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  • Understanding English as a Second Language (ESE)

    Introduces eight fundamental principles crucial to teaching ESL and illustrates these principles, teacher interviews and actual classroom situations.

  • ESL Teaching Strategies for Elementary Students

    Demonstrates teaching strategies to help elementary ESL students learn language and content.

  • ESL Teaching Strategies for Secondary Students

    Demonstrates teaching strategies to help junior and senior high ESL students learn language and content

  • Disability and the Law – CD-ROM

    This CD-ROM analyses and reviews how Canadian legal principles, legislation and case precedents are applied to persons with disabling conditions and to the professionals who work with them. Legal issues are considered in the context of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, criminal law, personal law, tort law and other areas.

  • Shades of Blue I

    Discover the technique of executing a monochrome painting via the evergreens of a winter meadow.

  • Tall Timbers

    Ed demonstrates the use of blue wood grain as a backdrop.

  • Winter Solitude

    Learn how to create a peaceful winter scene.

  • The Club Sandwich Generation

    See the effects of aging on family members. Takes an in-depth look at family dynamics and aging. How do siblings make difficult decisions about and for their aging parents? Often one sibling takes on more responsibilities, which leads to other problems and concerns among the siblings and other family members. Current research on aging families and support systems will be explored as well as personal stories.

  • The Pandemic of Family Violence

    Everyone has heard of Family Violence, but does anyone understand its true global nature? In every culture, on every continent, families are the basic unit of socialization, and violence within the family unit both mirrors and determines violence within a society – and between societies. This program explores family violence as a universal issue of basic human rights. Featured speakers: Dr. Alexander Butchart – World Health Organization; Irene Khan – Amnesty International; Other speakers include: Dr. Richard Sobsey – University of Alberta

  • Was There a Scientific Revolution?

    Exactly what was the scientific revolution? Common wisdom would have us believe a progression of thought from the obscurantist “Dark Ages” to the Enlightenment, but was this period of time a revolution at all, or just a convenient intellectual construct?