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

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?

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?

These ads are really funny. It could be interesting to take a famous picture and to make pupils imagine what could have happened, what could have provoked the famous photo.

Examples of photos that could be manipulated:

Great idea to represent something thanks to words. Instead of drawing the different elements, just represent them thanks to the textual representation of it and put them in context.

What could be the purpose of such a tool? Any idea for any lesson? Can we use it to represent a scene described in a text for example? Or could it be the object of an actional approach?

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Have you ever tried to learn a new language thanks to post-it you stick everywhere with the name of the object written on it. It could be fun to do the same at school, for any purpose, or just for fun: you write the name of the object + the phonetic transcription. (or even for a treasure hunt!)