Flocabulary

Flocabulary is an online learning platform that delivers educational hip-hop songs and videos to students in grades K-12. Founded in 2004, Flocabulary is now used in over 15,000 schools and reaches a weekly audience of 5 million students. Our mission is to motivate kids and help them reach their full academic potential, not only by raising test scores but by fostering a love of learning in every child.
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                                        THE LAST 18 YEARS IN RAP

Flocabulary... 18 Years in Rap...
For the High School Grads...

In 1994 - 4 million babies are born
In America. Let’s see what else was going on.
Nelson Mandela's elected in South Africa,
End of apartheid, spectacular.

95 - OJ's acquitted in LA,
OKC is bombed by McVeigh.
Israel gives back land to Palestinians,
"Toy Story," it makes a couple million.

96 - We cloned a sheep named Dolly,
Collecting Pokémon is a new hobby.
That’s the year that you could die from beef,
Whether it’s rap related or Mad Cow Disease.
Tupac dies, and in...

97 - Biggie,
So does Princess Diana, that's a pity.
Mother Teresa is RIP,
But NASA lands on Mars that’s totally sweet.

98 - Google gives us search every day,
Matthew Shepard gets killed 'cause he was gay.

99 - School shooting at Columbine,
Clinton gets acquitted, even though we caught him lying.

Some were scared of Y2K,
But we partied all night for a brand new day.
Oh hey, Bush barely beats Gore,
In fact, it’s decided by the Supreme Court.

2001 - Yeah, we’re on our science,
Map the genome, iPod arrives.
But America changed the hour,
When the two planes hit the two towers.
We invade Afghanistan, hunting Al Qaeda,
But Bin Laden won’t get found 'til later.

02 - Bush names an evil axis, lowers taxes,
American Idol smashes.

03 - Start of the the Iraq War,
Columbia explodes, death in Darfur.
Biggest US minority is now Latin,
Ask my primo, Pixar finds Nemo.

04 - W. wins four more,
Tsunami waves kill when they hit the shore.
Red Sox win, they reverse the curse,
And Facebook's started by a couple of nerds.

05 - Hurricane Katrina has no love,
The Pope dies, baseballers are on drugs,

06 - Nintendo’s "Wii," what’s next?
Saddam Hussein, he gets put to death.

07 - iPhone drops, yeah I cop it,
We see the crisis in the housing market.
But we have the first female speaker of the House,
Every year new barriers for women break down.

08 - Another barrier down, that’s evident,
Obama is the first black president.
Michael Phelps dominates the pool,
The economy tanks, banks act the fool.

09 - Stimulus, water on the moon,
RIP MJ, he is gone too soon.

2010 - Oil spill, that’s crazy,
Earthquakes in Chile and Haiti.
But some lives are saved, the miners freed!
I bet fresh air never smelled so sweet.

2011 - Occupy Wall Street,
We find Bin Laden, put his body in the sea.
Europe debt crisis is tough for the Greeks,
Steve Jobs dies, he’s resting in peace.

This year - Trayvon Martin is killed,
Tebowmania, Linsanity it’s real.

3.2 million high school graduates,
I hope you’re looking at the present, and you're grabbing it,
'Cause time passes in the blink of an eye,
When you look ahead, don’t forget to look behind...It's Flocab

     

The Junk Food

THE JUNK FOOD

SELECTIVIDAD  Inglés-2004

Oral Presentation

Five Presentation Tips

For ESL Students

Giving presentations is a great way to practice your English, whether the presentations are in class and just for practice or in the real world. But to give a great presentation, you nee a little more than just good English. 

Here are five importatnt presentation tips for you.

• Tip 1.  Why people get nervous when they give a presentation?
• Tip 2.  Use your voice as a tool.
• Tip 3.  Make it look good.
• Tip 4.  Make it interesting
• Tip 5.  Enjoy it!

Go to downloads for students and you will find a PDF that can be helpful for your oral presentation.

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
 

The Mp3 Experiments

IMPROV EVERYWHERE

The Mp3 Experiments

The Mp3 Experiment is participatory public event created by Improv Everywhere.
 We stage a new Mp3 Experiment in New York each year and also tour the project regularly to college campuses and international festivals.
Here’s how it works: 

• we put an original mp3 file online (usually around 45 minutes long) that people download and transfer to their mobile devices. 

•  Participants then synchronize their watches to an atomic clock on our website, head out to the same public location, and blend in with others.

•  At the predetermined time, everyone presses play. Hilarity ensues as participants carry out ridiculous, coordinated instructions delivered to their headphones via narrator “Steve” and everyone else tries to figure out what the hell is going on. 

David Pogue of the New York Times participated in our 2009 experiment and wrote:

It was hilarious. The crowd was young and fun, and the whole thing was orchestrated, planned and written exceptionally well. What a totally, totally cool idea: part mass hypnosis, part party, part comedy club… like a political rally, but with more to do. Find a way to be part of it.

You can read his full recap on NYTimes.com.

Here is an overview of all of the New York Mp3 Experiments dating back to the original in 2004. Take a look at the videos, and click on the titles to check out the behind the scenes project page.
 

University of Cambridge ESOL Examinatios

Back To School!!!

 BACK

 TO RETURN TO AN EARLIER OR NORMAL POSITION OR CONDITION 

QUOTATIONS: BACK TO SCHOOL

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  ~Chinese Proverb


All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.  ~Martin H. Fischer


I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.  ~Winston Churchill


You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.  ~Clay P. Bedford


When the student is ready, the master appears.  ~Buddhist Proverb


You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ~Ray LeBlond



It is a good time to start School again!! so what a better song to start classes again??

Click here.
There are activities based on the lyrics of the song 

Bringing you textbook to life: 15+ Tips & Resources from Shelly Terrell.

Bringing Your Textbook to Life: 15+ Tips & Resources from Shelly Terrell