Great Zoom out from the Kodak Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves fl
Mark Behrens
Professor Mark Behrens reviews in more detail and touches on key elements of his research that the students in video (Student Presentation #5) discussed. In describing his work, Behrens offered "think of looking through color filters." The filters eliminate any unnecessary or unforeseeable data, and when you combine all the filters together, the yield reveals amazing overlaps and patterns.
Seminar 6- USAWC Distance Education Class of 2011
One more challenge faced the senior officers as they celebrated completion of two years of internet-based studies at the Army War College's distance education program. The largest graduation class in college history received their diplomas on a day of record-breaking heat, July 22, at historic Carlisle Barracks.
Marty Curan on Advice to Burgeoning Leaders
Marty Curan (MBA '84)
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Corning
Mountain Bike Tips: Nutrition
This 2:20 video is a review of what foods are recommended for extreme mountain bike riding.
Scientific Pioneers: Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin proposed the principle of conservation of charge and labeled electricity as possessing both positive and negative charges.
Great Zoom out of Siberia
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves fl
"A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" by Lewis Carroll (poetry reading)
This poem anticipates the Imagists by 40 years or so, and is as good an imagist poem as there is. It consists of a succession of what Ezra Pound called "luminous details". Each stanza is like a haiku and embodies a single clear image or idea. Each has 21 syllables, where the traditional haiku has 17, supposedly all that a can be said in a single breath.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagism
The poem is also an acrostic, the initial letters of the lines spelling out ALICE PLEASANCE LIDDELL.
Order of Operations
Created by Chris Collins for middle school students at St Paul Academy and Summit School
How to keeep kids engaged in class I came across this article from Edutopia.org. It is worth a look
Have you ever plunked yourself down in a staff meeting where some of your colleagues we
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Recognizes School Leaders at the Darden School
LeAnn Buntrock, executive director of the Darden/Curry PLE; and Paul Koehler, director of the Southwest Comprehensive Center at WestEd, discuss the challenges faced by school leaders in the U.S. Southwest and how the Darden/Curry PLE is working hard to fix the nation's most troubled school districts.
Urdu Taster Lesson: Parts of the Body - Powerpoint
Urdu Taster Lesson: Parts of the Body - Powerpoint.
history of giftedness
This 3:43 video uses quotes and other graphics to show gifted individuals and insights into their lives'. The video is over at the two minute mark and can be stopped there.
ISS Update - August 19, 2011
The International Space Station video update for Aug. 19, 2011.
De hemelbol De hemelbol Het is nuttig bij de bespreking van objecten in de lucht voor te stellen hen moet worden gehecht aan een bol rond de aarde. Deze fictieve constructie wordt de hemelbol. Op een bepaald moment …
Arab Revolutions in the Making: Not a Perfect Storm [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Fawaz A Gerges | Fawaz Gerges is a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also holds the Emirates Chair of the Contemporary Middle East and is the Director of the Middle East Centre at LSE.
Medieval Castle Animation (Great Britain)Â - 2 of 3
This is an eleven-minute animation of life during medieval times. It appears to be a vintage film as the colors appear faded and the animation seems dated by today's standards. However, the video might be good for visual learners of that time period.
Precast 1: Course Policies
ENHANCED podcast describing course policies for GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY I.
