Transformed Workplaces
In this Wide Angle video, learn about the transformation of the Indian workplace due to a new influx of young, mostly female workers into India's outsourcing industries.
The Great Gravity Escape
Students use water balloons and a length of string to understand how gravity and the velocity of a spacecraft balance to form an orbit. They see that when the velocity becomes too great for gravity to hold onto an object, the object escapes the gravity of the sun or planet that it orbits.
Careers with Automobiles
Many of you have not put much thought into what careers are available in the the field of automotive technology. Many of you chose to "turn wrenches" because you like working on cars. But did you know the positions available to you are larger than you can imagine. Because of our lack of proximity to many of the auto manufacturers and their suppliers here in the intermountain area, this activity will help you broaden your horizons and outlook for employment.
Wild Wind
Students will learn the difference between global, prevailing and local winds. In this activity, students will make a wind vane out of paper, a straw and a soda bottle and use it to measure wind direction over time. Finally, they will analyze their data to draw conclusions about the prevailing winds in their area.
Graphing Linear Equations and Inequalities: Graphing Linear Equations in Two Variables
This module contains the a graphing linear equations and inequalities from Elementary Algebra by Denny Burzynski and Wade Ellis, Jr.
Do While Loop
An introduction to the do while control structure with examples in the C++ programming language.
Dialogue - intro to the Aeneid.
have a look at John Piazza's useful website.
(Just Google for John Piazza Latin)
if you have not yet encountered John's website, I highly recommend it.
John is one of the moderators over at Latin Best Practices - also a very useful resource and email list, where everyone of any consequence in the English speaking latin language educational community, intereste in a communicative approach to Language learning, is signed up as a member.
(once again, just google for it, it is a yahoo based list)
Medical Instrumentation
Students will discuss the special considerations that must be made when dealing with the human body, and will gain an appreciation for the amazing devices that have improved our quality of life. They will also explore how " ËœForm Fits Function'. This lesson should serve as a starting point for students to begin to ponder how the medical devices in their everyday lives actually work.
Authors@Google: Peter Sims
Peter Sims spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on May 10, 2011 about his book Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. Peter Sims is introduced by Alana Weiss.
About the book:
"What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the story developers at Pixar films, and the Army Chief of Strategic Plans all have in common? Bestselling author Peter Sims found that all of them have achieved breakthrough results by methodically taking sm
Geograph Fundry FAQ
Information about Geograph in the Fundry Website
Ordnance Survey 50K Map Symbols
A set of images which show the features represented by Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map symbols, with map extracts showing the symbols
Development of Good Living: The Social Transformation Agenda in Ecuador
Editor's note: The lecture is in Spanish language. | This lecture provides an idea of the approach of the Ecuadorian Government to comply with its strategies of "Good Living", a concept developed in recent years that sees growth and economic development as a whole in which includes new indicators and ways to measure it. This concept of "Good Living" is one of the axes of the thought of the "Citizens Revolution". René RamÃrez is the National Secretary of Planning and Development of Ecuador and
Glenastle to Kintra, Islay
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Hans Christian Andersen - Quiz
Answer questions about these fairy tales.
5.6 A way of dealing with social pressures: decoupling Organisations often deal with these social pressures by decoupling responses to these different pressures. The need to appear legitimate in the eyes of important constituencies is met by actions and practices which have a purely ceremonial character: they are done for the sake of appearances and not with any real engagement. The example in Box 5 shows how the Taiwanese subsidiary of a Western multinational uses decou
5.4 The pursuit of legitimacy Social institutions affect which actions are seen as legitimate. As we make decisions in organisations it is common to be concerned not just with economic outcomes but also with ‘legitimacy ’: ‘How will this decision be seen by X ’?; ‘Does this fit the way things are done around here?’; ‘What would happen if the press got hold of this?’; and so on. Some of this can be quite unconscious; the conceptual frameworks and notions of cause and effect that ar
3.2 Summary Modern sport is characterised by stories and heroes. There is enormous interest in the lives of sports celebrities, who become the heroes of the sports stories that the media present. Sports stars may be more ‘real’ than film stars because they actually do what they are famous for (i.e. they really perform athletic feats, they don’t act out parts). Original Copyr "Pirates - A Ballad of John Silver" by John Masefield (poetry reading)
The "pirate voice" that everybody imitates is entirely the invention of Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver and Blackbeard. It is an exaggeration of the accents of men from Devon and Cornwall because many seafaring men came from these counties. Robert Newton, when he wasn't being a pirate, had a remarkably mellifluous voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKcll7AvSE (he enters at 0.20)
Incidentally, International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day is 19th September
Johnny Depp's camp portrayal
