Well I don't know if it's Kate & William's influence but actually I had the idea a long time ago. Let's make our pupils organize a wedding. They could create a book presenting the different aspects of the wedding they've organized.

They can even imagine the couple (imagining a wedding between Darth Vador and Leia Organa could be fun!), the family, the recipe for dinner, the animations, etc.

Here are some links that could give some ideas to organize it. Google even proposes tools to help the wedding planner:

http://www.google.com/weddings/

http://www.lifeorganizers.com/wedding

Taken from BBC

A very funny site with photos taken in the street. The artist tries to use a mere object of the street to create an artistic work. This is street art!

I cannot help sharing the following blog: it's such a brilliant example of elegance, poetry, sensuality. The photographer, Jamie Beck, has created a wonderful place to post. Her pictures are incredibly stunning. I actually wonder how it works. It is based on the forgotten GIF format, but it looks so different from the old ones. If you have any idea please tell me!!!!

Just enjoy!

It's useless, it's just a music video but an interactive one. Actually this is just beautiful... just enjoy!

I looooove flowcharts. It's a really modern tool to represent ways of thinking. It's also a useful tool for us, English teachers. Using them in class or even making the pupils create their own flowcharts is great.

Flowcharts can be used to tell a story differently. It can be used for anything actually.

Here are some examples of flowcharts:

The graphic taken from Hunch illustrates here the "fight" between mac and pc users. I like the way they represent the statistics.

Possible Xploitation? It could be fun to do the same (perhaps in a less scientific way) opposing for example Iphone and Blackberry users, FB or Tweeter users, Playstation or Nintendo users, etc. The "statistics" could be based on a stereotypical or caricatural vision.

The new MTV campaign is interesting. Its purpose is to say that there is a story within every famous song. 

Possible exploitation: Well I don't really have any original idea but the documents could be the base of a work on narration for example. Do you have any idea?

Here is the link to Michelle Henry's site, a famous mine of information:

Well I sometimes have curious ideas but I've always wanted to develop a one year project based on the following idea: pupils must create a country.

It can be a long time project or even a shorter one. However, the idea is to create the most realistic country. I think it's possible to represent it like in google earth. You can create its shape and boundaries. The following site gives ideas to create one with Google Earth: http://sites.google.com/site/geinvtclassrooms/Home/create-a-country

Then, it could be interesting to imagine the people living in the country. Pupils could compose a national anthem, imagine a flag, rules, etc. All these elements could be the subject of various lessons.

It could be easy to use the following advert for structures expressing orders (or others). Actually I find the video really aesthetic and powerful.

The notion of litany could be useful for a linguistic purpose too.

A wonderful document. It reminds me of the movie American Beauty. Really good idea to narrate the story of an "ordinary" object of everyday life. Here the purpose is ecological with an ironical tone.

IDEA: Teachers could ask the pupils to tell the story (with illustration) of an ordinary object with a specific tone.

I love the idea!!!! The concept is to scan the newspaper with your smartphone and to put it on the picture. A mouth is speaking instead of the portrait. It's a journalist who is speaking instead of dictators in order to denounce what is happening in their countries.

We could do the same in class. Choose a famous character and film your mouth pronouncing a text. Then put the smartphone on the mouth of the character and film the whole thing. What do you think?