Infonews n°293 from 14/01/2007
February 1st : the story of the Greensboro four
Time for Kids Black History Month (from The Classroom Flyer, Wednesday, January
10th)
Disney: Winnie the Pooh (from [LII New This Week] January 11)
Listen to the irregular verbs
New Year's Resolutions
Knowing Poe (from LII New This Week] January 11)
Aboriginal Perspectives
Cartoons
Ayiti, an interactive game about living in Haiti
How to take relevant digital photos
Kumbh Mela, India
Exploratorium online exhibit (from The Classroom Flyer, Wednesday, January
10th)
Madie's collection
WKTO : a collaborative project
Free Photostory 3 (from Technology & Learning's Educators' eZine)
Living with Digital Natives and their technologies
What to do when students rock the boat (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Thursday,
January 11th)
Sentence diagramming ( from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Thursday, January
11th)
Alyne Piazza fait le point sur les droits audio-visuels et web : qu'a-t-on
le droit de copier, présenter aux élèves, utiliser en classe? Vous trouverez
toutes les dernières informations sur le site interlangues de l'académie de
Lille, avec une liste de sites libres de droits et des FAQ qui offrent des
réponses aux questions qu'on se pose tous.
http://www4.ac-lille.fr/~interlangues/droits_audio-visuels.htm
http://www4.ac-lille.fr/~interlangues/faq.htm
February 1st : the story of the Greensboro four
Infonews n°292 suggested sites to for MLK Day which is this year on January
15th. Here are links to go on to Black history month (February) with this less
known story. The Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro started on
February 1st 1960 with four students and a modest idea spurred on by the brutal
killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till. To learn more about Emmett Till,
see those links in le Café Pédagogique about him and Rosa Parks, who died last
year:
http://www.cafepedagogique.net/disci/anglais/67.php#150
Then read more on PBS, with a timeline of the events:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/februaryone/sitin.html
Greensboro sit-ins : an interesting site about the events
http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml
a timeline of the Civil Rights (placing the full desegregation of schools in
1971!)
http://www.sitins.com/timeline.shtml
a lot of audio testimonies and interview of the actors (no scripts), a photo
gallery and a video of the inauguration of the statue built in memory of the
events
http://www.sitins.com/keyplayers.shtml
http://www.sitins.com/multimedia.shtml
About school desegragation, you can train your students to read long stories
with this site about Melba Pattillo and the desegregation of Central High School
in Little Rock, Arkansas.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/barrier/hwyf/mpbstory/index.htm
Time for Kids Black History Month (from The Classroom Flyer, Wednesday, January 10th)
This online exhibit for students includes an interactive timeline marking
milestones through Black History, a history challenge for King's Montgomery
March, spotlights on famous African American artists, and audio exhibits highlighting
famous speeches. (UE-MS)
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/bhm/0,8805,97217,00.html
Disney: Winnie the Pooh (from [LII New This Week] January 11)
Collection of activities related to the Disney animations based on A.A. Milne's "Winnie
the Pooh" series. Includes images and profile of characters such as Tigger,
Eeyore, and Piglet. From Disney UK.
http://winniethepooh.disney.co.uk/
Listen to the irregular verbs
some students have difficulties memorizing something they read, others can't
tell the difference between for example the three forms of
"read", some of our colleagues have found the solution : there students
see the three forms of the verb, and they hear it as well. These sites can
be used by beginners, but also by intermediate students who prefer learning
by ear.
http://www.franglish.fr/diapoverb/index.htm (
by Yvan Baptiste)
http://www.lyc-michelet.ac-aix-marseille.fr/pedagogie/anglais/vi.htm (
by Elisabeth Buffard)
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/vi.htm#list (several
sites recommended by Michèle Henry, including the verbs in a song as a podcast)
New Year's Resolutions
Our colleague from Martinique, Laurence Bernard, has created a full
teaching unit about New year's resolutions for her intermediate students. I
tried it with terminales : it works well also with upper intermediate if you
skip the easy parts and invite them to comment on Bridget Jones's resolutions
(p12) the pie chart, the wishes by categories p14-16, and the cartoons and
the film on p34. My students had fun and produced humorous wishes such as : "I've
decided to offer a round the world trip to my parents to get rid of them for
over a week".
http://cms.ac-martinique.fr/discipline/anglais/file/resolutions_sequence.pdf
Knowing Poe (from LII New This Week] January 11)
This classroom guide features details about the literature, life, and times
of writer Edgar Allan Poe. Features a timeline, video clips, primary source
documents, lesson plans, and related resources. Includes a bibliography and
a list of Poe sites (museum, gravesite, and more) in the Baltimore, Maryland,
region. From Maryland Public Television.
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp
you can even download the video (in Real) of someone reciting the poem (the
images don't really help...)
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/library/poe-poem.zip
Aboriginal Perspectives
Aboriginal Perspectives, a site for high school and upper elementary students
and teachers that features National Film Board of Canada documentaries by and
about Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. There, the term “Aboriginal peoples”
covers the First Nations (Indian), Métis people and Inuit. "On this site
you will be able to:
- Watch key NFB documentaries on Aboriginal themes from the 1940s to 2004.
- Learn about past and current issues relating to the lives of Aboriginal peoples
through excerpts or complete films.
- Read critical commentary on the issues.
- Develop critical thinking and media literacy skills.
- Use the Excerpt Library tool to develop a personal collection of film excerpts.
The Aboriginal Visions module contains 33 documentaries, a short fiction film,
and 5 film clips. The user will find films on many important aspects of Aboriginal
culture and heritage, its diverse communities, and some of the major issues
and significant moments in its history. 27 films are available with closed
captioning for hearing impaired people." (from the site)
http://www.onf.ca/enclasse/doclens/visau/index.php?mode=home&language=english
[ this site is interesting to learn about native people in Canada, a perspective
that we rarely have. Upper intermediate students will enjoy the videos, especially
those for hearing impaired people who have full subtitles.]
Cartoons
On e-teach, our colleague Valérie Gély recommends the cartoons about global
warming, on Cagle, the well-known site of cartoons:
http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/GlobalWarming07/main.asp
and especially this "happy feet" cartoon with a link to the elections
in the US
http://cagle.com/caglecards/main.asp?image=/news/GlobalWarming07/images/matson.jpg
see also this cartoon linked to new year's resolutions
http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/GlobalWarming07/images/beattie.gif
Ayiti, an interactive game about living in Haiti
Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Friday, January 12th recommends this site from
the UNICEF : Voice of Youth.
http://www.unicef.org/voy/index.php
There, "students will learn about the real life problems of youth around
the world, as well as global opportunities to get involved and make a difference.
Interactive games support the effort, including Ayiti, exploring what it is
really like to live in poverty. Child rights, water and environmental sanitation,
education, and childhood disease are just some of the topics to explore."
I selected two interactive games:
- "What would you do?", which invites students to discover
how difficult it is to live with aids and VIH in Africa.
http://www.unicef.org/voy/hivaidsgame/shell/index.html
- "Ayiti" A challenging role playing game created by Global Kids
and Gamelab, in which you take responsibility for a family of five in rural
Haiti. Through this game, students will discover what it is like to live in
poverty, struggling every day to stay healthy, keep out of debt, and get educated
http://ayiti.newzcrew.org/ayitiunicef/
[ for intermediate students.]
How to take relevant digital photos
This article from Tech Learning Educators e'Zine, is more than a tutorial.
Here is the introduction : "Whether it be shooting a portrait or framing
a landscape, teaching young people to understand both the technical and the
artful within the realm of digital art photography requires that you take a
multi-disciplinary approach to art (and life)."
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604073
the article was written by Matthew Bamberg, the author of "Digital Art
Photography for Dummies". Here is the address of 'Digital traveller',
his blog, with lots of other interesting information about digital photography:
http://digitalartphotographyfordummies.blogspot.com/
[ excellent for teachers' own use, this site can also be used by students studying
arts or advertising (sections arts appliqués?).]
Kumbh Mela, India
Discover this Hindu pilgrimage in India, where last time 70 million people
got together for 44 days. The festival takes place every three year, in four
alternative cities, so once every twelve years in each city. This year it is
in Allahabad, from January 3th till february 26th. Learn about this event,
dream as you see the photos...
http://www.kumbhamela.net/
http://www.divinerevelation.org/KumbhMela.html (including
films)
http://www.hindunet.org/festivals/kumbha_mela/
http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/kumbha-mela.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbh_Mela
[ for students studying tourism, and all those interested by India.]
Exploratorium online exhibit (from The Classroom Flyer, Wednesday, January 10th)
The Exploratorium in San Francisco offers one of the country's finest hands-on,
interactive science exhibits in a massive hall, in the old site of the Palace
of Fine Arts for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. If you can't
make it to San Francisco however, you can still explore some of the great Exploratorium
exhibits online, including several of these visual experiments.(A)
http://www.exploratorium.org/exhibits/f_exhibits.html
[ All these strange visual effects all have an explanation....invite your students
to find it!]
Madie's collection
Our colleague Valéry Gély has added a new learning unit to her site : have
a look at this unit about Prison break and Death Penalty:
"Je viens de terminer un site sur la série Prison Break avec une ouverture
sur Death penalty (docs visuels, vidéo/audio, texte, voc etc.) pour mes
élèves de Premières et Terminales (en première: thème de l'influence "écrire,
média, images" ou thème de l'opposition institutions et mouvements pour
D.penalty). En terminale, thème Identité "constructiuon par rupture"(?)
Si vous travaillez sur ces thèmes, n'hésitez pas
à me contacter pour échanger des idées."
http://perso.orange.fr/ecole.st.sulpice/eleves2/prison%20break/total.htm
(la collection de sites s'agrandit, toujours pour des 1ères/Term: Bollywood
* Gandhi * James Bond * Michael Moore * Global warming * Al Capone webquest
* suffragettes/suffragists webquest * Protest songs * Ireland/Northern
Ireland)
WKTO : a collaborative project
WKTO is an ongoing project from the Lycée de l'Oiselet in Bourgoin-Jallieu
(académie de Grenoble). The project is based on a plateform (ENT) through which
they work collaboratively with students from all over the world. They have
received awards in 2006 in Brussels, Moscow and Sydney. here is where you can
see what they do:
http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/wkto/
http://wkto.free.fr/
Free Photostory 3 (from Technology & Learning's Educators' eZine)
This magazine offers a tutorial to learn how to create a slide show with free
Photostory 3 : "A step-by-step guide to using Photo Story 3, a free and
fun way to transform still photos into slide shows with motion, sound, and
narration."
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604105
Living with Digital Natives and their technologies
Read this article which invites you to discover what the new trends in technology
are, and what your students do with all those new games, gadgets and sites.
And the site invites you to share your knowledge with your students and ask
them what the latest trends are for them.
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604072
What to do when students rock the boat (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Thursday, January 11th)
Comparing loss of control with students to a
"Captain Bligh" effect, this educator offers real solutions to gain
control of unruly and disrespectful students. (UE-HS)
http://www.nea.org/classmanagement/ifc060124.html
[ This article is full of images and interesting vocabulary, but also of good
advices : his tips to good management of potential conflicts are to
"plan lessons thoughtfully because careful lesson preparation is the biggest
key to maintaining classroom discipline." and "earn their respect" .]
Sentence diagramming ( from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Thursday, January 11th)
Ever wondered how American students learn grammar in primary school ? Here
are some sites describing how to split a sentence into a diagram. Working like
this wouldn't help us, but I found it interesting to let you know it exists...
http://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/TS/diagram.htm
http://www.accd.edu/sac/slac/handouts/English/diagramming_sentences.htm
http://home.new.rr.com/aplang/Diagramming/diagramming_main.html
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