Educational Software
MAIN AIMS OF THE MODULE: To achieve an understanding and practical experience of key principles, methods and theories in the area of educational software.
LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE: The module provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas: 1. Obtain understand of major learning principles, theories, and approaches 2. Identify key factors of successful educational software design a
Time domain method for accurate non-destructive determination of concrete pavement thickness (A)
The material in this thesis focuses on the problem of accurately determining the thickness of a concrete pavement layer via non-destructive means. Existing methods are reviewed, and limitations governing their use outlined. An alternative method based on isolating P-waves reflected off the pavement base in the time-domain is proposed. Potential advantages over established methods are that prior knowledge of P-wave velocity and geometrical correction factors are not required. Furthermore the meth
Expert System Design Assignment
Expert System Design Assignment - Nicholas Gibbins
Keywords:expert system
Classroom Technology Demonstration
This is an excerpt from the March 27, 2006 Okemos Public School Board meeting. Kelly Carrier, a high school science teacher, demonstrates technology tools, ...
Marx - Collapse of Capitalism
Karl Marx (an actor) talks about how capitalism has survived and how it will be eventually destroy itself. He was heavily influenced by the ideas of his contemporary Charles Darwin (which perhaps had an impact on his own ideas - related to religious beliefs). Capitalism's constant greed for more and more profits – turns everything and everyone into commodities - we are just workers under capitalism (according to Marx)! (Contains some anti-religion thoughts). Run time 02:50.
The Miracle In The Ant
This 39-minute documentary video is suitable for older elementary, middle school, and high school students and focuses on the very complex socio-biological system of ants.
Hot Turtle
Amazon river turtles are a vital part of the rainforest ecosystem. Although human activities are directly impacting turtle populations, climate change is also having a devastating effect on their reproductive system, creating an imbalance in the numbers of males and females. In this video segment from Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, observe scientists who are studying this species and developing ways to combat the effects of climate change on their populations. Run time 04:35.
Signifiers in Cyberspace: Pt 4
This symposium draws together a group of speakers who have been involved with ICANN and who have commented on ICANN’s various processes over the last decade or so. They address legal, policy, commercial, practical, and technological issues that have arisen, and continue to arise, as the domain name system develops.
Signifiers in Cyberspace: Pt 1
This symposium draws together a group of speakers who have been involved with ICANN and who have commented on ICANN’s various processes over the last decade or so. They address legal, policy, commercial, practical, and technological issues that have arisen, and continue to arise, as the domain name system develops.
Exploring the Nervous System
A lesson that focuses on the Autonomic Nervous System and includes sympathetic and parasympathetic processes of the body.
Plant Identification
the naming and classification system as applied to plants - part of the process of plant identification.
2009: The Exploration of the Solar System (Brahic)
 The video is a lecture by Andre Brahic about the exploration of the solar system. Andre has a strong French accent and is somewhat difficult to understand at times. Run time 30:00.
Jupiter:Â Earth's Shield
More than 155 planets have been found outside of our solar system since the first extra-solar planet was identified in 1995. The search has long been heavily biased towards finding massive planets with short orbits. Now, to find an Earth-like planet, scientists are looking for a planetary setup that is similar to our own, in which a Jupiter-like planet lies a good distance away from its sun. This video segment adapted from NOVA explores how the arrangement of planets in our solar system may have
The Road to Pad Abort 1
At the White Sands Missile Range in Las Cruces, N.M., engineers and technicians are preparing for the Pad Abort 1 flight test. The Launch Abort System is a sophisticated new rocket tower designed to pull a spacecraft away from danger on the pad and initial ascent. For the first time, all the components of the system will work together. The test not only develops core technology needed for future spacecraft, but also directly improves the chances of crew survival in an emergency.
AMNH Explorer App for iPhone & iPod touch
Chart your own course at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City with AMNH Explorer—a new app that is part custom navigation system, part personal tour guide for the Museum's world-famous halls. Providing turn-by-turn directions, AMNH Explorer takes visitors from the edge of the universe to the age of the dinosaurs. Choose from a variety of Museum-designed tours or create your own from a list of popular exhibits, specimens, or artifacts. AMNH Explorer also lets you share your a
AMNH: Cosmic Discoveries iPhone App
The American Museum of Natural History proudly presents American Museum of Natural History: Cosmic Discoveries, the next in its series of innovative apps.
Cosmic Discoveries takes you on a ride with the museum's astrophysicists through our Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, and beyond. Cosmic Discoveries is being launched as part of a year-long series of events to help commemorate the tenth anniversary of the opening of the museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space, a New York City icon and one
Tactile phone
A new system lets you feel what's on your phone screen. Read more here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19510
The HP Phenomenon: Innovation & Business Transformation
[Recorded December 7, 2009]
Hewlett-Packard HP is now (Dec 2009) the largest high-tech company on the globe, with its roots and headquarters in Silicon Valley. However, HP has not always garnered the same attention from authors, historians and the media as given to other technology companies. So, what is it that drove the success of this large and profitable company?
The book, The HP Phenomenon, describes how it came to be that HP never really a computing company got to this leadership posi
The Xerox Alto: A Personal Retrospective
[Recorded: June 4, 2001]
Founded in 1970, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) created, over a relatively short period, a paradigm shift in computing. Many of the technologies in modern personal computers, including high-quality graphical user interfaces featuring windows and icons, computer generated bitmapped graphics, Ethernet networked distributed computing, and laser printing, were mature technologies at PARC by the end of the 1970s.
The platform on which many of these technologies w
Colour on the Thames (1935)
(This is a higher-quality version of one of BFIFilms' most popular titles)
This film is tricky to describe: is it a boat study, a film-poem, an experiment, a picture postcard? One thing is certain: it's a rare colour snapshot of the Thames and London in the 1930s - and it looks quite magical.
Its artistic qualities may look a bit old-fashioned to us today; the slow pace, orchestral music and moody colours definitely belong to a bygone era, strikingly peaceful and undemanding. Yet colour film w
