FIRST Lego League Competition
FIRST Lego League Competitions are held all over the United States and Canada to give kids a fun way to engage with math, science and technology. Guided by adult mentors, students use their own imagination to design and build robots made of Legos to perform tasks and navigate obstacles as part of the competition. This regional tournament is held each year at the University of Rochester. For more information, visit http://www.firstrochester.org/
Deposit@Harvard
"Deposit@Harvard" enables the user to submit scholarship simultaneously to multiple internal and external repositories. By developing a tool to facilitate the deposit of scholarship into Harvard's DASH and other open access repositories, we are showing our continued commitment to the dissemination of open access scholarship to a global community.
Parents of the Field - Asbjorn Eide
As a member of the generation of Scandinavian scholars who launched 'peace research' as a serious study in the 1960s, Asbjørn Eide's career has also been focused by his interest in the potential use of the law as a conflict resolution
How Animals & Humans Quench Thirst in the Desert
A documentary of humans and animals find water in the desert.
Information Literacy in the Wild
In this text, you will see information literacy examined from the perspective of students in the School of Education and the School of Information at the University of Michigan. The diversity of these perspectives contribute to new understandings and realizations as their divergent backgrounds, experiences, aspirations, and influences, both in libraries and 'in the wild', are examined in common. Their findings lend a fresh perspective to the existing body of literature on information literacy.
Online Digital Atlas Viewer
Online Digital Atlas Viewer allows digitized atlases to be "read" as they were meant to be, that is, spatially, not in page order.Atlases are not like other books, read sequentially page by page. Atlases are meant to be explored spatially, jumping from one page to the next based on proximity.
QR Codes in the Library: A Window to Online Research Services
QR Codes in the Library is a pilot project in the Loeb Music Library, which will result in a "best practices" guide for use across the Harvard Library, linking materials in the stacks with on-line resources, via smartphone. By posting QR codes in specific subject areas of the stacks, smartphone users can instantly access relevant research guides and other library information services.
Yana: An Open Source Template for Scholarly Journals to Develop Mobile Applications
Yāna is a light-weight, modular, open source template within which publishers can develop their own mobile applications for open access journals.
Plastics at GRCC
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Motion Equations for Constant Acceleration in One Dimension
OpenStax College
Week 4 Pt. 4: Islam
Hermeneutics of Islam, including culture.
10.5 Overall levels of scientific understanding Hargreaves, I., Lewis, J. and Speers, T. ‘Towards a better map: Science, the public and the media’, Economic and Social Research Council. Both surveys asked the same 13 questions in order to establish levels of public understanding of science or science policy. The questions were designed to test a basic (rather than advanced) knowledge of the science or research, with particular emphasis on exploring the policy and political developments in relation to scientific issues. It
OZONE presentation 2013: Unattended moments
Simone Celine marshall discusses the medieval imagery used by Modernist writers to explain metaphysical experiences. The Ozone research talks were presented in September 2013
Kahepaiksed - tunnikava
Tunnikava kahepaiksetest
Copying A Sheetin into a Workbook
Marquette University Engineers Without Borders
Marquette University's chapter of Engineers Without Borders is launching an Indiegogo campaign to fund their next trip to Guatemala. All funds raised will go toward the construction of a pedestrian bridge for the indigenous community of Xepepen. Learn more at http://igg.me/at/ewb
Trading at Noon: Wall Street gains on U.S. economic data
Dec. 29 - U.S. stocks are rising today as stronger-than-expected economic data lifts sentiment in a lightly traded session.
Song Thrush Feeding Her Chicks
This short video gives excellent real life footage of a mother Song Thrush feeding her three young chicks. Students will enjoy the close up views of these baby birds. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (Less Than 2 Minutes)
Song Thrush Singing
This short video gives excellent real life footage of a Song Thrush singing in a tree. Students will enjoy this close up view of this songbird. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections between nature and the classroom. (Less Than 2 Minutes)
Destination: New Zealand, Overview
This 3:40 long video shows the landscapes and cities of this country. The diversity of the country is stressed. The differences between the southern and northern islands are explained.
