The Story of Wakefield
A basic skills learning resource booklet with interactive activities designed to introduce the Wakefield Museum.
Professor Germaine Greer - An Insight - Full Interview
Warning: Explicit Content
Professor Germaine Greer delivered the 2010 Winifred Mercier public lecture at Leeds Met on Tuesday March 23.
Born in Melbourne and educated in Australia and at Cambridge University, Professor Greer's first book, The Female Eunuch (1969), took the world by storm and remains one of the most influential texts of the feminist movement.
She has had a distinguished academic career in Britain and the USA and makes regular appearances in print and other media as a broadcast
E-Portfolio Toolkit - Booklet
This E-Portfolio Toolkit is based on experience of developing the “Year Abroad E-Portfolio”, undertaken by the School of Languages at Leeds Metropolitan University. We use an E-Portfolio to assess our students on their period abroad because we think it encourages them to fully engage with culture(s) and language of the target country and to reflect on the resulting cultural and linguistic development. As part of our project, we have also developed a set of learning activities and materials,
Department of Architecture Lecture Series: Neil Denari
Neil Denari is principal of Neil M. Denari Architects, Inc., and professor of architecture at UCLA. He received his MArch from Harvard University in 1982. He is the recipient of 2005 and 2007 National American Institute of Architecture Awards, a 2005 Progressive Architecture citation, and eight American Institute of Architecture Honor Awards, among others. He […]
2èmes États Généraux de la Formation et de la Recherche Médicales - Un centre de preuves ... Titre : 2èmes États Généraux de la Formation et de la Recherche Médicales - Un centre de preuves en Dermatologie: une évidence! AR5 – ÉVALUATION ET CENTRES DE PREUVES
Intervenant : Laurence LE CLEACH
Animateurs : JM. Chabot (HAS), JL. Dubois-Rande (Doyen Henri Mondor
Paris Est)
Intervenants : J. Blacher (Paris Descartes et animateur de ...
UN overwhelmingly votes to urge end to U.S. embargo on Cuba
Cubans call for the end of the more than 50-year-old Cuban embargo by the United States after the United Nations overwhelmingly backs annual resolution. Nathan Frandino reports.
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1.4.5 M is for Method Method is about the way in which a piece of information is produced. This is quite a complex area as different types of information are produced in different ways. These are a few suggestions to look out for: Opinions - A lot of information is based on the opinion of individuals. They may or not be experts in their field (see P for Provenance) but the key message is to be clear that it is just an opinion and must be valued as such. Research - You don’t have to be a
Where next for public health in the era of austerity?
This event was the second in a series of master class lectures jointly staged by the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University bringing together relevant senior figures and academics from across the city and surrounding region.
The twenty-first century has seen a growth in political, environmental and economic insecurity in the context of global recession, population ageing and climate change. Responding to these threats involves rethinking how we work together, care for ourselves,
Acknowledgements Course image: Farid Iqbal Ibrahim in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and c
Virtual Maths, Shapes, Space and Measure, Sine, Cosine, and Tangent
Interactive simulation, formulae for sine, cosine and tangent
Season 2 – Lesson 17 – Coffee Break Spanish It’s time to put into practice what you’ve been learning about the preterite tense. In this week’s episode Mark challenges Kara to an identity quiz using lots of preterite tenses to describe the lives of the mystery personalities. Please note that lesson 17 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 217 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
Coming up in this lesson:
I Was a Bustle Maker Once, Girls by Patrick Barrington (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Fashion has always been inclined to distort and exaggerate the female form. In the Victorian era the was the hourglass figure and the wasp waist were in vogue. To achieve the effect women wore tightly-laced corsets and were padded above and below, though the notion that some had their lower ribs removed is probably just a rumour. They were covered from neck to toe and a glimpse of stocking was really shocking, as you've probably heard . William Blake said:
When a man has married a wife, he f
Traditions
Students who are #UMNproud discuss some of our many campus traditions, from painting the Washington Avenue bridge to sacrificing a pair of shoes in the name of success.
Bytes by MSDN: Windows Store Ted Dworkin and Tim Huckaby discuss “the most significant opportunity in history for developers” – Windows 8. Learn how the Windows Store was designed and developed to support this unprecedented opportunity. App names are being reserved. Visit GenerationApp for design tips and deve
Virtual Maths - 3D shapes, diagram, area, volume
Diagram of 3D shapes with formula for calculating area (and volume)
Shifts in Aggregate Supply
OpenStax College
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Republican Presidental Candidate Buddy Roemer Speaks at College of Charleston
Republican presidential candidate Governor Buddy Roemer presented A Town Hall Event as part of the College of Charleston's "The Bully Pulpit Series: Reflections on Presidential Communication."
Roemer served as Governor of Louisiana for four years in 1988. He was elected to four terms in the United States Congress from 1981-1988. He currently serves as the founder, CEO, and President of Business First Bank, a small business community bank with approximately $650 million in assets.
"The Bully P
6 Tools for creating an OER In planning your learning resource, you need to keep four questions in mind.
Wilkinson on the Tax Bill Will Wilkinson, the vice president for policy at the Niskanen Center, does not like the tax bill just passed by Congress. Writing in The New York Times, he finds the legislation “notably gene
By: David Gordon
An Introduction to Natural Gas
Until recently, most natural gas in Canada came from what are referred to as "conventional" sources -- with the gas trapped under relatively high pressure in relatively loose formations which allowed the gas to move freely to the wellhead for production.
In recent years, however, production of natural gas from conventional sources here in Canada has fallen, despite record levels of drilling and completion. With demand for natural gas continuing to grow, additional sources of natura
