Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ES&hl=es&v=wXILI9Q1jIw

Do you remember this video we watched in class? What is the worst thing you can do when delivering a presentation? How can you avoid all these mistakes?

Link: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/02/mistakes/index_01.htm

Here you have a very interesting page with some tips on how to talk in public. Some of them are too focused in the world of business, but others could be applied to school presentations as well. Watch the different slides and post any comment about the topic, such as What's the most difficult about making a class presentation? or Do you think it can be helpful for you?

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfL09c4cw2I

Have a look at this video. Whose eyes is the camera looking through? Have you ever noticed how often this happens? Can you find any other examples?

Here's a link to the RSC website which contains loads of interesting information about A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as games and activities you can do, including a set design game!
Explore this website, play the games and share your findings, comments and opinions with the rest of the class. Who knows? You might find some inspiration for the auditions!
http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/dream/1781.htm

Big thanks to Diego Reina who came across this website!

Is consumer culture forcing women into stereotypes of "femininity" or is it simply enhancing natural tendencies? Dr Rebecca Munford, Professor Ruth Holliday, Dr Helena Cronin and Ben Barry, founder of the Ben Barry modelling agency, will lead the discussion.
You can listen this panel in The Guardian website.
You can leave your comments as well and let us know what you think about these barbie dolls.

Vínculo: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/04/cia-guilty-rendition-abu-omar

James Bond had a license to kill and when we see in a movie CIA or FBI agents kidnapping or even torturing some suspect we tend to overview it, because we are with them against the bad guys.
Is it the same in real life? Here is a story of a man who was kidnapped in Italy. He was brought to a secret base and tortured. He was illegally arrested for four years and then released without charges. He lost one leg and one eye while he was in prison. You can read the rest of the story by following the link in the title.
Leave your comments and tell us what do you think: is it fair because he was a suspect of terrorism? Is it right to send to prison a man in order to prevent a terrorist attack? Do we have the right to torture someone for the sake of our own country security?

Act 1 - Athens
Act 2 - The woods
This is all we know so far about the setting of the play. However, having read the first two acts, we have identified three different worlds being represented. Can anyone remember what these are?

I would like you to post your suggestions for the setting of our adaptation of the play taking into account that they need to be transferable onto the stage and within our means (we will have some help from the "artesania" students but our budget and resources are limited). Think about how we can help the audience to differentiate the three worlds without too many changes on the stage.

You have two weeks to post your ideas which we will discuss in class on Thursday 29 October. I expect everyone to make at least a comment.

Ig nobel prizes are given every year by the review annals of improbable research and honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. The Ig Nobels, or Igs, are an annual exercise in irreverence that celebrate research that "cannot, or should not, be repeated".
The ceremony took place at Harvard University, with the coveted prizes handed out by real Nobel laureates. This year's recipients were allowed no more than 60 seconds to deliver their acceptance speech, a time limit enforced by an eight-year-old girl.
The event is hosted by the Harvard-based journal Annals of Improbable Research, and is timed to coincide with the far more lucrative and legitimate Nobels, which are due to be announced in Stockholm next week.
These are some of this years winners:
ECONOMICS PRIZE: The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks —-Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of Iceland —- for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa — and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy.
LITERATURE PRIZE: Ireland's police service (An Garda Siochana), for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means "Driving License".
PHYSICS PRIZE: Katherine K. Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, USA, Daniel E. Lieberman of Harvard University, USA, and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas, USA, for analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over.
here you find all the winners of the 2009 edition.

here you can read the story of this 26 year old music teacher who has just been condemned to jail after a six months liaison with one of her pupils. You'll see that it was a fully consented affair, even if she was ten years older. Do you consider it a criminal offence, so that she must be sent to prison and is forbidden to teach for life?
In any case, a serious warning for those who are thinking to give in to one of the most classical fantasies, the one involving your pupil (or your teacher). In case you are one of the kind, here the guardian offers you some valuable information about what you shouldn't do...
My pleasure

are you sure that it means a revolution?, is it not only a minor shift in our oldways?
read here all about it

almost so beautiful as a woman, but it ticks on time

do you think that this ad is sexist? if so, which are the reasons?

if you find other examples, we can show them here

what is platonic beauty? this is it, and it doesn't make us better