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Business collection (New York, N.Y.) Case studies from the multinational marketplace Child of our time Los Cuentos de Borges Made in Spain ; Season 1 Score (New York, N.Y.) South-Western introduction to business Southwestern introduction to business Strangers abroad Ultimate media librarian collectionSummary: Most economists use Gross Domestic Product to measure a country's economic health. But some experts in the field of economic development consider GDP calculations to be painfully inadequate. This program explores alternative ways to define national success and productivity using not only monetary parameters but also the safety, happiness, and potential of a country's citizens and the health of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this interview, Robert Slavin, Ph.D., talks with Hedrick Smith about Success for All, a comprehensive, research-based reading and math program for elementary and middle schools. The most important objective, says Dr. Slavin, "is to get every single child to be successful, every single child to master the basic curriculum, to achieve the higher-order objectives that every parent would want...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Utilizing the principles of Universal Design for Learning, this program takes viewers into classrooms where low- to mid-tech AT solutions are helping students with disabilities to become confident, independent learners. The video covers auditory process supports (interactive white boards, Inspiration software, and FM Classroom Amplification systems); fine-motor and writing supports (AlphaSmart,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Never underestimate the educational value of chocolate ganache! This ABC News report profiles the Careers in the Culinary Arts Program, a groundbreaking curriculum that teaches students the craft of fine cuisine-and important life skills along the way. The documentary visits the Queens high school where this nationwide teaching trend began, interviewing one of its graduates-now a successful...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart, or are they just lucky? Neither, says analyst Richard St. John, a self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved. In this TEDTalk, St. John condenses years of interviews into an unforgettable three-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. "This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This information-packed program illustrates the specific steps needed to transition from incarceration to a rewarding life, and examines the many pitfalls that must be avoided along the way. Parolees discuss their successes and failures, while parole officers provide insights into why not all ex-offenders succeed. Also examined are where to look for employment and how to make the most of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Single parenting can be overwhelming. Single mothers and fathers face very real challenges and realities, such as financial instability, stress, finding child care, and quality time for themselves and their children. With guidance, tools, and a clear plan of action, single parents can have enriching, secure, and healthy lives with their children, while creating new opportunities for themselves,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: How and why do humans learn new things? Why are we stronger in some skills than others? At what age do we learn most quickly, and how can we improve our learning capacity? This program studies the knowledge-building process that typically occurs in childhood by observing 25 six-year-olds as they adapt to the challenges of their surroundings. Focusing on seven key areas in which learning takes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Dave Eggers - author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - is also a philanthropist and a teacher-at-large. In 1998 he launched 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring lab for young people, which has since opened several more chapters across the United States. Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, Eggers enthusiastically describes the 826...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Spotting trends, making mistakes, dealing with fear, and trusting one's instincts-here are the lessons learned from the successful entrepreneurs featured throughout this series. Arlene Dickinson, CEO of Venture Communications, a major Canadian marketing communications firm, and Michael Hyatt, CEO and cofounder of networks software maker BlueCat Networks, join host Dianne Buckner in culling...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: America enjoyed unprecedented growth in the 1990s, which firmly established the country as the world's leading economic power. Why? In this program, ABC News correspondent John Stossel reports on what special factors make the U.S. and Hong Kong, a tiny yet extremely dynamic geopolitical entity, so successful-and why similar success eludes India and other countries. Experts include Nobel...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban revolution. Key moments in Castro's Communist revolution are highlighted: his triumphant emergence after two years of guerilla warfare, the resignation and flight of dictator Fulgencio Batista, the rebels' entrance into Havana, and a victory celebration--at first joyful, and then violent.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Confusion over multiple prescriptions and appropriate dosages might sound like a minor nuisance-but it can be dangerous or even fatal. This program explores the challenges that patients often face as they cope with drug interactions. An informative case study features a woman who regularly takes more than 12 medications for various health problems and who, while hospitalized, experienced a drug...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Over the course of this three-segment program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel tracks the progress of Lesley-Diann Jones' combined class of fourth- and fifth-graders, from opening day in September to February 1st, when the students re-took the state English exam that they had failed the previous year. Amidst Ms. Jones' efforts to help her students improve their learning and test-taking abilities,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: For most of a century, industrial and automotive smoke were equated with progress and prosperity. But the cost in human health has been devastatingly high, particularly in developing countries. In this program, Devra Davis, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water; Peter Brimblecombe, executive editor of Atmospheric Environment; and others use examples such as smog-related deaths in Donora,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This video shows how Chef José Andrés turns Spain’s sparkling wine, cava, into a light dressing for oysters and also a refreshing mimosa cocktail. He goes mushroom-hunting in the Catalan mountains, before cooking a crumbled pork sausage with wild mushrooms. Back in Spain, he fishes for shrimp and eats Catalan seafood in traditional and modern ways.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Although her fieldwork has been criticized, Margaret Mead was one of the foremost fieldworkers of her day. In the United States, Bali, and New Guinea, she examined child development, sex, and temperament to see what role society plays in making people what they are. She emphasized that humans arrange their social worlds in many different ways, and that qualitative judgments cannot be made...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: There are fortunes to be made in China today-but fortune-seekers from overseas face immense challenges. This program offers three engaging business case studies, each following a Western entrepreneur who grapples with Chinese business practices and culture. Tony Caldera's cushion business has been ruined by Chinese imports, but he hopes for a turnaround by building a factory here. Peter...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this story, a descendant of famous ancestors dreams of more heroic times .. until a serious accident takes him to the doors of death, where the past and the present mingle-and where he meets his final destiny.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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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: Bouncing between Canada and the U.S., Sc@mmed exposes an urgent problem of global proportions: phishing, the illegal gathering of others' personal information online in order to steal all their money-and even their identities. Through the cautionary stories of two people who got burned, this program shows how cybercriminals use scam spam and spoof Web sites to trick people into willingly giving...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this program, the orchestra uses lighthearted cafe music from the Milhaud ballet set in a Paris nightclub to illustrate how the use of various keys adds color to the musical landscape. Different instruments, performing the pieces in major and minor keys, give listeners a firsthand glimpse into how key changes add interest to music.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program presents the history of Internet phenom eBay; discusses the Web site's feedback system, the key to its unprecedented success; and examines the devastating impact eBay has had on antique and collectible shops. The program also exposes two vulnerabilities that have come with that success: stock prices that fluctuate with the slightest stumble in company performance, and government's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006