Visas for entrepreneurs: Where creators are welcome | The Economist

Visas for entrepreneurs: Where creators are welcome | The Economist:

Where creators are welcome
--Australia, Canada and even Chile are more open than America

Hummm... looks like it's hard to get a visa for the States!

have a great summer

james

Jay Walker on the world's English mania | Video on TED.com

Jay Walker on the world's English mania | Video on TED.com:

Jay Walker talks about all kinds of manias! Especially English mania!
Do students of English in China really practice like they show in the video???  I wonder?? Maybe Jiayang can give us more information.

all the best

james

The Road not Taken - Robert Frost (by Alan Bates) - YouTube

The Road not Taken - Robert Frost (by Alan Bates) - YouTube:

one of the poems....  (being used in a commercial!)

Dennis Hopper IF - YouTube

Dennis Hopper IF - YouTube:
Dennis Hopper IF

the Kipling Poem...

A Taste of TED2012 - YouTube

A Taste of TED2012 - YouTube:

Here's a 4-minute video presenting the Ted conferences....

enjoy

james

Words are fun

This is a nice cartoon I found the other day.

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com:

"The author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some large topics."

How can you be creative?? How can you be more creative?  How can you "think outside the box"?
Does an engineer need to be creative???
You can watch this with subtitles if you wish... (English subtitles of course!)
What do you think?
please leave a comment.

see you soon
james

Creativity Top 5: April 17, 2012 - Top 5 - Creativity Online

Creativity Top 5: April 17, 2012 - Top 5 - Creativity Online

more adverts and commercials from the same site!  what do you think?  which is your favorite? the button in the Belgian town?

have a good long weekend!
james

Getty Images: From Love to Bingo - Video - Creativity Online

Getty Images: From Love to Bingo - Video - Creativity Online

telling a story with pictures....

Beat your kids

Here is a stand-up comedy that I found pretty funny. It's from a guy named Russell Peters and he has some good shows that you might want to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMLr5tOjF3A&feature=related

A poem like you've never heard

Hello guys!

Today James shared with us a paper with few poems. As I know you would like to read or hear more poems after reading these poems, I decided to share with all of you a poem that a woman read during a ted talks show. It's about war, peace, women, power. In brief, it's full of emotions and I hope that the peace-lovers that you are will like it. Just click on the link below to start enjoying, maybe crying (for the persons who are very sensitives).

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/suheir_hammad_poems_of_war_peace_women_power.html

Have a nice weekend!

hy.. as i promised you, james, i will put the link for the movie Parada. I recomande it to everyone, its in serbian and croatian, but there is subtitle to download.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GQmIRQBdLg
http://torrentz.eu/search?f=parada

have a good weekend :)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Sorry guys for being so inspired this week but I almost cried seeing this video.... ooooh good infancy!!!!


See you Wednesday!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hFjwbKMlmF4#!

hy :) do u like games???  I like this one really a lot. its fun :)
http://gamestolearnenglish.com/hangman/

Have you ever wondered why?!!?

Hello All,


This 12-year old girl explains why Canada is in debt...
A very good speech....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bx5Sc3vWefE#!

Have a good weekend!

South Park: Matt and Trey Speak Out, Part 1 - IGN

South Park: Matt and Trey Speak Out, Part 1 - IGN

this is a  bit old but still should be interesting for the South Park fans among us!

have a good long weekend!

james

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs 1 - EnglishCentral.com

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs 1 - EnglishCentral.com

Here are some Steve Jobs presentation techniques presented on EnglishCentral.com...

This is a great website for you to practice speaking! It'll record, evaluate and let you compare your intonation and speech with the original.  Try it! it's great fun... and of course there are many videos for you to choose from.

More soon

ZIG ZAG - Portes ouvertes des ateliers d’artistes de Gentilly - 2012

ZIG ZAG - Portes ouvertes des ateliers d’artistes de Gentilly - 2012

Of course my students are invited too... but don't come on Friday! Saturday or Sunday afternoon is fine!  By the way, the 57 bus stops in front of my door... (the "rue d'Arcueil" bus stop) otherwise it's 10 minutes from the back exit of the RER Gentilly.

james

CV Tips | Jobs & Careers Magazine

CV Tips | Jobs & Careers Magazine

There's some good info on this site....  also about what Google is looking for...

Looking forward to hearing Yann and Florent tomorrow...  and hearing more about the books you're reading!

see you tomorrow

james

Indeed it is...

Make It Your Own - YouTube

Make It Your Own - YouTube: A Documentary by Alex Brodsky and Chloe Prasinos



Chloe and I thought you might enjoy watching this little documentary about life in a dorm room at Skidmore!   (And she made it in her freshman year!)

Have a good vacation... read your books!

james

Video of the Week

Hi!!

I found this video really interresting, I hope you will enjoy it.
It may be the new university of ParisTech.

Click here

See you tomorow

Guillaume

Blurb of Last Bys to Woodstock by Colin Dexter

I've just shared the blurb of the book a had read in the semester: Last Bus to Woodstock.

It is an excellent book with an intricate story. I totally recommend it!

(On the right side : Good links -> Book blurbs to share!)

Have a good weekend.

Oussama

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Did you see this yesterday?
Did you have a happy April Fools Day?

james

Sweden moving towards cashless economy

Is the future coming?!?!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57399610/sweden-moving-towards-cashless-economy/

Have a good weekend!!!

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success | Video on TED.com

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success | Video on TED.com:

Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither.


You might want to look at his bio.

KONY 2012

Hi everybody,

If you have checked your Facebook in the past 4 days, you have likely seen dozens of reposts of Kony 2012 from a humanitarian group named Invisible Children. if you don't have a Facebook account you can see it now.

I found the video too simplistic and too naive, featuring young people who will save the world. A true American production!

But beyond this critical comment on the form, I think that the advantage of this video is to let us discover Joseph Kony (if like me, you don't know him before) and the atrocities he is committing in Uganda.

I think this video will not leave you indifferent!

Have a good viewing, and feel free to respond and react.

The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdldABYWHEY

Top 100 Movie Moments - IGN

Top 100 Movie Moments - IGN:
What do you think?  Which movies make the top of the list?  Do you agree?
See you on Wednesday.
james

Compiling a list of the 100 Greatest Movie Moments may be the most difficult and divisive feature we've ever tackled here at IGN. Everyone has their personal favourites, with no two the same it would seem. We therefore laboured long and hard over the hot one-hundred, casting our net far and wide to craft a list that encompasses the very best that cinema has to offer.

Prezi Workflow in 15 minutes

Does everyone know about ZUIs?  Zoomable User Interfaces???
Do you remember seeing Prezi presentations?
Can Prezi replace PowerPoint for you?
What are the advantages? Disadvantages? Do bad Prezi's make you sea sick?
(But don't bad powerpoints put you to sleep?)

Here's a little guide to using Prezi...

Prezi Workflow in 15 minutes by Adam Somlai-Fischer on Prezi: "Prezi Workflow in 15 minutes
How to use Prezi - Interface and workflow"

What do you think?  How about leaving a comment?

See you soon.
james

speech jammer

have a look:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/03/01/speechjammer-speech-squelching-device_n_1314315.html

TEDxESCP 2012 - LiveStreaming

TEDxESCP 2012 - LiveStreaming

If you're free this afternoon and not at the ESCP you can still attend thanks to live streaming!

TEDx ESCP "Make the Difference"

hope you get to see it!

james

The Video of the Week

Hi!

I hope you finished the week as great as possible. This video made a lot of buzz on the internet a few weeks ago. I found it quite funny, I hope you will enjoy it.

But more seriously what do you think about the concept of these 2 Canadians? It could be provocative, couldn't it?

link to the video

Guillaume

Super Bowl 2012 sets US TV ratings record for third year running | Media | guardian.co.uk

Super Bowl 2012 sets US TV ratings record for third year running | Media | guardian.co.uk:

"Average of 111.3 million viewers watch New York Giants' last-gasp victory over New England Patriots"

Did you see the game?
Did you see Madonna during the half-time show miss the step?

(Or, even more fun for most of us, did you see the commercials?)

See you tomorrow....

Last class of S1. :-(

james

EnglishCentral.com

EnglishCentral.com Video: Jimmy Wales: "Wikipedia is by Volunteers and for Everyone":


Do you know this site? EnglishCentral.com?


It lets you practice s-p-e-a-k-ing. There's lots of video for you to work with. It lets you record and gives you a score and you can even compare what you say to the original!

Try it and let me know what you think!

have a good ski weekend!
james

happy new year!

Happy New year everybody! Did you have dun this vacation? Well at least I hope that you spent some time with family or friends, I feel that this year is going to be a good one :)....but if you don't feel like me then at least remember: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0k3kHtyoqc&feature=youtube_gdata_player It's coming this year! See you in class!