Elementary GLOBE: Cloudscape
A learning activity for the "Do You Know That Clouds Have Names?" book in the Elementary GLOBE series. Using information from the book and their observations, students construct a sky scene with trees and buildings as reference points on the ground and cloud types ordered by altitude in the sky. Students will describe clouds using their own vocabulary and will then correlate their descriptions with the standard classifications of cloud types used by the GLOBE Program. The purpose of the activity
Movin' In at Southwest
New UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy demonstrated some smooth moves as he and his, wife, Mala helped new students move into Kennedy Tower Aug. 30 in preparation for the new academic year.
Europe Week Ahead: Beware euro reality check
Sept. 14 - Major bond auctions, a slew of euro zone data and key talks on Spain's regional debt will test the region's mounting optimism next week.
Breakingviews: Bank breakups Spanish-style
Sept 14 - Breakingviews editors explain what Citigroup boss Vikram Pandit could learn from Santander's Emilio Botin when it comes to the industry's existential conundrum.
Designing a generic career studies module
This module has been designed in order to model the process of course construction in career studies. It is not intended to be treated prescriptively. The process of curriculum construction is a creative and imaginative activity that involves carefully selecting certain topics and not others. It is this process of creative judgement that the material below is designed to model and support.
This Day in History January 28: Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes
On this day in 1986, the Challenger shuttle lifted off. Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground stared in disbelief as the shuttle exploded in a forking plume of smoke and fire. Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors. (1:00)
Breakingviews - Wanted: steel nerves!
Sept. 4 - Stock investors should hold their nerve in the wake of the summer rally on equity markets, says Reuters Breakingviews.
Upping the ante
Professor Stefan Wolff looks at the motives for this announcement and what implications it has for the region and for the rest of the world.
Professor Wolff is Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Crisis Management
In this podcast reaction to Russian plans to enhance military and "strategic nuclear" capabilities.
The DIM Hypothesis [The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out • By Leonard Peikoff • New American Library, 2012 • xvi + 378 pages] Disciplinary Thinking - List of Resources Media Research Careers - Getting started with LinkedIn Starr Forum: Showdown in the Sonoran Desert (Book Talk with Ananda Rose) Starr Forum: Book Talk with Ananda Rose How can we preserve the integrity of sovereign borders while also respecting the dignity of human beings? How should a border -that imaginary line in the sand- be humanely and effectively maintained? And how should we regard "the stranger" in our midst? Ananda Rose holds a doctorate from Harvard University. She is a published poe Concept Question: Viscous stress conventions ECB banking supervision should begin Jan 2013 - EU's Barnier Windows Store now open to developers from 120 different markets! The Windows Store blog announced today that the store is now open to a massive number of developers, from across 120 different markets. From their post: DECISION-MAKING and PROBLEM SOLVING Of Visions, Dreams and Reality; Sustainable Housing in Perspective (Inaugural Lecture - Professor Ma Little Book of Information Skills start your research Learn French - Unit 6
Description: An overview of all resources within the themes for the Disciplinary Thinking project.
Theme: Overview of all themes
Subject: HE - Education
Author: Colleen McKenna and Jane Hughes: HEDERA, 2012
Owner: The University of Bath
Audience: Educational developers within accredited programmes and courses in higher education.
Issue Date: 6/09/2012
Version: Final
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. (CC-BY-SA 2.0)
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Part 2, Panel 4, Day 2 of the Way of Knowing After Atrocity colloquium. Part of the Ways of Knowing After Atrocity: A Colloquium on the Methods used to Research, Design and Implement Transitional Justice Processes (Hosted by Oxford Transitional Justice Research in collaboration with the Transitional Justice Data Base Project) 28-29 June 2012, St. Antony's College, Oxford. Please see http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/OTJRColloquiumNew.php
This screen cast will give you a brief overview of LinkedIn and explain how you can register and set up your own LinkedIn profile. You will be given best practice advice to create an effective personal profile.
Showdown in the Sonoran Desert Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy
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Sept. 10 - The ECB's supervision of all euro zone banks should be phased in starting January 2013. So says EU commissioner Michel Barnier, who also expects Germany will come on board with his proposals.
Today's an especially great day to be a developer. We're very excited to announce the last significant milestone in the rollout of the Windows Store before the general availability of Windows 8 on October 26. The Store is now open for app submissions from all developers – individuals and companies – in our supported mar
Welcome to Decision-Making and Problem Solving, one of the series of Futures workbooks, which help students choose and prepare for their careers. Like the other workbooks in the series you can dip in and out doing the exercises which are most relevant to you. You might want to include the exercises or the output in your personal development plan or e-portfolio
The inaugural lecture of Professor Malcolm Bell, Downing Chair in Surveying and Sustainable Housing, was held on Tuesday 18 May 2010. Professor Bell's lecture titled "Of Visions, Dreams and Reality; Sustainable Housing in Perspective" explored the issues and challenges of making very large reductions in carbon emissions from housing. It drew on some 20 years of research work in the Buildings, Energy and Sustainability research group, which is part of the Centre for the Built Environment (CeBE) a
Leeds Metropolitan University Library Little Book of Information Skills.
Learn French - Unit 6. This lesson will have to be broken down into smaller units for classroom digestion. The native speaker starts with masculine and feminine adjectives. (01:28:33)
