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Shuffling your feet into the next dimension.
The new Julian Casablancas solo effort is growing on me.
Glad he didn't make a Strokes-esque album.
Really dig the last track.
Check it out.
Tourist by Julian Casablancas
the nighttime wind down with my iphone and skynews application roundup
having news snippits in a small form factor like the iphone makes you treat it more like a mini computer than a smartphone. i always have that feeling when i'm using the iphone over a nokia product. a nokia phone always feels like a smartphone trying to be a computer where as the iphone feels like a mini computer off the bat because the experience is more curated and smoothed over rather than the abrupt endings a nokia product can bring when it flashes up a message that something is broken with no clear way to resolve it or hand hold me through a resolution.
things just work on the iphone and i would probably not spend time reading the news for 10-15 minutes in bed at night if that was difficult to do. some of the stories that made me smile, nod and sigh at last night.
Get active learning directions.
Continuing with my series "Get active in the classroom!", here is another activity by Marc Helgesen which worked very well to reinforce directions in another language. I did this with my grade 12 group (17 years old). Although they are grown up students, they do need a bit of action from time to time as they tend to be a bit lethargic! We learnt how to give and understand directions in town. Then, as a follow up activity, we did the Tour guide in Madrid. I created cards to put on the walls and tables in the classroom. They were showing La Plaza Mayor, El Parque del Retiro, El museo del Prado, Atocha on them and some shops in Spanish we had learnt previously. It was a double lesson and students had a 5 minutes break so I had time to fix the cards in the classroom without them watching. When students returned from their break, I asked them to stay in the corridor and I explained the following:
1. Students worked in pairs. One was a tour guide. The other was a tourist. The tourist is blindfolded.
2. The tour guide directed the tourist around the classroom, giving directions and pointing out things that are interesting. (The tour guide may not touch the tourist). Only spoken instructions are allowed. The tour guide encourages the tourist to touch and pick-up objects. Naturally, the tour guides need to be careful so the tourists don’t hurt themselves, bump into things or other people, etc.
3. When each pair of students had finished their tour, we had a discussion of what makes for good directions, things that were easy or difficult to explain. We also talked about the main sights in Madrid.
Students really enjoyed doing this, they thought it was a fun way of practicing the directions.
What about you? Which engaging activity do you do to practice directions?
Real de Catorce
Llegué a las 5 am hoy, he tenido un día bastante ocupado, estoy comenzando a descargar fotos.
De la primer tanda, esta viene con una corrección de color muy sencilla, algo que me ha pasado con mis últimas fotos, dejaron de pasar por Photoshop y ahora la pasada por Lightroom es mínima. Los presets de corrección que bajaba de otros lados ya no me sirven para nada, resultan excesivos.
Creo que ya estoy madurando mi proceso fotográfico.
Weekend's here.
Sitting at the beach watching an amazing sunset. Enjoying a couple of drinks and reveling in the fact that the week is over and I can finally relax.
Sunsets are always calming to me. Also, if I'm at the beach (like this one in Waikiki), I find some entertainment in it as well. Next time you're on a beach during this time at a pretty tourist- filled area, just watch. Look at everyone around you. They will all stop at the same time. Everyone and their mom will have a camera. Aimed at the sunset, they attempt to capture the soothing quality of its glow in a moment frozen in time. Can't blame them for trying. I mean, who doesn't want to feel relaxed just by staring at a picture? It's worth a thousand words, but sometimes all you need is a few: Relax, smile, and enjoy the weekend.
