Monday, May 16, 2016

Red-winged blackbird from The Birds of America (1827-1828) by John James Audubon


After a while she looks up and says, "What did you see?"
 "There was a whole flock of red-winged blackbirds. They rose up suddenly when we went by."
"Oh."
"I was happy to see them again. They tie things together, thoughts and such. You know?"
She thinks for a while and then, with the trees behind her a deep green, she smiles. She understands a peculiar language which has nothing to do with what you are saying. A daughter.
"Yes," she says. "They’re beautiful."
"Watch for them," I say.
"All right."
 

From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (1974, p.9)

Friday, September 29, 2006

Table of Contents









Conferences



Debate conference "ETHICS and RESPONSIBILITY" Brest, ENSTA Bretagne, 6th April 2011, 13h15

BEFORE QUESTIONNAIRE (to come)

PHELMA/ENSIETA Student Public Conference - Why bother with ethics? 2 April 2009 - 1:30-6:30 pm - amphi Jean Besson - Campus - St. Martin d'Heres *ENSIMAG Student Reactions

PHELMA Student Public Conference: Let's speak science and ethics 13 November 2008: * Student Reviews and Responses

Part One
  1. Sophie's World: Writing Paragraphs

  2. Evolution: Listening comprehension

  3. Evolution of Attraction: Integrated Speaking

  4. Biographies and Character Descriptions (in prep)

  5. The Unspoken Language: 1 Short Stories

  6. The Unspoken Language: 2 The Plays

  7. Imagery in Haikus: Compound Nouns

  8. Introduction to Gaia Theory: Reading Comprehension

  9. Gaia: Daisyworld - Line Graphs

  10. James Lovelock and The Revenge of Gaia: Creating a Synthesis 1

  11. Poverty and War in the Sudan - Describing processes

  12. Sympathetic Magic & The Cargo Cult: Creating a Synthesis 2:

  13. Obama's rhetoric: Language of debates



Science and Ethics





  1. Verb tenses - Englishpage.com

  2. Guide to Grammar and Writing Index - by Charles Darling - Sponsored by Capital Community College Foundation

  3. Webster's-Merriam Dictionary

  4. Giving instructions - Making an origami paper crane

  5. NAL Grammar: Time Travel - Verb tenses , Race Relations in France - Definite Articles ; Latinate and French words in English (in prep)





Part Two - Science and Culture - Seminar Topics

  1. Ariadne's Thread

  2. Primitive Art

  3. Girl with Pearl Earring - Modal verbs of speculation - Hypotheses

  4. Plato and The World of Perfect Ideas

  5. Our Responses to Beauty

  6. Cultural Evolution and the Paranormal - Susan Blackmore responds to students .

  7. An Introduction to Epigenetic Rules -The Savanna Hypothesis. Super-normal Stimuli. The Picasso Effect.

  8. The Biology of Comedy

  9. Biology of Attraction

  10. "Nice Guys Finish First" -The Theory and Language of Negotiations -( in prep.)


Shakespeare



  1. Twelfth Night

  2. Romeo and Juliet

  3. Hamlet




Part 4 Environmental Concerns




Global Warming Links






WMD Links:









Part 5 Biology



Part 6 English for ECE

Vocabulary building for toddlers



Ethics and Sustainability links:




Language and Civil Society - Sustained Content Course Material for ESL and Peace Studies - US State Department


GILE Global Issues in Language Education - Global (International ) Education through content based language teaching. Special Interest Group of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teachers)




The Natural Edge Project (TNEP) - Australian NGO devoted to contributing and communicating sustainable solutions - involves policy and education.


Ingenieurs du Monde - Developmental NGO - making a better world through sharing technology.




Photos from Flickr

Lotus by Bahman Farzad
blue marble (planet earth) by woodleywonderworks

References
Genet, Ray (2010) Case Study: Soliya Connect Programme at ENSIMAG, France (pp.399-411), in Helm, F and Guth, E (eds) Telecollaboration 2.0 for Language and Intercultural Learning. Peter Lang Publishing Group, Bern, Switzerland

© All Copyright, 2007, Ray Genet  - Please feel free to use any of this material only acknowledge the source.