• Because the message is really cleverly given...

     


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  • I've just found the video I was looking for a while. No comment. I think it would be really interesting to study it in class and compare it to the lyrics+music of the song:

     

    Here is Sinatra's song:

     

    Here are the lyrics:

     

    Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today
    I want to be a part of it - New York, New York
    These vagabond shoes, are are longing to stray
    Right through the very heart of it - New York, New York

    I wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep
    And find I'm king of the hill - top of the heap

    These little town blues, are melting away
    I'll make a brand new start of it - in old New York
    If i can make it there, I'll make it anywhere
    It's up to you - New York, New York

    New York, New York
    I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
    And find I'm a number one, top of the list
    King of the hill, a number one

    These little town blues, are melting away
    And I'm gonna make a brand new start of it - in old New York
    And if i can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere

    It's up to you - New York New York

    New York


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  • Strong and shoking campaign by Surfrider Foundation

     

    We kill with our rubbish


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  • Excellent campaign by WWF!

    Someone to comment on it?

     


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  • Pen Pals

     

    Hi guys!

     

    Some of the French pupils would like to become pen pals with pupils from America or Scotland. Are you up to find someone to talk to? What about writing messages on the blog or even using the software SKYPE to communicate?

    It would be great to respect the following rule: write your message in the foreign + the native language. What do you think?

    Here is the place where you can begin to correspond. Just post a message as I did before! Have fun and make friends!!

     

    Lauura (France) is waiting for you!!!

     

    LINK TO THE PEN PALS FORUM


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  • Blog Jam!

    I don't know you but I'm more and more stricken by the growing number of young people living in the streets with their dogs. Usually, I avoid looking at them. I'm not proud of it.

    I watched a documentary about the phenomenon and was really affected by it. I'd like to deal with the subject in class and I found some interesting documents. I just share them with you.

    The aim would be to make pupils aware of the reasons why young people "have" to live in the street. Then they would have to propose solutions (actional project) to fight against Youth Homelessness.

    Blog Jam!

     

    Videos:

     

     

     

    Here are some facts (Causes and consequences):

     

    A document from the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH)

     

     

     

     A document from Youthnoise:

    (Blogged from: www.youthnoise.com)

    Youth Homelessness: Facts and Solutions

     

    Facts

    If you don't personally know someone living on the streets, it's easy to pretend youth homelessness isn't a problem. It is a problem, and it affects millions of normal kids every day. It's time to wake up and pay attention.

    • 1.6 to 1.7 million people under 18 will experience homelessness each year. (That's more than the population of Philadelphia.)
    • The National Coalition for the Homeless defines homeless youth as individuals under the age of eighteen who lack parental, foster, or institutional care.
    • 1 out of every 3 homeless people are under the age of 18.
    • Approximately half of all runaways were physically abused before fleeing home.
    • The majority of homeless and runaway youth are between the ages of 15 and 17, however three out of 100 runaways are under the age of 10, and 11 out of 100 are between the ages of 11 and 13.
    • Approximately half of all runaways were physically abused before fleeing home.
    • A third of all runaways will attempt suicide.
    • Homeless youth are up to ten times more likely to have or contract HIV than non-homeless adolescents.
    • A tenth of homeless and runaway females are reportedly pregnant.
    • This year, one in 260 runaways and homeless youths will die from assault, illness and suicide.

    Characteristics of Homeless Youth

    • No self-sufficiency skills
    • No financial resourcesv
    • Mental health problems; post-traumatic stress disorder
    • Deteriorating physical health
    • Substance Abuse

    Pathways of Homelessness

    The three most common pathways are:

    • Parents
    • Extended family
    • Independent living (only after trying the other two)

    Causes of Youth Homelessness

    • Family breakdown: a result of dysfunctional or troubled situation
    • Systems failure: mainstream programs like child welfare, juvenile corrections facilities and mental health programs. Former foster care youths are disproportionately represented in the homeless population.

    Meet the Youth

    There are four basic types of homeless youth.

    Solutions

    There are three main different kinds of effective solutions:

    • Early Intervention/Prevention: make sure a homelessness episode or a family separation doesn't result in long-term homelessness.
    • Improve mental health and family systems.
    • Intervene with Already-Homeless Youth: to reunite them quickly with their families while strengthening the families' stability
    • Independent Housing Options: to help youth who will not be able to return to their families.

    Some youth will never be able to return to their families; they need housing programs that provide both shelter and support to help them become self-sufficient...but each type of homeless youth has different needs:

        • Jamie (Runaway) and Eva (Episodic) would benefit from early intervention, mental counseling, community-based services, and alternative family placements.
        • Karina (Shelter Hopper) requires intensive family reunification services, case managers, or youth advocates or life skills training.
        • Ryan (Street-Dependent) would be helped from street-based outreach and one-on-one connections; it's important for housing to provided first before tackling other issues.

    10 Needs to Prevent: End Youth Homelessness

        • Plan: strategies focused on ending youth homelessness
        • Data: how many youth are homeless, what their needs are, etc.
        • Emergency prevention: crisis counseling, family reunification services, etc.
        • Systems prevention: mainstream programs that provide care and services to youth
        • Outreach: programs that reduce barriers and encourage homeless youth to enter the system
        • Youth housing continuum: youth shelters, transitional housing, etc.
        • Services: access to funded services through mainstream programs
        • Youth development: programs that engage youth in meaningful ways, building leadership and decision-making skills
        • Permanent housing: supportive housing for homeless youth
        • Income: assistance to homeless youth to secure income; educational and vocational programs

    What Needs to Change?

    Most cities focus on "reaction" solutions instead of long-term solutions. Some good interventions that are not being developed or supported enough are:

        • Peer Outreach: train young people (ages 16 to 21) to go out on the street with adult outreach workers. (Homeless youth trust other youth much more easily than they trust adults.)
        • Crisis Assistance Information to Youth: develop community-based outreach where young people are (like schools) to prevent homelessness.
        • Better Inter-Organization Coordination: create local resource centers and/or websites that address the varied needs of at-risk youth
        • Affordable Housing: increase the number of affordable housing options for young adults (ages 16 to 25). 

    Youth homelessness is a large problem, but by no means is it a hopeless one. If we try to understand the problem as a whole, we can begin to work toward better solutions.

     

    Here is an interesting campaign launched to sensitize people:

    More information: http://lemonsblack.com/do-not-ignore-ihobo/

    Blog Jam!

    Here is the description of the application you can download on Itunes:

    Description

    Meet the young homeless person who will be living on your iPhone for the next three days.

    You’ll need to be there for him, day and night, providing food, money, warmth and support. He’ll alert you when he gets into trouble or needs your help. And the speed of your response could be the difference between him making it through in one piece, or becoming addicted to drugs.

    Depaul UK is the largest youth homeless charity in the UK. For more information go to www.depauluk.org


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  • You've probably heard about Siri. If not here is a short presentation of the Intelligent Assistant:

     

    There are already many funny users who tried to ridicule the application. Here are some examples:

    Siri - Iphone 4GS Siri - Iphone 4GS Siri - Iphone 4GS

    You may find other examples here: http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/

     

    You think it's fake? Just watch the videos so:

     

     

    This one is Hilarious:

     

    Possible Xbloggtation: What about making our pupils create their own conversations with Siri?


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  • You've probably heard about Siri. If not here is a short presentation of the Intelligent Assistant:

     

    There are already many funny users who tried to ridicule the application. Here are some examples:

    Siri - Iphone 4GS Siri - Iphone 4GS Siri - Iphone 4GS

    You may find other examples here: http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/

     

    You think it's fake? Just watch the videos so:

     

     

    This one is Hilarious:

     

    Possible Xbloggtation: What about making our pupils create their own conversations with Siri?


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  • Hi guys! Here are some documents you may find useful to use in class. They are related to road safety.

    Any interesting idea to use it in class in an actional project? Just Blog it!

     

     

    Road safety. Warning campaign.

    Road safety. Warning campaign.

    Road safety. Warning campaign.

    These adverts are really interesting to work in class! make pupils create their own?

     

    The following video is famous and really funny:

     

    The following ones are less funny but quite efficient:

     

    Road safety. Warning campaign.

     

    These ones are quite ... harsh... so if you're too sensitive don't watch:

     

    There are many other great campaigns. However, what do you think? Do you think campaign should be shoking?


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  • The project initiated by Mr Cadilhac and the lycée A. Einstein is really interesting!

    The pupils had to imagine their own covers. Here are their works! Excellent!

     

    The Fifth Child covers

    Cover designed by Clémentine B, Clara R & Sana E

    Their Analysis:

    We chose this photo to represent the cover because the character of the Fifth Child is showed very well. Indeed, in the back cover, it reads that the child, Ben, is monstrous in appearance. In this photo (which is extracted from a film called The Orphanage), the child on the right hasn’t got a face, he is frightening. Moreover, we can say that the woman next to him is Harriett Lovatt. She is holding the hand of his son, so he seems to be brutal and uncontrollable. They are only two in this photo; it reinforces the feeling of loneliness: the others can’t understand their situation, so they have to fight against it alone. The colours are dark, especially grey and black. The atmosphere is cold, tense, and we can notice that their clothes are old and drab. The mother’s face shows feelings of sadness and powerless.


    The Fifth Child covers

     

     

    The Fifth Child covers

    Cover designed by Lucie F.



     

    The Fifth Child covers

     

     


     

    The Fifth Child covers

    Cover designed by Louise P, Juliette S & Théo N


     

    This drawing is our cover for the 5th Child, written by Doris Lessing.

     

    In the middle of the picture, there is a carnivorous plant which seems to come from hell. It has got seven big sharp teeth and a huge tongue. It has got only two leaves. It is surrounded by weeds. In the top right-hand corner we can catch sight of a sun. On the right there is two huge flowers and four other little flowers. The two bigger flowers look at the carnivorous plant. One is red, the other is yellow. The third flower is a tulip. The three other flowers are blue and white. On the left there is a high tree. In the foreground, there is the title “The Fifth child”. In the top left-hand corner, it’s written the author’s name. The background is deeply dark. The weather seems to be stormy.

     

    The flowers in the top right-hand corner represent the family (with the parents and the children). They seem to have a peaceful life under the sunshine light contrary to the fifth flower which is growing far from his family in the weeds and the darkness. It’s to show that nobody wants to live with the fifth child. Maybe nobody likes him because of his personality or his appearance. That’s why he looks like a monster. He is in the middle. The right could be heaven with his family and the left could be hell. He lives between hell and heaven. He can’t go to hell but he hasn’t got the right to go to heaven.

     

    I chose to draw the fifth child as a carnivorous plant because it is said that he as got a monstrous appearance and he is insatiably hungry and strong. So, compared to his family which I represented as a couple fo flowers under the sun, he is abnormal and frightening. SO I thought that comparing his family with flowers would be interesting and original.

     

     


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  • I love the idea!!! mix a music, a song with a movie in order to create a detournement, a contrast, any effect such as in the following examples. What do you think? Are you up to create your own funny musical?

     

     

     


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  • Very interesting campaign by Amnesty International. Unfortunately the site is no longer available. We could use the same concept to imagine other useful uses of youtube, facebook, twitter,etc. rather than using them for our own personal interest.


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