If God wanted us to vote…
A propos of nothing, except I just read it, If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. If voting could change this system it would be against the law. [Attributed to Idaho Blackie, in the liner notes to Utah Phillips' We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years.]
Lost in translation
Here’s a good example of how your words may not always convey what you intend them to convey: The video clip’s actually in French, but that’s not the cause of the “mis-translation”. The secret of Brokebank Mountain.
Freedom: what is it?
Doug “Borderland” has another thoughtful and thought-provoking post, this time on start-of-the-year “class management” problems, also called emergence… To be brutal, I didn’t understand much of it, but I enjoyed the T-shirt, I mean the comments, especially Stephen Downes’, where he discussed the meaning of freedom. I recently read The Road to Serfdom by Austrian [...]
Roundup August 26th, 2007
From a comment Larry left, I discovered his blog, and from there this page of resources for students. An impressive list, although there are lots more resources than student-produced pages. One of the links was to Dandelife “a social biography network”. One of the stories I clicked on at random referred to sleep apnea and [...]
Roundup
Here’s a roundup of some of my Google Reader content this morning: The Wow Factor – from NextGenTeachers by Justin Medved – introduces Animoto, an online app that creates presentations that look very cool and apparently easy to produce in a short time. The free version limits you to 30-second presentations. Here’s one of random [...]
Way out of boredom and despair
For all of us working in educational institutions, there is hope: a way has been found out of boredom and despair. Since the prison’s physical fitness programme was redesigned Crisanto and his fellow inmates have become musical stars. Some of the 1500 inmates at Cebu now perform mass choreographed dance moves to the strains of [...]
Floods in the UK
OK, nothing to do with autonomous EFL learning, but I just loved the photo that was on the BBC website.
Bag End, Hobbiton… SOLD!
Blimey, looks like someone just bought Bilbo’s old pad, Bag End, Hobbiton.
Google can read your mind
Just had an odd experience using Gmail. I wrote my email then clicked “send”. A window popped up saying “It appears you wanted to send an attachment with this email. Do you want to go ahead and send it anyway?” gulp! How dit doo dat? I did use the word “attachment” in the email, so [...]
10 uses for cassette tapes
If you’re “of a certain age” as the French say, you’ll probably have fond memories of cassette tapes, like this BBC journalist, who writes about what to do with these, now outdated, sound storage devices. Can you think of any ideas to add?
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