Claude Monet - a Documentary
This is a biography of the famous Impressionist painter, Claude Monet. It is being narrated by a fan of Claude Monet who has studied him for years. A very informational video. (04:01)
Congress.gov Introduction
An introduction to the Congress.gov legislative information website.
For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6273
Protein Lounge-Biology Animations
Protein Lounge specializes in developing biological and clinical animations for biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Most of the animations are available for free on Youtube. There is often an accompanying explanation for the animations.
Fault Animations
A website which allows students to visualize the different faults.
China Gateway
This site aims to create a basic toolkit for students of Chinese history and culture by offering select annotated entries on internet and print materials on China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora, as well as learning modules and an introduction to China-related resources at Boston College and in the greater Boston community. The "Culture and History" section in particular places an emphasis on modern society and history, offering a guide to web resources and a set of s
PTC 624: Professional and Technical Editing
This seminar introduces students to contemporary editing strategies. As information managers within organizations, twenty-first century editors must be able to demonstrate proficiency in a wide range of areas, from working with writers to improve the tone of a manuscript to providing warranted evidence in support of copyediting changes. Topics will allow students to encounter a wide range of experiences, from production-oriented aspects of project management to document-based forms of electronic
Padlet
Formerly WallWisher, Padlet is an online, collaborative whiteboard that supports the posting of text, images, video onto a "wall" of your own design.
The Paper Project
This module was selected as the 2005 Classics Award Winner by the MERLOT Teacher Education Editorial Board for its innovative and best practices approach to cross-curricular investigation, discovery, and reflection for K-university learners. Since 1998, the Paper Project has been exploring the structure and beauty of paper. The project chronicles handmade and mouldmade paper through images produced by scanning electron microscopy and a scanning-laser confocal microscope. The content blends the w
The Re-Convergence of Art and Science: A Vehicle for Creativity
Ever-increasing complexity in product design and the need to deliver a cost-effective solution that benefits from a dynamic approach requires the employment and adoption of innovative design methods which ensure that products are of the highest quality and meet or exceed customers' expectations. According to Bronowski (1976) science and art were originally two faces of the same human creativity. However, as civilisation advances and works became specialised, the dichotomy of science and art grad
91 Ways to Respond to Literature
This site is an excellent source for ideas on how to write responses to (or create projects for) literature. It has been around for a long time, and I have used it many times in my classroom.
Fraction Game
This applet allows students to individually practice working with relationships among fractions and ways of combining fractions. For a two person version of this applet see the Fraction Track E‑Example.
PowerPoint 2010 Advanced - Slides, Animation and Layouts
This is a free textook from BookBoon.'This ebook will teach you how to use several interesting and exciting features from PowerPoint 2010. For example how to change the slide layout, insert objects and format slides in your PowerPoint presentation. Another interesting feature is animation. Read this ebook and learn how to apply entry (transition) effects to slides, how to use custom animation and how to use animation schemes.'
How to Motivate Creative People
This free, online book can be used as a supplement in any course on creativity. According to the authors, "This e-book will help you: • Understand how motivation affects creativity • Get better work out of creative people • Avoid (inadvertently) crushing people’s motivation • Use rewards effectively • Understand and influence many different types of people. • Facilitate creative collaboration.״
An Introduction to Group Theory - Applications to Mathematical Music Theory
This is a free textbook offered by BookBoon.'The success of Group Theory is impressive and extraordinary. It is, perhaps, the most powerful and influential branch of all Mathematics. Its influence is strongly felt in almost all scientific and artistic disciplines (in Music, in particular) and in Mathematics itself. Group Theory extracts the essential characteristics of diverse situations in which some type of symmetry or transformation appears. Given a non-empty set, a binary operation is define
Neighbours, Peers and Educational Achievement [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Stephen Gibbons, Dr Tim Leunig, Professor Ruth Lupton | Editor's note: We apologise for the poor quality of this podcast. Many believe that education is very sensitive to the influence of school friends and neighbours. Professor Stephen Gibbons outlines evidence to the contrary from the Spatial Economics Research Centre at LSE. Stephen Gibbons is Professor of Economic Geography and Director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre. Tim Leunig (@timleunig) is Chief Analyst a
Garden Guides
This Website is an Internet source which provides scientific names of different types of plants, flowers, herbs and spices, vegetables and trees. It also gives a brief description of the different categories. This Website also allows the browser to learn how to maintain different types of plants, flowers, and trees for reasons such as gardening.
Old China hands archive
The Old China Hands Archive is a project hosted by the Oviatt Library Digital Collections, based at California State University, Northridge. The resource primarily consists of a textual introductory page, and digitised images of Tientsin (modern day Tianjin) in the late 1940s. Old China Hands is a term referring to westerners with an experiential knowledge of China, usually through long-term residence or service. Although users will not find a huge collection of photographs, those included here
Our Ocean Planet: Environmental Science in the 21st Century
This book contains material used for an Environmental Geoscience course for first-year college students interested in majoring in the subject.
5.2 Tests as a selection tool There are various types of tests and ways in which they might be used as part of the selection process (see Box 5). Before using any kind of test you should ensure that you know why you are using it and how it relates to the job specification. Algebra Tiles- NLVM
Applet introduces algebra tiles model for multiplying and factoring expressions.
