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Advanced Audio Blog S5 #4 - Top 10 Japanese Holidays: Shichi-Go-San/Seven, Five, Three
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friend tells you that today is an important holiday for many children in Japan. When you ask your friend to explain the significance of this Japanese holiday, he tells you about its history and symbols, and then he asks you whether you can see a pattern of holidays on the [...]
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Best Practices Weekly-Self-Regulation as a Key to Writing
In this Best Practices Weekly video, teacher Elliott reviews an article about Self Regulation as a Key to Writing. This article comes from Journal of Educational Psychology and discusses an experimental study. This article found checklists, graphic organizers, planning guides, goal setting, measuring progress, and charting past scores were useful in self regulation of writing. This is a great resource for teachers to help improve writing in their classrooms. (3:58)
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Patient Letters: Family of Cancer Patient Gives Thanks for "Loving Care"
This letter from the Bell family expresses the gratitude they felt towards the caregivers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center who treated their father, Robert Bell. Though they were heartbroken at his passing, the memories of the loving care he received helped them through their difficult time. Related Links: Hematologic Malignancies Program http://www.umgcc.org/hem_malig_program/index.htm Our Physicians http://www.umgcc.org/hem_malig_program/phys_staff.
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Grubby's Wacky Worms
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Wicked and Digit are following clues left by Motherboard to help them free the CyberSquad. To get the next clue from Grubby, they must use a fraction to describe their share of a box of worms. In doing so, they learn to identify the denominator as the number of parts that make up a whole and the numerator as their share of the parts.  (2:20)
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“All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals” (video)
As senior adviser to Madeleine Albright and then as President Clinton’s ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, David Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court. All the Missing
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Representing the Race
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674046870 Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of African American lawyers who worked in the era of segregation. Practicing the law and seeking justice for diverse clients, they confronted a tension between their racial identity as black men and women and their professional identity as lawyers. Both blacks and whites demanded that these attorneys stand
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Birth Prevalence
This RLO explores the concept of birth prevalence, a special type of prevalence defined as "the percentage of a given population who have a particular disease in a given population at a given point in time or over a particular time period."
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Article :: A First Look at the Book Module and Map Module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Classroom in a Book shows you how to work with the new Book and Map modules in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.
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Best Practices Weekly--Teaching Math Vocabulary Effectively
In this Best Practices Weekly video, teacher Elliott reviews an article about effective ways of teaching Math vocabulary from Teaching Children Mathematics. Some key strategies include previewing or changing new context vocabulary words, leading students without first introducing difficult math vocabulary word (example-multiplication), having conversations with students about words with non-math meanings, and reviewing terms daily. This is a great resource to help teachers improve mathematics in
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This module explains how authors can use Google Analytics to track how many page hits their module receives.
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Part 8 - Chapter 39 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
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Part 8, Chapter 39: The Yankee's Fight with the Knights. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by John Greenman.

Playlist for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL594379211E091592
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