YouTube - William Tell Overture-Mom Style (w/ lyrics)

YouTube - William Tell Overture-Mom Style (w/ lyrics):


"William Tell Overture-Mom Style (w/ lyrics)"

Happy Mother's Day!

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen | Video on TED.com:

"Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen"

This is an interesting look at statistics!

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com:

"Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them"

For those of us that love photos! and it's now subtitled!
james

TED Blog: TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40 languages to TED.com:

cool!

"'TED’s mission is to spread good thinking globally, and so it’s high time we began reaching out to the 4.5 billion people on the planet who don't speak English,' says TED Curator Chris Anderson. “We’re excited to be using a bottom-up, open-source approach that will in time allow all our talks to be translated into all the world’s languages. A web-empowered revolution in global education is under way. We’re not far from the day when anyone on Earth can directly access the world’s great teachers speaking to them in their own language. How cool is that?'"

TED Blog: TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40 languages to TED.com

TED Blog: TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40 languages to TED.com:

cool!

"'TED’s mission is to spread good thinking globally, and so it’s high time we began reaching out to the 4.5 billion people on the planet who don't speak English,' says TED Curator Chris Anderson. “We’re excited to be using a bottom-up, open-source approach that will in time allow all our talks to be translated into all the world’s languages. A web-empowered revolution in global education is under way. We’re not far from the day when anyone on Earth can directly access the world’s great teachers speaking to them in their own language. How cool is that?'"

presenting in English... ppt to download and view

Some of you have asked for help with upcoming presentations in English.... ;-)

Here you have a short presentation inspired by Mark Powell's book "Presenting in English". It's a book with lots of helpful advice and vocabulary and that I use a lot with my professional communication classes.

Go through it and let me know what you think!

see you soon!

james

Final Short-list - The Best Job In The World

Final Short-list - The Best Job In The World

We talked about this earlier in the semester! In 13 hours they'll announce the winner! (Tomorrow... Wednesday!) Have a look at the finalists' videos! There's even a Frenchman! The Indian, Anjaan is good too!

How about a comment! (hint, hint...)

james

Everyone at Tourism Queensland is very excited to announce that these Final 16 Applicants will be coming to Hamilton Island from May 3 to 6 for The Best Job in the World’s final selection process. You can get to know our final applicants by viewing their profiles.

YouTube - Matt Confesses: Where the Hell is Matt? Video an 'Elaborate Hoax'

YouTube - Matt Confesses: Where the Hell is Matt? Video an 'Elaborate Hoax': "Matt Confesses: Where the Hell is Matt? Video an 'Elaborate Hoax'"

"Where the Hell is Matt?" Here is Matt explaining his project! Is it really a hoax?

YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

This is the video that Jean-Michel wanted to share with us all.

comments??

more soon

james

UbuWeb

UbuWeb: "Search UbuWeb

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing - 1 Translation(s) | dotSUB

Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing - 1 Translation(s) | dotSUB:

Games people play!
I promised to send this to some of you... It's about life, not just rock climbing...

(Notice that it's a TEDtalk on the dotsub.com site so it's subtitled for you!)

"In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too."

hope to see you all soon

james and lorna

Susan Boyle...

YouTube - Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009 (With Lyrics)

here is the video that we watched this morning.... and here's the link to the NY Times article....

Is this instant celebrity a passing fad?

What do you think? How about leaving a comment?

Sorry that some of you had to miss the session....

Twitter in Plain English on dotSUB.com

Twitter in Plain English - 61 Translation(s) | dotSUB:

Micro-blogging for the rest of all.... gadget or tool?

We watched this (subtitled) explanation at the end of class this morning. The CommonCraft collection presents lots of things in "plain English".
Remember, more and more interesting videos are subtitled on the dotsub.com site!

Have a good week! james

"So, what are you doing? It's one of the first questions we often ask friends and family.
Even if the answer is just mowing the lawn or cooking dinner, it's interesting to us.
It makes us feel connected and part of each other's lives.
Unfortunately, most of our day to day lives are hidden from people that care.
Of course we have email and blogs and phones to keep us connected.
But you wouldn't send an email to a friend to tell them you're having coffee.
Your friend doesn't need to know that.
But, what about the people that want to know about the little things that happen in your life?
Real life happens between blog posts and emails. And now, there's a way to share.
This is Twitter in Plain English."

Clare, Taiwan - The Best Job In The World

Clare, Taiwan - The Best Job In The World

Clare is the wildcard candidate, chosen by visitors to the page with the short-listed candidates... She is among the 11 finalists to be announced on April 2... for the Best Job in the World...

CORPORA: 100-385 million words each: free online access

CORPORA: 100-385 million words each: free online searchable access

an interesting place to see how English words are really used...

(also Spanish and Portuguese corpera)

see you next Tuesday...

remember to let me know if you're coming or not...

nonplussed - definition of nonplussed by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

nonplussed - definition of nonplussed by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.


here are some nice words when you feel a little perplexed... or baffeled or nonplussed...

CORPORA: 100-385 million words each: free online access

We talked about how you can see how words like "freak" or "nonplussed" are being used today thanks to online corpora....

interesting.... what do you think?
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CORPORA: 100-385 million words each: free online access: "ONLINE CORPORA

The following are some of the freely-available linguistic corpora that have been created by Mark Davies, Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Brigham Young University."

This is my favorite: http://www.americancorpus.org/

The corpus is composed of more than 385 million words in more than 150,000 texts, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2008. For each year (and therefore overall, as well), the corpus is evenly divided between the five genres of spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. The texts come from a variety of sources:

• Spoken: (79 million words) Transcripts of unscripted conversation from more than 150 different TV and radio programs (examples: All Things Considered (NPR), Newshour (PBS), Good Morning America (ABC), Today Show (NBC), 60 Minutes (CBS), Hannity and Colmes (Fox), Jerry Springer, etc). [See notes on the naturalness and authenticity of the language from these transcripts).

• Fiction: (76 million words) Short stories and plays from literary magazines, children’s magazines, popular magazines, first chapters of first edition books 1990-present, and movie scripts.

• Popular Magazines: (81 million words) Nearly 100 different magazines, with a good mix (overall, and by year) between specific domains (news, health, home and gardening, women, financial, religion, sports, etc). A few examples are Time, Men’s Health, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Fortune, Christian Century, Sports Illustrated, etc.

• Newspapers: (76 million words) Ten newspapers from across the US, including: USA Today, New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, etc. In most cases, there is a good mix between different sections of the newspaper, such as local news, opinion, sports, financial, etc.

• Academic Journals: (76 million words) Nearly 100 different peer-reviewed journals. These were selected to cover the entire range of the Library of Congress classification system (e.g. a certain percentage from B (philosophy, psychology, religion), D (world history), K (education), T (technology), etc.), both overall and by number of words per year"

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help

how you can quickly post something to our blog!

TED's new translation program using dotSUB - introduced by June Cohen TED 09 - 5 Translation(s) | dotSUB

TED's new translation program using dotSUB - introduced by June Cohen TED 09 - 5 Translation(s) | dotSUB


this is great news... Ted talks will be subtitled!!!

YouTube - Top Ten Super Bowl Ads 2008 - Commercials from Super Bowl 42

YouTube - Top Ten Super Bowl Ads 2008 - Commercials from Super Bowl 42:


"Top Ten Super Bowl Ads 2008 - Commercials from Super Bowl 42" Here's the exercise we did today!

james

YouTube - Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address

YouTube - Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address

here's another pretty good commencement speech! the "cc" are the subtitles...

james

YouTube - Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

YouTube - Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address


this is really inspiring... be hungry and foolish

The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The Big Picture - Boston.com:

Jean-Michel found this great collection of photos and suggested I share it with the group.... Voilà.
Have a nice strike day tomorrow!
james

"Yesterday was a historic day. On January 20th, 2009, Barack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America - the first African-American ever to hold the office of U.S. Commander-in-Chief. The event was witnessed by well over one million attendees in chilly Washington D.C., and by many millions more through coverage on television and the Internet. Collected here are photographs of the event, the participants, and some of the witnesses around the world. (48 photos total)"