Diversity Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
Diversity Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
| Biological Membranes: Chemical Building Blocks More on DVD Version | Biological membranes consist of proteins and lipids. Membrane lipids, mainly phospholipids, are emphipathic, possessing both hydrophobic and hydrophilic areas that are separated from one another. Lecithin is used as an example to demonstrate the lipids' fundamental chemical structure and resultant physical properties. The diversity of membrane lipids is examined and classified. Emphipathic characteristics of the proteins are briefly considered. |
| Evolution: The Human Factor in Evolution More on DVD Version | Looks at the effects of artificial selection in livestock, such as limiting genetic diversity and creating animals too fragile to sustain regular activity. Also examines genetic engineering and how careless extermination of native flora and fauna or introduction of exotics can disrupt the natural ecological balance. |
| Leadership and Management: 1 -- Leadership and Workplace Diversity More on DVD Version | This six-part series explores the challenges that managers face in organizational settings with diverse workforces, and features interviews with business executives and employees. The first program reveals the changing environments in today's workplace, focusing on work force diversity including gender, age, and the physically challenged. Reviews the differences between leadership and management and the qualities of an effective leader. Host: James Adams. Produced by the University of Maryland's Office of Instructional Development. |
| Leadership and Management: 2 -- Motivation and Goal Setting More on DVD Version | Suggests that workplace diversity creates a kaleidoscope of needs and values in employees, challenging managers to provide motivation. A chief executive outlines his approach to encourage performance, and employees comment on various incentives and rewards. Also delves into goal-setting as a motivational tool. |
| Pennsylvania Journey More on DVD Version | Peirce Lewis, Penn State professor of geography and president of the Association of American Geographers, hosts a journey through the commonwealth's geographic space and historic time -- from Philadelphia in 1682 to Pittsburgh in 1983. The trip emphasizes the diversity of the state, visiting a classic farm and a market town in the Piedmont, a beehive coke oven near Mount Pleasant, Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, the mountains of the central and northern regions, and a countryside ravaged by mining. Produced by Penn State Television / WPSX-TV. |
| Touching the Future: Ray Johnson More on DVD Version | Ray Johnson, principal of the Paul Robeson African-centered school of choice in Detroit, states that faith, determination, working together, and economics all play a part in the success of his academy. He endorses constant curricula assessment and evaluation to ensure that youngsters understand and value diversity, and says it is essential that children receive an education filled with many points of view. |
| Diversity Issues in the Classroom More on DVD Version | Consists of 4 case studies, each dealing with a specific aspect of diversity in the class room. Short dramatic vignettes are followed by panel discussions. Each segment is open-ended to facilitate live discussion. A. Confronting Overt Racism - Addresses the question of what an instructor’s responsibility is when confronted with overt racism in his or her classroom. B. Gender Bias - A female student is constantly overlooked in class by her professor. C. Diversity as Subject Matter - Women’s Studies instructor loses control of class as the legitimacy of her discipline is called into question. D. Instructor with Language Bias - Instructor insists Latino student has problem with English.Produced by Penn State Off ice of Educational Equity, the Penn State Affirmative Action Office, and WPSX-TV |
| Diversity Issues in Higher Education More on DVD Version | Five case studies are depicted, each dealing with a different aspect of diversity in higher education. Short dramatic vignettes are followed by panel discussions. Each segment is open ended to facilitate live discussion. A. International Student Issues - International Teaching Assistants discuss the American classroom climate from their perspective. B. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues - New lesbian faculty member, who is not out publicly, encounters overt hostility from senior faculty member in her department and seeks guidance. C. Learning Disability Issues - Learning disabled student seeks accommodation from a not so cooperative faculty member. D. Adult Learner Issues - Adult veteran asserts his world experience in the classroom leading to conflict with the instructor. E. Issues in Multicultural Education - Two faculty members with opposing points of view discuss the veracity of multiculturalism and diversity over lunch.Produced by Penn State Off ice of Educational Equity, the Penn State Affirmative Action Office, and WPSX-TV |
| The Penn State Diversity Series (Four Videos) More on DVD Version | Produced by Penn State Office of Educational Equity, the Penn State Affirmative Action Office, and WPSU-TV includes: Diversity Issues in the Classroom, Diversity Issues in Higher Education, OUTlook and Sexual Harrassment: A New Look at an Old Problem. (Diversity Issues) |
| Pennsylvania Parade #122 - Profiles on Rural Religion: Last Words More on DVD Version | To conclude the "Profiles of Rural Religion" series, the series consultants, sociologists Don Crider and Joe Faulkner, come to the TV studio for some analysis and some dialogue with the subjects of the six documentaries. But the dialogue develops most strongly between the subjects themselves, as questions of diversity and religious choice become prominent. And the program provides a final, frontal encounter between Suzie Andresen and Glenn Stover (see "Separate Realities"). Their quite different religious views, untempered and forcefully put, illustrate the range and intensity of religious expression in Rural America. Produced by P J O’Connell for Penn State Public Broadcasting. Rural lAmerica Documentary series. |
| Classrooms in the Digital Age More on DVD Version | Classrooms in the Digital Age" is a series of case-study vignettes. The emphasis within each profile is the immediate impact that technology is >having on a learning process or episode. Using numerous interviews and a documentary style approach the personal challenges and successes of each location comes to life. There is a diversity of strategies and techniques that point to the resourcefulness of these innovative teachers and their student's enthusiastic participation is testimony to their effectiveness. 1999 |
| Irregularly Delayed Experiential Closure in the Rhesus Monkey More on DVD Version | Monkeys are trained to a stimulus sequence - low brightness warning light, a bright-safe light, a bright-shock light. Response during bright-safe produces food reward and prevents shock. Results of variations in the stimulus sequence indicate that if an unpredictab experiential capacities for control, it induces aberrations of behavior that range in intensity, diversity,and persistence from what in humans would be called neurotic to psychotic. M. Woolf and J.H.Masserman. |
| Africa: Continent of Contrasts More on DVD Version | Take a trip through the continent of Africa and sample the diversity of its cultures, histories, and landscapes. Herds and their predators are also documented. ©1993 |
| Hate More on DVD Version | Hate diminishes us all. Take a good, hard look at this destructive force and examine the problem of indifference. Learn why human diversity is a benefit that all of us should celebrate. Understand the damage that is done by hatred and see what happens to those who are the victims of hate. Roles that people take on that perpetuate hate are closely examined. Be aware that when it comes to hatred, even one person can make a difference. Learn how you can be a positive influence in your school and in your community. ©2001 |
| The Holocaust: A History More on DVD Version | Jewish people have been the victims of discrimination for thousands of years, but during no period in history were they as victimized as they were during the Nazi Holocaust. Learn about the historical struggle of the Jewish people. Understand what motivated Hitler and discover how he rose to power. Witness the ramifications of Hitler's "New Order" of Aryan Predominance and learn about what happened on Kristallnacht. See how Hitler put his plan to annihilate European Jews into motion, and learn about the raw horror that results from intolerance and from fear of diversity. ©2001 |
| Multicultural Understanding More on DVD Version | America's culture is unique because people from every corner of the globe have contributed to it. The more diverse a culture is, the richer it is. The citizens of the United States must be ready to embrace their country's diversity and to celebrate it. No ethnic, racial, or religious group is superior to any other. To be tolerant and to truly accept that we are all different but equal must be America's goal for the 21st Century. The message conveyed by this video is that we should not fear those who are different from us. Rather, we should seize the opportunity to learn from other people and to enjoy what they can share. ©2001 |
| Houses of Worship Pennsylvania More on DVD Version | With roots based in the ideal of "spiritual liberty and religious freedom", Pennsylvania's churches, chapels and cathedrals are tributes to inspired architecture and are true symbols of the diversity and significance of religion within every community large and small. |
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