Conferences
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
- Sophie's World: Writing Paragraphs
- Evolution: Listening comprehension
- Evolution of Attraction: Integrated Speaking
- Biographies and Character Descriptions (in prep)
- The Unspoken Language: 1 Short Stories
- The Unspoken Language: 2 The Plays
- Imagery in Haikus: Compound Nouns
- Introduction to Gaia Theory: Reading Comprehension
- Gaia: Daisyworld - Line Graphs
- James Lovelock and The Revenge of Gaia: Creating a Synthesis 1
- Poverty and War in the Sudan - Describing processes
- Sympathetic Magic & The Cargo Cult: Creating a Synthesis 2:
- Obama's rhetoric: Language of debates
Science and Ethics
- Connections - lateral thinking
- Social Responsibility of Scientists - Reading and discussion
- * Student Reactions and Comments
- *Gerard Toulouse Responds to PHELMA Students
- Why save biodiversity?
- Instrumental Value
- Intrinsic Value (in prep.)
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Nature - A New Zealand Case Study - Reading and Discussion
- Water Ethics: The Aral Sea
- Spirit, Intuition and the "Mystically Tone Deaf" - Relative clauses (in prep.)
- The Pugwash Movement: Anthropology 101 and Waging Peace Listening Comprehension - The third conditional
- The Tragedy of the Commons - Reading comprehension and discussion
- The Tao of Pooh -Reading Non-Fiction
- Siddhartha - Reading a Novel
- The Timeless Way of Building - Reading Non-Fiction -chapter notes (in prep.)
- Chimpanzee Violence and Torture - Essay topic
Grammar and Vocabulary Links
- Verb tenses - Englishpage.com
- Guide to Grammar and Writing Index - by Charles Darling - Sponsored by Capital Community College Foundation
- Webster's-Merriam Dictionary
- Giving instructions - Making an origami paper crane
- 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
- Ariadne's Thread
- Primitive Art
- Girl with Pearl Earring - Modal verbs of speculation - Hypotheses
- Plato and The World of Perfect Ideas
- Our Responses to Beauty
- Cultural Evolution and the Paranormal - Susan Blackmore responds to students .
- An Introduction to Epigenetic Rules -The Savanna Hypothesis. Super-normal Stimuli. The Picasso Effect.
- The Biology of Comedy
- Biology of Attraction
- "Nice Guys Finish First" -The Theory and Language of Negotiations -( in prep.)
Shakespeare
Part 3 Soliya - Grenoble
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)
Cates, K.A ( 1998) Teaching for a Better World - Global Issues and Language Education. HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION IN ASIAN SCHOOLS Vol. 5, pp.41-52 - HURIGHTS OSAKA
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
© All Copyright, 2007, Ray Genet - Please feel free to use any of this material only acknowledge the source.
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.