Art and architecture
The Louvre was designed to house a great art collection for the people of France. Was there a plan from the outset to build a canon of work where the relationships between artists, their origins, their schools and faiths could be traced across centuries? And how did architect I.M.Pei persuade President Mitterrand to allow a pyramid to be built at the Louvre? The album goes on to explore how architecture can reflect relationships between different traditions. Two great buildings, Palladio’s chu
1.2 Globalisation is about networks Globalisation is a term that refers to the flows around the world of species, money, goods, ideas, people, etc., and the networks that are integral to these flows. The word is used to attempt to capture a dizzying mix of recent economic, political and socio-cultural developments. The term can also be applied to ecological globalisation. The global transport of people, goods and services has massively increased. Technological and economic networks have developed to smooth trade and econ
Advances in nanotechnology
In this podcast, Professor Moriarty discusses nanotechnology, and how it has led to a convergence of the traditional sciences. He talks about the commercial applications of nanotechnology such as hard disk technology in laptops, stain free materials and fabrics, self-cleaning windows and advanced water filtration.
He also touches on some of the myths about nanotechnology as well as some of the real dangers of Nanotechnology and the steps governments are taking to regulate it.
Professor Moriart
Kew in the digital age
Professor Angela McFarlane explores how The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is using digital media to engage new, global audiences in its science and conservation work.
"Math Snacks" Overruled!
Two besotted rulers must embrace proportional units in order to complete a bridge to unite their lands. It takes mathematical reasoning to deduce the problem, and solution, when engineers from Queentopia and Kingopolis try to build a bridge that meets in the middle of the river.
Overruled! addresses number and operations standards, the algebra standard, and the process standard, as established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It guides students in:
Discovery Channel - Impossible City - Dubai Part 4 of 6
Takes viewers on a journey to explore the eye-popping and often unprecedented engineering feats that are re-shaping Dubai into a model for visionary urban development in the 21st century. Suitable for middle school and high school students.
21L.004 Major Poets (MIT)
This subject is an introduction to poetry as a genre; most of our texts are originally written in English. We read poems from the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries, Romanticism, and Modernism. Focus will be on analytic reading, on literary history, and on the development of the genre and its forms; in writing we attend to techniques of persuasion and of honest evidenced sequential argumentation. Poets to be read will include William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, William Wordsworth,
Something on legal issues
Something on legal issues
Creative Writing Activities for 1st Graders
Lecture- Creative Writing Activities for 1st Graders. Part of the series: Reading, Writing & Education. Possible creative writing activities for first graders include using drawing and illustration in the writing process, making books for the children to write and encouraging pre-writing strategies. (1:49)
Optimize a computer for Mercury Playback Engine
Learn how to set up your system to play back video, even layered HD video with effects, without rendering. This tutorial describes the best hardware and settings for getting the Mercury Playback Engine to deliver great performance and stability.
Fred Donner: "Iraq Before Saddam Hussein"
A talk by Fred Donner, Oriental Institute and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. From the Rethinking America in the Middle East Series, presented by: International House Global Voices Program, the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Human Rights Program
The Gruesome Reality of Civil War Medicine
During the Civil War, battlefield injuries often meant infection, amputation, and surgeries performed by inexperienced doctors. (03:08)
1 Course overview The focus of this course is young people's health and wellbeing, a topic that has received much attention from commentators and policy makers in recent years. Specifically, the course will set out to answer the following core questions: How has young people's health been constructed in public and policy discourse in recent years, and what are the implications for young people and those who work with them? What might an alternati
5.1.2 When are bar charts used? A bar chart is a good method of representation if you want to illustrate a set of data in a way that is as easy to understand as it is simple to read. In general, a bar chart should be used for data that can be counted so, for example, we could use a bar chart to show the number of families with 0, 1, 2 or more children. A bar chart could also be used to show how many people in one area use each of the different modes of transport to get to work. Bar charts are very useful for comparing
Evaluating Websites
This video is in a PowerPoint style. It discusses how to evaluate websites for accuracy. (7:08)
Layers of the Atmosphere - Middle School Podcast
This middle school podcast describes the atmosphere as a shell of gas around the Earth. The video focuses on the multiple layers, temperature, and composition of the air. Video is cut short, but contest is very good. Run time 02:46.
1 Precursors? World War I has a claim to being called the first industrialised war in the sense that, for the first time, the full power of industrial technology was deployed in concentrated ways on the battlefields. During the Second World War, what might be termed industrialised mass killing was employed for the first time – not on the battlefields but in specially designated areas behind the battle fronts. The perpetrators were directed by educated men, little different socially from the bureaucrats i
Conclusion You can experience this free course as it was originally designed on OpenLearn, the home of free learning from The Open University: Author(s): Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: examine practices in relation to working with other professionals in order to make the underpinning knowledge, values and beliefs explicit use a variety of ‘tools’ to examine the knowledge, values and beliefs underpinning a practice identify contradictions between an underpinning knowledge, values and beliefs and a practice identify any requirements for development of a practice a Virtual Maths - 3D shapes, diagram, area, volume
Diagram of 3D shapes with formula for calculating area (and volume)
