Family Traditions
This lesson is a follow-up to the lesson "Who's Your Mama? A Family Who's Who" and is mainly based on "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia Rylant; therefore, family structure including titles or roles is assumed to be prior knowledge for this lesson.
Human characters
Our international editor discusses the work and legacy of Vasily Grossman, the Russian novelist
Karrah Miller
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La laïcité dans l'Union européenne / Jean Baubérot
La laïcité dans l'Union européenne. Jean Baubérot. Conférence donnée en mars 1995 dans le cadre de l'Institut d'Études Doctorales (IED) de l'Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail (France). Présentation par le sociologue Jean-Michel Berthelot, directeur de l'IED.
GULP: Bloodhound SSC: An engineering adventure
Dan Johns, engineer for Bloodhound SSC, the latest attempt at the land speed World record, talks about his involvement with the project.
Changing Decimals Into Percents
This teacher-created video explains changing decimals to percents by moving the decimal point two places to the right. Examples are written on a white board as they are explained. ( 1:06)
BIM.BON . A BIM system for architectural practice in Brazil
This article discusses the difficulties faced by the BIM (Building Information Modeling) systems to be widely adopted among most part of architecture and engineering professionals in Brazil. A revision of the issue and investigation of possibilities for improving the practice of architecture were made by creating a new model of BIM software addressed to a wider audience. It lists the main critical points in the usability of BIM software, based on a survey made with 300 professionals. The analysi
Performative architecture as a guideline for transformation: Defense Line of Amsterdam
Performance as an architectural design paradigm has been emerging during the recent years. We have developed an understanding that we formalized as a taxonomy for performative architecture that considers performance from three points of view: health, safety and security performance; functional and efficiency performance; and psychological, social, cultural, and esthetic performance. This paper focuses on a design project that explores these ideas as a performative architecture proposal. The proj
Methodological Approach for the Integration of Material Information and Performance in the Design Co
As computational design processes have moved from representation to simulation, the focus has shifted towards advanced integration of performance as a form defining measure. Performance, though, is often assessed purely on the level of geometry and stratified between hierarchically independent layers. When looking at tension-active membrane systems, performance is integrated across multiple levels and with only the membrane material itself, defining the structural, spatial and atmospheric qualit
HyperStudio, with executive director Kurt Fendt Fendt: What's really exciting about the work we do in HyperStudio is to explore the possibility -- the potential -- of digital media for learning and research in the humanities and social sciences. [...] In the humanities, we have to be the ones who influence the technical development because we want the tools that are helpful for us. We want specific humanities tools that work in a digital environment so that we can actually do the research and the teaching and the
DifferenceMakers: Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth
The Military and Family Research Institute at Purdue has been on the front lines of for more than 10 years, with 20 professionals, 20 student employees and faculty partners across campus.
The institute:
• supports the military infrastructure that supports families.
• engages civilian communities to help
• researches problems and identify solutions that work.
• Influences policies, programs and practices
http://www.purdue.edu/differencemakers/wadsworth.html
University of Pennsylvania Convocation 2011
On the evening before the first day of classes, the newest students got a chance to participate in their first University tradition — Convocation, the ceremonial welcome into the Penn academic community.
Nearly 2,500 freshman and 129 transfer students attended the ceremony, the first time the Class of 2015 marched as a group.
Convocation is considered one bookend of their life at Penn. The class will march together for Hey Day in their junior year, and they will walk together the final time
What Makes You, You Quiz
This OLogy activity helps kids understand how intertwined nature and nurture can be. The activity begins with an overview of nature and nurture, explaining how we are products of both. A printable 18-question quiz challenges kids to examine some of their distinguishing traits more closely, determining if nature is solely behind their hair colors, dessert preferences, and other traits. Kids then are asked to give the same test to a friend or family member and examine how and why their answers are
Bernanke keeps mum
Sep 8 - Federal Reserve Chaiman Ben Bernanke offered no bold new ideas on what to do to fix the economy. Speaking in Minneapolis, the Fed Chairman left the audience clueless on what the next step will be. Carmen Roberts reports.
Obama unveils job plan
Sept. 8 - U.S. President Barack Obama said the United States faces a "national crisis" as he urged Congress to act quickly on a job-creation plan. Rough Cut. (No reporter narration)
The Academic Climate and Setting for Creativity and Innovation
An episode of The Discovery Series, presented by the UGA College of Education.
The Academic Climate and Setting for Creativity and Innovation'
Presented by Dr. Mark Runco
Torrance Professor of Creativity Studies
UGA College of Education
The University of Georgia
copyright © 2011
DifferenceMakers: Amit Varma
Varma and his team designed a system made up of heating panels to simulate the effects of fire on steel structures. The panels have electrical coils, like giant toaster ovens, and are placed close to the surface of the specimens. As the system simulates the effects of fire, test structures are subjected to forces with hydraulic equipment to mimic the loads experienced in buildings.
http://www.purdue.edu/differencemakers/varma.html
This Week @Minnesota: First day of school, Goldy trains and Folwell reopens
In "This Week @Minnesota" for the week of September 6-9, we talk to some students about what they are most excited about on the first day of school, get a sneak peek of Goldy's training routine and attend the grand reopening ceremony for the newly-renovated Folwell Hall.
Darden Remembers 9-11
As we approach the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon, as well as the downing of hijacked United Flight 93 over Pennsylvania; Darden 2nd year student Christopher Ahn gives his personal perspectives and emotions from that fateful day during a special commemorative First Coffee gathering on September 8, 2011.
PediNeuroLogic Exam: 3 Month Old: Normal: Cranial Nerves
The vestibulo-ocular reflex evokes a full range of conjugate eye movements. The baby should also be able to visually track 180 degrees in the horizontal plane. Facial expression is full and symmetric. A neuroscience tutorial focusing on those aspects of the pediatric neurological examination that are unique to the child's nervous system, with an emphasis on important neurodevelopmental milestones.
