First Readers
World's first electric car hits the road - again
Jan. 12 - The latest in electric-powered cars are being unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show this month but the vehicle that started it all is making a debut of its own in Germany. Engineers at a private museum near the city of Speyer, have recreated a working version of the world's first electric car, originally presented 130 years ago by two Englishmen, William Ayrton and John Perry. Rob Muir reports.
Oh Metadata! by Librarian Phil Shapiro: Metadata is data about data.
Running time 3:00. Metadata is data about data. Keywords, Tags, and Description are Metadata. Video Phil Shapiro sings a song about Meta Data that shot in the public library where he works in Takoma Park, Maryland. The melody is the old spiritual, "Oh, Happy Day." Watch Know Learn uses metadata to help catalog / sort your videos in their databases and retrieve the video when someone searches for a topic in Watch Know Learn. Tags can be used for sorting Metadata. As the v
Stocks rally; oil below $100
Jan. 12 - Summary of business headlines: Wall Street posts gain as oil drop below $100 offsets retail, jobless concerns; Target launches boutique shops within stores; US Air, others consider American Airlines purchase, sources say. Conway G. Gittens reports.
Darwin's Frog--Physical Appearance
This short video gives excellent real life, close up footage of the physical appearance of a Darwin's Frog. Discovered by Charles Darwin in the thick, gloomy forests of southern-central Chile, Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma darwinii) possesses a distinctive appearance and an unusual biology. The head of this species has a triangular appearance due to the presence of a pronounced, fleshy proboscis that projects from the tip of the snout. This is a great resource to help build background kno
Cross Product Area - Problem 3 of 3
This video is a continuation and presents another example that demonstrates how to use the cross product to find the area of a triangle. (3:16)
Darwin's Frog--An Overview
This short video gives excellent real life footage of several Darwin's Frogs. Discovered by Charles Darwin in the thick, gloomy forests of southern-central Chile, Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma darwinii) possesses a distinctive appearance and an unusual biology. The head of this species has a triangular appearance due to the presence of a pronounced, fleshy proboscis that projects from the tip of the snout. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real w
Otis Artist Book Collection: Susan King "Lessons from the South"
Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books is a group exhibition featuring approximately 120 works from OTIS Millard Sheets Library's Special Collection of 2,100 artists books dating from the 1960s to the present. The Otis Artists' Book Collection is one of the largest in Southern California. It houses a wide range of works representing every genre of artists' books.
Exhibition: January 25 -- March 30, 2014
http://www.otis.edu/ben-maltz-gallery
The French Summer School - Dans la Cuisine, Part 2
The native French speaker in this video show how to order a meal with preferences during this four-minute video. The speaker recites the meal preferences while images and French words appear on the screen. The viewer may have been better served if each phrase was said more than once and slower.
Bio-technology in Africa
Florence Muringi Wambugu talks about the contribution of bio-technology, including GM crops, for improving the sustainable livelihoods of resource poor families in Africa.
Black and Gold
Meet the soft-spoken member of the Vanderbilt a cappella group The Melodores who has taken on celebrity status at Vanderbilt for his remix of a popular Wiz Khalifa song into a Vanderbilt anthem. Get ready to have Nick Wells’ contagious hip hop remix “Black and Gold” running through your head all day.
Photo Slideshow: Thousands of Patches, Millions of Stitches
UA alumnus Paul Nosa is raising $7,500 via Kickstarter to travel across the nation to share his work: Sewing art powered by solar energy and a bicycle electric generator. Nosa's aim is to encourage people to tap more deeply into their creative and to also rely more heavily on alternative energy sources.
English and Black History: Reading "Roll of Thunder"
Lesson ObjectiveStudents examine elements of the American Civil Rights Movement. Questions to ConsiderWhat types of questions does Ms. Marquis pose to guide students in analyzing Roll of Thunder?How does "micro-teaching" by students make the lesson more meaningful?Notice that students complete additional research to prepare for "micro-teaching"Common Core StandardsELA.SL.8.1a
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Day of Commencement Information
Information for Grads and their Guests on the day of the ceremony.
Radio Lingua Network News: 26 September 2008
Happy European Day of Languages to all our listeners! By way of joining in this international celebration of languages and language-learning we're delighted to introduce eight new podcasts today. We're adding Catalan, Danish, French, Japanese, Mandarin and Romanian to our One Minute Languages series; we're introducing our first podcast for English learners - Write Back Soon will help learners master Phrasal Verbs; and we're finally announcing the long-awaited sequel to Coffee Break Spanish: it's
Kemp's Ridley Turtle Hatchlings Emerging From Nest
This short video gives excellent real life footage of baby Ridley Turtles hatching and emerging from their nest in the sand. Kemp’s ridley turtle is the most severely endangered marine turtle in the world; in the 1980s only a few hundred females were observed nesting, although the population is now showing signs of recovery. It is also one of the smallest turtles, with adults weighing less than 45 kilograms. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make
Arizona Now
Arizona Now, the largest campaign in the University of Arizona's history, aims to reach a $1.5 billion fundraising goal. The public phase of the campaign was launched on April 11 with events such as lectures from researchers, tours of key campus buildings and labs. There was also the Expo of Excellence, which showcased student and researcher projects.
11.027 City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities: New Orleans (MIT)
City to City, as a class, will jump into the complexity of planning in New Orleans, a post-disaster city. City-to-City will ask how a post-disaster city grapple with its ideas of identity, what it is, who it represents, and how it projects its sense of self to residences, businesses, tourists, and to the outside world. In considering its people, how do city planners think about who lives where and why? At the same time, how can city planners celebrate a city's history and its culture and how can
Instalaciones I. Grado en IngenierÃa de Edificación
La asignatura Instalaciones I tiene como objetivo general que el alumno adquiera los conocimientos fundamentales de las instalaciones presentes en la edificación mediante el aprendizaje de los conceptos básicos, la terminologÃa, la teorÃa y la metodologÃa necesarias para que el alumno sea capaz de entender, plantear y resolver una instalación.
