The Story of India- Beginnings (pt. 3)
This documentary is about the history of India. It traces the roots of
the social, religious, and historical roots of the civilization there.
The series contains many interviews with Indian citizens of all sorts.
Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Born Free" -- a book and then a film that changed forever the way we think about wildlife. What has happened to lions since this story? What has happened to the people featured in the film? And what has "Born Free" taught us? (49:39)
Christian the Lion: The Full Story
This video tells the story of Christian the Lion. Two men purchased the lion cub in a London department store in 1969, raised him as a pet, released him in an African reserve, and had an emotional reunion after the release. The story is told with actual film footage, words on the screen, and music in the background. This video would be an excellent enrichment to the Christian the Lion books. (Note: This video has a few, small grammatical errors.) (06:37)
A Primer on Natural Resources and the Environment There is a fundamental fact about the world that has profound implications for the supply of natural resources and for the relationship between production and economic activity on the one side and man's environment on the other. This is the fact that the entire earth consists of solidly packed chemical elements. There is not a single cubic centimeter either on or within the earth that is not some chemical eleme
Mike Zarro PAETC07
Don't Make Me Think - I'm Here to Learn
Mike Zarro, Drexel University
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Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference Feb 23, 2007
3.2 million people took at least one class o
Albright Talk on Educational Technology
Here is my talk at Albright College on March 17, 2008. I mainly discussed the evolution in my use of blogs, wikis and Second Life in the teaching of undergraduate organic chemistry courses.
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UBC Talk on Open Notebook Science and Libraries
I presented a talk about Open Notebook Science and the implications for the future of libraries for Heather Morrison's class at the School of Libraries at the University of British Columbia on April 2, 2008. We did this over Skype so the questions are not very clear in the audio.
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ACS Talk on Cheminformatics in Open Notebook Science
I present at the American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans on April 6, 2008. The use cheminformatics tools such as SMILES, InChI, InChIKeys and JCAMP-DX to store and retrieve experimental information on a public laboratory notebook is detailed.
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Motivation Lesson Plan
Angela Amara
This module is a motivational lesson plan that can be used by all grades and levels. This is on on-going lesson that can be used to boost student morale and confidence. This motivational journal […]
2.1 Planning your search
The internet provides a world of information, but how do you find what you are looking for? This unit will help you discover the meaning of information quality and teach you how to evaluate the material you come across in your study of technology. You will learn how to plan your searches effectively and be able to experiment with some of the key resources in this area.
Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have?
Students learn about population density within environments and ecosystems. They determine the density of a population and think about why population density and distribution information is useful to engineers for city planning and design as well as for resource allocation.
The Epiphany of the (In)visible: Texture and Epiphany
Chapter Two of Marcia Brennan's Flowering Light: Kabbalistic Mysticism and the Art of Elliot R. Wolfson.
Autumn Around the Northern East Coast
The changing of the leaves can be seen in space by the SeaWiFS instrument. Shown here are 3 datasets that show the change.
Going places: Internships and study abroad
They've interned on Capitol Hill, at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and at Bank of America. Their studies and internships have landed them in India, Ghana, London, Prague, and Argentina. Schreyer Honors College students describe exciting internships and study abroad experiences.
El Nino Sea Surface Height and Temp Anomalies Wrapped to a Globe: January 1997 through December 1997
El Nino sea surface temperature and anomalies in the Pacific mapped to a globe for January 1997 through December 1997. (Wind anomalies stop at October 1997)
Olympic Peninsula Time Lapse with Park Boundaries: Dissolve through different dates
The four large scenes show the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington State, centered on the Olympic National Park and the national and state forests immediately surrounding the national park. Mount Olympus dominates the scene with its (usually) snow-capped peaks. Clear cutting in the national and state forests around the national park was well underway at the time of the first Landsat scene. In the late 1980s, public land use policies changed and clear cutting by the timber industry migra
Mexico's Fight for Security: Actions and Achievements [Audio]
Speaker(s): Alejandro Poiré | Alejandro Poiré is the National Security Spokesman, Presidencia de la República.
The International Insertion of Uruguay in the world [Audio]
Speaker(s): Luis Almagro | Editor's note: There is a very short gap in the podcast recording at 51:58 owing to a technical fault. Foreign Minister Almagro will outline the Uruguayan Government's Policies on International Relations, focusing on the Southern Cone sub-region, Latin America and the world. Dr Almagro will highlight the positive outcome already achieved by the current Government, with regard to the country's attractive investor-friendly policies, its strategic geographical location as
