One Laptop per Child

Last lesson we had a discussion about Negroponte's project to make a laptop for children in developing countries - laptops that cost only $100. Some of you thought it was a very good idea, but others thought it was not such a great project. You can listen to the text we read here.
If you want to find out more about the project, you can watch Negroponte describe it in a talk he gave in 2006.

Anne

Picture Quiz 2

Great guesses! Now: can you tell what this is?
Tip: It's not man-made.
CU L8R (= See you later)
Anne







PS: Here's the solution picture to this quiz!

Picture Quiz

Let's have some fun and guess a picture: Who can tell what this is?
Post your comment below (click on the word "comments" below).

See you Thursday,

Anne

Posting a comment

Dear all,

To post a comment, please click on the word "comments" below, write in your message and send. If you click on the picture of the envelope, you send an email to a colleague. I'm sorry, I mixed up these two buttons in my email last week - maybe because of Friday 13th!

You don't have to sign in (anmelden) to send a comment. If you don't sign in your message will be posted from "anonymous", so please type in your name after your message. When I know that all of you can use this communication platform that will make my day = mir den Tag versüßen ;-) !

Question: Would you like to take a summer break? The Climate Design group is thinking of taking all of August off, but this has not been finalized. I cannot teach the last week in August. Please discuss your summer plans with your course mates and post a short comment.

Have a lovely week, and see you on 19 July.

Best regards,
Anne

New reference material

Dear Climate Designers,

Many of you have said you would like reference material – something in your hand! In your wiki, you can now find reference material for telephoning and letters/email. Just download these materials and print them out. You will also find some questions to think about.

I look forward to seeing you on 12 July!

Anne

Interesting links

Hi everybody,

Have a look at the links at the right. Do you find any of them interesting or helpful? Have you found anything on them that you would like to share with your colleagues? Would you like a different sort of link for a special purpose? Post your message for everyone to read, please, by signing in and then clicking on the "comments" button below.

Note the new page in our Wiki for your telephoning exercises. You'll also find the new words from the last lesson on our vocabulary page ... waiting to be "sorted out".

On 21 and 28 June your trainer will be Cameron Paul. I hope you enjoy your lessons together :-)!

Best wishes,
Anne

Lesson on 14 June

Dear ClimateDesign and IB Hausladen,

Since 7 June is "Fronleichnam" (sorry, that's a holiday not known in the USA!) , we won't see each other for two weeks.

In the meantime, please use our Wiki to remember the words and structures we discussed last lesson. IB Hausladen, you'll find a new page to list and discuss vocabulary connected to the presentation you gave of your new building. Climate Design, your group set up your own new page last lesson, so I suggest that you present some things about yourself there.

Also note the two new additions to our list of links: Life explained on film and the BBC Skillswise site.

If you have any technical trouble, just write to me at anne.hodgson@t-online.de.

Have a nice day off work next week, everybody! :-)

Anne