theconversation Cette semaine, nous célébrons les 400 ans de la mort de Shakespeare. Après avoir été analysé, joué, étudié, critiqué, mis en scène, adapté et réadapté, le barde a fait son entrée dans le monde du serious game : que peut-il encore remettre en jeu ? L’entreprise Serious Games International a mis 18 mois pour donner vie à l’application mobile « Eye Shakespeare ». Conçue en partenariat avec The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, elle permet de découvrir la ville natale du dramaturge. En marchant, le joueur découvre à la fois les lieux physiques, l’œuvre de l’auteur (l’application incluant des copies des textes originaux) et voyage dans le temps grâce à la réalité augmentée. Marcher pour (se) découvrir L’idée clef du dispositif est de faire marcher le participant sur les pas du barde. En proposant cette application, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust incite les touristes à découvrir la ville de Stratford-upon-Avon dans le détail, tout en décalant le regard que l’on porte sur elle. Mener une quête
Free ebooks by Project Gutenberg See How the Rest of the World Celebrated with 'Christmas in a Day' by Ethan Anderton December 26, 2013Source: Sainsbury's A few years ago, exec producer Ridley Scott and The Last King of Scotland/Into the Void director Kevin Macdonald teamed up for a pretty impressive crowdsourced documentary. Life in a Day collected footage from all around the world to show people what it was like to be alive on July 24th, 2010. The feature length documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is available to watch on YouTube right now, and a holiday themed variation on that idea has arrived in the form of Christmas in a Day. Macdonald scales the scope back a bit by only featuring submissions from people celebrating Christmas in the United Kingdom. It's a nice dose of genuine Yuletide joy to check out on the day after Christmas. Here's the full documentary Christmas in a Day, direct from Sainsbury's (via The Film Stage): Christmas in a Day is a document of who we were at Christmas 2012. Find more posts in Docs, To Watch Discover more on ZergNet:
Learning basic English with lessons, exercise and books free on EasyPaceLearning 6-word stories: an EFL activity | Jellybeanqueen: A TEFL blog Met my soulmate. At her wedding. Isn’t it amazing how just 6 words can tell an incredibly powerful story? Recipe for failure. Can you imagine planning a whole lesson around 6 words? When you think of the creativity and imagination that has to go in to creating a 6-word story, you realise how this is the basis for a great lesson. For starters, you can board a few examples of 6-word stories and let them discuss what they think they mean. Then, show them this clip to introduce them to the concept: Finally, let them write their own 6-word stories. For example: Write a 6-word story using the word love/money/orange. Write a 6-word story about family/food/guilt. Write a 6-word story about your life/a secret you have/your first relationship. If you feel your class may need more inspiration, let them write 6-word stories on movies: Fight club: Not allowed to talk about it.The Ring: Hello. There, so many ideas. Have fun *Hana Ticha did – and it worked. Like this: Like Loading...
Ancient Civilisations, History, Key Stage 2 - Interactive Whiteboard Resources Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for KidsFlash Recommended if you are looking for information on the Ancient Egyptians or Ancient Greeks. Iron Age CeltsFlash A site with animated cartoon-style games and stories aimed at 7 - 11 year olds. It is about the early Celts. The fact file includes photographs of Iron Age objects. Indus ValleyTablet friendly A superb animated adventure by the BBC on the Indus Valley civilisation. The Mummy MakerFlash Play the game together to find out about mummification and how and why the Ancient Egyptians prepared people for the afterlife. Making Mummies and SarcophagiFlash This workshop involves making a Plasticine model of a mummy, wrapping it in modroc and then making a cast of the mummy to form the sarcophagus. Scottish HistoryFlash Fantastic interactive learning resources covering 4000 years of Scottish history from the Stone Age to the Twentieth Century.
40 Recommended Extensions for Teachers, Research, and Language Learners – Teacher Reboot Camp “It isn’t that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.” – GK Chesterton Did you know a web browser has many free incredible extensions (Chrome/Safari)/add-ons (Firefox)/plugins(IE) to support teachers and learners? Teach your students how to enhance their reading, writing, literacy, studying, and research skills with these powerful web browser tools. Extensions also help teachers accomplish many time consuming tasks faster, such as grading, assessment, providing feedback, research, creating lesson plans and more. Extensions/add-ons/plugins appear at the top of a browser usually to the right of the omnibar. Enjoyed these ideas? Extensions for Students Extensity– helps you manage all your extensions so your browser runs faster and isn’t crowded with tons of extensions at once.Pushbullet– I use this extension and free mobile app to send sms messages, images, and websites to all your devices and a group of people. Extensions for Teachers Bookmarks
The most metal word in existence has been determined by lyric data-crunching | News | Culture | The Independent A data science blogger has created a working list of the 20 most metal songs in the world, after analysing over 200,000 songs. My initial guesses were ‘obsidian’ and ‘pain’ but actually neither feature in the top 20, which was compiled by Degenerate State using the following methodology: The 222,623 songs from 7364 rock and metal bands on database Dark Lyrics were cross-referenced with the Brown Corpus – a collection of documents published in 1961 covering a range of different genres and totalling roughly one million words. In combining statistics to show the frequency of words in both sources, he believes he has determined the “metalness” of each word. ‘Burn’ came out top, joined in the list by its hell-themed cousins ‘flames’ and ‘ashes’, followed by ‘cries’ and ‘veins’. Unsurprisingly, ‘demons’ and ‘beast’ came higher than ‘gods’ and ‘pray’. Here’s the top 20 in full: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. (via TeamRock) Reuse content