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Education Week : Digital Directions
Click on the ^^^ laptop picture
to read the article "Educators connect digital games to learning".... A few gripping ideas, indeed ! An excerpt (I underlined some of the text) :
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TEACHERS' LOUNGE
Education Week : Digital Directions
Click on the ^^^ laptop picture
to read the article "Educators connect digital games to learning".... A few gripping ideas, indeed ! An excerpt (I underlined some of the text) :
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"Stadium horns -or vuvuzelas- require a pucker, lots of puff and some practice, advise experts" : read the article from the Guardian.
Just click on :
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(1) Photo by kjpm, licensed under CC BY-NC
a pucker (faire la) grimace, la moue, plisserr les lèvres
require = (here) need
puff (souffle)
Today, the FIFA World Cup started in Cape Town
That's why you'll find data and information about -no, not football !- South-Africa :o)
To begin with, here's the South-African national anthem :
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national anthem = a country's official song which is played and/or sung
on public occasions
It's Etienne's turn now...
Click >>>
on the blurred picture...
and you'll find out !
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blurred (picture) = indistinct (picture)
(1) by Photo by Pete Abshton, licensed under CC BY-NC
A few students are telling you
about their favourite hobby...
First, Jeanne :
<<< click
on the picture...
and discover what she is
keen on !
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(1) : Watercolour by Edith Hultzsch - licensed under CC BY-ND-NC
watercolour (painting) = a painting made adding water to paint
be keen on = be fond of
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+ B2 & above
"Internet cafes close ahead of exams in China"
BEIJING (AP) -- Teenagers tempted by computer games when
they should be studying for the national college entrance exam this
month won't have anywhere to escape to in central China, where
Internet cafes have closed.
High school seniors gearing up for the massive national college
entrance exams in Linchuan in China's central province of Jiangxi
have been able to focus only on studying now that all of the town's
Internet cafes have closed, said an official with the Linchuan culture
affairs bureau, who refused to give his name as is common with
Chinese officials.
"During this critical period, our goal is to create an educational
society for students that is free of distractions," the official said.
"Besides Internet cafes, there's not much else in town the kids can
waste time with."
Each year, millions of students take the two-day test on a wide
range of subjects, which is the sole determinant of their entry into
university. Only about 25 percent of them get into university and the
vast majority of those who don't make the cut go straight into the
work force.
This year, about 9.5 million students are expected to take the exam
on June 7 and 8, a slight dip from 10.2 million last year, according
to a report posted on the website of the Communist Party
newspaper People's Daily.
The immense pressure - which families share, often waiting
anxiously at hotels during exams - has prompted Ministry of
Education officials to consider reforming the generations-old
tradition.
China announced plans earlier this year to allow students to take
subject-specific tests and introduce other measures besides the
exam, such as considering leadership and volunteer experience,
to ease the stress the students undergo as they compete for
coveted spots in colleges.
Cheating is also common during the tests.
More about 2,200 students were caught last year using wireless
mini earplugs and other electronic devices that feed in answers.
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Publication: | Associated Press |
Article: | Internet cafes close ahead of exams in China |
© 2010 Associated Press |
This might look like a catastrophe film, but although it seems magnified, the process described in this video is more or less... true :
Animation & Design by Chris Weller - Directed by Max Joseph
Music: "Genesis" by Justice
(to) magnify = to make exaggeratedly large, to increase in size, volume or significance
Born in Kansas (1935), Dennis Hopper started acting in the 50's. He did admire James Dean and adopted the Actor's Studion methods, which made him considered a rebel to Hollywood's system (Henry Hathaway fired him off, and he got blacklisted for almost a decade. Most people will remember the iconic movie "Easy Rider" (1969) -which he directed too. Dennis Hopper also was an art collector, and an artist himself -a painter and a photographer.
In the video below, he defines what success means to him :
You'll find further information in the article of
the Internet Movie Database <<<
Tom Scott
just tests what other chefs have already achieved : using a dishwasher... to cook !
Silly ? Amazing ? Definitely unusual. It might well prove to be another way of going green ;o)
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Tom Scott creates videos & web projects, and has had some
productions shown on BBC One and Channel 4.