From espresso to cappuccino – there is more to making a great cup of coffee than simply knowing how to operate a machine. The wide range of techniques used by skilled baristas in making coffee takes time, patience and practice to master. This program deals with those techniques for the beginner. It covers espresso machines and their components, coffee types and extraction. Students will learn about frothing and the correct items of crockery and glassware to use for different coffee types.
Grade levels: Adult
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Shattering Glass Ceiling
Until recently, only a small percentage of women were in the work force – confined to lower paying positions. However, the glass ceiling is beginning to shatter as more and more women access senior management positions in traditionally male-dominated executive offices.
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Event Management: Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling
This program provides a behind-the-scenes look at the staging of a significant series of events from the Eureka 150 held in Ballarat, Australia in 2005. This historic event incorporated activities and entertainment targeted at many groups, with much community involvement. This program explores the stages of organizing a large event, the planning, leading and controlling required, finishing up with the criteria to successfully evaluate an event.
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Coordination and Control Two: Plants
The study of plant hormones has long been part of Biology courses. The use of animation in this program aims to give students a better understanding of the complex interaction between organism and environmental stimuli in a way that the pages of a book can’t. This program deals with how plants use hormones to coordinate and control their activities with changes in the environment. The roles of the major hormones are discussed and their mode of action at a cellular level is explored. Some of the lesser known hormones are described.
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Corrosion Chemistry
This program is designed to help students understand the chemistry in corrosion. The enigmatic presenter takes the viewer on an informative journey examining such issues as what causes corrosion, necessary conditions for corrosion to occur, which metals corrode, oxidization, electricity and redox and corrosion minimization. Enhanced by animated graphics and laboratory experiments, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of this chemical process.
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Creative Cakes: Basic Techniques
The first in a two-part series, this practical guide looks at many basic techniques used in cake decorating. Cake decorating experts share their knowledge and display their skills on various processes, including chocolate work, basic frostings, piping work and covering a cake in fondant. Demonstrations of the techniques are shown and explained.
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Creative Cakes: Beyond the Basics
The second in this two-part series, this program looks at more advanced techniques used in cake decorating. Again featuring our cake decorating experts at work, we feature some more complex cake decorating skills, such as doing transfers, colored piping and collars, three different techniques for creating frosting roses and we even learn how to create a rag doll figurine!
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Day to Day Business in a Café
There are many roles to play in operating a small business successfully. This case study presents an overview of what is involved in running a café such as; a typical day, customers, products, staff, legalities and regulations, operations and location and marketing. It provides a valuable insight into the priorities of a small business owner, operating within the framework of regulations, customer demands and fierce competition.
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DC Electricity: Discovery and Developments
This program looks at the origins of electricity through the first uses of static electricity by the Greeks, Gilbert and onto other popular displays by scientists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Viewers will gain an understanding of the chemical battery, the ‘complete’ circuit, electrolysis, electroplating and negatively charged electrons. Resistance to flow is introduced and the use of both ammeters and voltmeters to monitor flow and potential. Highly effective animations will engage students, while clearly demonstrating processes.
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Decisions, Decisions: Family Food Choices
While there are many influences on our food decisions, the family is probably the most important. In this program, we spend time with a not atypical family: a husband and wife and their teenage and pre-teenage children. We see who makes the decisions, why and with what effect, and we see how the family’s thinking about nutrition is fairly deeply ingrained, sometimes for the worst, sometimes for the better.