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1) Hanzi
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How does language shape identity? What role does handwriting play in the digital age? HANZI encourages audiences around the world to revisit and rethink their own culture, language and identity. HANZI explores international design, visual culture, and identity through the lens of modern Chinese typography.
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A lot of people talk about what could be done to make the world a better place. Moira Kelly doesn’t just talk, she acts. She’s run an AIDS clinic for children in Romania, been house mother at an Aboriginal mission, worked in India with Mother Teresa, nursed crack babies in the Bronx, rescued kids from the firing lines in the brutal Balkans conflict and set up schools for the disadvantaged in Bosnia. She brings those in need of surgery from war...
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Organizations that have successfully incorporated virtual teams into their business practices have realized significant benefits. Benefits including reduced business costs, accelerated product delivery and improved levels of competitive advantage. However, along with the advantages virtual teams can offer come many unique challenges that must be addressed in order to deliver successful project results. This report featuring expert Alex Adamopoulos,...
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A key tool enabling global businesses to keep pace, remain competitive and be profitable is the virtual team. Managing virtual teams is a skill that many leaders struggle with. This course will offer insights and best practices to help managers deal with challenges and maximize their team's true potential. The first major section outlines the major teaching points. Next, the course delves into the concept of "connection" and how this differs from...
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In this program we examine how teachers think about guidance and discipline, the influences affecting them in determining what they consider either acceptable or challenging behaviour. Teachers also discuss the importance of teamwork and staff support in helping them deal with the challenging behaviour more prevalent in the new millennium.
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Teacher study groups are a wonderful tool for building a reflective, research-based community within schools. This video provides a window into the study group process as literacy specialist, Jennifer Allen, facilitates a group exploring ways to improve writing workshops. Showing excerpts from the fall and spring meetings of the group, the video details the evolution of thinking and discussion as practices are introduced and tried in the classroom,...
14) Think small!
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With the advent of RTI (Response to Intervention), teachers everywhere are spending part of their day teaching in small groups. In Think small!, master teacher and author Debbie Diller plans and teaches various small-group lessons with students at different reading levels while the rest of the class works independently at literacy work stations. Teachers learn how to form groups, organize for small-group instruction, choose books, write lesson plans,...
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Workplace excellence volume 3
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Find out why some people love coming to work and doing their best: Energize with breakfast ; Create a fun caring culture ; Make the workplace desirable ; Use light, colour and design ; Encourage staff creativity ; Make work spaces comfortable ; Provide relaxing zones for time out ; Offer team building activities ; Meet, celebrate and socialize.
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The long history of equal pay for women has yet to result in wage justice. In 1972 an historical decision of ‘equal pay for equal work’ was handed down by the Arbitration Commission. However, the notion of ‘comparable worth’ was not accepted at the time. In 1985, with women still only receiving 67% of men’s wages, the ACTU mounted another action in the industrial courts to have the notion of ‘comparable worth’ confirmed. Using nurses’...
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With the fastest growing economy in the history of the world, China is the workshop of globalisation. But are workers paying the price for a manufacturing revolution? This unique fly-on-the-wall documentary uncovers the hard realities of working conditions in a Chinese factory. The film focuses on a German-owned company in Shenzhen, China, which makes the chargers for Nokia's mobile phones. Nokia sends in a two-woman team to carry out an ethical audit...
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A film about the relationship between anthropologist Rina Sherman and an Omuhimba family with whom she lived for seven years, filming and photographing aspects of their everyday and ritual lives. Halfway through her tenure in the field, Sherman presented a multi-media exhibition, entitled The Ovahimba Years: Work in Progress in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.
20) Emperor Jones
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A highly theatrical dance work based on Eugene O'Neill's play, "Emperor Jones" was choreographed in 1956 by Jose Limón. The cast is led by Clay Taliaferro and Edward DeSoto. The first film is an edited version with close-ups and the second is a record version of the same performance showing the entire stage. Transferred from the original 16 millimeter color film.
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