This 11-minute video lesson introduces conic sections.
Webinar sponsored by the CSCU OER Advisory Council.
This learning video addresses a particular problem of selection bias, a statistical bias in which there is an error in choosing the individuals or groups to make broader inferences. Rather than delve into this broad topic via formal statistics, we investigate how it may appear in our everyday lives, sometimes distorting our perceptions of people, places and events, unless we are careful. When people are picked at random from two groups of different sizes, most of those selected usually come from the bigger group. That means we will hear more about the experience of the bigger group than that of the smaller one. This isn't always a bad thing, but it isn't always a good thing either. Because big groups ''speak louder,'' we have to be careful when we write mathematical formulas about what happened in the two groups. We think about this issue in this video, with examples that involve theaters, buses, and lemons. The prerequisite for this video lesson is a familiarity with algebra. It will take about one hour to complete, and the only materials needed are a blackboard and chalk.
The aim of this video lesson is to teach students about the different topologies of computer networks and how they function. The approach that is used is highly correlated with common knowledge about weddings and the local Malay culture associated with weddings. Students should be able to relate the act of delivering food to a large crowd of people to the basic principles of network topologies and the method of data transfer within each type of topology. The lesson will begin in a classroom with students working in small groups, answering assigned questions. Teaching aids such as color cards will be used. One student from each group will be appointed as the wedding event manager, and she/he will have to discuss and act out with group members in order to answer more challenging questions. At the end of the lesson, students will be asked to come up with their own version of a hybrid computer network topology. The lesson concept taught here not only educates students on computer topologies, but also introduces students to an important cultural perspective of Malaysia. Above all, this video is designed to assist students with their study of Computer Literacy in schools. The lesson will take up to 60 minutes to complete. Materials needed include: 10 red cards representing waitresses; 10 green cards representing waiters; 10 blue cards representing tables in the hall; a sketch book; and classroom tables and chairs.
This art history video discussion looks at the reconstruction of the "Ishtar Gate and Processional Way", Babylon, c. 575 B.C.E., glazed mud brick (Pergamon Museum, Berlin).
This essay looks at Italian Futurism. It includes a short video featuring a work by 19th-century scientist and photographer Étienne-Jules Marey, whose chronophotographic (time-based) studies depicted the mechanics of animal and human movement.
This art history video discussion looks at a Byzantine panel with archangel, Ivory leaf from diptych, c. 525-50, 16.8 x 5.6 x 0.35 in. (42.8 x 14.3 x 0.9 cm), probably from Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey), (British Museum, London).
This art history video discussion looks at Jackie Winsor's "#1 Rope", 1976, wood and hemp, 40-1/4 x 40 x 40 inches (SFMOMA, San Francisco).
This art history video discussion looks at a Japanese Negoro ware ewer, Negoro workshop, Muromachi period (1392--1573) to Momoyama period (1573--1615) second half of 16th century, lacquered wood, Wakayama prefecture, Japan (Portland Art Museum).
This art history video dicussion examines Jasper Johns' "Flag", 1954-55, encaustic, oil and collage mounted on plywood, three panels, (MoMA).
This art history video discussion looks at Alexej von Jawlensky's "Young Girl in a Flowered Hat", 1910, oil on cardboard (Albertina, Vienna).
This art history video discussion looks at John Roddam Spencer Stanhope's "Thoughts of the Past" exhibited 1859, oil on canvas (Tate Britain, London).
This art history video discussion examines Joseph Beuys' "Table with Accumulator (Tisch mit Aggregat)", 1958-85, Tate Modern, London.
These videos demonstrate how to use Kepler's original Third Law and derive the origin of Kepler's empirical equation.
In this art history video discussion Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker consider Fernand Khnopff's "I Lock the Door Upon Myself," 1891. Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
They disucss the Symbolist painters and a poem by Christina Rosetti.
This lesson uses the fundamentals of protein synthesis as a context for investigating the closest living relative to Tyrannosaurus rex and evaluating whether or not paleontologist and dinosaur expert, Jack Horner, will be able to "create" live dinosaurs in the lab. The first objective is for students to be able to access and properly utilize the NIH's protein sequence database to perform a BLAST, using biochemical evidence to determine T rex's closest living relative. The second objective is for students to be able to explain and evaluate Jack Horner's plans for creating live dinosaurs in the lab. The main prerequisite for the lesson is a basic understanding of protein synthesis, or the flow of information in the cell from DNA to RNA during transcription and then from RNA to protein during translation
This art history video discussion examines Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Street", Dresden, oil on canvas, 1908 (MoMA).
This lesson presents the basics of aerodynamics by using kite flying as an example, i.e., forces acting on a flying object. Students will measure the net force acting on a kite due to blowing air and will learn how a simple instrument like a spring can be used to measure such force. They will also examine and experience how the force on the kite is transferred to the string in the form of tension and will again measure that tension with a simple spring. This lesson will take about 30 minutes to complete. One will need a calibrated spring to measure forces, as well as a few springs to study the coplanar forces.
This art history video discussion looks at Paul Klee's "Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine)", 1922, watercolor, ink, and gouache on paper (MoMA).
This art history video discussion examines Gustav Klimt's "Death and Life", 1910, reworked 1915, oil on canvas, 178 x 198 cm (Leopold Museum, Vienna).