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Showing posts with label CULTURE. Show all posts
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31 Jan 2013
LET'S SPEAK SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has just published a multilingual glossary on sustainable construction which contains the English, French, German and Spanish equivalences. Worth revising if you are interested in the subject.
GLOGSTER EDU,- 21st CENTURY MULTIMEDIA TOOL
Glogster EDU is a global education platform where educators and students can create glogs - online multimedia posters- with text, photos, videos, sounds, drawings, attachments and more. Now over 7,000,000 people use it across the world to keep their portfolios, presentations or bookmarks. It expands digital literacy and encourages creative learning. Check out glogs and tutorials in the net. And remember, the word glog was coined in 2007.
7 Nov 2012
ELECTION DAY PARTY
If you want to watch the results with patriotic desserts, and indulge yourself without spending a fortune, Martha Stewart's site is a good source of recipes, cooking tips, handmade gift ideas, or Thanksgiving table settings. On her blog she also shares her ideas on living.
29 Oct 2012
CRAFT GUERRILLA
Love crafts' Are you for sharing your know how? Check out craft guerrillas, stop by their website, or even join them. This Christmas, make it Hand Made! So they say at the East London blog. Pop in and feel inspired for your DIY-ing. (Do IT Yourself). Do not forget the Spanish sister armies. Great Fun.
27 Oct 2012
GREEN GUERRILLAS
In the early 1970's Green Guerrillas began rallying people in New York City to use community gardening as a tool to reclaim urban land and bring people together to solve problems in their neibourhoods. Get some information about ongoing projects.
TOOLS FOR MILLENNIAL LEARNERS
Engaging the newest generation of learners, age 18 to 30, implies a shift from a teacher driven classroom, to a student-driven one. Read Allen & Swindle (2007). Explore the wide range of educational cool tools as Wordle, Screencast-o-matic, Jing, Prezi or Glogster. They will boost your creativity and enhance your writings and presentations with powerful visuals. List your top five tools.
MIHO SATO
Interested in Contemporary Painting? You will like this: Miho Sato talks to Alli Sharma at her studio in London. (Check out a blog called Articulated Artists)
DENIS DUTTON: A DARWINIAN THEORY OF BEAUTY
Controversial presentation by Denis Dutton that argues for a universal philosophy of beauty based on science. Is our appreciation of beauty an evoultionay adaptation? Leave a Reply.
CHINESE GARDENS: Pavilions, Studios, Retreats
This exhibition explores the rich interactions between pictorial and garden arts in China across more than one thousand years. It features more than sixty paintings as well as ceramics, carved bamboo, lacquerware, metalwork, textiles, and even several contemporary photographs that illustrate how garden imagery has remained an abiding source of artistic inspiration and invention.Through January 6, 2013.
(Source:The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
THE CRUELLEST MONTH
The cruellest month begins with A, right; but as winter crawls in, nostalgia seems to settle in for the good old days when I wouldn't know certain details about T.S. Eliot. Worth checking out at Letras Libres, Dec. 2011. Great José Emilio Pacheco focuses on treason, while recieved opinion insists that there is not such thing as treason. Hmm...
THE NY ART BOOK FAIR
If you are arty and you know it, the New York Art Book fair is the world's premier event for artists' books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals and zines presented by 283 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, and independent publishers. So they say.
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