Brainwaves Video Anthology
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano at BLC14 - Globally Connected Learning
Filmed at Building Learning Communities 2014. Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano was born in Germany, raised in Argentina and lives now in the United States. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Spanish with a Minor in International Studies and a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
José Luis Vilson - This is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education
José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master's degree in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yonty Friesem - Leadership in Digital Media Literacy
Yonty (Jonathan) Friesem is the Associate Director at the Media Education Lab and an Assistant Professor of multimedia production faculty at the department of communication, Central Connecticut State University. He received his PhD from...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
The 400th Video - Teachers Make a Difference
This is my 400th video. Fifteen educators describe the teacher who made a difference in their life.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Eric Sheninger - Digital Leadership
Eric Sheninger is an award winning Principal at New Milford High School located in Bergen County, NJ. His work focuses on leading and learning in the digital age as a model for moving schools and districts forward. He is the author of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Joanna Goode - Teachers Make a Difference
Joanna Goode is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Oregon. She earned a Ph.D., in Education Division of Urban Schooling at UCLA in 2004.Joanna Goode’s research examines issues of access and equity for...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Camille Z. Charles - Racial Inequality
Camille Zubrinsky Charles is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Education, and the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author...
Curated OER
Global Grover: Clubhouse
Do children all over the world make club houses like they do here? They sure do! This documentary-style film shows how a group of children from Israel make a club house. What a wonderful way to show little ones that kids all over the...
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Hope In Aceh
Due to the tsunami in Aceh, 25,000 children were left as orphans. A native Aceh woman returned to her hometown to open an orphanage to help homeless children. She founded the Give Light Foundation, which is hoping to open a second...
Curated OER
Four Generations Ð Part 2
How can one water buffalo make a difference? A musician gives a family a water buffalo, the emotional response of this gift is overwhelming for the family. A water buffalo will provide fuel, food, and a way to till the soil. Have...
Curated OER
Four Generations Ð Part 1
Robert Thomson is an American violinist who brings a poor Chinese family a water buffalo. Students will learn how important a water buffalo can be and why. Ask them to think what one thing would make the biggest difference to an...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Te Kete Ipurangi: Te Ao Whanui Local Participation, Global Confidence
In this curriculum conversation Anne Sturgess discusses a social studies programme at Edgecumbe College. She is joined by students who explain how Te Ao Whanui - local participation, global confidence, supported them to be autonomous...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: Nanavi: Time for School
Lesson on educational opportunity around the world features a video with guiding questions about a young girl named Nanavi who lives in Benin and has the rare opportunity to attend school.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: School in Benin
Excerpt from the video "Time for School" [2:59] teaches us about the struggle of children in Benin to recieve an education. Lesson includes guiding questions, transcript, background essay, and maps.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: Grozny: Refugee Camp
Video [2:54] and lesson on the Chechen refugee camp in Groznya and one young man's struggle to recieve an education. Lesson includes guiding questions, maps, background essay, transcript and links to related material.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: The Power of Developers
Video excerpt [2:01] titled, The Power of Developers, discusses China's adoption of a modern legal system and one peasant family's struggle for the rights to their land. Includes guiding questions, maps, related links, and background essay.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: China: Migrant Workers and Social Justice
Video excerpt [3:09] in which students learn about the vulnerability of Chinese migrant workers and their lack of power and status in a new global market economy. Includes guiding questions, background essay, transcripts, and links to...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: Widows in Israel
Lesson on the patriarchal cultural tradition of Arab families and the challenges widowed muslim women face when entering the workforce. Lesson includes video [2:56], background essay, maps, related links and questions.
Other
100 People Foundation: 100 People: A World Portrait
100 People attempts to simplify global statistics on health, gender, literacy, religious affiliation, population distribution, language, and poverty by looking at a representative sample of 100 people.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Radio Expeditions
This resource features past radio stories that probe into interesting features of countries all over the globe.
Other
America Abroad Media: America Abroad
At the online home of America Abroad, a radio and television network that develops programs to inform Americans about the critical issues of our time; access American Abroad programs, transcripts, photo galleries, interactives, and...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: Farm and City
Video excerpt [1:39] discusses the increasingly difficult conditions for farmers in China as the reason many rural Chinese have fled the countryside. Questions for discussion, maps, background essay, links and transcript included.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wide Angle: Video Bank: Night Transport
Video excerpt [1:53] discusses the practice of transporting thousands of workers back and forth to their night jobs in India's new economy. All lesson materials, including maps, questions for discussion and relate links.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Participation in World Affairs Pt. 23: Globalization and China
This episode kicks off our exploration of globalization. This episode originally aired in January 2012.