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Curated Video
Using Styles and Themes in Microsoft Word
In this video tutorial, the instructor demonstrates how to effectively utilize styles and themes in Word 2007 to enhance the appearance and professionalism of documents. By using predefined styles for titles and text, users can easily...
Curated Video
The Ultimate Guide to Python Programming With Python 3.10 - ttk - Themed Widgets
You will learn to create theme-based widgets using the tkinter themes with the ttk module.
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This clip is from the chapter "Tkinter" of the series "The Ultimate Guide to Python Programming with Python 3.10".This section focuses...
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This clip is from the chapter "Tkinter" of the series "The Ultimate Guide to Python Programming with Python 3.10".This section focuses...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ken Burns in the Classroom
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made,...
Two Minute Music Theory
Building Music: What are Musical Forms? - TWO MINUTE MUSIC THEORY #37
We continue our "Building Music" series, looking at how composers construct music. Today we look at how motifs, phrases, and periods, and themes are used to create full musical forms. Music Examples: Bach - French Suite in E major, BWV...
Book Club for Kids
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach is a classic fantasy and adventure story that explores friendship, family relationships, and the fortunes of a young orphan. James is living with his cruel aunts when a peach magically sprouts in the yard. When...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Thomas Homer Dixon: Complexity in Economic Theory - INET Panel (4/5)
Thomas Homer Dixon, Professor in the Centre for Environment and Business in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, speaking as part of the panel Exploring Complexity in Economic Theory at INET's Bretton Woods...
Mr. Beat
The Lost Generation Writers (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Once upon a time there was city, named Paris, France. During the 1920s, lots of Americans moved there to escape institutionalized racism and the associated race riots, xenophobia, censorship, materialism, and Prohibition. Perhaps most...
Makematic
Make stories shine
The art that children create can inspire them to tell amazing stories. By creating their own stories, children begin to understand characters, themes and settings.
In this activity, children aged 8-11 will design a new story...
In this activity, children aged 8-11 will design a new story...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Drama - Characters
The Elements of Drama - The wonderful world of drama comes alive in The Elements of Drama, as the young host and hostess take viewers on a journey through the works of such famous playwrights as William Shakespeare. Colorful graphics and...
Cerebellum
The Elements Of Fiction - Understanding Theme's
The Elements of Fiction - Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson . these are just three of the renowned authors whose work is cited in The Elements of Fiction, which explores: Plot elements, character, conflict, flashback,...
Odd Quartet
Music History - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Listener's Guide Music History
Rachmaninoff's piano concerto No. 2 is one of his most well known pieces, but did you know that Rachmaninoff struggled with depression and writer's block before being able to write this lovely piece of music? We look at the history...
Curated OER
Theme
Identifying the theme of a piece is crucial to understanding. Using the play Romeo and Juliet as an example, the concept of theme is explored in a video of a classroom lecture.
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Theme: What Are Fairy Tales?
Abby Brown, KIDS Clubhouse Adventures co-host, loves to help kids have fun while learning! In this segment, Abby teaches kids about the components of a fairy tale including characters and settings found only in our imaginations. [1:29]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
In this Kindergarten through 2nd grade video, students listen carefully as their teacher reads the story "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams. Students listen for key verbs such as clomp and wiggle...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story: "Perfectly Norman"
Read "Perfectly Norman" with Psacoya Guinn from NYC Children's Theater. This story, written by Tom Percival, is about embracing our differences and what makes us unique. [12:35]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story: "Miss Dorothy and Her Book Mobile"
Read "Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile" with Earnestine Sweeting. This story, written by Gloria Houston, tells the true story of the librarian Miss Dorothy. [14:33]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story: "After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again"
In this video from Let's Learn, NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Anna Stretching-Cole reads "After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again" by Dan Santat. After reading, she opens up a discussion about overcoming our fears....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story "Why Am I Me?"
Read "Why Am I Me?" by Paige Britt with Sharon Bricker. After reading, students will draw themselves and what makes them special. Then they will draw someone else and write/draw what makes them special. Discuss how differences are good...
Other
Tes: I, Cinna (The Poet) 2012 Full Length Film
This is I, Cinna (The Poet) 2012 Royal Shakespeare Company Full-Length Film [48:19] based on Cinna a minor character in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Other
The Only Way You Will Ever Need to Teach Theme [You Tube Video]
Middle school teacher Sara Johnson describes how she teaches the concept of theme. This video combines a sound explanation of the term and some classroom techniques she uses to reinforce understanding with her students.
TES Global
Tes: Gregory Doran on Bolingbroke in Henry Iv Part I (2014)
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this video clip, actor Gregory Doran speaks about the character of King Henry IV and his relationship with his son Prince Hal in the Royal Shakespeare Company (2014-2016) production of Henry IV Part...
TES Global
Tes: Performance Video: Julius Caesar (2012) Act 3, Scene 2
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespeare Company video clip from Julius Caesar (2012) Act 3, Scene 2 shows Antony speaking at Caesar's funeral. Although he defends Brutus's actions, he discusses what Caesar has done for...
TES Global
Tes: Coriolanus: Interview With Ralph Fiennes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is Royal Shakespeare Company video interview with actor Ralph Fiennes who directed and played the lead in Coriolanus (2011, 15). He explains why he feels the play is relevant to today's political...