Poster for a public forum in Des Moines, Iowa. Date stamped on verso: Oct 29 1940.

Poster announcing a series of public youth forums with E.W. Balduf to be held at the YWCA. Stamped on verso: Works Progress Administration, Des Moines, Iowa. Official business.

Poster announcing a citywide public forum with the St. Louis Smoke Commissioner to be held at Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa, and neighborhood forums with Royal H. Holbrook. Illustration shows smoke pouring out of a smokestack. Date stamped on verso: Jan 29 1941.

Students write and record their own essays for a class blog by first completing a series of activities designed to get them thinking and writing about their experiences.

Students listen to a story and answer questions about a family in Central or South America that barters to get the ingredients for chicken sancocho, a kind of stew. The students complete sentences that record the various trades carried out by the family to obtain all of the ingredients for the sancocho. They also participate in trading activities that illustrate money's advantages over barter.

Power words in the context of conscious communication are words that invoke clarity, evoke positive emotion, and promote understanding. They inspire, motivate, and resonate deeply with listeners or readers, facilitating more effective and empathetic communication. Here 100 most powerful words are given with statements. Use them in your daily life and see the difference in communication and mindset.

Students listen to the story and identify the scarcity problem the monsters had not enough chairs for every monster to have one. Students wear a picture of a want they have drawn and play a version of musical chairs in which the chairs are labeled goods. Students learn that a good can satisfy a want. They also learn that, because of scarcity, not everyone's wants are satisfied.

This course examines the history, techniques, and aesthetics of mechanical and computer-aided approaches to algorithmic music composition and generative music systems. Through creative hands-on projects, readings, listening assignments, and lectures, students will explore a variety of historical and contemporary approaches. Diverse tools and systems will be employed, including applications in Python, MIDI, Csound, SuperCollider, and Pure Data.

This online Arabic tutorial from the University of Maryland offers information on the alphabet, basics in grammar such as pronouns and verb conjugations, numbers, qualifying adjectives, time and date, and other various vocabulary activities focusing on things such as the parts of the body and greetings. Each tutorial section comes with a comprehensive quiz. Audio components are available to listen to the various vocabulary words.

The aim of this unit is to develop the skills that underpin many of the tasks and activities of a digital learning designer. It will support learners as they learn how to listen actively, to capture and convey ideas and to write fluently and accurately. The unit will also cover the use of non-textual information and how image can be used to enrich and deepen communication and understanding.

This website guidance document provides an overview of Carnegie Hall's Musical Explorers Digital program. The site connects students in grades K–2 to rich and diverse musical communities as they build fundamental music skills through listening, singing, and moving to songs from all over the world. 

Students observe the teacher produce a paper taco and then produce their own paper tacos. Students learn about the productive resources and intermediate goods used to make final goods and services. They listen to the book Tortilla Factory and identify the productive resources and intermediate goods used to produce corn tortillas. Students classify the resources used to produce their paper tacos.

Students listen to the book Uncle Jed's Barbershop, about an African-American barber who, despite significant setbacks, saves enough money to buy his own barbershop. From the story, students learn about saving, savings goals, opportunity cost, and segregation. The students participate in a card game to further investigate what it takes to reach a savings goal.

This lesson uses tall tale read alouds to reinforce the common elements, or text structure, of tall tales. As the text is read aloud, students examine the elements of the book that are characteristic of tall tales. Then using what they've learned, they write and perform tall tales of their own.

We think important objects and events in our world will automatically grab our attention, but they often don’t, particularly when our attention is focused on something else. The failure to notice unexpected objects or events when attention is focused elsewhere is now known as inattentional blindness. The study of such failures of awareness has a long history, but their practical importance has received increasing attention over the past decade. This module describes the history and status of research on inattentional blindness, discusses the reasons why we find these results to be counterintuitive, and the implications of failures of awareness for how we see and act in our world.

Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.

Your success as an academic will depend heavily on your ability to communicate to fellow researchers in your discipline, to colleagues in your department and university, to undergraduate and graduate students, and perhaps even to the public at large. Communicating well in an academic setting depends not only on following the basic rules that govern all good communication (for example, tailoring the message to meet the needs of a specific audience), but also on adhering to the particular norms of academic genres.
The purpose of this course, then, is threefold. First, the course will acquaint you with guidelines that will help you create well-crafted academic communication. Second, it will give you the opportunity to practice your communication skills and to receive extensive feedback from your colleagues and from me. You will write and/or revise an article manuscript or conference paper, present a conference paper or job talk, write a manuscript peer review, and engage in various other communication exercises. The article and talk, which are the major assignments of the course, will be based on material from your own doctoral studies. Third, the course will provide an opportunity for you to learn about professional norms for a range of activities that surround the academic enterprise, including, for example, the scholarly publication process and the job search process.

This course surveys Romantic musical genres including song, choral music, opera, piano sonata, character cycle, concerto, symphony, and symphonic poem, including the composers Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler. Written essays and oral presentations are based on live performances as well as listening and reading assignments.

This course focuses on Hindustani classical music of North India, and also involves learning about the ancient foundations of the rich classical traditions of music and dance of all Indian art and culture. Students explore the practice the ragas and talas through learning songs, dance, and drumming compositions, and develop insights through listening, readings, and concert attendance.

Preparing for a trip can be a very exciting time! You may be traveling for a mission trip, a job requirement, or a social traveling trip with friends or family.  Regardless of why you are traveling there are important words to know when traveling to a Spanish speaking country and being able to navigate through an airport, an airplane, and at a travel agency.  Learn these words in this seminar so you can convince your school administrators on taking a trip abroad. There are many school districts who are oppose traveling abroad due to security and insurance liability so you will need to convince them the value of safety of traveling to a Spanish speaking country!  ACTFL StandardsCommunication: Interpersonal Communication, Presentational CommunicationCommunities: School and Global Communities, Lifelong LearningConnections: Making ConnectionsLearning TargetI can present reasons for or against a position on a political or social issue.Habits of MindThinking and communicating with clarity and precisionCritical Thinking SkillAnalyzing Perspectives