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Economic Update on WBAI Mar 10th, 2012
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SIOP Vocabulary Lesson
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Puna Flamingo--An Overview
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of a Puna Flamingo in its natural environment. The puna flamingo has the unmistakable long neck and legs, and a distinctive down-curved bill characteristic of all flamingo species. The flamingo holds its long neck straight in flight and calls with a nasal honking sound. This species is unique among flamingos as it lacks the hind toe. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world conne
Allen Say: 2011 National Book Festival
Allen Say appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Allen Say was born in Yokohama, Japan, and he dreamed of becoming a cartoonist from the age of 6. When he was 12, he apprenticed for his favorite cartoonist, Noro Shinpei. In 1972, Say illustrated his first children's book, and until 1987 was a part-time illustrator. That year, while illustrating "The Boy of the Three-Year Nap," which won a Caldecott Honor in 1989, he decided to work full-time on what he most liked to do:
The Blood Typing Game
This video provides a short explanation about the Blood Typing Game, where you can learn about human blood types and blood transfusions. Explore the Blood Typing Game here: http://www.nobelprize.org/bloodtyping
The Blood Typing Game is based on the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Karl Landsteiner for the discovery of human blood groups.
"Venezuela Speaks!" (audio)
For the last decade, Venezuela’s “Bolivarian Revolution” has captured international attention. Poverty, inequality, and unemployment have all dropped, while health, education, and living standards have seen a commensurate rise. Venezuela Speaks! is the real, bottom-up account of the country's bloodless uprising and reorganization.
Co-editor Carlos Martinez will explain how the stories in Venezuela Speaks! offer a different perspective than that of the international mainstream media, which
Example of a Good PLC Meeting
Arty Smartypants: snail/nail
In this video segment from Between the Lions, Arty holds up a snail and then shows the word “snail.” He then takes an “s” from snail to make the word “nail.” He holds up a nail, then pulls out a hammer and starts to hammer the nail into the wall. Then he hits his finger with the hammer and jumps up and down in pain. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Letter Knowledge Awareness, and Phonological Awareness. (0:4
March of the Dinosaurs: Part 1
Join Scar, a young Edmontosaurus as he embarks on his first migration across America to escape the long winter and find the sun again. Not for younger viewers. (14:14)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London - Whole Book
This voice recording can be hard to get used to, especially for three and a half hours. But I included it on WatchKnowLearn because it is a great classic. Perhaps there will be a better recording in the future. The words appear on the screen as they are read. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Tom Crawford. (03:32:24)
Teaching Tomorrow's Economists I am happy to announce that the Teacher's Manual is now available for my introductory textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. For those readers who are unfamiliar with it, let me explain that the student text was
Fysica : Bijkomende ondersteuning Op deze sites vind je links naar applets, soms met instructiebladen, alsook links naar filmpjes bruikbaar in de fysicales. Ze werden gemaakt voor de leerlingen van O.L.V. Ter Duinen (Heist - Zeebrugge).
Announcing BoxingBots: Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots At the SXSW Interactive Opening Party hosted by Frog Design and Microsoft, the Coding4Fun team has unveiled their latest invention, BoxingBots! With BoxingBots you are the controller except this time, forget the screen. You're controlling a 6-foot tall metal robot that's trying to punch out your opponent's 6-foot tall machine. It's Real Steel in real time. BoxingBots combines Kinect's motion sensing technology with pneumatic robots in a 6-foot square ring. Two players face off to
PSYC 303-01, Psychology of Health, Fall 1998
Informational Goals:
1. To provide students with a preliminary understanding of the important ways in which psychological states and behaviors are involved in health and illness
2. To provide students with a basic knowledge of chronic illnesses and their incidence rates, as well as the effectiveness of psychologically based treatment modalities
3. To provide students a closer look at some illness of interest or relevance to them, and to consider the psychological risk and treatment factors
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Squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle
Dr Noor Nieftagodien (University of Witwatersrand) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre on 8th March 2012
Facebook Resistance? Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Arab Revolutions
Revolutions are currently sweeping the Arab world, from Tunisia to Egypt and Libya to Bahrain. The Internet has been reported as a key factor, but we in fact know little of its role in these revolutions. Revolutions are currently sweeping the Arab world: from Tunisia to Egypt and Libya to Bahrain. After decades of dictatorship, mass mobilisations and strikes are bringing down presidents and redrawing constitutions. These mass revolts are inspirational throughout the world and have swiftly shatte
