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Producers: Alberta Advanced Education

  • Expanding Personal Horizons – CD-ROM

    The role of addictions counsellors in individual, couple and group settings is explored using compelling dramatic re-creations The CD ROM allows you to cut and paste text for future reference by accessing the notebook. You can also access learning moments, explore the theory behind the interventions and reference the glossary as needed. Produced in conjunction with the University of Lethbridge School of Health Sciences.

  • Leadership In Organizations

    Through the views of four people with extensive leadership experience in business and the social services, this video explores current ideas about leadership within organizations today. Produced in conjunction with the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary.

  • 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.

  • Cultures in Conflict

    This five-part series in English and French travels across North America and Europe to investigate how intercultural conflict can become either a basis for violence, or the source of profound creativity. Hosted by Professor Roger Parent of the Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, this series uses historical footage and current events to illustrate key concepts and techniques with respect to cultural analysis and intercultural communication.

  • Cultures et conflits

    Cultures et conflits présente une série de cinq vidéos sur le développement culturel.
    Ces émissions d’une demi-heure, de format grand public, fonctionnent comme un tout mais peuvent être utilisées individuellement, selon les besoins de l’utilisateur. Les vidéos font une introduction à la recherche contemporaine sur la culture. Des images d’actualités et d’événements historiques illustrent les aspects théoriques et méthodologiques d’une approche au développement culturel valable pour toutes les sortes de cultures: familiale, organisationnelle, régionale, etc. Des trousses pédagogiques facilitent l’utilisation des vidéos pour l’éducation post-secondaire et pour la formation professionnelle dans des milieux culturels précis.

  • Legacy – Aboriginal Restorative Justice

    Long before settlers came to Canada, the Blackfoot of the Western Canadian plains lived by a complex and sophisticated legal code of their own. When British justice was imposed on the area, the culture and law of the Blackfoot was ignored and treated with contempt. This clash of cultures is brought to life through the story of Charcoal, a man on the run, caught between two systems of justice.

  • Body and Gaze Shift in ASL / Classifiers in ASL / Space in ASL

    Each of these programs focuses on a key element of ASL, including: identifying a narrator and characters of a story using Body and Gaze Shift; determining the difference between nouns, verbs and adjectives using ASL Classifiers; and the use of Space in ASL to establish a location for a particular referent’s discourse.