Adolescent Literacy Part II
This project is designed to put relevant and helpful online resources into the hands of teachers making the transition between Strategic Reading and Second Semester English. You will find a list of Read-Alike resources, Rubric Generators, and downloadable blank templates for planning weekly reading and/or writing lessons.
Weather 4
This project will help you understand the weather and investigate weather interactively. What are the components of weather? How do you measure weather?
World of Enzymes
What does the word enzyme mean to you? Did you know that all living organisms contain enzymes, but did you also know that they are also found in laundry detergents and various food products? This project will explore what enzymes are, how they function and the factors that influence how well they work.
Cells: An Overview
This project will give students a better overview and understanding of cells and what cells are made up of.
Atomic Theory
In this project you will investigate many of the theories that explained the composition of the atom.
What Happened on the Day You Were Born?
Want to find out which celebrities share your birthday? Curious what was happening in the world on that date, 20, 100, even 300 years ago? This project is designed to give your practice researching a topic using the Big6.
Problems in the Design of Epidemiologic Studies (Grant Writing)
Presents the methodologic and logistic problems involved in designing and conducting epidemiologic studies. Students participate in the preparation of a research protocol for a study in a human population. Offers an opportunity to critically evaluate the adequacy and scientific merit of research protocols, develop an appreciation of the ethical aspects of conducting research involving human subjects, and apply methods and principles learned in earlier (340.601 - 603) and current courses to speci
Ethical Issues in Public Health
Lectures and small group discussions focus on ethical theory and current ethical issues in public health and health policy, including resource allocation, the use of summary measures of health, the right to health care, and conflicts between autonomy and health promotion efforts. Student evaluation based on class participation, a group project, and a paper evaluating ethical issues in the student's area of public health specialization.
Othello and Diaspora - Highlights
Professor Carol Rutter and Patrice Naiambana talk about his CAPITAL Fellowship project on Othello and the experience of diasporic communities.
Voluntary Carbon Offsets
Introduction to doctoral research project by student Adam Bumpus at the Environmental Change Institute
The Opencast Community Project
Olaf Schulte (ETH Zurich) talks about making audio and visual podcasts available online globally through the OpenCast Project and the Matterhorn project and also talks about the ways ETH Zurich are making headway in the OpenCast Community Project.
e-infrastructure case study - Archaeology
The eIUS project highlights the successful use of e-Infrastructure, in this case by archaeologists at University of Reading, who use a combination of online database, digital pens and visualisation software to analyse a Roman settlement in Silchester. The e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models (eIUS) Project is releasing short videos highlighting how advanced information technology (IT) is being used in academic research. Disciplines covered include archaeology, bioinformatics, mate
Engaging Developers with Open Source Projects - "The line of code that could"
This talk follows the creation of the speaker's first patch to the Moodle core code, showing the Open Development model from a first-hand perspective. It discusses the advantages of this process to the developer, his employer and the entire community. How does one contribute to an open source project? What are the thoughts, conversations and actions that lead to the creation of a contribution, and then, how does it get accepted into the project? This talk follows the creation of the speaker's fi
The Challenges and Opportunities in Podcasting at a Research University
Peter Robinson (Oxford University) talks about the challenges and opportunities in Podcasting at Oxford University and how the podcasting team at Oxford has found the experience of creating a podcasting project.
The Munich Airport DOLLI Project
Bernd Bruegge of the Technische Universität München talks about 'Large scale project courses with podcasts: The Munich Airport DOLLI Project'.
Berkeley's OpenCast project
Adam Hochman from the University of California at Berkeley talks about their OpenCast project
Future Needs and Mobile Multimedia with Erewhon
Tim Fernando (Oxford University) talks about the Erewhon project and the services it is going to provide, particularly with the integration of mobile technology into a podcasting service.
The Munich Airport DOLLI Project
Bernd Bruegge of the Technische Universität München talks about 'Large scale project courses with podcasts: The Munich Airport DOLLI Project'.
The Challenges and Opportunities in Podcasting at a Research University
Peter Robinson (Oxford University) about the challenges and opportunities in Podcasting at Oxford University and how the podcasting team at Oxford has found the experience of creating a podcasting project
The Opencast Community Project
Olaf Schulte (ETH Zurich) talks about making podcasts available online globally through the OpenCast Community Project and the Matterhorn project and also talks about the ways ETH Zurich are making headway in the OpenCast Community Project
