Infonews n°198 du 9/11/2003
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"A La Une" this week : "Buy Nothing Day". Discover
sites to visit, ideas
and contacts to take action, articles about consumerism, and webquests and
sites for your students to reflect and understand the problem; then three
sites about advertising, with pages and activities about how advertising
tries to manipulate young people. Then follow some sites for secondary
school and primary school, and sites to visit to reflect about teaching
practice and discover how it works in the US. Découvrez le nouveau site
Educ-Eval du ministère, et pour ceux qui préparent l'AGREG, allez voir ce
nouveau site qui vous propose des liens pour travailler, et un forum pour
discuter, collaborer avec d'autres et ne pas vous sentir isolés ....
have a nice week!
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A la Une
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Buy Nothing Day and Consumerism
National sites (from Adbusters)
Official "buy nothing day" UK site
Adbusters (Canada)
The Center for a New American Dream
Overcoming consumerism
Ethical consumer
Activities from teachers
Be a consumer Hero (discovered by Rémi Thibert)
A lesson plan from developing teachers (discovered by Claude
Covo-Farchi)
PBS Don't buy it
Zillion
Cyberganda advertising webquest
Media propaganda
Ad dissection 101 webquest
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advertising
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Magazine ads online
How to read an ad
Ad webquest
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Resources for secondary school
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Paragraph Poweful Active Learning (Parapal)
States and explorers quests (fromCRC Digest #2003-176)
November Internet Hunt ( from CRC Digest #2003-175)
Crack 'n Glow - How Light Sticks Work (What's New at HowStuffWorks, 10/27/03)
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Resources for primary school
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Sites for rhymes and songs
Row your boat
A lovely limerick
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Teaching practice
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Nouveau site Educ-Eval
Classroom English (from Yvan Baptiste)
Study Links TV Habits to Reading Trouble ([PN] Digital Bridges (6 Nov. 2003)
Doping Kids ([PN] Digital Bridges (6 Nov. 2003)
Guidelines to design a site for ESL students
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Agreg-Ink
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A la Une
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Buy Nothing Day and Consumerism
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"Buy Nothing Day", also called "no buy day", no shop day" no
"shopping
day", takes place each year the day following Thanksgiving in the US and
Canada (nov 28th) since 1993. A European version now takes place on the
following day (this year on nov 29th).
National sites (from adbusters)
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US and Canada: http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
France (Casseurs De Pub): antipub.net
Germany: buynothingday.de
Israel: bdidut.com
Italy: terre.it/bnd
Netherlands (Omslag): ddh.nl/nwd/english.htm
United Kingdom: buynothingday.co.uk
Call for "no buy day" from the US :
http://www.takingitglobal.org/discuss/showthread.php?threadid=183
Official "buy nothing day" UK site
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http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
lots of useful resources about fair trade, and ideas of action:
read 101 things to do on "Buy Nothing Day"
http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/101.html
http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/jamming.html
Adbusters (Canada)
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http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
Vous y trouverez un 'radio spot', des spot TV, et des liens vers des sites
où vous trouverez d'autres ressources tel que:
Behind the label : http://www.behindthelabel.org/
(feature article:
Christina Aguilera speaks against H&M)
One World : http://www.oneworld.net/
with country guides to working
conditions in most countries.
The Center for a New American Dream
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http://www.newdream.org/commerc/index.html
voyez les chiffres et réflexions de 'tips for parenting in a commercial
culture' http://www.newdream.org/campaign/kids/brochure.html
et 'kids and commercialism'
http://www.newdream.org/campaign/kids/index.html
vous y trouverez une foule de liens intéressants à tous niveaux : des
tableaux, des chansons, des textes et des vidéos... ]
Overcoming consumerism
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http://www.verdant.net/index.htm
Resources for all level :
- for beginners : some stunning photos to display with a videoprojector or
on transparencies. They will make your students talk!
- for those studying economics :
intermadiate level :a chart of the national spendings
http://www.verdant.net/images/fedisc2.gif
advanced level : an article about Multi-Level marcheting (MLM)
http://www.vandruff.com/mlm.html
a "consumption control chart" to keep track of all your spendings and
analyse them:
http://www.verdant.net/chrtprnt.htm
- for those interested in cars and their effects on the environment:
http://www.verdant.net/cars.htm
advanced level : the real price of gas
http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm
the end of the oil age
http://dieoff.org/page20.htm
Ethical consumer
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http://www.ethicalconsumer.org
this site give you the stories behind the brands (some might be discussed,
but it is interesting to read it...) and reveals the links between the
brands ( Philip Morris sells Malboro cigarettes, but also owns Suchard and
Maxwell). Read all the reasons to boycott some brands, find out those being
cruel to animals or against fair trade...
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/boycotts_list.htm
Read also their Buyer's Guide:
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/magazine/buyers/buyguide.htm
to find out, for example, how to buy clothes, how to avaoid being a fashion
victim, and what are the best buys:
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/magazine/buyers/clothes97/clothing_buyers_guide.htm
Activities from teachers
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Be a consumer Hero (discovered by Rémi Thibert)
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/dalia/buy0/index.htm
an excellent site, with:
- the "buy less rap" that you can read and hear online
http://www3.sympatico.ca/dalia/buy0/buy_rap.htm
- a word search
http://www3.sympatico.ca/dalia/buy0/games/caseek1.htm
- a webquest (scavenger hunt)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/dalia/buy0/BeConsumerHero.PDF
- A cooperative Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story
http://www3.sympatico.ca/dalia/buy0/fuz1.htm
A lesson plan from developing teachers (discovered by Claude Covo-Farchi)
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http://www.developingteachers.com/tips/bnd_plan.htm
with advanced students, you can do it "as is". But if you teach to
beginners or intermediate students, you can find there interesting
pictures, a shopping check list, a vocabulary activity in pairs, followed
by a discussion of the customers comments on adbusters.
PBS Don't buy it
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http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
for lower intermediate and intermediate students. A "cartoon style" site,
with interesting info for kids, and a teachers guide with links to lessons
at the bottom
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/teachersguide.html
Zillion
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http://www.zillions.org/
check the "ad smart" and "money smart" sections : you will for example
find
how to make a hamburger look attractive for a TV ad (Yuk!)
http://www.zillions.org/Features/Foodadtricks/food_ad002.html
and a very interesting section about amusement parks and rides
http://www.zillions.org/Rateit/Amusementrides/ride001.html
Cyberganda advertising webquest
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http://www.community.k12.mo.us/webquest/bertels/quest.htm
A webquest for upper intermediates or advanced students, to reflect about
the impact of advertising on children in the US. You will also find a
useful like to the Canadian site "media-awareness" which is in French and
English:
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/home/hand/common.htm
Media propaganda
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http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/webquests/mediaprop/index.html
an excellent webquest for advanced students, with a page of links to work from:
Ad dissection 101 webquest
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http://website.education.wisc.edu/rla/ADSITE/index.htm
An interesting webquest about how to read an ad and how people are affected
by ads.
With intermediate students, you can just use the introduction page, and
analyse what the characters say about the impact of ads on them:
http://website.education.wisc.edu/rla/ADSITE/linkpgs/intro.htm#
but we can't take the quiz, it is only for this teacher's students.
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advertising
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Magazine ads online
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Ads from 1940 till now
http://www.adflip.com/
ads from 1915 till 1955
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/timeline.html
ads from 1850 till 1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/
How to read an ad
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http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/webquests/mediaprop/index.html
a page with all the things students can look for in an ad to analyse its
persuasion strenght.
http://www.nmmlp.org/howtoreadads.htm
with an accent on persuasion techniques
[ note : Both sites refer to the "bad ad contest". The contest for 2004 is
not yet open, but you can use the advices for your lessons!
http://www.nmmlp.org/badadguidelines.htm
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Ad webquest
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A WebQuest for Intermediate to Advanced English Language Learners on
Advertising and Media Literacy
http://et.sdsu.edu/APaxton-smith/eslwebquest/index.htm
Very comprehensive, with lots of links to worksheets and quizzes.
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Resources for secondary school
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Paragraph Poweful Active Learning (Parapal)
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http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/
Charlie Williams has built this site, full of interactive exercises for
upper intermediate and advanced students. Discover the cloze exercises, the
audio files and many other exercises.
This Sunday 9 November at 21 hours GMT on Tapped In, Charlie Williams will
present Parapal (www.parapal-online.co.uk), a suite of interactive language
learning exercises. He explains: "The site, which is publicly accessible,
is mainly concerned with academic style writing and uses
grammar and structure exercises that are similar to those often used in EFL
coursebooks. Although the exercise styles are fairly common I have tried to
be creative in the design of them. I would also like to discuss, and get
opinions on, the effectiveness (or not) of such exercises in relation to
current teaching practice."
States and explorers quests (fromCRC Digest #2003-176)
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Jill Dembsky from Freehold, N.J. created several web-based activities to
use in my elementary computer lab. You will find there a very well built
webquest about US States, quite suited for beginner:
State Facts: http://www.cybercomm.net/~teach/states/
with a state puzzle,
and an activity to compare explorers:
Explorers Then and Now: http://www.cybercomm.net/~teach/explorers/
November Internet Hunt ( from CRC Digest #2003-175)
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http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/nov.html
learn about events and famous people (5th - 9th grade)
Crack 'n Glow - How Light Sticks Work (What's New at HowStuffWorks, 10/27/03)
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/light-stick.htm
As Halloween approaches, light sticks are flying off the shelves. They make
really great (and spooky) trick-or-treating companions for those of us who
go candy-seeking after dark. Have
you ever wondered why these cool light sources glow? What's happening when
you crack one?
[ for those who like scientific stuff.]
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Resources for primary school
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Sites for rhymes and songs
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The colleagues from e-teach have discovered those sites, which can be very
useful with young children, from kindergarten onwards. Visit those sites
and choose what you need:
http://blog.covonline.com/rhymes.html
Row your boat
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http://www.manythings.org/pp/row_your_boat.html
read the words and hear the song. Perfect for young children.
A lovely limerick
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http://www.manythings.org/pp/lady_from_niger.html
a lady in a tiger! (listen, understand, read...and guess what happened!)
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Teaching practice
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Nouveau site Educ-Eval
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www.educ-eval.education.fr
La direction de l'évaluation et de la prospective (DEP) vient d'ouvrir un
nouveau site pour rendre accessible au monde éducatif par une adresse
unique, (presque) tout ce qui concerne l'évaluation des acquis des élèves,
évaluation étant pris dans le sens "mesure" et non pas "estimation"
de ces
acquisitions. Vous y trouverez des accès directs à des sites et une
sélection documentaire sur :
les évaluations de rentrée des dernières années :
- consultation et téléchargement des cahiers élèves et enseignants,
logiciel d'analyse des résultats, les résultats et analyses pédagogiques
qui en sont faites au niveau national ;
- un accès au site de la banque d'outils d'aide à l'évaluation diagnostique
des compétences des élèves ;
- des informations sur les évaluations bilan actuellement en cours (fin
d'école et fin de collège), des publications de résultats et d'analyses sur
des opérations de ce type mais plus anciennes ;
- des informations sur les évaluations internationales (vous avez
probablement entendu parler du positionnement moyen de la France pour la
première phase de l'enquête PISA concernant les élèves de 15 ans) : les
analyses de la France et des autres pays
Vous avez aussi un accès aux sites :
- du "Haut conseil de l'évaluation de l'école" dont les avis et rapports
sont tous téléchargeables Le dernier en date s'intitule "Elements de
diagnostic sur le système scolaire français" et va alimenter le grand débat
sur l'école.
- catalogue des publications de la DEP
message de Françoise Champault
MJENR DEP C1 - Bureau de l'évaluation des élèves et des étudiants
francoise.champault@education.gouv.fr
Classroom English (from Yvan Baptiste)
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Yvan Baptiste vient de mettre en ligne sur le site Anglisite de l'académie
de Montpelliers, un document Word, compilation d'expressions à utiliser en
classe ou de remarques à mettre sur les copies.
http://www.ac-montpellier.fr/Pedagogie/Disciplines/anglais/
Source: http://www.finchpark.com/
et archives d'eteach. Merci aux auteurs.
Study Links TV Habits to Reading Trouble ([PN] Digital Bridges (6 Nov. 2003)
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By Siobhan McDonough, Guardian, UK: October 28, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3319800,00.html
Doping Kids ([PN] Digital Bridges (6 Nov. 2003)
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"As pharmaceutical companies push their products, more and more kids are
being treated with powerful -- and untested -- adult drugs. ... [Parents]
'want their kids to have the pills they've seen on TV' [!] ... '[O]rdinary
childhood problems are pathologized into a disease.' ... '[A] third of the
kids I see are on at least two prescription drugs,' says [Dr.] Borowitz,
'most often a drug for ADHD and an antihistamine.'" By Helen Cordes, Mother
Jones, September/October 2003 Issue
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/36/ma_503_01.html
Guidelines to design a site for ESL students
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http://iteslj.org/Articles/Kelly-Guidelines.html
useful advices to build your first site or to analyse your site and make it
more attractive.
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