Improve Your Acrylic Painting
This 3:43 long video shows Terry Harrison demonstrating simple exercises for watercolor and oil painting techniques using acrylics. It is a useful video with good tips
"Rainy Day" Song by the Milkshake Kids
Another fun fine animation by Sam Tillman. "Rainy Day" is a song from the Milkshake Kids. Students will learn about all the things you can do in the rain. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge about the weather and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (1:42)
Duccio, The Virgin and Child, c. 1315
Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Aurea, c. 1315, tempera on wood, 42.5 x 34.5 cm (National Gallery, London). (3:43)
Convicts and the making of Australia: Grace Karskens
On Wednesday 15 May, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and University of NSW historian, Associate Professor Grace Karskens, presented the ANU School of History 2012 Allan Martin lecture, Shifting the shape of Australian history: Convicts, the early colonial period and the making of Australia.
Karskens' lecture questioned why Australian history still routinely quarantines our convict legacy and the early colonial period.
Professor David Shambaugh: China goes global, but only partially
In this video world-renowned China scholar Professor David Shambaugh examines China's place in a global world. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Shambaugh argues that China is not a superpower but rather a 'partial power'. Based on a five-year study which has culminated in his latest book, China goes global: the partial power, Shambaugh argues that rather than 'rising', China is 'spread' across the globe -- with a growing international footprint that is broad but not deep.
David Shambaugh is a
Discovery Kids - Doki descubre como se hace el pan (en español)
La mascota de Discovery Kids, Doki, descubre cómo se convierte el trigo al pan. Buen video para niños en primaria. (.56)
Tides with Tim and Moby
Take a night swim with Tim and Moby in this BrainPOP movie as they
discover how the Moon controls tides on Earth and how tides provide us with energy! The link also includes a quiz. (approximately 2:00)
12.158 Molecular Biogeochemistry (MIT)
This course covers all aspects of molecular biosignatures, such as their pathways of lipid biosynthesis, the distribution patterns of lipid biosynthetic pathways with regard to phylogeny and physiology, isotopic contents, occurrence in modern organisms and environments, diagenetic pathways, analytical techniques and the occurrence of molecular fossils through the geological record. Students analyze in depth the recent literature on chemical fossils. Lectures provide background on the subject mat
01.06.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten
Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Freitag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
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Bundesaußenminister Guido Westerwelle hat Russland aufgefordert, seine Haltung im Syrien-Konflikt zu überdenken. Westerwelle sagte der Zeitung "Die Welt", Russland komme eine Schlüsselrolle zu, um einen Flächenbrand in der gesamten Region zu verhindern. Das könne nur gelingen, wenn die internationale Gemeinschaft zusammenstehe. US-Außenminister
Redoxtitraties : Practicum In dit practicum bepaal je door middel van titratie:
(titreervloeistof: kaliumpermanganaatoplossing);
Japanese Popular Culture, Spring 2003
This course examines Japanese popular culture as a way of understanding the changing character of media, capitalism, fan communities and culture. Topics include manga (comic books), hip-hop and other popular music in Japan, anime (Japanese animated films) and feature films, sports (sumo, soccer, baseball), and online communication. Emphasis will be on contemporary popular culture and theories of gender, sexuality, race, and the workings of power in global culture industries.
Stellar Distance Using Parallax
Stellar Distance Using Parallax. (11:40)
Great Gull Island
On the eastern edge of Long Island Sound, a small, rocky piece of land known as Great Gull Island houses the crumbling battlements of a U.S. Army fort and some 11,000 nesting pairs of Common and Roseate Terns. The American Museum of Natural History purchased the island in 1949 to preserve a breeding habitat for terns displaced from Long Island's beaches by increasing development.
Project director Helen Hays has led the Museum's research efforts on Great Gull Island since 1969. Among the field
L'Art en Question 4 : MARIE-ANTOINETTE & VIGEE-LEBRUN - La 1ère minute en avant-première
Rejoignez www.canal-educatif.fr pour découvrir les épisodes complets de l'Art en Question : gratuit pour les inscrits.
English version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eRwrNyhx3I
En bonus, une interview pour en savoir plus sur Marie-Antoinette et Vigée-Lebrun : http://www.canal-educatif.fr/videos/art/30/vigee-lebrun-art-en-question-4/marie-antoinette-enfants.html
My Five Dinners with Ahmadinejad, featuring Jim Walsh PhD '00 Jim Walsh PhD '00 is one of a small number of Americans who has traveled to North Korea and Iran for talks with officials about nuclear issues. A research associate in the MIT Security Studies Program, he is an international security expert who has testified before the US Senate on terrorism and Iran’s nuclear program. On June 4, 2012, Walsh offered his thoughts on international security, nuclear weapons, and terrorism and took questions from the worldwide MIT community via video
Interview with Annie Manuel, Tohono O’odham Potter
Lisa Falk, ASM director of education, talks with Annie Manuel, a potter from Hickiwan, Arizona, about her art. The interview took place at a Culture Craft Saturday program at Arizona State Museum, May 2007.
Unrelated viral ribonucleases recruit host Xrn1 to enact global mRNA degradation
Talk by Marta Gaglia, University of California Berkeley. http://glaunsingerlab.berkeley.edu/mgaglia
Video Flash Cards: Subtraction by 1
Sample video using video flash cards to help students learn their Subtraction Tables. There is no sound; just flashcards. If opened to 'full screen', the flashcards are large enough to be seen in a classroom on a laptop screen. (02:36)
How to Do Polynomial Operations
This 3:24 video shows how to do polynomials. The lecture format explains this process, but moves fairly rapidly and so the teacher may have to stop or pause the video to check for understanding.
Growing Bugs
"What? Growing bugs is a real job? And it requires math?!" Organic
farmers depend on Jan Dietrick to supply them with good bugs that attack bad bugs. She depends on her knowledge of numbers to get the job done.This video explains what she does and why it is important. Running time 1:19 minutes
