Summary: General chemistry-the starting point for understanding many different sciences-is a rigorous discipline. This program, filmed at Dartmouth College, will help students stay engaged with the coursework as it explains the necessity and the benefits of making a wholehearted commitment. The nine strategies presented by a mix of professors and students are: set goals, manage your time, keep up with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program explores the nature of authentic assessment and its impact on curriculum and instruction; identifies the economic and political pressures for accountability, which have driven school systems to adopt inadequate approaches to assessment; and highlights alternative assessment strategies and tools-those that help teachers make good instructional decisions, as well as those that help...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The planet is not a garbage can, as every Earth-friendly manufacturer knows. This program charts the process of lifecycle assessment for items made of metal, plastic, and wood. The environmental impacts of specific products are followed in detail, including use of natural resources, depletion of raw materials, emissions to the atmosphere and water supply, solid wastes, and ecological...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Manske, Jim
Summary: "In 2010, four certified trainers of Nonviolent Communication produced a new tool to help people successfully learn, strengthen, and integrate the skills and consciousness of NVC. They called this tool the Pathways to Liberation Self-Assessment Matrix. Since then, thousands of NVC practitioners have been using the Matrix to identify skills, clarify strengths, discover edges, and navigate their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PuddleDancer Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Genetic science holds the keys to life itself. How should this knowledge be used? Enhanced by outstanding 3-D computer animations and microscopic imaging, this engaging program featuring Dr. Cary Fowler, author of Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity, takes a balanced look at the biotechnological revolution. Among the numerous topics surveyed are genetic engineering,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Voice of the Seven Woods (Musical group)
Contents: Sand and flames -- Sayat nova -- The fire in my head -- Silver morning branches -- Second transition -- Valley of the rocks -- Underwater journey -- Return from Byzantium -- The smoking furnace -- Dusk cloud.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Twisted Nerve 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VOIKrieger, Emily
Summary: "Can you spot the truth from a lie? Kids can test their sleuth skills in this gut-bustingly funny follow-up title in the exciting Real or Fake series. Can you detect a hoax from the real deal? See right through photo trickery? Spot the phony logic in a story in seconds? Put your sleuthing skills to work in this riotously fun book! See if you can find the truth behind bizarre stories, faulty...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Ant, Adam.
Contents: Friend or foe -- Something girls -- Place in the country -- Desperate but not serious -- Here comes the grump -- Hello, I love you -- Goody two shoes -- Crackpot history and the right to lie -- Made of money -- Cajun twisters -- Try this for sighs -- Man called Marco.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: SONY 1982
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANTSummary: In an age of multicultural classrooms and new understandings about multiple intelligences, what role should standardized tests play? And what direction should performance assessment take in tomorrow's schools? In this timeless program, Dr. Art Costa-Professor Emeritus at California State University, Former President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and a leading...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Cognitive science has provided exciting breakthroughs in child development. This video demonstrates how children are learning much more, at much earlier ages than many experts thought possible-and that learning is rooted in emotion as well as logic.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Filmed in 1993, this program defines crucial elements of all assessments and visits three classrooms - a Head Start, a kindergarten, and a third grade - to show how the academic progress of young students can be evaluated without recourse to norm-referenced, standardized testing. Narrator Samuel Meisels makes his case for the documentation of achievement while also providing viewers with the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1993
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Summary: 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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Bhargava, Deepak
Summary: "A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labor experts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BHASummary: To save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from further leaning and eventual collapse, the Italian government appointed a scientific committee to devise a solution. Filmed over three years, this classic program documents the engineering challenges and the committee's controversial answer to the structure's ongoing decline-the most fateful moment in the Tower's eight centuries of existence. Experts...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Wright, Andrew
Contents: Language for the organisation of games -- Picture games -- Psychology games -- Magic tricks -- Caring and sharing games -- Card and board games -- Sound games -- Story games -- Word games -- True/false games -- Memory games -- Question and answer games -- Guessing and speculating games -- Miscellaneous games -- Summary of the games (skills, level, time, etc.) -- Index to structures and types of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1984
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1 available in EZ, Call number: EZ 418 WRISummary: This program describes and demonstrates specific examples of instructional conversation and other types of cognitive coaching; identifies instructional arrangements that are used to promote active learning by students; models questioning techniques and student interactions, including the ways in which cognitive coaches keep student discussion focused and productive; and considers the role that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Rich, Jason
Summary: Offers a comprehensive overview of the Fortnite: Battle Royale game, with a special focus on the game's team-oriented game play modes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Rapoport, Rebecca
Summary: "Math Lab for Kids provides 52 fun labs to teach children basic math concepts through activities and games."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This program explores alternative approaches and explanations of learning, including latent learning, learning sets, insight learning, ethology, social learning, and neuroscience. The program emphasizes the recent move towards a cognitive theory of learning and examines research in this area. The program includes archival film featuring B. F. Skinner and Dr. Robert Epstein, who demonstrated...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Mainstreaming has become a widely used method for including special needs students in the educational process, but it sometimes leaves instructors feeling overwhelmed, under-qualified, and even resentful. Utilizing a sports metaphor including pre- and post-game analyses, this program takes viewers into elementary school classrooms to review strategies that empower teachers to more effectively...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Disorientation in an elder-care patient poses a wide range of risks-from difficulties in socializing with other residents to the dangers confused seniors face if they venture outside a care facility unattended. This program depicts common characteristics of dementia and demonstrates intervention techniques for dealing with them in an effective, compassionate manner. Problems outlined in the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Despite the complexity of 21st-century commerce, success in marketing is still founded on four basic concepts: product, price, promotion, and place. This program shows how businesses incorporate the four P's into effective marketing strategies. By exploring tactics used to sell a wide range of products and services, the film illustrates ways of putting marketing plans into action. Case studies...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program goes beyond the standard interview practices to help the interviewer determine what assets the potential employee possesses that fit the company's needs. Learn about laws that affect the interview process and discover how to "read between the lines" to get past the standard wall of answers given by applicants. The secrets of effective power interviewing are uncovered. Interviewers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Warner, Ralph E.
Summary: Written by a business owner who has survived three decades of challenges, this resource provides 12 no-nonsense strategies for small business owners on protecting personal assets from creditors and surviving the current recession.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2009