Weather Forecast In January

January was England's wettest winter month in almost 250 years

 

 

 

 

Improving Your English Vocabulary

Watch this video if you really want to improve your English vocabulary

Understanding Talent

Excellent Video On Having A “Growth Mindset”

Angling,a Sport

Angling is one of the most popular participant sports, following closely behind swimming and walking.
Indeed, particularly in the USA, fishing is now one of the top favourites as a televised sport.

Watch this awesome video after reading the worksheet given in the class.

To Tweet Or Not To Tweet

A lot of people use Twitter, obviously, but how is micro-blogging interesting for a teacher or education personnel in general?  
Watch this 5 minutes-or-so video and you decide whether to use it or not as a tool.

REVERSE TIMES SQUARE

Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.
Over 2,000 people move backwards through Times Square, making it look like time is going in reverse to unsuspecting tourists and New Yorkers. Participants met in Bryant Park to receive instructions and synchronize their watches before heading over to Times Square and blending in with the crowd. At exactly 3:15 PM, participants began moving backwards for exactly five minutes.

Watch the video first and then click here to read.

What School Systems Can Learn From PISA

PISA (Program of International Student Assessment)

How can we measure what makes a school system work? 

Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another -- then uses that same data to help schools improve. Watch to find out where your country stacks up, and learn the single factor that makes some systems outperform others.

What makes a great school system? To find out, Andreas Schleicher administers a test to compare student performance around the world. Full bio »


Chance to read the audioscript here

How to Destroy the World - Rubbish

WATCH THIS VIDEO

Insults By Shakespeare

INSULTS BY SHAKESPEARE

About This Video

“You’re a fishmonger!” By taking a closer look at Shakespeare’s words--specifically his insults--we see why he is known as a master playwright whose works transcend time and appeal to audiences all over the world.

To know more click here

Sugata Mitra: The Child-Driven Education

In TEDxMadridSalon , an independent event organized under a TED licence , this video could be seen .

"Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.” (Sugata Mitra)

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest. To know more click here
 

Philosophy Football (Monty Python)

PHILOSOPHY FOOTBALL

I know most of the students are on holiday and I am sure they are thinking of the    football match tonight. That is why I would like you to wacth this funny video to start with. Let´s see the Great Philosophers playing .

Germany versus Greece

• Hegel                                                                                          Plato           
• Leibniz                                                                                       Heraclito
• Kant                                                                                            Aristoteles
• Nietzsche                                                                                  Socrates                         

Half A Million Secrets

What is a secret?

A SECRET IS somethig that is kept or meant to be kept unkown or unseen by others.Something that is not properly understood; a mystery. A valid but not commoly known or recognized method of achieving or maintaining something.

"Secrets can take many forms -- they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful." Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcard. 

Frank Warren collects secrets.He is the creator of the PostSecret Project, a blog full of secrets anonymously shared via postcard. more


 Watch the video: Half a million secrets by Frank Warren There is an interactive transcript in case you need.

 

The Top 10 Everything of 2011

Top 10
Everything of 2011

In 54 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys

the highs and lows, the good and the bad,

of the past 12 months.TIME

Person of the Year 2011

A year after a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself ablaze, dissent has spread across the Middle East, to Europe and the US, reshaping global politics and redefining people power

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials#ixzz1hCHgooJm

The Best Blogs of 2011

Our annual blog extravaganza features 25 fresh picks, from politics and pop culture to travel, tech and beyond More

Year In Review. Watch this video.
Thanks Google for showing us all these things.

Happy New Year

A song with the lyrics to sing along.

Myspace Graphics, New Year Graphics at WishAFriend.com