FREE BEER!

Sarah from The Daily English Show tells us all about FREE Beer! Yay!

Transcription here (if you can focus)

Running for President

The Glass House

In this Cool Hunting video RISD president John Maeda narrates a visit to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Maeda shares his impressions and talks about how it relates to his thoughts on simplicity.

Summer Tips No.5 - Office massage

If you're working in the office this summer, take some time to relax with a quick massage. Here's a video from The Guardian to show you how. Watch here

Summer tips no.4 - Summer dictionary

Here's a great way to carry a whole lot of dictionaries with you - so if you are going on holiday to different countries and you don't want to fill your suitcase with heavy books, put this site in your browser favourites and don't fill your laptop with big files either.

Check out WordReference.com here

Summer tips no.3 - Summer listening

Podictionary is a short, free podcast with a transcription available daily or weekly.

Charles Hodgson, creator of Podictionary says,

"Every day podictionary delivers a new short story about the history of a common word to thousands of subscribed listeners.

Not only is podictionary an audio word-a-day, but as the number of words grows in the podictionary archive the website is becoming an on-line audio etymology reference of sorts.

It's all for fun, so please enjoy."

Check out Podictionary here

Technorati Tags: Charles Hodgson, e-learning, education, English, language learning, listening, podcast, Podictionary

Summer tips no.2 - Summer research

The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology. Check it out here.

Technorati Tags: University of Michigan School of Information , education, Internet, Internet Public Library, Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology

Summer tips no.1 - Summer reading

This week I'm going to be posting about some resources you can use to continue practising English over the summer. The first of these is a List of Online Archives for Free Unabridged Books Online posted at Diploma Guide

Now there is no excuse for not having something to read in English this summer...


This

My day

Sarah from The Daily English Show describes a day. Transcript here

Spain United?

The Obsever thinks that success in the Euro 2008 competition is uniting Spain. Read the story here

Back to the future?

Fashionable Technology

by cool hunting

Digital education

by http://t4.jordandistrict.org/payatten...

Rafting in Niseko Japan

Sarah from The Daily English Show takes us rafting in Niseko. Transcription here

How to nap

The Boston Globe has published a very useful guide to napping. Read it here

Lisa Kereszi shoots Governer's Island

Cool Hunting shot photographer Lisa Kereszi at Governer's Island, New York.

Slow Road

Sarah from The Daily English Show puts a song by Steven Dunston to footage of the Road To Hokkaido

Social Media in Plain English

Common Craft do it again!

The Power of the Imaginative Mind

Ken Robinson speaks at the Apple Education Leadership Summit

Minneapolis Architecture

Cool Hunting report on the Minneapolis architecture scene

Helvetica - the documentary

A film about a typeface? Watch Neville Brody & Rick Poyner talk about Helvetica

I Will Derive

Think maths is boring? Check out this video by MindofMatthew which I found on Jenny Luca's blog Lucacept.   Read the lyrics here (click on "more info").

Welcome to the world of chemistry

Open Yale Courses

Yale University is putting entire courses online which can be studied for free. Check out this great initiative here.

London Secrets

Hitchcock Leytonstone London Underground Mosaics - The Skin Game, originally uploaded by Annie Mole.

If you're going to London soon check out this Guardian guide by top London bloggers and discover some "secret" places in the city.

How to REALLY learn English

Knightwise is a Belgian geek and media producer. He also speaks great English. In a video conversation on seesmic I asked if he could share English learning experiences. This video is his reply. Take note because Knightwise explains his secrets and serves as an ispiration to language learners everywhere.

Video conversations

Banannieannnie asks "What is the future of video conversation?"

testing Britannica

Podcasting in Plain English - subtitled version

Here is the English subtitled version of the excellent Podcasting in Plain English from Common Craft

Click here for a transcription

Podcasting in Plain English

Another excellent video from Common Craft