domingo, 23 de diciembre de 2012

Best of 2012

As 2012 draws to an end it's getting more and more fashionable to come across compilations with the highlights of the year, both in pictures and images.

I came across Jean-Louis Nguyen's video clip 2012: What brought us together through Larry Ferlazzo.



This is the way Jean-Louis himself describes his video:

"It was a year of breakthroughs, adversity, accomplishments. And the web shared all of it. From the highest sky-dive to the fastest running man, a first vote or last mission, joys and tragedies, grumpy cats and flash mobs, from silly to serious; whatever it is that we shared in 2012, here is a compilation."

Jean-Louis has also provided a document with a full list of all the events on the video plus hyperlinks to the original clips.

Lesson idea:
I also think that the video lends itself to a nice lesson for after the holiday break, especially if you have access to a computer room where students can work with an internet connection and find out more background information about some of the news items on the video. It is a kind a treasure hunt using Jean Louis's hyperlinked document 

Allot different video footage to different pairs/groups of students and give them Jean Louis's document with the hyperlinks. In pairs/groups students explore their own choice of four or five news items they knew little or nothing about.

After 15-20 minutes students make new groups, where they share information about whatever they have found out.