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Aspects of child development Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Get into textiles Green careers (Films Media Group) Librarian special (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Making schools work Physical science collection (New York, N.Y.) Selling yourself successfully Understanding electronicsFilter By Authors
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Aspects of child development Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Get into textiles Green careers (Films Media Group) Librarian special (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Making schools work Physical science collection (New York, N.Y.) Selling yourself successfully Understanding electronicsSummary: James Comer, M.D., M.P.H., has spent decades promoting a focus on child development as a way of improving schools. In this interview, he and Hedrick Smith analyze the Comer Process, a school- and system-wide psychosocial intervention grounded in conflict mitigation, behavior modeling, power-sharing, and all-around involvement of teachers, parents, students, and other stakeholders. "Our program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Changing climate probably played the decisive role in drawing hominids out of the trees, up on their hind legs, and off in search of food whose supply had been dispersed by the replacement of rainforests by grasslands. Migrations were motivated by the search for food; during ice ages, when sea levels dropped, new areas became accessible and populations spread. Links between climatic changes and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this video, Chris Beck, an applied design lecturer at Holmesglen TAFE, explains the basic steps in designing and constructing a piece of wood furniture. First, the design process, from drawings to models, is summarized. Next is a demonstration of joint construction, with an emphasis on the importance of safety guidelines and proper tools. Then, assembly and finishing with varnishes or resins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: If global warming cycles are natural phenomena, why should humans alter their consumption habits and behavior? Have we really accelerated climate change? This program studies the causes of ozone depletion and the buildup of greenhouse gases-examining both sides of the highly politicized issue while making the case that current warming trends are in fact human-caused. Outlining the importance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: As visually spectacular as it is informative, this program thoroughly surveys the world's varied climate systems. Using simple color-coded maps based on the Koppen classification system, the video identifies the characteristics of the following zones: humid tropical climates, wet-dry tropics, dry climates, subtropical and mid-latitude deserts and steppes, humid mid-latitude climates, humid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program explores the process approach to writing instruction, asserting that the act of writing is more than simply the completion of a product; it is a complex, creative, and unpredictable progression of ideas and strategies. With commentary from veteran writing instructors—including Dr. Lois Matz Rosen, author of Within and Beyond the Writing Process in the Secondary English Classroom,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: People everywhere are interested in the weather, but how does it all work? Beginning with Earth's atmosphere-its evolution, its gaseous composition, and its four regions-this video takes a close look at how conditions combine to create climate and weather. Topics include the Koppen Climate Classification System; weather prediction; types of clouds and precipitation; thunderstorms, tornadoes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: To predict weather and understand climates, researchers use physics, environmental science, mathematics, and information technology to interpret huge amounts of oceanic, atmospheric, and terrestrial data. Filmed with the assistance of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, this program introduces the allied sciences of meteorology and climatology. After explaining how the sun, wind, and clouds...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program explores the process approach to writing instruction, asserting that the act of writing is more than simply the completion of a product; it is a complex, creative, and unpredictable progression of ideas and strategies. With commentary from veteran writing instructors—including Dr. Lois Matz Rosen, author of Within and Beyond the Writing Process in the Secondary English Classroom,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From the immense golden sun of The Weather Project at the Tate Modern to his New York Waterfalls, Olafur Eliasson has created large-scale installations that situate viewers in the ambiguous zones between communal and individual awareness. Filmed over a period of five years, this program follows the Danish-Icelandic artist's work in locations around the world. English-language interviews with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Information and communication technology is changing the fashion industry by helping make design, development, and sampling of textiles more efficient. This program takes viewers inside Coppernob, a London-based fashion house, where designers use ICT tools-sketching and visualization software and digital pattern-makers, plotters, and printers-to easily explore different color and style...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: With the same humor and humanity he exuded in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore - former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner - spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid car to inventing a new, hotter "brand name" for global warming. In this TEDTalk Gore is "easygoing, knowledgeable, and funny," says...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The key to understanding climate change could be locked inside hundreds of feet-and thousands of years-of Siberian permafrost. This program follows the literally groundbreaking expedition of a team of scientists who set out to discover the climatic history trapped within the frozen earth beneath a crater lake in northern Siberia. Their research is presented in tandem with fieldwork in the Alps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Although the encroachment of technology into the natural world is always a legitimate concern, it is also worth examining the many ways in which electronic systems help improve environmental research as well as weather and climate monitoring. This program features two case studies that illustrate the helpful roles electronics can play in life science and meteorology. An in-depth look at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Some conservatives paint the environmentalist movement as socialist or worse, but the key to reducing humanity's carbon footprint may actually appear in new manifestations of capitalism. From electric car technology to the production of ethanol out of waste products, fighting climate change is in fact creating new economic opportunities and could actually steer the planet away from a plunge in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: From serving as the 45th U.S. Vice President to winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore has always been committed to environmental stewardship. But in his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth, Gore found a way to focus attention on climate change in a way no one had before. Following up two years later with this cautionary TEDTalk, Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: What are the health implications of global warming in urban areas? This program examines the medical repercussions of environmental change and crisis in Canada. Environmental and disaster relief experts, such as Steven King of Sustainable Environment Management and John Saunders of the Red Cross, discuss the risks, including heat stroke and water-borne diseases, associated with rising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This video spotlights Pennsylvania, where a regional transportation authority is using hybrid buses to reduce emission levels (Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics Cluster), a legal firm is practicing environmental law (Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Cluster), and a company is making storage batteries for solar and wind farms using clean manufacturing practices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: How serious is the "greenhouse effect" on global climate and the environment? Very, says Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics. We are now facing the specter of the "greenhouse effect," the prospect of overloading the earth's atmosphere with gases released when industrial nations burn fossil fuels like coal and oil, and the Third World strips its forests to farm...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Eager for knowledge, a child is by nature curious about everything. Why, then, is school such an unpleasant place for some children? In this program, teachers, researchers, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a neurobiologist, a psychomotor specialist, and others examine the process of learning and the classroom as a learning center. Mastery of reading and writing-the key to unlocking all forms of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Applying for your first job can be a difficult and scary process simply because you haven't done it before. Designed for the absolute beginner, this video follows Ben, a high-school grad looking for a part-time job, as he identifies his hidden transferable skills, brainstorms some cool job possibilities, searches for open positions, writes an engaging cover letter, and compiles a solid first...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Amidst a gloomy climate of failing schools and the stringent No Child Left Behind legislation, some communities have created a small revolution, achieving gains with children others had given up on—with implications for schools nationwide. In this penetrating documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith travels from inner city to rural town to observe how some districts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Losing a job is one of the common denominators of life in America: everyone has lost one-or knows someone who did. How do people cope with this particular form of loss? This straight-talking program considers the concerns and feelings that people often experience after job loss. The six topics examined are the realities of losing a job, why people identify with their jobs, the different ways...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006