Descripción:Short film was made by a student team at the University of Alberta in Edmonton for SellMyTextbooks.org. Shows the pain we all feel when selling used books... SellMyTextbooks.org is a site that allows students to sell used textbooks across North America. You can look up prices online, post in the free classifieds site, or sign up your books for BuyBack Alerts (they email you when they're buying your books!). Enjoy! :)

Descripción:A year's worth of textbooks for a student in Grade Nine in rural Bangladesh cost about $13 US Dollars. But many high school students drop out because they can't afford to buy them. In this short video, I meet a Grade Nine student struggling to buy his textbooks for the year. I buy the books for him and - to show his thanks - he sings a song. Here is some information in Bangladesh Rickshaw Drivers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickshaw#Bangladesh I dedicate this video to all those watching my videos from High Schools back home. The list was compiled based on those who joined the Uncultured Project Facebook Group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18807049968 For More Information on My Work in Bangladesh, check out my Blog at: http://uncultured.com The music in this video (in order used) are: "How Far" - Jamison Young Music by Jamison Young is used under a Creative Commons license. You can download his music for free at: http://jamyoung.net/music.html I've recently setup a PayPal account because so many people have been asking if they can send me donations. More information here: http://uncultured.com/donations Donations to me aren't tax deductible as I am not a charity or NGO. If you'd like to donate to a registered charity, check out: http://uncultured.com/charities This video is shared under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

Descripción:high price of textbooks

Descripción:http://www.ted.com Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Descripción:One local college is helping students save money by offering textbook rentals. Metropolitan Community College is one of the few schools in the nation to start a textbook rental program, KMBC's Dion Lim reported. The cost of textbooks has tripled in the past 20 years. The college noticed that the high prices affected learning because students would either delay purchasing the book or not buy it at all. "With book rental, more students get books the first day of class so they're not behind on their studies. It helps students and professors, which is what the goal is," bookstore manager Michelle Capps said. In some cases, the price of renting is almost 80 percent less than buying. One math textbook cost $100 less to rent than to buy. "The difference between renting and buying is, like, wow," student Jakkob Baldwin said. "It's definitely an advantage. It's about $70 just to buy each, so when I found out I could rent, I said, 'deal,'" student Jordan Miller said. Students said they also like that book renting is guaranteed, which isn't the case for textbook sell-back programs. "You can't always sell them back, and it's upsetting when you don't know what to do with them when you don't use them," student Norman Schultz said. If a student wants to keep a rented book at the end of the semester, he or she just needs to pay the difference. Not all textbooks are available to be rented, but the college said it plans to add on more books in the coming years.

Descripción:How faculty members can use CourseSmart to evaluate textbooks online

Descripción:This is not a surprise coming from our "friends" in Saudi Arabia. They were told by the U.S. government to make their textbooks more "infidel" friendly. More here: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021366.php http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5234 http://www.nysun.com/foreign/panel-saudi-run-va-school-promotes-hate/79808/ ALSO "Terrorist Network in America" Map: http://www.investigativeproject.org/maps.php --------------------------------

Descripción:This kid makes me proud to be human. So few other humans do at all. TY http://www.myspace.com/wanek4truth

Descripción:textbook mistakes from my 2 years in college going after that higher education. BOOK buy backs are misleading. yes....my hair is huge...I know. I don't sound as irritated as I thought I would.

Descripción:Every college student goes through it, but this is my rant about getting ripped off with regards to textbooks. Here's a link to the Sierra Mist commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lHeVx1ndy8

Descripción:Dr. Kent Hovind informs us of some of the many lies in the textbooks. None of Kent's video material has been copyrighted. Feel free to copy this video and spread it to others.

Descripción:Rosie Avila is running for Congress in the 47th district. She has been a board member of the Santa Ana school district for 15 years.

Descripción:A commercial for ValoreBooks.com that was shot for Fox's CollegeBound Segment. Buy cheap college textbooks for less and sell used textbooks for more at ValoreBooks.com. Buy cheap textbooks now at http://www.valorebooks.com/buy-textbooks or sell used textbooks back for more cash at www.valorebooks.com/sell-textbooks

Descripción:A Campus Undercover special uncovering the illegal textbook ring. Interviews, hidden cameras, and the pager is caught!

Descripción:After collecting, organizing, and packing over 850 boxes of textbooks, volunteers load up the materials into a sea container in order to ship them to classrooms in Liberia and Sierra Leone

Descripción:Saudi-funded textbooks being used in America's K-12 classrooms. Teaching, among other things, that Jesus was a "Palestinian," the state of Israel never existed, and that the Muslims discovered America before Columbus. At this rate, perhaps even Saudi grade-school textbooks, complete with jihadi and dhimmi declarations, will come to instruct American school-children. ooo OOO ooo "Public Schools Teach the ABCs of Islam," by Erick Stakelbeck for CBN News, October 9: CBNNews.com - Several recent studies have shown that American students are alarmingly ignorant about U.S. history and world events. Experts have contributed the problem to everything from failing schools to substandard teachers. But what about content? For instance, did you know that Muslims discovered America? Or that Jerusalem is an Arab city? That's just some of the "history" that students in America's K-12 classrooms have been taught in recent years--with the help of taxpayer money. A new report by the non-profit Institute for Jewish and Community Research finds that American high school and elementary textbooks contain countless inaccuracies about Christianity, Judaism, Israel and the Middle East. The Institute examined 28 of the most widely-used history, geography and social studies textbooks in America. It found at least 500 errors. One book ignored the Jewish roots of Christianity, saying the faith was founded by a "young Palestinian" named Jesus. Another stated as fact that the Koran was revealed to Mohammed from God. Yet another said ancient Jewish civilization contributed "very little" to to the arts and sciences. Textbooks like these are used by millions of schoolchildren in all 50 states.[...] Harvard is one of 18 universities that receives government funding under Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965. To qualify for that funding, the universities are required to conduct outreach to K-12 teachers, helping them to shape lessons for schoolchildren. Elementary and secondary teachers have taken full advantage of the arrangement: after all, they believe they're getting expert insight on Islam and the Middle East from distinguished university scholars. "You have a lot of politically naive teachers--well intentioned teachers who do want their students to learn more about Islamic history," says Stotsky. "It has not been well covered in most history courses they've ever taken, so they do genuinely want to learn more for themselves and teach their students more." In some cases they may be getting more than they bargained for: the Saudi government has donated millions of dollars to Middle East Centers at universities that receive Title VI funding. The Harvard Middle Eastern Studies Center--whose recommendations to the Massachusetts Board originally drew Stosky's concern--is one of them. As CBN News reported earlier this year, the Harvard Center received a $20 million donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in 2005. Georgetown University--another title VI recipient--also received $ 20 million from the Prince that same year. It's through these Title VI university centers--all of them government-sanctioned and taxpayer supported--that Saudi-funded materials find their way into K-12 classrooms. "Saudi donations to American universities should be seen in a much larger picture of Saudi promotion of a Saudi point of view," said Daniel Pipes, Director of the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia. "Whether it be Islamic or political, the Saudis have a point of view. And they have been very clever and very generous over the decades to promote that point of view."

Descripción:If Textbooks Could Talk

Descripción:Marisa McQuilken reports. We've followed WashPIRG's efforts to make textbooks cheaper. New legislation may help them achieve that goal.

Descripción:This is pretty much just what's going on with me right now. Forget December - Something Corporate My First Heart Attack - Joe Wilson The Mixed Tape - Jack's Mannequin

Descripción:It's not all teaching and textbooks. UNSW Law students talk about the best social ativities on offer including: - Law MSN (UNSW Law School's mentoring program) - Law Camp - Law Revue - Lawlapalooza (Law Idol) - Law Trivia - Law Drinks - Law Ball