Les mots surprise du "Petit Robert 2012"

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"Quand on fait du buzz en tweetant, y'a pas moyen de l'exptimer autrement"

Alain Rey, linguiste

Chaque année, les meilleurs experts de la langue de Molière recalent des centaines de mots à l’entrée du dictionnaire. 

Le Petit Robert est de l’une des institutions françaises les plus renommées.  Dans leurs crus 2012 le Robert Illustré & Dixel, papier et numérique, et le Petit Robert - déjà en vente - font la part belle aux mots nouveaux.

Dans son édition 2012, on y va découvrir des mots  tout à fait en usage social introduits par l'évolution des temps et de la société.

Des mots comme "vuvuzela" "stévia" "cougar" (anglicisme) "cagole" "cacou" (pas d'anglicisme mais du régionalisme), "tweet" "e-learing" "smartphone" et d'autres.

Eh bien! Pour "cougar" - une femme mûre qui recherche et séduit des hommes beaucoup plus jeunes - un anglicisme qui arrive droit des Etats-Unis, métaphore du mot  "couguar" (puma), qui va bondir les puristes de la langue française.

"Cagole" - jeune fille, jeune femme qui affiche une féminité provocante et vulgaire fait son entrée aux côtés du "cacou " - homme, jeune homme qui fait le fanfaron, qui se donne des airs de mauvais garçon - des régionalismes courants dans le Sud de la France. 

tweet | nouveau mot 

Le Petit Robert 2011

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Un bon nombre de mots issus des nouvelles technologies qui ont eux aussi fait leur entrée au 'panthéon' des mots. 

Ainsi en est-il du "tweet" et de son verbe "tweeter", mais également du "e-learning".

"Un court message informatif posté sur le Web par l’intermédiaire d’un service qui le transmet à des abonnés "- définition de tweet.

Pour le verbe "tweeter", Alain Rey, célèbre linguiste, conseiller éditorial de Robert a declaré sur Le Parisien:

"J’aimerais mieux que ce verbe soit formé sur une racine française, cela éviterait les erreurs d’orthographe".

Le "e-learning" - apprentissage, formation par le moyen d’Internet, débarque, lui, avec un préfixe anglo-saxon, "e", qui signifie "electronic". 

Le nombre d’anglicismes augmente chaque année, ce qui ne gêne pas le linguiste, à condition que ce ne soit pas un hybride, comme par exemple "l’e-commerce".

Des substantifs provençaux qui ont enfin droit à leur heure de gloire par souci de "rattrapage". 

"Pendant longtemps, on a complètement négligé les régionalismes", confirme le linguiste Alain Rey, encore dans les colonnes du Parisien. 

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Parmi les mots "exotiques" empruntés à d’autres cultures, on découvre en outre cette année, après l’avoir (un peu trop) entendue cet été dans les stades d’Afrique du Sud, la "vuvuzela". Selon le Robert Illustré, la "vuvuzela" est um "instrument à vent élémentaire produisant un seul son (si bémol)". 

Pauvre si bémol, dis-je!

Il y a encore la "stévia", la fameuse "plante d’Amérique du sud dont les feuilles ont un fort pouvoir sucrant", ainsi que le "matcha", le thé vert japonais utilisé dans la cérimonie du thé japonais et commee arôme dans les desserts. 

Enfin, les écolos salueront quant à eux l’arrivée du "composteur" tandis que les mamans reconnaîtront le "bisphénol", ce composé organique interdit depuis peu dans la fabrication des biberons car suspecté d’être toxique.

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Le Robert illustré & Dixel numérique est vendu avec une "clé d’accès" qui ressemble à une clé USB et qui permet de se connecter durant quatre ans au Dixel, le dictionnaire sur Internet.

"Le dictionnaire doit refléter les nouvelles habitudes de consommation" 

Alain Rey

Et, moi, je suis tout à fait d'accord! Les langues sont vivantes! 

«Les langues sont comme la mer, elles oscillent sans cesse.»

Victor Hugo

G-Souto

19.07.2011

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Reading Harry Potter : What now?

Harry Potter's world

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As one of the educators who teached the 1st generation who grew up with Harry Potter's saga, reading Harry Potter books in the classroom and going to the the theaters to see some Harry Potter movies with my students, I feel myself such a fan as the "Harry Potter's Gen". 

And why? Because they have growing up in my courses of Fiction and Poetry. We shared great moments in formal learning and non formal learning.  As an innovative educator, over the last several years I’ve explored online and blended learning options to my students.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

1st book of the saga

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Blended learning made it easier providing multiple learning strategies. The first elearning contents (2001) and PLN (2005) to Portuguese students in Secondary School - Languages curriculum - was mine.  

And first blogs in Education (2005): Portuguese (native language) and French (foreign langhuage to complete teaching an learning out of school.

I feel touched with the series over and all the events that are coming out. Yes, indeed. Harry Potter brought so many new young readers!

But, let's follow the last news! The release of the final film featuring "Harry Potter" the boy wizard is being treated as a momentous cultural event. You can remember here

July 13, it was the big day all almost all over the world! In Portugal, the big day was yesterday, July 14 and all sessions were completely sold out! 

Premiere in London

credits: Katherine Rose for the Observer

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July 13, it was the big world day for Harry Potter fans! In Portugal the big day was yesterday, July 14 and all sessions completely sold out! 

Excited fans spilled out of the lobby of cinemas, and into the streets near by. In Portugal, all the best cinemas are in the molls. Lots of fans around the lobby waiting for hours the 'premiere'.

Of course, I am going to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrous - part 2. Not now! I will wait for quite days.

14 years ago Harry Potter first captured our imaginations - my students' imagination and mine reading the first five books in the classroom.

Take a look back at Harry Potter's most memorable moments over the past ten years of Harry Potter's movies:

‎"You're a wizard, Harry." From the moment Hagrid whisked him away to Hogwarts on his 11th birthday, Harry has experienced the most magical adventures (some more dangerous than others), and we have been with him every step of the way.

The final chapter of the Harry Potter series may have been closed, but it looks like fans of the boy wizard can look forward to new adventures as author JK Rowling turns her hand to online news.

JK Rowling annoucement

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"I'm writing, and I've done quite a lot since finishing 'Harry,' " (...) "I also felt I wanted the last film out of the way before I made any moves on the publishing front. 'Harry' is so huge and I suppose my involvement with the world has still been quite intense. This feels like a new beginning to me."

JK Rowling

And there we are! Suddenly, one month before the final part of the series' adapatation, fans were suprised for a new project. 

First, Pottermore.com unveiled June, 16 and the wonderful countdown clock on YouTube

After Rowling announced via a web video that she will be opening Pottermore, an online website for fans that she described as "an online reading experience unlike any other."

Pottermore

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And Pottermore.com unveiled three special previews of one of the Pottermore chapters: 

• An introduction to Chapter 6: 'The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-Quarters' ; 

• Discovering some exclusive J.K. Rowling content ; 

• Preview New from J.K. Rowling here

Pottermore Insider

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Yesterday, July 14, on @pottermore the new unveiled: The Pottermore Insider: 

"Welcome to Pottermore’s official blog, the Pottermore Insider"

So, fans will have some more! For the moment, an official Pottermore wallpaper for fans' desktop, tablet or smartphone.

"It's kind of sad," remarks Charlotte, 14. Stephanie, 15, agrees: "We've grown up with these films."

Yes, one or two "Harry Potter's Gen" were grown up with the books and the movies' adaptation, but a new one will growing with the Harry Potter e-books. 

Pottermore

https://www.pottermore.com/

Education:


Students will be back to school later this summer. Educators have now wonderful resources to captivate students to read in school! 


Harry Potter saga : resources

• Books

• Movies

• Games

• e-Books 

and some more. Just can't wait for October!


This is the good aim of this post! The importance of reading in school! No matter the resources we choose and there are a good number to include into school curriculum in formal learning or informal learning.

J.K. Rowling

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The Potter movies weren't just an adaptation of a series of books, but a living, evolving collaborative phenomenon between pages and screen.


"The performance or display of a movie by teachers in a course of face-to-face teaching activities in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction like learning environment can be one of the most interesting educational resources for k-12 and junior high-school. 
It's a rich interactive approach of exploring Literature for children and youth. Students enjoy it a lot."


G.Souto

Harry Potter and the  Deathly Hallows (Part 2)

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Now, it's different. In school, we have the generations who watched the movies before reading the books. 


Even more! Next academic year, educators will have the first generation reading Harry Potter on web2! And, of course, as innovative educators you will not miss such a awesome interative resource.

My thoughts:

In the 90's, Harry Potter were the first books that contained a suitable number of pages and a good story to captivate young people really absorved into a book.

Diversity in children and adolescents' books had long been a complex issue. Since there, despite good  efforts and some big strides forward in the years before, children's books remained disappointingly short of enough culturally diverse stories.

So this is about some very well-known books. It makes a change to the sort of books teachers normally read in their lessons.


Harry Potter final books contain some gothic elements, such as an atmosphere of mystery and suspense, some unexplicable events, supernatural creatures and ocurrences such as prophecies and visions. Young people love it!


"Potter heptalogy, the 'archetypal' modern gothic novel, with an orphan who fulfills a prophecy and gradually develops his magic powers comes from two things: the Cornish landscapes, which are very similar to those around Hogwarts. Secondly and bove all, three larger-than-life characters cannot have a place in a conventional realistic novel."


And movies! Displaying a movie in a face-to-face lesson, or going to the movies with a class allows to explore the incredible adventure of 3D before reading the books.

Don't underestimate the power of magic of reading in the classroom with your students appealing to all the captivating resources we have now.

Resources for Teachers:

"Harry Potter saga in the classroom!": you will find several posts on this blog (for teachers) And in other two blogs (for students): BlogdosCaloiros (Portuguese native language) and BlogSkidz (French foreign language) two different blogs created to my students exploring educational digital resources in and out the school.

The great Harry Potter viewing marathon, The Guardian | Culture

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011

The importance of reading in the school

http://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2011

Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton in the classroom

http://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2010

Games in Schools

http://games.eun.org/2009

Amis moldus testez vos connaissances sur l'univers d'Harry Potter (quiz)

http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/quiz

Harry Potter and the A-Z of Magic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/

Harry Potter | Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter

Harry Potter Wiki

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/

"Dans quinze ans, des critiques de cinéma quadragénaires qui ont connu leurs premiers émois en voyant L'Ecole des sorciers établiront de rigoureux classements qui diront les mérites respectifs de Harry Potter, du Seigneur des anneaux et de Transformers. Les élèves de Poudlard devraient y figurer honorablement."


Lemonde.fr | Cinéma

"Rowling has shown superhuman strength in transcending this and ignoring the constant belittling of her talent from jealous peers. She has paid her success forward as a patron, activist and philanthropist. In her wake is a generation of writers creating brilliant young adult fantasy series."


The Guardian | News

G-Souto


15.07.2011
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Music as social inclusion for people with disabilities : U2

Bono |U2 & Adam Bevell

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As an educator, I really can feel how important this kind of actions are for young people with disabilities: social, physical or intellectual.

Roger Waters had a wonderful attitude in Lisbon! Before coming to a concert, he asked for the presence of a project of social inclusion for kids to be with onto stage during his concert, last April 1, 2011. And it was fantastic to watch the enthusiasm of those kids. Please read here

Bono |U2 & Adam Bevell

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Now, Bono and U2 made the same! During Nashville concert, Bono invited a 32-year old blind fan onto the stage to play a song with U2.

Admitting he was nervous, Bevell took the guitar and played U2's "All I Want is You", and was joined on vocals by Bono, and then by the entire band.

“It took me a second," Bevell told a the Sun Herald, "I had no idea what was going on because in my mind they had left and walked off. I had no idea Bono was still there. Instantly, I was lifted over that front rail and hoisted on stage by the security guards. Before I knew it, I could hear Bono’s voice saying, ‘what do you want to play man?’

The video has been posted on several YouTube accounts, and one comment left on the video below seems to give some context to the situation: 

"This is our good friend Adam Bevell of Mesa, Arizona. He is always playing or listening to U2. He's been to tons of concerts like 12 -13 or more, this was a life long dream of his!"

After the performance, Bono gave Bevell his guitar - a very rare green Gretsch Irish Falcon - and said to the young man to keep it.

Watch now the video below:

Education:

My goal is to show educators, parents and fellows that inclusion is possible for kids and citizens with disabilities and highlight actionable opportunities in the different curricula in school or in the different acts in society  and Citizenship organisations. (...)

Music, Sports are offering good experiences for inclusion. I wrote several posts about it. Please search on this blog.

In this case, the holistic immersive approach of music (rock, pop, classical) and the engagement of important and experienced musicians is central to achieving significant transformation, particularly to the lives of the most vulnerable children and citizens.

As Anthony Laken chief executive UNICEF said during Special Olympics 2011:

"These kids, or citizens are denied the right to become productive members of their societies, which is a loss to the societies as well as the kids and citizens,”

(adapted quote)

G-Souto

14.07.2011

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