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Teaching with Ted

Teaching with Ted
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. The intent of this project wiki is to address: How can the TED talks be used as springboards for further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action? The wiki was initiated independently of TED by Jackie Gerstein, but the TED team in New York know about it and are excited by its potential. The individual pages (see sidebar) not only contain the original TED talks, but also additional references, resources, and activities about the topic and/or speaker. Why study TED? Who owns TED TED is owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation, a 501(c)3 organization under the U.S. tax code.

Neo K-12 Free video lectures,Free Animations, Free Lecture Notes, Free Online Tests, Free Lecture Presentations British Life and Culture in the UK - Woodlands Junior School short stories A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages

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children's short stories Peter was tired. After 10 years of holding together the paperwork for “Johnson, A.P. – SSN 555-66-33xx,” his tensile strength was fading; he could feel his molecules beginning to degrade. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U People told tales of long, long ago, when they used to enjoy Halloween, dressing up, knocking on doors showing off their fine costumes, playing something called Trick or Treat and, it used to be fun, but not anymore. - Length: 7 pages Was this a riddle? Becca laughed and smiled at her brother ruefully. - Length: 6 pages Hoover had been the runt of his mother’s fourth litter. - Length: 5 pages It was the fifth day at her new school and ten-year-old Buseje hung her head as she settled down into her desk. She returns to the kitchen and stops in her tracks. - Length: 4 pages Helen was born wrong. - Length: 14 pages Snow fell steadily in the wild woods of Siberia... Bobby Osgood woke up one October morning and he was twelve years old again... Peter was tired. - Length: 8 pages

Weird plurals: Latin and Greek origins, irregular plural noun forms [infographic] Buy this poster Mouse to mice, goose to geese and child to children: an explanation and infographic will help to weed through English’s irregular plurals. <a href=" src= alt="Grammar.net" /></a> [Infographic provided by <a href=" Download high resolution poster here. What are Irregular Plurals? English grammar generally pluralizes a word by tacking -s or -es onto the end of it, but there are plenty of words that buck this; some noun plurals look extremely different from the singular. Latin and Greek Origins Irregular plurals of noun difficulties can be partly blamed on English’s habit of importing from other languages. Phenomenon, phenomena Focus, foci Bacterium, bacteria Cactus, cacti Fungus, fungi Medium, media Stimulus, stimuli Larva, larvae Nucleus, nuclei Hippopotamus, hippopotami Vertebra, vertebrae Alga, algae Radius, radii -ies Family, families -Ves

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