Atkinson, Sean
Summary: Delve into the inner workings of Western tonal music through eighteen enjoyable and revealing lessons taught by Professor Sean Atkinson of Texas Christian University. Professor Atkinson, an eminent music theorist and teacher, makes music theory refreshingly clear and accessible, demystifying the skill of reading music as well as the principles of musical analysis. Using a highly interactive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Great Courses 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 781 ATKSummary: Are prescription drug prices as outrageous as they are made out to be? Should farmers receive government subsidies, simply because they grow certain crops? What does it mean to be poor in America? This compilation of ABC News stories features 20/20 anchor John Stossel, who explores microeconomic questions through challenging, real-world examples. In his trademark down-to-earth style, Stossel...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program covers the start of the International Music Festivals and Venice's role as host to Hindemith, Schoenberg, Bartok, and Stravinsky; the rise to fame of Malipiero, Nono, and Maderna; and the role of today's avant-gardists. Live performances in the Albrizzi Palace and on the Lido.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The work of Lev Vygotsky is cited as the theory and practice of constructivist education. This program reconsiders the life, vocabulary, and concepts of Vygotsky, illustrating four basic concepts integral to his work: children construct knowledge, learning can lead development, development cannot be separated from its social context, and language plays a central role in cognitive development....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994
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Summary: The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. In this program, David Elkind - author of The Hurried Child and Miseducation and a student of Piaget - explores the roots of Piaget’s work and outlines important vocabulary and concepts that structure much of the study of child development. Using both archival film of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1989
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Summary: Whenever the pressure of air is changed rapidly-by the beating of a drum, rattling a stick in a can, plucking a string stretched across a box-the ear-brain system detects the pressure changes as sound, which travels from source to listener as sound waves. This program examines sound waves: why some sounds are musical and others just noise, and the relationship of regularity or irregularity of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Albert Bandura’s work has become basic to an understanding of how social forces influence individuals, small groups, and large groups. From his early BoBo doll experiments up through his work with phobias and self-efficacy, Bandura has given researchers a sense of how people actively shape their own lives and those of others. Utilizing archival materials and newer visuals, this program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: In a dehumanizing era of managed care and healthcare delivery systems, the demand for a warm and caring bedside manner has grown sharply. In response, Harvard Medical School developed a course called Living with Life-Threatening Illnesses that is devoted to training future doctors to be more compassionate by pairing each participant with a uniquely qualified teacher: a patient with a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This fascinating comparison between Japanese and American educational systems examines both the differences in goals between the two and the different ways in which they seek to achieve the same goal. With American producers photographing in Japan and Japanese producers photographing in the U.S., this documentary explores efforts in both countries to balance creativity and discipline in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This down-to-earth program shares the hard-won experiences of an award-winning special ed teacher. Speaking with an engaging mix of candor, earnestness, and passion, he explains how personal introspection, collaboration with other staff members, promoting trust, structuring the academic environment, instilling success, and developing teacher/student interdependence have transformed his...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What if twelve strangers were deposited in separate locations all over New York City and ordered to find each other-without being told where to look? This ABC News program presents an intriguing psychological puzzle involving participants who must join up-somehow, somewhere-in a city of eight million people. Incorporating principles from the mathematical discipline known as game theory, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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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: 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: As many non-Western cultures have always known, music affects human development from the womb to the grave-in fact, it may even have specific health benefits. This documentary examines the role music plays in shaping our brains and improving our well-being. Starting with the effect of musical vibrations on premature infants in neonatal intensive care, the film moves on to study the role of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Through inspiring interviews and rare historical footage, episode 1, Bridges, features Latin musical pioneers themselves, tracing the rise in popularity of Latin culture in America and its vibrant array of music and dance. The film includes the great Machito and his Afro-Cubans, and Cuban bandleader Pérez Prado, who reflects on the mambo and cha cha dance styles that swept like wildfire across...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Many consider Alan Turing to be the father of computer science-mainly because of his cryptography machine, which cracked the German code during World War II. But Turing created his device before the war-not for military purposes, but in the hope of disproving the Riemann hypothesis. This program gives an account of Turing's unresolved zeta function research, the tragic conclusion of his life,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In episode 2, The Salsa Revolution, the melting pot of music is stirred into an entirely new genre. As told by the artists themselves, Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in New York combine the Cuban son (sound) with the Puerto Rican plena beat. By taking a fiery Latino vibe and adding elements from soul and jazz they create the sound - now renowned worldwide - of salsa music. This vibrant and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This multi-section program addresses classical social theory, examining the origins of sociology through the efforts of Marx and Comte to build a holistic science of society; positivism, through a case study of students using surveys to do research on education; interpretivism, through a parallel case study in which students use interviews to carry out their research; and realism, comparing it...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Episode 3, The Chicano Wave, continues the story of the rise of Latino music told by a new generation of Mexican-American entertainers, raised on rock and rhythm & blues, including Ritchie Valens, Freddy Fender, Linda Ronstadt, Selena, and more. Through interviews and historical footage, this documentary illustrates how Mexican-Americans across the Southwest created their own distinct musical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The final episode, Divas and Superstars, is an exciting backstage look at the Latin-pop explosion into the English-language market. At the turn of century, artists like Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, and Shakira became overnight sensations. But as music studios concentrated on star-driven pop, Latino youth gravitated toward a more urban-driven fusion, following Spanish-speaking rappers like...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Do the rich get a break at tax time-or do they pay more than their share? Who benefits and who suffers when sweatshops are allowed to operate? Are gas prices as outrageous as everyone thinks? This compilation of ABC News stories features 20/20 anchor John Stossel, who uses real-world situations to address provocative macroeconomic questions. In a straightforward style well-known to viewers of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This multi-section program explains the role of sociological theory, distinguishes between structure and action, and sheds light on three major perspectives in sociology-societies as organic structures, societies as economic structures, and societies as social action-by looking at their origins and key ideas and then showing how they can be applied. The video concludes by using a case study on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The special characteristics of prime numbers have intrigued and confounded mathematicians since ancient times. Outlining the basics of primes-including their unique multiplicative properties and their supposedly random appearance in the number line-this program details the early history of prime number theory, beginning with discoveries that took place in the Hellenistic world. The film...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006