Feature Stream: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

" A timid teenager copes with the pains of adolescence with the help of two new friends, a beautiful high-school senior and her gay stepbrother." 

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This selection, one of the 150,000+ titles in your Video Streaming Library, is brought to you by Alexander Street

Also from Swank: 

• Back to the Future 
• Black Panther 
• Clash of the Titans

Recommendations, questions, comments? Contact Zach Weekes, weekesz@uwstout.edu

Freed Between The Lines: Banned Books Week Panel Discussion

You are invited to a Banned Books Week faculty panel moderated by Mitch Ogden, Director, Honors College.  This event is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served. 

The faculty panel:

• Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Interim Executive Director of Inclusive Excellence
• Lopa Basu, Professor, English, Philosophy & Communications Studies
• Alexander Bozzo, Assistant Professor, Director, Center for Applied Ethics

When: Tuesday, September 24th, 4:15 - 5:30 PM

Where: Robert S. Swanson Library & Learning Center, 2nd Floor

For more Banned Book Week resources: https://www.ala.org/bbooks

This event is sponsored by the Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation, UW-Stout Library, Center for Applied Ethics, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Honors College, Literature Committee, Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Feature Stream: Your Brain: Perception Deception

"Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you cant always trust what you perceive. In the first hour of this two-part series, learn what the latest research shows about your brain processes and shapes the world around you, and discover the surprising trick's and shortcuts your brain takes to help you survive."

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Also from Alexander Street: 

• The Suicide Plan 
• Vampire Legend 
• Panama Canal 

Recommendations, questions, comments? Contact Zach Weekes, weekesz@uwstout.edu

Feature Stream: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse

" Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero. "

   

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Also from Swank:

• Covid Diaries NYC
• Gone with the Wind
• 10 Things I Hate About You 

Recommendations, questions, comments? Contact Zach Weekes, weekesz@uwstout.edu

Feature Stream: Free Guy

"A bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way… before it is too late. "

   

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Also from Feature Films for Education:

• The King's Man
• Isle of Dogs
• The Chronicles of Melanie

Recommendations, questions, comments? Contact Zach Weekes, weekesz@uwstout.edu

Feature Stream: ASL - Learn Deaf Culture. History, & CODA

"Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL etiquette and how to properly communicate with people of the Deaf Community. Storytelling, builds narrative skills appropriate for all new learners. Everyday communication is the centerpiece of each lesson and each topic revolves around sharing information about our environment and day to day life. 

Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing question and answer skills. Students will learn conversational strategies to help maintain a conversation along with interaction activities allowing students to rehearse what they’ve learned in each lesson. This series is an easy-to-learn, step-by-step approach complete with drills and practice exercises to increase signing ability and understanding. Featuring ASL teacher and interpreter Clarissa Story and deaf student Rachel signing in her own words teaching conversation skills on the subjects taught, after each lesson. 

In this program students will learn how to sign about deaf culture, history and CODA."

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Also from Kanopy:

• Jim Henson Shorts
• On-Gaku: Our Sound
• Dogs Don't Wear Pants

Recommendations, questions, comments? Contact Zach Weekes, weekesz@uwstout.edu

Feature Stream: Artificial Intelligence

"Trace the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) from simple calculating machines to computers that can vanquish chess masters. Learn the distinction between weak AI, such as a chess-playing machine, and strong AI, which is a machine that has a truly human-like mind. Question whether strong AI is even possible."

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This selection, one of the 150,000+ titles in your Video Streaming Library, is brought to you by Kanpoy.

Also from Kanpoy:

• Dororo
• Z (2019)
• The Whale

Recommendations, questions, comments? Contact Zach Weekes, weekesz@uwstout.edu