Polio Surveillance in India
For ten years, Namdev Koktare puts on his white gown in the morning, heads to three slums in India's megacity Mumbai and collect sewage samples—all before the sun gets to high and too hot. These samples are then processed by an enterovirus laboratory to pinpoint polio-prone locations.
Learn with Pictures and Video S3 #8 - Mexican Spanish Expressions and Words for the Classroom 1
Learn Mexican Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Traveling to Mexico was the first step. The second was enrolling in a Mexican Spanish college. But the third is actually going to Mexican Spanish class. You’re nervous on your first day at the Mexican Spanish university where you will study for your Mexican Spanish degree. You believe you have [...]
Explosion in Gaddafi stronghold
Aug. 27 - Rebels secured areas outside of Tripoli on Saturday but continued to do battle with Gaddafi loyalists. Deborah Gembara reports.
Lesson 1-Part 1-Visual and Auditory Warm Up With Alphabet Flashcards (Beginning Sounds)
This teacher shows us a typical lesson warm up with a student. She uses alphabet flashcards and a carpet square that has handwriting lines drawn on it. She walks through the visual, auditory and kinesthetic drill. First step in Orton Gillingham lesson. This is a great resource for struggling students or for review of unmastered skills. (3:49)
Rebel leader: 50,000 killed in Libya fighting
Aug. 30 - A rebel military leader says about 50,000 people have been killed since the beginning of Libya's uprising to oust Muammar Gaddafi six months ago. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
U.S. Day Ahead: ADP may give clues to August payrolls data
Aug. 30 - The volatile ADP National Employment report should give investors an idea of just how weak the U.S. labor market is with an expected read of 100,000, according to a Reuters poll of economists.
LLAS/Whystudy...? downloadable calendar - September 2011, Chinese
LLAS/Whystudy...? downloadable calendar - September 2011, Chinese.
Conservation GIS, Video Resources
These videos are part of a fully online course on Conservation GIS.
Computer-assisted linguistic tasks as an integral part of English language coursebook
Machine-translation tasks to be used for 2-3-year university students of non-linguistic specialities
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Vera Wang's colorful 'LSD trip'
Sep. 14 - Designer Vera Wang mingles transparency and tailoring, contrasting white with psychedelic colors to give her Spring 2012 runway the feeling of a slightly refined "LSD trip" at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Elly Park reports.
What is Yellow Journalism
This two minute video provides an overview of this topic with the emphasis on how the Hearst Chain started this trend. There isn't any reference to the Spanish American War in the video.
Tom Juenger at the 2011 DOE JGI User Meeting
Tom Juenger of the University of Texas at Austin on "The Physiological Changes of Panicum: Exploring Switchgrass Responses to Climate Change" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.
The History of Baseball Opening Day
This two minute video explains some of the history of the opening day of the baseball season and some of the decisions that go into it. Narration by students with just a few specific facts, but most students will not be able to relate to the names.
All Summer In A Day Pt. 1
Based on a short story by Ray Bradbury. It's a sad story. :(
Selay Kouassi on Water as a Tool for Peace in Ivory Coast
Pulitzer Center grantee Selay Kouassi introduces his forthcoming reporting on how water is used as a tool of peace and war in Ivory Coast. He is part of a Pulitzer Center team of six journalists investigating water and sanitation in West Africa.
An Interview with a Master Storyteller
This video contains a student's interview with JeHann Clements, a well-known storyteller, at the Hans Christian Anderson statue in Central Park. Mr. Clements describes the characteristics of a good story: a strong beginning, middle, and end, along with a good message. ( 4:23)
Child Labor (Babies In the Mill / Dark as a Dungeon)
The vast majority of these photographs are taken by Lewis Hine, who between 1908 and 1912 traveled around the United States photographing children as young as 3 years old working in mines, factories, fields and mills. These children often worked dangerous jobs for long hours and little pay.
The first song "Babies In the Mill" is from The American Labor Studies Center website (http://www.labor-studies.org/) which does not list t
Not just pretty pictures ou L'importance des belles images / Vincent Durastre
Not just pretty pictures ou L'importance des belles images / Vincent Durastre. In "Images & mirages @ nanosciences", colloque international organisé par le Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires (LISST) de l'Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail, le Centre d'Élaboration de Matériaux et d'Études Structurales (CEMES) rattaché à l'Institut de Physique du CNRS et le Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de Nano-Objets (LPCNO) de l'INSA Tou
Foundations and Concrete - Quiz
Pupils will; know terms relating to foundations, understand the key principles of foundation design and the use of concrete, revise the material.
