3.2.1Review your current capabilities, including your preferred learning style Before you begin to plan in detail what you hope to achieve, it is useful to look at relevant examples of previous work or study as well as the feedback you received from different people. This review should help you to confirm those areas you need and/or want to work on. Feedback from others may also point out areas you need to work on which are different from the ones you expected. These areas might relate to specific skills, such as interrogating a database, or they might be more general,
3.1 Introduction to improving own learning and performance This key skill is about helping you understand how you learn; think about how you can improve your own learning and performance, and consider how you might generalise the principles and processes for future learning. You saw in our discussion of ‘A framework for learning’, improving your learning and performance could be considered to be a ‘meta-skill’, that is the skill of learning how to learn. This section, then, is a little different from the other skills sections
Coaching, Counselling and Consulting - Mini Lecture
A mini-lecture which will consider the differences between coaching, consulting and counselling before concluding by considering the characteristics of a good client.
Sharks: Did You Know?
This collection of fun facts is from Sharks and Rays: Myth and Reality, part of the Museum's Seminars on Science series. These distance-learning courses are designed to help educators meet the new national science standards. A brief explanation page is provided for the six fun facts: Did you know sharks can gestate for up to two years? Did you know sharks and rays don't have bones? Did you know sharks and rays are cosmopolitan in distribution? Did you know an individual shark can produce upwards
Liquid Oxygen and Nitrogen
Describes some interesting properties in cryogenic gas.
2.8 Polar form
Number systems and the rules for combining numbers can be daunting. This unit will help you to understand the detail of rational and real numbers, complex numbers and integers. You will also be introduced to modular arithmetic and the concept of a relation between elements of a set.
Java Demography
Java Demography, an application that simulates exponential growth in age-structured populations, enables users to manipulate values for age-specific mortality rates, fertility rates, and initial population characteristics.
Through observation of how population characteristics change through time, users of Java Demography can investigate important questions in population biology, develop a deeper understanding of fundamental population concepts, and explore issues related to population policy.
Sunday Service - 4/3/2011 - Shane Claiborne
A service of Sunday worship in Duke University Chapel. Mr Shane Claiborne delivers a sermon entitled "Dirty Theology."
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THE100 Session 9 Spring 2011
THE100 Television, Film and Theatre Session Nine o4/05/11 Bill DeLuca Guest: George Vinovich
Symbols of Culture
PTPI's Global Youth Murals Project poses a wonderful introduction to the ways in which children around the world represent their cultures through visual art. Using this collection in the Global Gallery, learners can examine different depictions of culture as an entry point to studying cultures of countries around the world. This activity can be an introductory exercise to social studies or world geography research projects.
Dr. Kathy Bolus- Physician Profile
Video profile of Dr. Kathy Bolus, Internal Medicine Physician with Carolina Family Care. She discusses her special interests- including kidney disease and women's health. She graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina and has been with Carolina Family Care for over a decade.
Professional Practice in Libraries and Information Centers, Winter 2009
Builds on the conceptual framework of information needs and the use of information provided in SI 501. In that course the focus is on techniques that information professionals use to understand the needs of people who employ a wide variety of information systems.Emphasis is on professional practice. Professional practice occurs both in institutional settings (including public, academic, special, and school libraries and information centers) and directly between information professionals and clie
The Structure of an Atom
The instructor, with the aid of a whiteboard, demonstrates the structure of an atom. (Although the title is "How to Find Electrons?", the instructor talks about an atom's structure.) (02:09)
News #64 - Score One for Team Android
Android Users - you’ve been heard! Today, it’s all about Android. The leader of the Open Handset Alliance and darling of the open source mobile phone platform, Android has been winning fans all over the world. Compared to what we have in the Apple iTunes store, we’ve been lagging in the [...]
How to Remember the Planets in Order
Remembering the planets in order is as easy as remembering the mnemonic device of saying, "My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas." Remember the planets, with or without Pluto, in order with help from an astrophotographer in this 1:30 minute video. There is also a brief description of each planet and help should Pluto no longer be considered a planet.
Learn About Igneous Rocks
In this video the viewer will learn about igneous rocks. Phrases appear on the screen to highlight the words of the speaker. (01:49)
Bernstein Meets Broadway
The composer Leonard Bernstein once wrote that his now-famous "West Side Story" of 1957 included a plea for racial tolerance as materials reveal in the Bernstein Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. This lecture traces Bernstein's composer-activism back to "On the Town" of 1944, which was his first Broadway show and grew out of a fruitful collaboration with Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jerome Robbins. Produced with a racially integrated cast during WWII, On the Town cr
Kevin Kosar on Whiskey: A Global History
"Whiskey: A Global History" (University of Chicago Press, 2010) is an informative, concise narrative of the drink's history, from its obscure medieval origins to the globally traded product of today. Focusing on three nations -- Scotland, Ireland and the United States -- author Kevin R. Kosar charts how the techniques of distillation moved from ancient Egypt to the British Isles.
Kosar is the founder of AlcoholReviews.com. His writings on alcoholic beverages have appeared in the Oxford Encyclop
