to pinpoint the key risk factors involved and develop a set of recommendations
"Music Perception and Cognition, Spring 2009"
"This course is a survey of perceptual and cognitive aspects of the psychology of music, with special emphasis on underlying neuronal and neurocomputational representations and mechanisms. Basic perceptual dimensions of hearing (pitch, timbre, consonance/roughness, loudness, auditory grouping) form salient qualities, contrasts, patterns and streams that are used in music to convey melody, harmony, rhythm and separate voices. Perceptual, cognitive, and neurophysiological aspects of the temporal d
The Florentine Heretic? Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos
Prof. David Lindberg : Course
Majority Judgement: a completely new voting system. Part Two - The Principal Properties of Majority
Speaker(s): Professor Rida Laraki | Laraki argues that the new Majority Judgement voting system is superior because it best ranks candidates according to merit. It best resists manipulation or "gaming the vote." It heeds majority rule. It is not subject to Arrow's impossibility, nor to most other classical paradoxes.
