Paw Therapy
Canine stress reduction experts are helping UMass Amherst students cope with mid-term exams. The Peer Health Education team enlisted Bright Spot Therapy Dogs to put smiles on the faces of hundreds of students.
Virtual Maths, Cylinder Voids - Calculating volume
Interactive simulation with exercises and video demonstrating the use of auger piling and showing how to calculate the volume of cocrete needed to fill the cylindrical voids.
France's Hollande brings message of hope to Ebola-stricken Guinea
French President Francois Hollande arrives for an official visit to Guinea, the first visit by a Western leader to the Ebola-affected region since the outbreak began. Natalie Thomas reports.
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ELEC9716 Electrical Safety - Lecture 2
Calculations of Human Body Impedance and Shock Currents ( (by Jayashri Ravishankar)
Effects of electrical current through the body, electric shock, shock burns, time-current zones, impact of frequency & DC
"The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power"
Writer, film-maker, and leading figure of the international left Tariq Ali speaks about Pakistan, Afghanistan and the future of U.S. involvement in the region. Ali's new book, "The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power", weighs the prospects of those contending for power in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, and demonstrates Pakistan
Is there a future for photojournalists in the digital age?
Adrian Hadland, senior lecturer, University of Stirling, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Some videos have been edited out of the recording due to Copyright and/or distorted sound.
DMC TV: American Bank GED Scholarship Donation
American Bank and Nueces County Commissioner Joe A. Gonzalez, or JAG, are joining forces to give area General Education Development certificate graduates a helping hand toward higher education. Together, Trey McCampbell, American Bank's Chief Administrative Officer, and JAG announced a $50,000 endowment from the bank for "The Joe A. Gonzalez 'JAG' Education Is Our Freedom 'GED' College Scholarship Program" on Dec. 4, 2013.
What's happening in Turkey? Reflections on an uprising [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Derya Bayir; Dr Ayça Çubukçu; Dr Zeynep Gambetti; Dr Özlem Köksal | Editor's note: The last few minutes of the lecture are missing from this recording. How should we understand what is happening in Turkey? Is this as an anti-capitalist or anti-authoritarian rebellion, a struggle to redefine politics and to practice direct democracy? Why should we expect it to inspire people into action beyond Turkey? Should the popular insurgency in Turkey be understood as part of a global up
Virtual Maths - Numbers, 2D Triangle simulation tool
Diagram and formulas for are and volume of 2D shapes
Academic research on student engagement - lost formulae to inspiring students
This paper shows academic tutors take on a multitude of roles in their current positions at university and while teaching is expected, from most, it is often assumed that the tutor will apply appropriate pedagogical tools to convey knowledge to the students. This view is now being challenged as many students are being actively encouraged to voice their views of the teaching and learning experience this paper shows
Wall Street's best week since '09
Dec 2 - Stocks closed Friday trade little changed despite a mostly upbeat November jobs report, but that did not stop Wall Street from having its best week in almost three years. Research In Motion shares slumped on profit warning. Conway G. Gittens reports.
Guantanamo detainees taste freedom in Uruguay
Two of six long-term Guantanamo detainees released to Uruguay have been seen on their Montevideo balcony, tasting their new life of freedom. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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Virtual Maths, Cuboid - Excavation Video
Video of excavation in progress, (for use with excavation quizzes 1 and 2) or your own purposes
Lecture 10, Handwriting on the Wall: John Martin's Belshazzar's Feast (1820)
A painter of fantastical and catastrophic events, Martin was a master scenographer and a Victorian celebrity. In this Old Testament episode, set in a dizzy vision of Babylon, a blaspheming king gets some bad news.
Implementing Mobile and e-learning in Health and Social Care
As part of a submission for the IMS Global Award, this film discusses the outputs of the ALPS CETL and demonstrates the impact that they have had on learning and assessment in practice settings, particularly focussing on the development of competency maps, 360degree multiprofessional asessment tools and the use of mobile technology to deliver these innovative assessment processes to the Health and Social Care students on placement.
Presidents & American Foreign Policy
Are trends in global politics simply the result of large impersonal structural forces, or does human agency matter? For example, would America have become the dominant country in the 20th century regardless of who was president? To what extent did leaders matter, and if so, what kind of leader? Leadership theorists focus their attention on what they call transformational leaders, but were "transformational" leaders like Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan really more important than "transactional"
21A.225J Violence, Human Rights, and Justice (MIT)
This course examines the contemporary problem of political violence and the way that human rights have been conceived as a means to protect and promote freedom, peace and justice for citizens against the abuses of the state.
6.2 Summary of Part E In Part E you have studied: the nature of pressure groups; their composition; how they operate; examples of successful pressure groups; the strengths and weaknesses of pressure groups.
1.5.2 Consequences of introducing the Euro into the international system The jump in the Euro as currency of choice for bond denomination in 1999 in part reflects the advent of the Euro as a common currency across the Euro-zone. But is has also encouraged those countries in the EU who are not in the Euro-zone, or those not in the EU at all, to borrow in Euros as well. The point about the consolidation and integration of the Euro bond market discussed in Author(s):
Introduction to Reading Skills: Claims and Supporting Evidence
This animation from SRA FLEX Literacy provides a brief introduction to Claims and Supporting Evidence - a key learning objective in the Common Core State Standards for elementary English language arts. (02:40)
