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- The global hunger crisis Do you think you’re feeling the crunch from inflation? Watch this piece from the Washington Post and see the real impact in Africa. What do yo...
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What is constructivism?
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- .Building knowledge: constructivism in learning John Abbott discusses the theory of constructivism in learning.
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K12 Lesson Plan Repository
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- This is a resource that I wanted to share across groups so I made it a lesson to make sharing easier. LEARN NORTH CAROLINA, a program of the University of North Carolina at C...
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Blaxploitation Begins
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- Blaxploitation Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s. The word itself is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation.” T...
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- Pollution (1965) by Tom Lehrer My favorite line: “Just go out for a breath of air and you’ll be. ready for Medicare. The city streets are really quite a thrill i...
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Periodic Table: The Musical
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- Have a hard time remembering the elements? Let this song help you out. The Elements “The Elements” (1959) is a song by musical humorist Tom Lehrer...
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- That’s Mathematics by Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrerfont Thomas Andrew “Tom” Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mat...
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- THE FATHER OF FILM: Louis Le Prince Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841, vanished 16 September 1890) was an inventor who is generally recognized as the first person t...
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- Al Jolson performs “My Mammy” in The Jazz Singer The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialo...
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Wearable e-Learning System
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- Mobile Augmented Reality Systems (MARS) have the potential to provide continuous and autonomous instruction to human learners anytime, anyplace, and at any pace. MARS-based lear...
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- Every year the University of North Carolina puts on a 3-day conference on teaching and learning. I am lucky enough to go to the conference every year. Below you’ll find in...
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3rd: Open Access Textbooks
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- Textbooks are dinosaurs of a past age. They are out of date when they are printed. Instructors usually don’t assign the whole book because there are only a few chapters th...
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TED: Thinking Green
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- I came across this video database from TED: Ideas Worth Sharing that is focused on “A Greener Future.”FROM THE TED SITE: The environmental debate has traditionally b...
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- Fair Trade certification is a market-based model of international trade that benefits over one million farmers and farm workers in 58 developing countries across Africa, Asia an...
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Food Labeling: Explained
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- FREE RANGE MYTH: “Free range” means happy chickens running around on a farm until their day comes. I think the average consumer believes this, but it is a myth. T...
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Hitchcock: One Set Technique
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- ONE SETThe films most known for this technique are Rope and Rear Window. This is probably because both of those films were unique in other ways. Rope was shot in one continuous ...
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- The usefulness of Social software such as Facebook, mySpace, etc in distance education is hotly debated. Certainly networking people together has vertain advantages, but are tho...
