Summary: To be able to integrate as many of the multiple intelligences as possible into a single codified approach is extremely powerful and beneficial, says media theoretician Lou Fournier Marzeles. In this video, he and other recognized experts review the history of educational media and then clearly state the case for media as a powerful-and highly effective-classroom tool. "By using a lot of images...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Lazar, Alexandra
Summary: Princess Jasmine is determined to learn more about the world outside the palace where she lives, and even after her efforts almost end in disaster, she keeps trying to find out more about the kingdom she will one day rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAZSummary: Welcome to the multimedia learning environment! In this video, middle school, high school, and college media specialists and instructors invite viewers into the classroom to see for themselves how colleagues are tapping into the power of media to improve teaching and enhance learning. Drawing on their direct experience, they offer practical advice, tips, and examples to show how to use media to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Explains the many tools in Photoshop CS6 step by step and features a supplementary DVD-ROM with the images and examples that are in the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adobe Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.5 PHOTOSHOP ADOSummary: Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book contains 14 lessons covering the basics of learning Adobe InDesign as well as countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program, including: designing, preflighting, and publishing layouts for magazines, newsletters, and brochures; making interactive documents with rich media; and, exporting interactive documents to an SWF...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adobe Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 005.5 INDESIGN CRULee, Honest
Summary: After being struck by purple lightning, Ms. Linda and her students gain superpowers and in an effort to save the world, they nearly destroy it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEESummary: Adolescents have both the cognitive and the emotional capacity to deepen their emotional intelligence, and for that reason secondary schools are being viewed as an ideal setting in which to teach and promote EI. In this program, Dr. Karen Hansen, coordinator of the EI and Education Research Unit of Swinburne University, compares and contrasts definitions and models of EI. In addition, she...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Hoyer, Katja
Summary: When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a new vision of this vanished country. She reveals the rich political, social and cultural landscape that existed amid oppression and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 HOYSummary: Blogs may be driving print journalists out of business, but they're doing wonders for the teaching profession. This program helps educators learn more about blogging and the best ways to integrate it into the classroom. Showing how blogs help communicate ideas and connect readers worldwide, the video focuses on the benefits of blogging for both teachers and students. Specific topics include...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Baron, Dennis E
Summary: "The story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular they. Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are suddenly sparking debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns; corporate conferences print nametags with space for people to add their pronouns; email...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The year was 1961. Khrushchev was in power and the Berlin Wall was being built. What was it like to be living in East Germany during those days? In this program, filmed toward the end of that pivotal year, correspondent Daniel Schorr cracks the boomtown facade of the city of Rostock to find out. Indoctrination and propaganda are recurring motifs as business, academia, religion, and the arts are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Kings of Leon (Musical group)
Contents: Waste a moment (3:03) -- Reverend (3:54) -- Around the world (3:34) -- Find me (4:05) -- Over (6:10) -- Muchacho (3:09) -- Conversation piece (4:59) -- Eyes on you (4:40) -- Wild (3:39) -- Walls (5:29).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KINLee, Honest
Summary: Tired of being left out of everything, Classroom 13 itself puts out a bowl of cursed candy on Halloween that changes everyone into the costume he or she is wearing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LEEStreisand, Barbra
Contents: What's on my mind (5:15) -- Don't lie to me (3:55) -- Imagine/What a wonderful world (5:13) -- Walls (3:54) -- Lady liberty (3:51) -- What the world needs now (4:36) -- Better angels (4:07) -- Love's never wrong (4:05) -- The rain will fall (4:42) -- Take care of this house (4:05) -- Happy days are here again (3:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL STRDouglass, Sara.
Summary: Accompanying his physician father on his annual journey to the Escator prison mines, apprentice Garth Baxtor works to develop his ability to diagnose others by touching them and discovers a horrifying secret when working with a prisoner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUNelsen, Jane.
Summary: "Over the years, millions of parents and teachers have used the amazingly effective strategies of Positive Discipline to restore order and civility to their homes and classrooms. Now you too can use the time-tested Positive Discipline strategies as a foundation for fostering cooperation, problem-solving skills, and mutual respect in children. This new edition of Positive Discipline in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Di Cintio, Marcello
Summary: "What does it mean to live against a wall? In this ambitious first person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world's most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has influenced their lives. Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco's desert wall. He meets with illegal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 DICSummary: Response to intervention, an effective method for helping struggling learners achieve academic success, can be a powerful management approach to challenging behaviors. In this program educational consultant Jim Wright explains how RTI can be used in the classroom to address defiant, non-compliant, hyperactive, impulsive, and inattentive behaviors. He also explains how tier 1 techniques can be...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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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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Demuth, Patricia.
Summary: More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese died building it, earning the wall its nickname--the longest cemetery on earth....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHEJohnson, Micaiah
Summary: When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause-a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen-and it could spell doom for the entire world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the digital revolution sweeps across America, many young people are experiencing what has come to be known as the digital divide. The first hour of this program examines the push to wire America's schools, addressing crucial issues such as integration of technology into curriculums, budget trade-offs that leave low-tech subjects starving for scarce funds, and the need for ongoing hardware...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Egan, Kate
Summary: "For the 100th day of school, Stanley plans to bring 100 flat pancakes to the party, but when his best friend Marco starts ignoring him and the number of attendees keeps changing, he must add, subtract and multiply his way to deliciousness"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE EGASonneborn, Liz
Summary: Located on the western side of the island of Great Britain in Europe, Wales is part of the United Kingdom. But despite being a part of a larger country, Wales has its own unique history, culture, and language. Readers will take a trip through Welsh history, from its earliest beginnings to the present day, and find out what life is like for people who live there. They will also learn how Wales...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic 2018