My thoughts about Education Humanities, Technology and Digital Culture. Interested on social media tools in educational contexts and
gamification in education.
"Animation is cinema. It's not a genre for kids. It's a medium,"
Guillermo Del Toro, in Golden Globes 2023
And the Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro who reinvented the classic tale Pinocchio the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto take the Golden Globe for best animated motion picturea first in the category for a streaming serviceduring last night’s ceremony.
Del Toro in his speech saluted the work of the crew and cast saying:
"We gave life and beauty and truth to a tale about life, loss and belonging.”
As I wrote, animated movies are excellent educational digital resources to motivate and inspire your students to read and breathe new life into your curriculum!
However, as Del Toro said, "animation is not a gender for kids, it's a medium", teachers decide carefullywhich students or level they are teaching. And pay attention to age.
Hopping you would like to review my publications of November and will continue to follow me on my blog or on may page on Facebook.
Wherever you are I hope that you're having a safe time at school in-person lessons. Perhaps you don't need to teach on remote learning. After tremendous floods on the block, the sun is back for some days?!
Take care. Enjoy your life and profession. We are teachers for better and for worst. Students need teachers and now they do love school time after so two years of Covid-19.
Chez Lello, l'une des 10 plus belles libraries du monde, visitée par centaines de touristes de tout le monde, on a célébré le démarrage du Centenaire Agustina
Le Principe de l'Incertitude, traduit do roman O Princípio da Incerteza est l'un des romans de Agustina Bessa-Luís qu'on peut lire en français
O Princípio da Incerteza
Jóia de Família
Agustina Bessa-Luís
Guimarães Editores
Et l'un des plsieurs romans de l'auteure adapté au cnéma par le grand cinéaste portugais Manoel de Oliveira, et l'un des cinéastes européens plus célébré.
Agustina Bessa-Luis est originaire du nord du pays, dans une ville près de Porto, Amarante, tandis que Saramago vient de Santarém, dans le sud duPortugal.
Agustina connait son premier grand succès d’écriture à 32 ans, avec La Sibylle. Dès lors, elle ne cessera d’écrire des romans fouillant les logiques sentimentales et sociales des siècles passés et souvent le rôle des femmes du nord.
José Saramago, lui, ne connaîtra que sur le tard le succès avec ses œuvres de fiction, dans lesquelles il revisite l’histoire portugaise, ainsi du XVIIIe siècle dans Le Dieu Manchot, mais aussi l’histoire religieuse de façon résolument irrévérencieuse, par exemple dans L’évangile selon Jésus-Christ.
Deux des plus grands écrivains de la littérature portugaise qu'il faut bien lire et travailler en cours de littérature européenne, par exemple.
Invitez vos éléves à visiter le site officiel du Centenaire Agustina Bessa-Luís (en Portugais) et recueillir des informations sur la biographie, et bibliographie, ansi que des activités sur l'écrivaine portugaise, une des plus importantes de la littérature portugaise et connue dans plusieurs pays. Agustina Bessa-Luís n'a pas eu le Noble de la Littérature comme José Saramago. Mais elle le méritait aussi bien.
Lire un/deux livres selon le niveau d'apprentissage de vos élèves. Essayez de trouver des traductions en français ou alors lire en langue portugaise à l'aide du/de la professeur.e de langue et littérature.
Pour le lycée, ajoutez des activités plus avancées: lire un livre ou deux de chaque écrivain, voir des films d'après quelques livres de Saramago ou Bessa-Luís.
Faire une analyse comparative de deux écrivains dont le centenaire est célébré. Et finir par un commentaire écrit, une présentation YouTube.
The Geminid meteor shower is one of the last major showers of the year. In 2022, the
Geminid meteor shower will peak on 13-14 December.
Usually,
as many as 150 meteors per hour can be seen in the show, which makes it among
the best of the year for actually spotting a meteor.
This
year, the brightness of the Moon will have a slightly diminishing effect, with NASA predicting between 30-40 meteors per hour.
“Don’t
miss the annual Geminids meteor shower,” NASA
tweeted.
Geminids facts:
Together with
the Quadrantids, the Geminids are the only major meteor showers not
originating from a comet.
The beautiful streaks we
see in the night sky can actually be caused by particles as small as a
grain of sand!
Geminids were first
observed in 1862, much more recently than other showers such as the Perseids and Leonids.
The Geminids are thought
to be intensifying every year.
Geminid meteor shower chart for 2022
via EarthSky
"Notice that the Geminids’ radiant point,
and the moon, are close together in Earth’s sky. But there’s still a window of
darkness between the time the radiant rises in mid-evening, and the moon rises around
midnight. That’s the time to watch for meteors this week.
EarthSky
Nearest moon
phase: In 2022, last quarter moon falls on December 16.
So, it’s a bright waning gibbous moon that’ll rise in the
midst of the Geminids’ peak in 2022.
When to watch:
The usual advice is that it’s best to get away from buildings and other
sources of light to watch the meteor shower. In many places, at this kind of
year, that’s going to be very difficult, given the weather. For Portugal, it
wil be very difficult because we have a severe weather this week.
All is not lost for others countries! Notice the rising time of the
Geminids’ radiant
point. The constellation Gemini is up by mid-evening
in December. And moonrise isn’t until later, shortly before midnight, on the
evenings of both December 13 and 14. And the moon rises later on December 14,
providing more time for meteor-watching.
The peak time of night is around 2 a.m. for all parts of the globe.
Both evenings – December 13 and 14 – are worth a try! I wish you will be
lucky
You can still view Geminids just before or after this date, but the last
opportunity is on December 17.
I'm not a Sciences teachers. I'm Humanities and Arts teacher. But, I'm very attracted to Astronomy science.
The Geminids, along with thePerseids in August, are the two most active annual meteor showers. They can always be relied upon to put on a good show.
European schools are still working for a few days. Using smartphones, students will need a cable release chord. Luckily they can actually use their iPhone headphones' cable volume button to activate the shutter. And they also need an app designed to take long exposure photos.
Sciences curriculum will be enhanced with this awesome event! The Geminids meteor shower.
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