Apollo 11: One Small Step
This is a NASA animated reenactment of the events of Apollo 11. The video tells a brief history of the entire mission and includes original audio clips. (02:33)
Josephine: -ight-
Watch Josephine as she sells some interesting items to her friends and neighbors. The goal for this segment is word family -ight-. (0:30)
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The Future of the Present: Faculty Imagine the FAS at 400 - Conversations@FAS
How will the digital revolution transform the FAS in 25 years? How could the role of individual scholars change as access to and quantities of data exponentially increase? What function should the Harvard campus serve when virtual classrooms can reach across the world? How should universities allocate their resources, physically and financially, as new technologies demand and enable fresh collaborations? Join us for two panel discussions that imagine how current trends may transform the way Harv
Banking and the Business Cycle This rare study by C.A. Phillips, together with T.F. McManus and R.W. Nelson, appeared in 1937 as an Austrian-style analysis of the stock market crash and the great depression that followed.
It explores the many theories tossed about at the time, and concludes that the theory "here developed may be called a 'central banking' explanation of the depression. The depth and duration of the depression are held to be the ineluctable consequences of the preceding boom. That boom could never have
Ping 137: Kinect illusionist, Kintext, R.I.P. XP, Lumias! We got a new set! Well, sorta. We virtually got a new set. We definitely got a new VIRTUAL set
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An Introduction to Project-Based Learning
In this 3:34 long video advocates giving up curriculum in terms of learning something on a certain day in favor of learning by completing projects or hands on learning. Several examples are given.
Game On! How Playful Learning Works Alex Games, Ph.D., Education Design Director, Microsoft
Kodu, a game-based learning environment is designed to introduce children to computational thinking and programming, giving them identities as game designers within online communities. The presentation will discuss the way in which Kodu allows young learners to use their experience as gamers to explore the key computational principles, thinking, and activities in computer science and engineering that lie “under the hood&
Moodle 2.0 Lesson - part 3
This lesson shows you how to create a cluster of questions in your lesson, that are then displayed to the student in a random order until all questions have been seen. It continues from the previous lesson where we created questions in our lesson. (02:56)
Sam Huntington's New Hampshire
In this video about New Hampshire, Sam Huntington talks about common New Hampshire slang such as wicked, how they have the best maple syrup, and how the best and worst things about New Hampshire are its seasons. (2:17)
Authors at Google presents Austin Kleon: Steal like an Artist
Austin describes himself as a writer who draws.
After seeing Austin's found poetry collection Newspaper Blackout, Broome Community College invited him to deliver their commencement address. Austin shared the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was graduating, most notably, "Steal like an artist." Once Austin posted the talk on his website, it instantly went viral. To date, the original post has been read by 1.5 million people. He has shared his ideas with audiences at TEDx, SXSW
Leonardo da Vinci (Sung to tune of "Dear Prudence" as performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees)
This is a good video to introduce older students to the life of Leonard da Vinci. Sung to the tune of "Dear Prudence", students will learn that Da Vinci could write backwards and was a vegetarian. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between Art History and the classroom. (3:26)
Friesen Conference 2011: Opening remarks and welcome
Growing Old in a Changing Climate:
Exploring the Interface Between Population Aging and Global Warming
Opening remarks and welcome:
Dr. Andrew Sixsmith,
Conference Chair, Simon Fraser University, Gerontology Research Centre
Dr. Laurie Anderson,
Executive Director of Simon Fraser University Vancouver Campus
Dr. Margaret MacDiarmid,
Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors to the Minister of Health
More info: http://www.sfu.ca/grc/friesen/friesen2011/
Pt. 2: Friday Games @ GAMBIT: Step Up To The Gayme Bar Part 2 of 2. This totally recursive edition of Friday Games at GAMBIT from May 11th, 2012 featured two special guests: Jason Toups and Jeremiah Bratton, hosts of the wonderful podcast Gayme Bar, your "weekly dose of gay gaming geekiness." These two Southern belles grace the world every week with their insightful, snarky, and fabulously funny critiques of games, the game industry, and game culture (amongst many other things) and they
Sort it Out: -oo- (Interactive Game)
Sort it Out focuses on letters that make more than one sound. Players have to sort words by letter sound to complete the game. The goal for this game is vowel combination -oo-.
"Who Let the Letters Out?" Song by Dr. Jean
Dr. Jean's "Who Let the Letters Out?" with pictures for suggested gestures. This is a great resource to introduce and/or review the Alphabet letters and sounds in the early childhood classroom. (2:06)
ISS Update - May 31, 2012
The International Space Station video update for May 31, 2012.
USAWC Class of 2012 Seminar 11
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Extreme Derivative Word Problem (advanced)
A difficult but interesting derivative word problem. (23:13)
