videotorium.hu The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix Earlier this week, Oxford's Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful. Not to be outdone, the British Library came out with its own announcement on Thursday: We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of. The librarians behind the project freely admit that they don't exactly have a great handle on the images in the collection. Related Content:
The Travelling Teachers Are you planning a trip abroad? Do you need English to communicate? Let's revise some vocabulary! For many of us it's time for travelling, some are going abroad and need to revise some vocabulary and expressions... In this post I have just put together some resources about the basic English vocabulary for travelling. Vocabulary about travel: Talking about travel Airport vocabulary: At the airport Vocabulary and expressions about hotels, rooms and accomodation: At the hotel Checking into a hotel Vocabulary about restaurants and eating out: At the restaurant Ordering at a restaurant Vocabulary about shopping: Going shopping Vocabulary and expressions about directions: Asking for directions
Tim Roda’s Hidden Father: A father draws from his past to create images with his family (PHOTOS). Tim Roda, courtesy DanielCooneyFine Art, New York The black-and-white family photos that make up Tim Roda’s series “Hidden Father” were, for the most part, taken with an old Minolta 35mm camera, the same model Roda’s father had used. It might not seem to be an important detail, but it is significant since Roda’s work is often rooted in family history and domestic life coupled with his attraction to more traditional forms of photography, specifically the film negative. Like Roda’s other work, “Hidden Father” explores the role of the father and the son’s relationship within the family. The title of the work is a reference to the “Hidden Mother” portraits of the Victorian age when mothers would disguise themselves as props within the portraits so only their baby would appear in the final image. Roda said that when he was a child his introduction to making art began with his imagination and creating things with whatever happened to be around.
#5 Mr. X's Amazing Day (Low) 5 - Mr. X's Amazing Day. This truly is a Canned lesson. About daily routines and basic verbs expressing daily habits. The goal is for students to create a minibook at the end. Colour and show some self expression and "product pride" in their own learning. It's called Mr. 1. 2. Then in some other classes (but this might take a few classes) SHARE. There you go, you have Mr. theconversation Kim Kardashian has made headlines again for a selfie. And this time it’s not in the Daily Mail – no, instead it’s Jonathan Jones, the Guardian’s art critic, whose recent piece celebrates Kardashian and “the power of the nude”. This “selfie would turn Titian on”, gawks the headline. Meanwhile an unpeeled Kim stands pregnant and pouting in the halflight, trapped forever in a smudgy kaleidoscope of sloping lines and smartphone angles, peering into a tiny digital reflection. “Ours is the most misogynistic age in history,” decries Jones: Only in our time does every image of beauty tell women to get thin, thin, thin … Rich, ample, curvy, rampant flesh is, for Rubens, simply and obviously sexy. After rhapsodising about how Titian loved a curvy gal and that Kardashian too “really does love her own body” – making her almost the same as Titian, then – he concludes that Kardashian “is raising questions about the nude today”. That’s right. More. So I can do no more than offer words of caution.
#77 Culturally Specific Content / Teaching ( Int.) I used to teach Adult ESL for the Canadian government. Besides lots of functional language, my curriculum had to also teach about Canada. One of the best/most interesting lessons was to make an acrostic poem about Canada. First, I'd prepare/engage by having the students watch the Canadian anthem video. These are readily available and contain lots of great images of the country. Then give them a graphic organizer and in groups they can organize their content into semantic categories. Next - give students the handout and they fill in and make their own poem about their own country. After that - have some of the students or all, read their poems to the class. Finally - collect them and edit/correct them. A great lesson that all levels/students will enjoy!
Originality in photographs according to US Court of Appeals What is original (and is thus protectable) and what is not in a photograph? Questions like these have troubled copyright lawyers (and possibly courts, too) since the invention of photography itself. As this blogger learnt from The Hollywood Reporter, the First Circuit Court of Appeals has just delivered a decision addressing this Hamlet's dilemma, in little more than 6,000 words. The case is Donald A Harney v Sony Pictures Television, Inc, and A&E Television Networks, LLC, a fascinating appeal from the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts with an even more intriguing factual background. Background On a sunny spring day in 2007, freelancer Donald Harney snapped a photograph of a blonde girl in a pink coat riding piggyback on her father's shoulders while leaving a Boston church on Palm Sunday. In 2010, Sony produced a TV film based on Rockfeller's identity deception and entitled Who is Clark Rockfeller? What the Court of Appeals said
How you can use TV series, trailers and films in language class How many ways are there to use moving images in the classroom? English language teacher Svetlana Urisman, who won last month’s British Council Teaching English blog award, shares her advice. Comment below this post if you have further tips. Why TV series are sometimes better than films One of my favourite things to watch are series – they are shorter, they let you come back to the characters again and again and predict what will happen to them next. As for the grammar, I’ve always liked films and series as a great source of that – ‘real’, spoken grammar. Mycroft Holmes: My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher and yet he elects to be a detective. Or tag questions, such as this example from Mad Men (season 2, episode 1) Driver to Betty: ‘It would be, wouldn’t it? How do you make business English interesting? Some films are great for business English, an area where you wouldn’t think of watching films as a first choice. How to get your classroom to choose: Trailers
The Top 100 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2012 Dec 11, 2012 After the positive reception from last year’s Top 50 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2011, the Sifter promised to highlight the top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day‘ at the end of every quarter, eventually culminating in an epic Top 100 for 2012. That time has come! Below are the top 100 POTDs for 2012. *Please note the photographs themselves were not necessarily taken in 2012, they just happened to be featured as a POTD this year. Enjoy! COPYRIGHT© 2012 RMS TITANIC, INC; Produced by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Learn English Video – Lesson 02 In this video lesson we will learn some advanced vocabulary. The video was produced by VOA (Voice of English), which has many great lessons and activities for English learners. This video tells us about Nathan Sawaya, a Lego artist! Watch the video carefully, and do the practice. The more difficult words are explained in a glossary just below – use it when there is a word you do not understand or unsure of. Tip: write down all the new words you learn. Glossary (by order of appearance) LegoA toy made of small plastic bricks that you put together to build things. Work of artSomething that is made by an artist, for example a painting or a statue. VisionAn idea or a picture in your mind. HitsVisits to a website. Viable Able to succeed or able to work as intended. Market People that want to buy something. GalleryA place for showing works of art. GreenwichA town in Connecticut. ConnecticutA small state in the north-west of the US. Two-dimensionalHaving only two dimensions (for example, length and width).
Journeys - Yosemite National Park - What Adams Saw Through His Lens - Travel And then you’re there. Pale, curvaceous granite rocks dance in the skyline. Dozens of people stand along the edge of the pull-off, called Tunnel View, trying to capture the scene. Some snap two quick shots with disposable yellow cameras, and others set up their tripods for hours, watching the light strike Yosemite’s monoliths. Many people know these sights by name, but more know them by sight alone, as captured through the lens of the legendary American photographer . Adams first visited Yosemite in 1916 when he was 14 years old. The park itself also remained a favorite. The first step on an Ansel Adams-inspired trip to Yosemite is to visit the gallery run by his family. I ordered three books written by Adams from the gallery’s Web site before my trip: Adams’s autobiography, his collected photos of Yosemite and a step-by-step explanation of some of his works called “Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs.” Back in 1986, Mr. Once a week, Mr. “We’re a gallery,” Mr.