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.
