Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Group Leadership Skills: Part 5
Group leadership skills often requires refocusing tangents in discussions. Tangents make people crazy. Your group leadership skills need to be able to handle them off-topic conversations. In Part 5 (of 5) in this collection of videos on...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Group Leadership Skills: Part 3
Group leadership (Part 3) looks at how leaders can handle an overly talkative person. The following are 5 tips for getting at this issue especially in small group communication settings. 1. Set expectations about participation early in...
Extra Credits
Gestalt - The Parts and the Whole - Extra Credits
Gestalt design principles--how we understand groups of objects as a whole unit via symmetry, proximity, closure, and more--is a powerful tool in game design to quickly and effectively communicate visual information to the player....
Curated Video
How to Solve Addition and Subtraction Word Problems (Story Problems)
Strategies Discussed and Modeled. 1. Draw a picture 2. Act it out 3. CUBES Strategy Have students watch the video on their own or whole group. Give them word problems to solve, so they can practice using each strategy.
Curated Video
Who Gets the Best Answers? The Wisdom of Crowds
There aren't many books I recommend unreservedly to professional and business people I work with. But the Wisdom of Crowds is one of them. So, Who does Get the Best Answers? It turns out it isn't anyone. It's certainly not the expert....
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Death of ‘Homo Economicus’
Good incentives are no substitute for good citizens. Human beings, notes Sam Bowles, a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, are complex, psychological beings given to all sorts of motivations well beyond naked self-interest....
Zach Star
Mechanical Engineering Subfields and Senior Project Examples (Part 2)
In the previous video I discussed the most popular mechanical engineering concentrations. Outside of those main one's though, the concentrations aren't as well defined at every university. I grouped together some large topics within...
Programming Electronics Academy
Tutorial 05: Understanding Variables: Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners (ReM)
Lets have a discussion about a powerful and semi-confusing programming topic - variables. A variable is like a bucket. You choose what types of stuff you want in the bucket and can change the contents as often as you like. When you...
The Guardian
New dads in lockdown: 'I had a real feeling of inadequacy'
In this episode of Modern Masculinity, the Guardian's Iman Amrani speaks to fathers of young children about their experiences during lockdown. She meets Mark Williams, a fathers' mental health campaigner, to hear about the challenges...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Was The Biggest Tank Battle In History?
This video is answering the question of what was the biggest tank battle in history.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Cecilia Nahon: Argentina vs the Vultures
During the 1990s, Argentina had been the poster child for Neoliberal policies—they adopted virtually the whole of the so-called “Washington Consensus” agenda lock-stock-and-barrel. They even adopted a currency board. And unlike Euroland...
Makematic
Make it more or less
Children are natural storytellers. When they draw, a window into their minds opens and you can see what they think and feel. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create drawings of what they see outside their window. As they draw,...
Curated Video
Mechanical Engineering Subfields and Senior Project Examples (Part 2)
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7LBKpksyS8 In the previous video I discussed the most popular mechanical engineering concentrations. Outside of those main one's though, the concentrations aren't as well defined at every...
The British Museum
Making a traditional Chinese hanging scroll
Senior Conservator Mrs Jin Xian Qiu has spent the last 43 years mastering the traditional Chinese method of mounting a hanging scroll. Watch as she prepares and hangs two works by Chinese artist Qu Leilei – a process that takes a whole...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Michael Greenberger: Setting the Stage for the Next Financial Crisis
Proprietary trading by Wall Street banks precipitated the 2008 financial crisis that resulted in a near 13 trillion dollar bailout by American taxpayers of Too Big To Fail financial institutions. As early as 2007, Morgan Stanley lost $9...
Educreations
Dividing Using Friendly Numbers
Simplify division for young mathematicians by teaching them how to use friendly numbers when finding quotients. Three examples are presented in this instructional video that models the process of breaking large dividends into sums of...
TED-Ed
The Ferocious Predatory Dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara
What's not to love about dinosaurs? Lucky for us humans, we can love to learn about them from 100 million years away, especially a group of extra large predatory dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period. Watch a descriptive video that...
TED-Ed
How Plants Tell Time
Can someone really have a "biological clock"? Discover why many organisms on earth have an inherent awareness of where they are in the day's cycle.This video discusses animal adaptations, the earth's revolutions, and how light and...
TED-Ed
How to Master Your Sense of Smell
Get in touch with your sense of smell! The author of the video provides three simple steps to help you get the best of the smells around you: get close to it, inhale a few sniffs, and notice smells around you.
Andrews McMeel Publishing
POW! A Peanuts Collection
Make a study of Charles M. Scultz's famous comic strip Peanuts in your language arts class. Class members read and discuss the baseball-themed book POW! A Peanuts Collection. After talking about themes and vocabulary, they complete...
Cisco
Episode 1.2: The Problem
Where have all the schoolgirls in Malawi gone? Teen leaders solve a mystery and investigate a problem in episode two in the seven-part first series of Global Problem Solvers. After finding the missing girls at a far-away well, the group...
TED-Ed
Jellyfish Predate Dinosaurs. How Have They Survived So Long?
Jellyfish range in size, species, hunting habits, and venom secretions. But one thing most all jellyfish have in common is their ability to survive and flourish in our oceans since before dinosaurs. Watch the video and find out...
TED-Ed
The History of Tea
The mythical story of Shennong, the Chinese inventor of agriculture, introduces a video that traces the history of tea, the various methods of brewing, and the wars sparked by the attempts to prevent the spread of tea growing.
Ophea
Introduction to Physical & Health Literacy
Support children in living fun, active, and healthy lives with a video on physical and health literacy. Whether its learning basic skills like running, jumping, and throwing, or making healthy choices about the foods they eat,...