Summary: Their popularity in the online business and publishing world is well known, but wikis and blogs are also increasingly used as tools in the classroom-and not just because young learners can easily access them. They are easy to create as well, giving students another powerful method of communication and self-expression. This program presents the basic concepts behind wikis and blogs. It also...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Using an Australian publishing company as an example, this program demonstrates the use of Adobe Creative Suite and other Information and Communication Technology programs to develop and produce two commercial magazines. It provides practical examples of how InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and QuarkXpress handle fonts, templates and house style guides, color correction, and other...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This program provides a comprehensive overview of the most common Information and Communication Technology applications found in the business environment, and demonstrates how employees on all job levels can make the best use of them. Some of the topics covered include naming, storing, backing up, and sharing electronic files; avoiding plagiarism and finding reliable sources when...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Modern Marvels celebrates the remarkable story of the evolution of the television. What once seemed like an unimaginable miracle is now part of everyday life, entertaining and educating.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Whether or not the customer is always right, customer satisfaction is a crucial part of achieving success in the hospitality industry. This program provides several strategies to improve customer service, outlines the factors that may influence customer needs, and describes the traits and behaviors that are most important to cultivate when working with the public. The video also discusses...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The human nerve center never rests-even during sleep, it works diligently to process and build on the information gathered by our senses. Of course, healthy sleep is only one of many vital ingredients the brain needs to develop and thrive, as this film illustrates in detail. Other factors discussed in the program include ongoing contact with negative (deterring) and positive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Because seeing is so important to human functioning, efforts to understand how perceptions are generated have most often focused on vision. Based on research in cognitive neuroscience, this program explores the challenge of explaining visual perception. The video includes an overview of the human visual system, illustrated with animated graphics and live action footage, and describes, using a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Being a part of the hospitality industry can be a rewarding experience, but it can also mean working in an environment that poses safety hazards to staff and patrons alike. This program reviews health, safety, and security concerns unique to the hospitality industry, explains how to handle them, and offers ways to reduce the likelihood of them occurring at all. Emphasizing the importance of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, a submarine observes extraordinary life forms that thrive without heat or light. Organisms like these have raised expectations about Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Patterns in Europa's surface ice suggest that, far below, aquatic life is possible. This program also assesses another compelling clue in the search for extraterrestrial biology: if bacteria...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Many people report that being told they could no longer drive was even more difficult than receiving their diagnosis of Alzheimer's. This two-section program examines the numerous issues faced by dementia patients and their caregivers when a decision has to be made about driving. In section one patients and concerned family members express mutual frustration about giving up the keys as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This program introduces viewers to osteoporosis through a scenario involving a post-menopausal Caucasian woman who has never given birth and has a family history of severely depleted bone density. Topics include the wide spectrum of risk factors, diagnostic procedures, and approaches to osteoporosis management through dietary supplements, moderate weight-bearing exercise, hormone replacement...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This program, prepared specifically for home health care providers, offers an insightful look at Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Section one deals with understanding Alzheimer's disease and ADRDs and discusses how to communicate with people affected by Alzheimer's. Section two focuses on behavior management that begins with symptom recognition and concludes with specific strategies...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This instructor-led physical fitness video offers a daily regimen of strengthening, range-of-motion, balance, and breathing exercises for people with Parkinson's disease. Gentle seated calisthenics and stretches include neck rotations and head sweeps, shoulder rolls, trunk stretches, rowing and swimming motions, arm and wrist circles, finger stretches, marching, hip rotations, hamstring...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Researchers studying the therapeutic potential of art are finding that Alzheimer's patients who spend time painting, or simply looking at paintings, become more focused, calm, and communicative. This program documents the positive impact that creative engagement has on people with dementia disorders, and explains how art therapy sparks a neurologic process that ultimately allows patients to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: For the limitless imagination of a scientific mind, the ever-expanding universe is an ideal subject of inquiry! This collection of 50 video clips (45 seconds to 2 minutes 30 seconds each) uses high-quality film footage and detailed animations to investigate the structure of the universe, the stars, the Solar System, the planets of the Solar System, Earth and the Moon, astronomical observation,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In this program three married couples affected by Alzheimer's disease talk candidly with a clinical social worker about both physical and emotional changes that occur in their intimate relationships as a partner goes from being a spouse to a caregiver. Sexual expression becomes awkward or meaningless when a mate with dementia no longer recognizes a husband or wife, and the overall fabric of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Like Earth, most of the worlds that orbit the Sun are made of rock, but, geologically speaking, any kinship among the interplanetary legion largely ends there. Some of our neighbors are alive, as it were, while others are frozen artifacts of a long-vanished era. This program visits subjects in the solar kingdom that still show a pulse and examines the factors that have kept them active....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: From the fleeting moments of a solar eclipse to the battle between the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field to the hinterlands of space, in which our star is only a smudge of light this program showcases the beauty and vastness of the Sun's influence. In India, viewers experience a profound celestial divide when solar light and heat are completely shut off, if only for a few minutes. In...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: A follow-up to the video A Thousand Tomorrows: Intimacy, Sexuality, and Alzheimer's, this program revisits Everett and Betty, married for 25 years when Betty was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, to document the changes that late-stage dementia brought to their sexual relationship. Central to the program is Everett's candid discussion with a social worker about his feelings and decisions regarding...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Ironically, the parts of the body we use the most also tend to be the most neglected, medically speaking. As we age, it becomes more and more important to address the wellbeing of our hands and feet, and in caring for the elderly it is vital to give attention to these frequently overlooked areas. This program identifies common hand and foot health problems, explains the changes that occur in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: It leads to anxiety, personality changes, substance abuse, and suicidal depression. Considering the symptoms, it's easy to see how PCS, or post-concussion syndrome, could be the most under-diagnosed condition affecting young people today. Athletes in high-impact sports are the most at risk, but which other groups are vulnerable? What actions should be taken when the disorder is suspected? How...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Since its discovery in 1930, the ninth planet - Pluto - has held a warm place in the public imagination. So, when the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium stopped calling Pluto a planet, a great controversy ensued. Hayden Planetarium’s Director Neil deGrasse Tyson found himself at the center of a firestorm led by angry, Pluto-loving elementary school students. But why has...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: It's hard to believe that only a flimsy envelope of gas protects life on our planet. But, as this program shows, Earth isn't the only world wrapped in a tenuous, constantly shifting blanket and at one time, there may have been even more. A visit to Africa's Namib Desert helps illustrate what happened to poor Mercury when, early on, it was stripped of its atmosphere and fully exposed to the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: John Davidson, first diagnosed with Tourette syndrome as a youth, is now in his mid-40s. He looks back on the preceding decades with a mixture of sadness about his lack of a life partner and pride at what he has been able to accomplish. Greg Storey, whose tics emerged in 2001, is now a teenager with most of his life ahead of him. To be sure, his future holds numerous challenges, but Greg seems...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011