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Thursday, 10 June 2010

Bhullar Brothers

Watch this video about my nephews:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/video?id=7478084


http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1087336

7-foot brothers from India could be college hoops' next twin towers

Combined, they stand 14 feet, 6 inches tall. And surely college basketball recruiters soon will be sizing up brothers Sim Bhullar (7-4, 285, 17 years old) and Tanveer Bhullar (7-2, 260, and just 15) as they play for the private Kiski School in Pennsylvania.
Rivals.com reports the two -- born in India -- have improved steadily under Kiski coach Daryn Freedman, who has been an assistant in the NBA and at Division I schools. Sim averaged about 16 points, 14 rebounds and eight blocks in his sophomore season. Tanveer averaged about 12 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks as a freshman.
Their father stands 6-1 and their mother is 5-10. The family initially moved from India to Toronto, but they put the boys in a U.S. school because of better basketball possibilities. Kiski is an all-boys prep school of 210 students 30 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Tackles the issues of racial discrimination in the workplace

Work for All is produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the Participation of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
The NFB Mediatheque is located at 150 John St, at Richmond St W, near Osgoode subway station.
For more information, call 416-973-3012 or visit www.NFB.ca/mediatheque
http://workforall.nfb.ca/

Panellists include Dr. Judith Nicholson

http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?ct_id=2256&f_id=35&grp_id=2610>

from Wilfrid Laurier University, multimedia artist Wayne Dunkley http://www.sharemyworld.net/
and Aisling Chin-Yee http://workforall.nfb.ca/
, line producer of the Work for All project. The evening will be moderated by Dr. Ayman Al-Yassini, Executive Director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation http://www.crr.ca/

Monday, 31 May 2010

Khan Academy

It has youtube lessons for all sorts of academic concepts from basic addition to university level concepts.

www.khanacademy.org


Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Stories On-line

Below is an interactive website where students can watch and listen to stories on-line.

http://www.speakaboos.com/

Monday, 10 May 2010

Mental Health Resources

This is an excellent resource for teacher, administrators, and guidance staff and may provide a framework for assessing which issues require school based or community based intervention. It could be really useful in determining which cases are appropriate to refer to social work. The principles are guided toward k-8 but defining the issue can be used at all ages and stages.

http://www.brocku.ca/teacherresource/ABC/bigpicture.php


http://www.brocku.ca/teacherresource/ABC/bigpicture.php

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Free documentaries

http://freedocumentaries.org/

Yep, free. And they are respecting copyright.
http://freedocumentaries.org/
Including SuperSize Me, The Road to Guantanamo, several Micheal Moore and much more.
Thanks to another TELer for pointing out that you can select "medium" size and that seems to work, avoiding the SQL error.
It does make the screen quite small though.
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