Infonews n°304 from 13/05/2007
the WHO (World Health Organisation)
GSF (Global Smoke Free partnership)
the European Council
From our colleagues
The Great Turtle Race
Earth Sciences /Physics
Road to better grammar
Teaching Engineering (from The Scout Report -- May 11)
FERL
Each year,Tobacco Free Day is on May 31st. This year two sites to explore:
- one with anti-tobacco videos in several unusual European languages
http://www.turner-associates.org/tfe-videoshowcase/tobaccofree4.html
- and Smoke Free Americas
http://www.smokefreeamericas.org/
http://www.ncac.gov.au/factsheets/fdcqa_factsheet_15.pdf
The theme for this year is : "Smokefree environments". With the law
spreading across Europe which decide that smoking isn't allowed anywhere inside
a public place, your students will have something to discuss on the theme.
Read this position statement from the Australian government and see those British
online medical resources:
http://www.ncac.gov.au/about_ncac/smoke_free_position_statement.html
http://www.doctorsandtobacco.org/
The WHO (World Health Organisation)
Here is some material to download from the WHO (World Health Organisation)
and GSF:
- posters: <http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/workers_en.jpg>http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/workers_en.jpg
http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/en/index.html
<http://www.globalsmokefreepartnership.org/files/evidence/15.pdf>http://www.globalsmokefreepartnership.org/files/evidence/15.pdf
- a nice brochure in color (for intermediate students or above)
<http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/Smoke-free inside
12pages_FINAL.pdf>http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/Smoke-free%20inside%2012pages_FINAL.pdf
- brochures et posters : <http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/en/index.html>http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/en/index.html
- a guide about the implementation of the new law, including suggestion of
answers to remarks like "and what of our freedom?" (very interesting
document for advanced students, who can witness the implementation of measures
that nobody would have thought possible 40 years ago)
<http://www.globalsmokefreepartnership.org/files/129.pdf?PHPSESSID=b90142658d203dd3b62a585d3d554aa2>http://www.globalsmokefreepartnership.org/files/129.pdf?PHPSESSID=b90142658d203dd3b62a585d3d554aa2
- *** a form to fill in and return to WHO by mail or post, to request material
( brochures and posters I suppose)
<http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/form_materialrequest_only07.pdf>http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/wntd/2007/form_materialrequest_only07.pdf
GSF (Global Smoke Free partnership)
Explore the GSF (Global Smoke Free partnership) website:
<http://www.globalsmokefreepartnership.org/>http://www.globalsmokefreepartnership.org/
with various material including:
- an animation about the effects of passive smoking on babies (cot death) and
children (lung and ear diseases) : there are pictures, a commentary in English
and the script that you can read as you listen. It all looks a bit gloomy,
the information is interesting, although it is aimed at students interested
in babies and children.
<http://www.globalsmokefreepartnership.org/files/inline/3.swf>http://www.globalsmokefreepartnership.org/files/inline/3.swf
- the Tobacco atlas,
<http://www.cancer.org/docroot/AA/content/AA_2_5_9x_Tobacco_Atlas.asp>http://www.cancer.org/docroot/AA/content/AA_2_5_9x_Tobacco_Atlas.asp
with superbe posters to comment : each of them with a very attractive look
and full of information, based on a map of the world and photos, graphs, diagrams,
statistics. They are all on the same model, so you can really study only one.
Look for example at:
Male smoking
<http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas02.pdf>http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas02.pdf
Female smoking (with a comparison between Japan, US, UK)
<http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas03.pdf>http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas03.pdf
Boy smoking
<http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas05.pdf>http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas05.pdf
Health risks (requires some good basis in anatomy)
<http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas08.pdf>http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas08.pdf
This one, with diagrams comparing the death rates
<http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas10.pdf>http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas10.pdf
If your students are interested in politics, see "buying influence"
<http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas19.pdf>http://www.cancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas19.pdf
if you want diagrams, figures and statistics, this one is for you
<http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/atlas41.pdf>http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/atlas41.pdf
and there are many more.
The European Council
On the website of the European Council, see this
"Green paper" : a report dealing with the implementation of tobacco
free environments, including interesting answers to the opponents questions.
Teachers and advanced students can read the report , the commentaries and the
detail of the debate :
<http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/Tobacco/Documents/gp_smoke_en.pdf>http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/Tobacco/Documents/gp_smoke_en.pdf
http://www.epha.org/a/2543
From our colleagues
For beginners and lower intermediates, here are some attractive activities
selected by our colleague Michèle Henry : interactive games, songs, cartoons,
videos...
<http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/notobacco.htm>http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/notobacco.htm
And for intermediate studnets and above, Michèle Henry recommends this Anti-Smoking
Letter Writing Campaign :
<http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp281-05.shtml>http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp281-05.shtml
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/smoking/lesson-plan/4185.html
Catherine Tertre, a colleague from Rennes, suggested on e-teach that we could
work around the advertising campaigns. Here is what she recommends:
a timeline of the arguments presented by tobacco makers and retailers
<http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20070320tuesday.html>http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20070320tuesday.html
some old advertisements found on You Tube by the NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20070320tuesday.html>http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20070320tuesday.html
and how to make people believe anything : The
"Wonderful World of Freshness of Salem cigarettes"
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86lYG1V2-n4&mode=related&search=>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86lYG1V2-n4&mode=related&search=
The Great Turtle Race
Leatherback Trust, a charity specialised in the protecting of sea turtle,
has created this website called The Great Turtle Race, where you can follow
the progression of 11 turtle between Costa Rica and the galapagos Islands.
the charity
<http://www.leatherback.org/>http://www.leatherback.org/
The Great Turtle Race
<http://www.greatturtlerace.com/>http://www.greatturtlerace.com/
from this site, I found another site from children about animals ; Earth Birhtday.
There you can find :
- a game : students chose an animal and answer a quiz, from which they learn
new information.
<http://www.earthsbirthday.org/zwibbles/critters/index.htm>http://www.earthsbirthday.org/zwibbles/critters/index.htm
- a story to read : the Zwibbles
<http://www.earthsbirthday.org/zwibbles/zwibblestory/index.html>http://www.earthsbirthday.org/zwibbles/zwibblestory/index.html
- hands on activities linking math and earth sciences. They learn to count
the dots on a ladybird, hunt with ants, etc.
<http://www.earthsbirthday.org/butterflies/ladybugs/index.asp>http://www.earthsbirthday.org/butterflies/ladybugs/index.asp
http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/ant/
Earth Sciences /Physics
On e-teach, our colleague J-Marc Brauer who teaches physics in English in
the académie de Lyon, recommends those pages about the rate of radiations in
space to all those interested in space and technology.
<http://www.thomson-elec.com/space/evarm.htm#>http://www.thomson-elec.com/space/evarm.htm#
read the article "Little transistor records radiation levels"
<http://www.thomson-elec.com/space/space_evarm.htm>http://www.thomson-elec.com/space/space_evarm.htm
and also:
- this article from a research group called "Yes, I can!" about "measuring
radiation"
<http://resources.yesican-science.ca/trek/radiation/final/index_EVARMS.html>http://resources.yesican-science.ca/trek/radiation/final/index_EVARMS.html
- this article from the NASA called
"Extravehicular Activity Radiation Monitoring (EVARM)"
<http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/evarm.html>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/evarm.html
- and this one in Space Daily
<http://www.spacedaily.com/news/radiation-01k.html>http://www.spacedaily.com/news/radiation-01k.html
Road to better grammar
Our German colleague Jürgen Wagner has found this site interesting for his
university students and want to share it with you:
<http://fremdsprachenundneuemedien.blogspot.com/2007/04/your-road-to-better-grammar.html>http://fremdsprachenundneuemedien.blogspot.com/2007/04/your-road-to-better-grammar.html
Your students will find there an interactive quiz to brush up their grammar
skills or acquire some new. They can practice online and be corrected, or download
the whole lot of exercises.
http://www.roadtogrammar.com/welcome/
There are also interesting material for teachers to download, like those worksheets
or this list of questions for a warming up sessions with adults:
http://www.roadtogrammar.com/dl/LanguageExpansion.pdf
http://www.roadtogrammar.com/dl/warmers.pdf
Teaching Engineering (from The Scout Report -- May 11)
Purdue University has one of the strongest schools of engineering in the
United States, and they remain committed to providing new and interesting materials
about the art and science of teaching engineering to their students. Professors
Phillip C. Wankat and Frank S. Oreovicz recently created this very helpful
textbook to aid engineering educators in the classroom, and it is exciting
to see that it is available online here for free. Visitors can download the
entire book, or they can just browse around through some of the seventeen chapters.
These chapters include “Problem Solving and Creativity”, “Lectures”, and “Learning
Theories”. Additionally, there are several helpful appendices, such as “Obtaining
an Academic Position” and “Sample Teaching Course Outline”. Overall, it’s an
exemplary resource, and one that will be most useful to engineering educators.
These materials can be used in a variety of engineering courses, including
those that deal with chemical and mechanical engineering. [KMG]
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/News_and_Events/Publications/teaching_engineering/index.html
FERL
Marion Raud Dugal has found this site full of useful resources of all type
for teachers.
http://ferl.qia.org.uk/display.cfm?catID=1
"On this website we aim to support all aspects of e-learning. Whether
you are a teacher, librarian, technician, researcher, staff development manager,
principal or policy-maker, we can help you make effective use of ICT and e-learning.
There is something on Ferl for You. Ferl is a big website. As well as the advice
sections on Teaching and Learning, Policies and Strategies and Technology for
E-Learning there are also hundreds of case studies, "how to's" and
teaching resources here, along with a wealth of other materials. "
http://ferl.qia.org.uk/display.cfm?page=19
Have a look for example at the page about how to use podcasting in class:
http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/podcasting/teaching/index.html
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