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Did You Know 4.0 – Shift Happens
Posted by: gimster on: September 26, 2009
Facts from the UN’s HDR 2007/2008
Posted by: gimster on: February 25, 2008
The following are ‘Global Political, Economic, and Social Facts’ extracted from the UN’s Human Development Report 2007/2008 by the Infoplease website.
In the last two decades, political and civil rights have improved substantially throughout the [...]
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: January 24, 2008
‘Good artists copy; great artists steal.’
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), Spanish painter and sculptor
For discussions started using this quote, see this article or this one.
The Davos Question 08
Posted by: gimster on: January 21, 2008
‘What one thing do you think countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better placed in 2008?’ – on YouTube
Paulo Coelho’s Video Appeal for the Davos Question:
A response from ned.com
Find out more and check out the other responses on YouTube. ‘The highest-rated videos [...]
Clever Unicef Posters
Posted by: gimster on: January 16, 2008
- In: Ethics| Globalisation| The media| Youth
- 4 Comments
Found on this site.
Learn more Unicef’s work against child labour here.
More ‘fun’ ads on this blog.
‘Web 2.0 in under 5 minutes’
Posted by: gimster on: January 3, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
An Inconvenient Truth
Posted by: gimster on: July 3, 2007
Have you seen the Oscar-winning documentary?
Read the range of reviews and user’s comments at metacritic.com
Check out the film’s website
While watching the movie (three times and counting), I drew this mind map:
which I exported in PDF format
and Jpeg,
using Freemind
Let me know if you want the mind map in the freemind format so [...]
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: May 24, 2007
‘Today, over 27,000 children died around the world. This daily tragedy, from poverty and other preventable causes, rarely makes headline news.’
- Global Issues
Getting Started in Second Life
Posted by: gimster on: March 30, 2007
Followed the the link on the Second Life Education page <http://secondlife.com/businesseducation/education.php> and downloaded Proceedings of the Second Life Education Workshop at the Second Life Community Convention San Francisco
August 20th, 2006. This document contains several papers, including ‘Pathfinder Linden’s Guide to Getting Started in Second Life’, which seems to be just what I need for [...]
The Corporation – Some issues presented
Posted by: gimster on: March 1, 2007
Some of my pupils will be viewing The Corporation. Here are some of the issues presented in the video, as delineated by the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education in its teacher resources for the film (available on the Web site for the film):
Labour practices in developing countries – while some argue that paying [...]
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: February 8, 2007
‘If we can’t criticize religion anymore, there will be no women’s rights, no birth control and no gay rights.’
Philippe Val, publisher of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which reprinted the Danish cartoons that provoked a Muslim backlash a year ago
Source: Time.com
Russians
Posted by: gimster on: September 25, 2006
In Europe and America,
There’s a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you
I don’t subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too
How can I save [...]
Photo essays
Posted by: gimster on: May 7, 2006
‘Photography may have the power to inform, but I think it has very little power to change things’.
- Thomas Hoepker, photographer,
in his photo essay entitled ‘World of Changes’ on Magnum Photos
Yet another teaching/learning resource found via Slate.com.
For instance, there are these shocking pictures in a slideshow format, accompanied by gutwrenching audio commentary and a [...]
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day
Posted by: gimster on: May 2, 2006
The observance of World Press Freedom Day started in 1993 with the proclamation by the UN General Assembly (source).
Throughout the world, 3 May serves as an occasion to inform the public of violations of the right to freedom of expression and as a reminder that many journalists brave death or jail to bring people their [...]
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: April 26, 2006
'Novels are a place where we exfoliate our souls with the rough edges of life'.
- Lev Grossman, in his scathing review of This Book Will Save Your Life in TIME magazine (May 1, 2006)
Singapore and the Internet
Posted by: gimster on: April 22, 2006
A whole lot of data about Singapore and the Internet.
Number of Internet Users
2.4 million, as of September 2005. Number of broadband subscribers – 392 thousand, as of December 2003. (Source)
Population
4.4 million. Singapore residents – 3.6 million. (Source)
For Internet usage and population over time, see this page.
Internet penetration rate
Singapore ranks 11th (67.2%) on this list updated [...]
A spot of fame, and a look back
Posted by: gimster on: April 20, 2006
According to the blog stats chart, this blog had 309 hits for the 24-hour period starting from 8AM (Singapore time) yesterday. The threefold increase from the previous record of 106 is in no small part due to Mr Miyagi's very kind feature of The General Paper in his column in TODAY (linked here for the [...]
Rules of political rhetoric for the new media in Singapore
Posted by: gimster on: April 15, 2006
It seems that there are a few similarities in the rules of rhetoric for writing in GP and political propaganda in Singapore. In this (free) article on the Straits Times Interactive, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang explains why the streaming of explicit political content through podcasts or videocasts is [...]
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: April 7, 2006
'It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.'
Mark Twain, 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar' in Following the Equator
Natalie Portman on the definition of terrorism
Posted by: gimster on: April 5, 2006
In a Time magazine article (March 13) discussing the movie V for Vendetta, Israeli-born Natalie Portman is reported to express hope that the movies will encourage debate about the definition of terrorism. She 'name-checks', among others, Gandhi, Elie Wiesel, Menachem Begin, George Washington and the Maccabees. And
She points out, quite correctly, that the question of [...]
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