Merry Christmas everyone and best wishes for the new year as well ;)

Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life | Video on TED.com

Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life | Video on TED.com: Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life....


Do you play games?  Do you want to have 10 extra years of life?

what do you think?  how about a comment....
james

After Nicolas' talk on ads... how about some posts with good ads?  Do you all know the Mr. PC ads?
the Superbowl commercials?
who would like to post a video of a good commercial?

MGM Cartoon "Symphony in Slang" (1951) - Video Dailymotion

MGM Cartoon "Symphony in Slang" (1951) - Video Dailymotion: MGM Cartoon "Symphony in Slang" (1951)

After proverbs... idiomatic and slang expressions.

I wonder... do you know all these expressions...

see you later

Telepresence (Cisco Videoconferencing) - YouTube

Thank a few moments to watch this 5 minute video....  what do you think?  Please leave a comment on the blog....

Telepresence (Cisco Videoconferencing) - YouTube: The Way of the Future? next week....
and at 3:30  Monday afternoon (tomorrow after the 1:30 classes) for a test in B512.

We'll be using the B512 room and equipment for our exchange with Smith after the New Year.

see you on Friday.
james

Video Conference Dilemma - YouTube

Video Conference Dilemma - YouTube:
Hi I mentioned this in class....
One of the members of an online video conference, experiences a minor problem...

Sometimes you do a videoconference and don't realize that you're already, or still, online!

have  a good company visit on Tuesday.  I'm looking forward to receiving your French-ness, etc. texts and pictures!

james

The American Dream Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=FR&v=tGk5ioEXlIM

A friend sent me this video about the economic system of the USA and I thought you might be interested in it since we, I mean at least I, don't really know much about how economy works in US or France.
It's a bit long but it's really easy to understand and I thought we could maybe discuss it once.

See you next week,
Damien.

Jay Walker on the world's English mania | Video on TED.com

Hello everyone,
It was nice having our guest Abigail today.

I thought you might enjoy this.
Is learning English a mania?
Do you agree?

please leave a comment.

Jay Walker on the world's English mania | Video on TED.com


Some of you haven't yet accepted an invitation to be a contributor to the blog.... Soon?
TGIF

james

Life After Death by PowerPoint 2012 by Don McMillan

What is a good powerpoint presentation????  What do you think?
see you on Friday

What Next For Republicans?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20229745

I saw this video on BBC news and I found it interesting. It explains briefly the reasons for Mitt Romney's failure to the US presidential elections.

Damien

Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Learn almost anything for free

Humm.... do you know this site!   I wonder what you would like to learn here?

Have a good week!
james

What Will Swing the Swing States? - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

What Will Swing the Swing States? - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com: What Will Swing the Swing States?

"As the country continues to entrust its presidential choice to voters in a handful of tossup states, watching results on election night can be boiled down to a few key constituencies, strategies, trends and bellwethers. Here’s how to judge what voters in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and the other tossups are deciding about the future of all of us – as the votes come in."

Please send me your "Butler" endings, and your next "Picture present".  Have a good week!
james

Electing a US President | Common Craft

Electing a US President | Common Craft

Do you know the Common Craft tutorials?  I thought this one was very pertinent!

See you soon!
james

Chris Rock's Message For White Voters On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' In Brooklyn (VIDEO)

Chris Rock's Message For White Voters On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' In Brooklyn (VIDEO)

I thought you might enjoy this!  The elections are on Tuesday!

have a good week
james

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight | Video on TED.com: Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

We spoke about this TED talk today in class after visiting with Caroline and learning about her factoids!

Please leave a comment if you watch it....  What's your reaction... Is she too melodramatic?
Have a good vacation!

james

Welcome!

Welcome to the Team Blog for our Friday (very) Advanced CCC (cross-cultural connections) Class

I've invited everyone to be a member... once you accept I'll make everyone admins so that you have more power to change the layout, add widgets, etc.

On the right side of the blog's layout I'll  add a widget of "Great Links" with:

•  a link to a shared GoogleDoc that we can use to keep the minutes of our sessions --what we do and what vocabulary we want to remember.
• a link to the BlogThis! shortcut you can put in the menu bar of your browser.
• other great links as we get them... for example to the Smith Moodle that we'll use later.
• maybe a document with all your intros... or Butler endings...

More soon...

Don't be a lurker...  Do it! Share something with the group.

see you soon in a classroom near you!

james