OFF THE GRID

 WATCH THE FIRST 21 secs and guess what the change could be.
 VIDEO Off the Grid
One family left everything they had behind to live without electricity, running water, or any means of communication in the backwoods of Eastern Idaho.

In Going Off Grid, Laura Ling examines how 180,000 Americans a year are choosing to live entirely disconnected from our modern internet-focused world in pursuit of a more sustainable, simple lifestyle.

English AND French

5 tips for teaching ... kids

Educational Utopia : It's tough to be a teacher .... mais c'est passionnant!
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/tips-for-teaching-tough-kids-josh-work?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-tips-for-teaching-tough-kids-feb-repost

Meanwhile I'm correcting your papers, dear pupils.. You'll visit the Cahier de texte next thursday if you will.
Thinking of H.

The Twilight Zone

A beautiful version of that 1mn gem.
http://vimeo.com/23235124

If you want to hear more of Rod Serling's speech who  authored the famous series...
Other short video from the 10 parts talk:
Part 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onw4wmnnROw
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxklVA-0IiU
ad lib...
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer and narrator known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his acience-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone 
Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the "angry young man" of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war.

Fashion VS exploitation

Come to think of it, this has been going on for quite a while.

#CHARLIE HEBDO

Press freedom is the beginning of democracy.
CARTOONIST  POWER LIVES.

Condolences to the families of the victims.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/heartbreaking-cartoons-from-artists-in-response-to-the-ch?utm_term=.gmA0oN2L1#.fd28MN92Q

"I do definitely consider myself a nerd!"

Work on your Oral comprehension here:

http://www.franglish.fr/COBAC/
Mr Yvan Baptiste allows you to improve! Take advantage of it.
I've also put it under the label "Oral Comprehension". Of course!
Do use all those links daily!
Thanks again and always Sir.

The Mirror

Leonardo DiCaprio's 2014 UN Climate Summit Speech

Babel and Languages

Laniakea

Where are we?
On planet Earth, orbiting around the Sun, our star.
Remember our galaxy, the Milky Way.
It  is a spiral galaxy some 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter. Ô my! 
The Milky Way contains 100–400 billion stars and our sun is on the outskirts of this galaxy.

But our galaxy, in spite of its hugeness is only a tiny part of the Universe.

In the Universe. it seems there are super clusters of galaxies.
Scientists called the super cluster in which our galaxy stands  Laniakea. 
This word means immeasurable heavens in Hawaiian. 

Laniakea stretches more than 500 million light-years across...
It contains 100,000 large galaxies.

extends more than 500 million light-years and contains 100,000 large galaxies. - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/laniakea-home-supercluster-09032014/#sthash.RhMBXjge.dpuf

extends more than 500 million light-years and contains 100,000 large galaxies. - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/laniakea-home-supercluster-09032014/#sthash.RhMBXjge.dpuf

extends more than 500 million light-years and contains 100,000 large galaxies. - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/laniakea-home-supercluster-09032014/#sthash.RhMBXjge.dpuf

extends more than 500 million light-years and contains 100,000 large galaxies. - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/laniakea-home-supercluster-09032014/#sthash.RhMBXjge.dpuf

Among them, the Milky Way, our galaxy stands at the outskirts of Laniakea.
Ô my, ô my...




http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/03/milky-way-laniakea-galaxy-supercluster-immeasurable-heaven

extends more than 500 million light-years and contains 100,000 large galaxies. - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/laniakea-home-supercluster-09032014/#sthash.RhMBXjge.dpuf

The long game

Great videos here: http://delve.tv/essays/ 
The first one is about Claude Shannon. Heads or tails, 0 or 1, bits and pixels.
The two others are interesting too.
“Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time,”
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/23/the-long-game/ 

A biology course and some.

The things you can find on the web... Even lectures from inspired Stanford professors.
It is both entertaining and invigorating.  I hope you enjoy it.
It's about ... hormones, boundaries, human biology and thinking.
Quite a journey for animals... and some tool!

English for life!

BACK TO SCHOOL!

Aux élèves, à leurs parents ou tuteurs, un peu de français avant la rentrée. 
Des conseils pour apprendre l'anglais ainsi qu'une fiche à remplir et à coller dans le cahier de mes élèves. 
Vous trouverez cela ici:
https://www.myhaikuclass.com/elibilien/english/cms_page/view/7339593

Merci à ceux qui liront ces documents et sauront en tirer profit. 
Soit pour progresser, soit pour aider les autres à le faire.
Utilisez ce blog et son extension. Ils sont pour vous.

Resilience

Thinking of you, terminales, taking the Baccalaureat! All the best.

How determined are you to win your race?

GO FOR IT!

Don't you get caught in the Web...

and a criticism of that video, but in French. Sorry about that.
http://mobile.lemonde.fr/vous/article/2014/05/13/leve-les-yeux-de-ton-ecran_4416039_3238.html

That's the English I'm looking forward to!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0025-preposition.html

and a piece on Emily Brewster's video. Emily is on twitter of course:  ‏@eabrewster 

Mobile Addiction is growing at an alarming rate.

I repeat:  Mobile Addiction is growing at an alarming rate.
Enjoy the read!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101608691