YouTube – Greeks Myths “Theseus and the Minotaur” 1of3
A treasure, stumbled upon by chance: a whole series of videos illustrating the Greek myths, or some of them at least. Here’s the one of Theseus and the Minotaur, starring Michael Gambon (aka Prof. Dumbledore) and a Muppet dog but don’t let that put you off: it’s good quality and to the point. When [...]
Automatic Language Growth – a variant of Krashen’s Natural Approach
Jack Taylor, a young teacher of English in Japan and creator and manager of the Japan TPRS forum, alerted me to the work of Dr. J. Marvin Brown who created the Automatic Language Growth (ALG) (earlier called the Listening Approach), a variant of Krashen and Terrell’s Natural Approach. Dr. Brown developed his ideas over many years [...]
Do schools today kill creativity? part deux
I should have waited a bit before blogging my earlier entry, until I’d seen this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson (a fellow Brit I’d never heard of). Makes a similar point to Michael Rosen but with a lot more power and in less than half the time (20 minutes). (See Ken’s Wikipedia entry and [...]
Funny ads
Via Google (click on “add more content” to your iGoogle page), I discovered Funny Ads. I’ve had it on my iGoogle page for a few days, but didn’t watch any of them until today. A number are in languages other than English (some of those have English subtitles), and a number are “silent”, where the [...]
Video day
David St Lawrence lives in Floyd County and writes about a festival held there. There I found a link to Spiral Hoop Dancer Vivian.I could watch this for hours. She is having such fun, and she apparently did not know she was being videoed. Plus it doesn’t hurt that she’s very sexy. (This vid is [...]
Making a commercial for your class
Dave Warlick likes using the ad for the game Civilization IV. Then he asks, What if you had a commercial for your text book? What if you made a commercial for your textbook? Could You? What if you had a commercial for your class? What ifyou made a commercial for your class? Could You? Timely [...]
Did you know? A presentation
FarrFeed » Blog Archive » “Shift Happens” Presentation I saw Karl Fisch’s fascinating presentation a while back, but was amazed to see its slick new look. I discovered this thanks to John Farr’s excellent blog. Karl’s presentation and Scott McCleod’s movie have really gone viral, because John Farr is not an edtech blogger and lives [...]
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