Walmart Orwellian Public Service Announcement

BNW/1984 Article Links

Group I

Smile, you're on camera!

Facebook leads to diminished communication

Android Apps Can Secretly Copy Your Photos

Group II

Facebook him! A strange new era of surveillance is here

My own private memory hole - the right to be forgotten


Group III  

Obama to sign detention act into law

Big Brother is watching you at Walmart



Group IV


Pill popping - the case for cognitive enhancement

The meaning of utopia

 Group V

The Zuckerberg revolution

Wikileaks, Facebook, and Brave New World

 Group VI

If Not Orwell, Then Huxley: The Battle for Control of the Internet

Orwell, GPS, and the Supreme Court

Group VII

MSNBC's Martin Bashir Compares Rick Santorum to An Orwell Totalitarian

Police (Big Brother) Videotape Citizens

Group VIII

Google goggles, due this year, turn seeing into searching

 

Google Glasses Are a Prescription for Disaster


The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever

Students tracked with ID chips

School installs facial recognition cameras

Sample 1984/Brave New World Dystopic Essays

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Adding your vocabulary video to the class YouTube site

Blogger, Weebly, and Drupal Gardens

Welcome!

Introductions - Please tell us who are, why you signed up for this workshop, and what you hope to learn today
 
Gmail sign up - If you have a personal Gmail account, I recommend using that to create your Blogger blog.

Blogging sites to check out
a. My blog
b. Science teacher's blog
c. Math teacher's blog
d. History teacher's blog
e. English teacher's blog
f.  Middle school teacher's blog
g. Principal's blog
f.  Assistant Principal's blog

Using Photo Story 3

Welcome!

Introductions - Please tell us who are, why you signed up for this workshop, and what you hope to learn today
 

Microsoft Photo Story
  

Example Photo Story

  

Lesson Plan Using Photo Story to Create Vignettes

 

Mr. B-G’s Vocabulary Video YouTube page

Using Twitter and Dropbox

Welcome!

Introductions - Please tell us who are, why you signed up for this workshop, and what you hope to learn today

Dropbox sign up - Please send me an e-mail to bgvocab@gmail.com if you did not receive an invitation to join Dropbox. I will send you one.

Dropbox installation and basic use

Creating Internet links with Dropbox

Twitter account sign ups - multiple accounts?

Twitter for homework

Twitter for professional development

Time to explore, play, and figure out ways to use this technology

Hang tight... these links will eventually work again

As any of you know who have tried to download the materials located in the right column of this blog, it's been a while since these links worked. For reasons unbeknownst to me, my file hosting site, Ripway.com, keeps saying I've exceed my daily bandwidth, even on days when this page has received very few visits.

I have since switched to Dropbox as a means to share my files on the Internet, but it will be a little while until all of the links are functioning again.

Thanks for your patience.

Fisherman's Lifestyle Links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/01/stefan-glinski-fisherman

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5660278

http://www.latest-science-news.com/news/lifesaving-outfit-for-fishermen-4450.htm

http://www.grantontrawlers.com/Life%20and%20Times%20of%20a%20newhaven%20fisherman/Life%20&%20Times%20of%20a%20Newhaven%20Fisherman.htm

http://web-japan.org/nipponia/nipponia21/en/feature/feature04.html

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/nov/01/life-stone-crab-fisherman-part-two/

http://www.pc.gc.ca/apprendre-learn/prof/sub/jpn/stories/page11gr5_e.asp

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/flm/

Vocabulary Poster Review Project Links

Here are some nifty websites I've discovered that might help you with your vocabulary posters:

Shahi - A visual dictionary that searches Flickr, Yahoo, & Google for images

Visuwords - A graphical dictionary that shows how words and their meanings are linked together

Brainyflix - A website with words and videos of common SAT words. Great fun!

Wordle - Create a cool word cloud from your blog or any piece of writing

FreeRice - Addictive SAT word quiz website. Get correct answers and win rice for people in need.

Flocabulary - SAT words put to hip-hop

Poetry Anthology Easel Instructions

Wordle Word Cloud

This site's Wordle image:

Siddhartha in the 21st Century

Each year I read Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha with my World Literature 12th grade students. While a few of them are quick to understand the concepts and deeper insights into how one should go about living life, most need the themes and ideas driven home through curriculum supplements.

This year I utilized readings from The Way of Chaung Tzu by Thomas Merton to help elucidate key concepts. I also called on YouTube for a visual assist, and found a great three-part Siddhartha series created by high school students.

Today we watched videos one and two. Tomorrow we'll watch the finale before beginning work on the culminating activity for the unit, an essay entitled Siddhartha Comes to America!

Below are the three student-produced Siddhartha videos. I hope you enjoy them as much as my students and I did.