Lyudmila Burlaka, a Kherson Jew, escapes the grim fate of Kherson Jewry
Lyudmila Burlaka, who was born in 1935 in Kherson and lived there during the war years, describes how, together with other Jews, she was taken to be shot, how her mother pushed her out of a group of Kherson Jews doomed to death into a crowd of local spectators. She recounts how she was wounded by machine-gun fire but saved by local residents.
For more information: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?site_id=214
EAHA Day 3 Session 5C: Floods And Landslides Lecture
Universities in the Eastern Africa Region have come together to implement an initiative Health Emergency Management Program (HEMP) that will build the capacity of local governments in the region to manage and plan for response to major disasters of public health importance. The Eastern African Region is prone to many natural and technological disasters of different kinds. There is not one nation in the region that is not vulnerable to the devastating effects of these disasters. Many of these dis
Networks: Theory and Application
SI 508 has been taught in various forms from 2006 to 2008 to masterŐs students at the University of Michigan School of Information. The course covers topics in network analysis, from social networks to applications in information networks such as the Internet. I will introduce basic concepts in network theory, discuss metrics and models, use software analysis tools to experiment with a wide variety of real-world network data, and study applications to areas such as information retrieval.As a ne
Networked Computing: Storage, Communication, and Processing
SI 502 - To appreciate the opportunities and make wise choices about the use of technology, information professionals need to understand the architectures of modern information systems. In alternative system architectures, storage, communication, and processing substitute for and complement each other in different ways. This course introduces students, at several different levels of abstraction, to sets of functional components and alternative ways of combining those components to form systems.
Digital Government 1: Information Technology and Democratic Politics
SI 532 / SI 732 - Course is the first in a two-part sequence exploring contemporary practices, challenges, and opportunities at the intersection of information technology and democratic governance. Whereas the second course focuses on challenges and innovations in democratic administration, this first course focuses on theories and practices of democratic politics and the shifting role of information technologies in supporting, transforming, and understanding these. The first half of the course
Digital Government 2: Information Technology and Democratic Administration
This seven-week course is the second in a two-part sequence exploring contemporary practices, challenges, and opportunities at the intersection of information technology and democratic governance. This second half of the course takes on emerging directions in democratic administration Đ and the shifting role of information technologies in supporting, transforming, and understanding these. The course locates recent and emerging digital or e-government initiatives in historical, institutional, an
Michigan Journal of Social Work and Social Welfare
The Mission of the Michigan Journal of Social Work and Social Welfare is to promote dialogue about knowledge, values, skills, and social justice-related issues by providing students the opportunity to contribute to the social work body of literature. Founded by students at the University of Michigan School of Social Work in 2010, this journal aims to also serve as a forum for students to express their perspectives and their learning in a way that contributes to our profession and is committed to
IPL: Professor Tony Ballantyne - Knowledge and Communication in Colonial Otago
Professor Tony Ballantyne presents his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the topic of “Knowledge and Communication in Colonial Otago”. 8 May 2012
IPL: Professor Tony Ballantyne - Knowledge and Communication in Colonial Otago
Professor Tony Ballantyne presents his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on the topic of “Knowledge and Communication in Colonial Otago”. 8 May 2012
Secure Online Communications
A general introduction to planning for a more secure information and communications environment. Three units are currently available in this module: Access control (passwords and firewalls), Guarding against data loss, Hushmail, Information security planning.
Letter to Sarah Logue
In this video clip, Actor Benjamin Bratt reads a letter from a runaway slave to his former master. (3:17)
Multirate Filtering: Introduction (Thai Version)
A sample-rate compressor removes (D-1) of every D input samples. A sample-rate expander inserts (U-1) zeros after every input sample.
Promethean Tips - Flipchart Pages
Speak Italian with Your Mouth Full - Lesson 8, part 1 (The Mediterranean Diet, part 1) ESG seminar on Italian language, culture, and food: ES.S41, Lesson 8, part 1 (1 of 3). Lecture notes available at:
http://speakcookitalian.blogspot.com/2012/04/lezione-numero-otto-la-dieta.html
Lyndon Johnson Signs Voting Rights Act
On August 6, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. In a speech delivered at the signing ceremony, Johnson describes the historic day as a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield. (4:41)
TED ED - Pick of the week Each Week we will be rummaging through TED-ED for the best video lessons to share with your students. This weeks video is One or One: Or is it? One bag of apples, one apple, one slice of apple -- which of these is one unit? Explore the basic unit of math (explained by a trip to the grocery store!) and discover the many meanings of one.