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Papel Picado/cut paper - 0 views

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Spanish decorations

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    • despina houck
      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      See pgs. 226 and 240 in your textbook.
  • Papel picado literally means 'punched' or 'perforated' paper. This traditional cut paper folk art is found throughout Mexico and the former colonies of Spain as well as in the folk traditions of many other countries.
  • In Mexico the art has reached a pinnacle of expression and is present at every major holiday in the form of brightly colored strings of cut tissue paper banners strung under the portals of homes and across the narrow streets of colonial villages
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  • They are also present at all national holidays such as the "Days of the Dead", the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Christmas, and Independence Day.
  • The Mexican art of paper-cutting is a marvelous synthesis of European, Asian, and Pre-Columbian artistic traditions.
  • When the Spaniards arrived in Mexico there was already a tradition of paper making that was called amatl in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The native peoples of Mexico produced a type of paper by mashing the pulp of the bark of fig and mulberry trees between rocks. Once dry the paper was then cut with knives made from obsidian. The paper cuts made from amatl were primarily of a ceremonial nature and included images of the numerous Aztec gods and goddesses, a practice that was discouraged by their Christian conquerors. Among the Spanish, the word amatl became amate. Today amate continues to be used in Mexico where one can occasionally find copies of codices and books as well as reproductions of the ancient deities.
  • Although the methods and tools have not changed much during the ages, papel picado continues to evolve as a living folk tradition in Mexico. Much of the papel picado available in today's folk art market comes from the village of San Salvador Huixcolotla, Puebla, which lies southeast of Mexico City. The tradition of paper-cutting is preserved in the talleres, small family workshops of two rival artisans' families, the Vivancos and the Rojas, who maintain a spirit of fierce competition and pride in the art.
  • The traditional process of making papel picado banners begins by drawing a design which becomes the patron or pattern. The pattern is then placed over multiple layers of tissue paper which rest on a thick layer of lead. The artisan then cuts through multiple layers of paper using a mallet to pound finely sharpened chisels of varying sizes and shapes through the paper and into the sheet of lead.
  • The process of transforming sheets of tissue from a design to a completed paper cut can take 30 or more hours.
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Cut paper decortations
despina houck

Spain's glorious markets: the cathedrals of the senses - 0 views

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Spanish Culture

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  • The Antón Martín market is in the heart of Madrid, with access from Santa Isabel street and Duque de Fernán Núñez, and the Doré passage, where the National Film Library is located, which used to house the old cinema Doré. The market was built in 1941 and it has a surface area of some 4,500 square metres, including some 70 stalls, of which 17 are fruit shops, 10 meat markets, 9 fishmongers, 7 sell chickens and the remainder other food produce, products and services. Another market that deserves a visit is the Chamberí, located in the neighbourhood of Madrid of the same name, in a residential area serving the centre of the city. It was inaugurated in 1943, and has a surface area of some 2,500 metres.
    • despina houck
      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      This is the biggest mercado I visited in Spain
    • despina houck
      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      See pg. 160 in your textbook
  • While Valencia is clued up to new technologies, the Boqueria, the emblematic market situated in the Ramblas of Barcelona, has developed a novelty for the tourist and sells for the reasonable price of 5 euros, fruit peeled and ready to eat, or stupendous milkshakes whose fruit content is chosen by the client and freshly crushed on the spot.
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  • THE first thing to do when arriving at a Spanish city is to ask the residents for its municipal market.
  • The extra bonus, which doesn’t come with the ripe tomatoes or beans, is the chance to study the sociological character of the locals, because the way in which the salespeople and vendors interact with their clients says a lot about the commercial and open character of Spaniards, and above all, Mediterraneans.
  • Spain is one of the European countries blessed with a privileged gastronomy, but the best places to appreciate its culinary diversity are its local markets – authentic cathedrals of the senses.
  • One must keep in mind that all these markets grew out of street markets, that is to say, they were mobile events held in the open air
  • The Central Market of Valencia (main photo) is located in the heart of the city, in what used to be an avenue based along a tributary of the river Turia, (since in Roman times Valencia was an island city).
  • The central market and its environment are plagued with popular historical legends. The church is also known as the ‘church of the rascals’, because child thieves, that stole food from the market for their own consumption as well as to resell, hid there.
  • Also in Barcelona is the market of Santa Caterina. This is situated in the centre of the Ciutat Vella, or old city, in the neighbourhood barrio of la Ribera, and it is true to say that the market of Santa Caterina has been testimony to the entire history of Barcelona. As in many other cases, the history of this market begins with the demolition of a convent, in this case that of Santa Caterina, to make way for a jug market, placed on the outskirts of this convent because in it there was a well whose water provided a miraculous cure against marsh fever.
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Los mercados
Vw Prof

Shambles: Design Technology - 0 views

www.shambles.net/...DesignTec

web2.0 education links reference design

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  •   Design Technology Add a linkTop of page Introductory Skills for GCSE http://www.teachnetuk.org.uk/projects-des-tech.htm Introductory Skills for GCSE This is a course of six lessons, establishing a basic knowledge of equipment, media, product analysis, presentation and drawing techniques for GCSE Graphics Products and Product Design. The (UK) Open Universitys OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ The (UK) Open University's OpenLearn Welcome to The Open University's OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world. You are in the LearningSpace where Open University learning materials are freely available for you to study in your own time, away from any formal teaching environment. Visit the LabSpace to share and reuse educational resources. Download some learning materials, adapt to your needs: translate, shorten, extend, add examples... and then of course, place it back for others to benefit! | Arts and History | Business and Management | Education | Health and Lifestyle | IT and Computing | Mathematics and Statistics | Modern Languages | Science and Nature | Society | Study Skills | Technology | TakeItApart http://www.takeitapart.net/ TakeItApart TakeItApart.net is all about, well, taking things apart. This site is a resource to be used by anyone who wishes to see -- for any reason -- how to take apart certain electronic devices. We will try to post a new dissection as often as time permits. We must recommend against, of course, the dismantling of electronic devices. (Doing so could damage them or void their warranties.) Virtual Machine Shop Lesson Plans http://www.jjjtrain.com/vms/library.html Virtual Machine Shop Milling Machines | Engine Lathes | Cutting Tools | CNC/CAM | Measurement | Engineering |
  • The (UK) Open Universitys OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ The (UK) Open University's OpenLearn Welcome to The Open University's OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world. You are in the LearningSpace where Open University learning materials are freely available for you to study in your own time, away from any formal teaching environment. Visit the LabSpace to share and reuse educational resources. Download some learning materials, adapt to your needs: translate, shorten, extend, add examples... and then of course, place it back for others to benefit! | Arts and History | Business and Management | Education | Health and Lifestyle | IT and Computing | Mathematics and Statistics | Modern Languages | Science and Nature | Society | Study Skills | Technology |
  • Mechanisms, strucutures 3D drawing http://www.animatedworksheets.co.uk Site dedicated to visual understanding of difficult concepts. These animated web pages will help pupils to understand the concepts of mechanisms and perspective drawing in an easy to understand format.
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  • Virtual Machine Shop Lesson Plans http://www.jjjtrain.com/vms/library.html Virtual Machine Shop Milling Machines | Engine Lathes | Cutting Tools | CNC/CAM | Measurement | Engineering |
  • Internet Mechanical Engineer http://www.eevl.ac.uk/vts/mechanical/index.htm The Internet is a rich source of information and resources for students, lecturers, researchers and professionals. This tutorial covers the key information skills for the Internet environment. Learn how to use the Internet to help with your coursework, literature searching, teaching or research. Mechanical Engineering | Design & Technology | Careers
  • Vw Prof on 15 Feb 09
     
    This is an online listing of all sorts of references and is focused on educational links for countries in South East Asia. This is the design technology page. Updates are posted to Twitter.
despina houck

The Fiestas of Spain : Las Fallas , Valencia - 0 views

www.donquijote.org/...lasfallas.asp

Spanish Culture

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  • Las Fallas is undoubtedly one of the most unique and crazy festivals in Spain (a country known for unique and crazy festivals). What started as a feast day for St. Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters, has evolved into a 5-day, multifaceted celebration of fire.
  • Las Fallas literally means "the fires" in Valencian. The focus of the fiesta is the creation and destruction of ninots--huge cardboard, wood and plaster statues--that are placed at over 350 key intersections and parks around the city today. The ninots are extremely lifelike and usually depict bawdy, satirical scenes and current events (lampooning corrupt politicians and Spanish celebrities is particularly popular). They are crafted by neighborhood organizations and take about six months to construct (and often cost upwards of US$75,000). Many ninots are several stories tall and need to be moved into position with cranes.
  • Starting in the early evening, young men with axes chop holes in the statues and stuff them with fireworks. The crowds start to chant, the streetlights are turned off, and all of the ninots are set on fire at exactly the stroke of midnight. Over the years, the local firemen, called "bomberos," have devised unique ways to protect the town's buildings from torching along with the ninots, such as by neatly covering storefronts with fireproof tarps. And each year, one of the ninots is spared from destruction by popular vote and exhibited in the local Museum of the Ninot along with the other favorites from years past.
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  • The origin of Las Fallas is a bit murky, but most credit the fires as an evolution of pagan rituals that celebrated the onset of spring and the planting season.
  • Besides the burning of the ninots, there is a myriad of other activities during the fiesta. During the day, you can check out the extensive roster of bullfights, parades, paella contests and beauty pageants around the city. Spontaneous fireworks displays occur everywhere during the days leading up to "La Crema", but another highlight is the daily mascletá which occurs in the Plaza Anyuntamiento at exactly 2pm. When the huge pile of firecrackers is ignited, the ground literally shakes for the next ten minutes.
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Las Fallas - the fires in Valencia
Rob Decker

Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

www.educause.edu/...158042

web2.0 education delicious tags social web history

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  • the term is often applied to a heterogeneous mix of relatively familiar and also very emergent technologies.
  • 2 Ultimately, the label “Web 2.0” is far less important than the concepts, projects, and practices included in its scope.
  • Social software has emerged as a major component
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  • The Internet technologies of the subsequent generation have been profoundly social, as listservs, Usenet groups, discussion software, groupware, and Web-based communities have linked people around the world.
  • A leading form of this is a controversial new form of metadata, the folksonomy. Whereas traditional metadata is usually hierarchical (topics nested within topics), structured (e.g., the fields within Dublin Core), and predetermined by content authorities, folksonomic metadata consists of words that users generate and attach to content.
  • Folksonomic services fill up with tags rapidly enough to make information professionals take notice. Second, Web 2.0 services tend to provide tools for helping users with their folksonomies. Tags can be arranged into concept maps called “tag clouds,” which allow revisualization of the way one considers one’s work.5
  • The social bookmarking innovator del.icio.us automatically reminds users of previously deployed tags, suggests some tags, and notes tags used by others. Third, people tend to tag socially. That is, they learn from other taggers and respond to other, published groups of tags, or “tagsets.”6 There are of course limitations to folksonomies, including the difficulty in scaling up tags from several to many users and the problem of quickly grasping contextual shifts between tagsets. But the rapid adoption and growth of folksonomies is noteworthy
despina houck

The Fiestas of Spain : Semana Santa, Andalucia - 0 views

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Spanish Culture

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  • Semana Santa is a tradition which is repeated year after year; a time when the devout and curious join together to participate in the procession and converge on the streets and squares which take on the ambience and mystique of an open air temple.
    • despina houck
      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      Holy Week - the week before Easter
  • The "costaleros" who carry the weight of the floats and their sculptured representations of the biblical scene are directed by the overseer or head of the group who ensure that the float is carried with maximum seriousness, grace and tradition.
  • The high point of the procession is when the float exits and enters the respective church. This is the moment when art and religion seem merged into one.
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  • Even if you are not religious, it is difficult not to be moved, the atmosphere is so vital and poignant. For some it is a fun filled fiesta time, for others a week of ritual and reflection. Without a doubt, Holy Week in Andalucia is a tradition that is an integral part of the culture and appropriately reflects the spirit of the people.
  • Year after year, each and every village proudly enjoys the beauty and mystery of "Semana Santa" although there are variances and some towns for instance, will preserve certain traditions more than others. The villages and hamlets generally hold their parades on Thursdays and Fridays, while the large capital cities have week long celebrations and attract thousands of people from far and wide.
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Holy Week in Andalucia
despina houck

The Fiestas of Spain : San Fermin, Pamplona - 0 views

www.donquijote.org/...sanfermin.asp

Spanish Culture

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  • The festival in honour of San Fermín celebrated in Pamplona
  • And all of this packed into one long week starting with a bang at midday on the sixth of July and ending with the nostalgia tinged with expectation at midnight on the fourteenth.
  • The San Fermines have always been a special festival but when Pamplona was still a small unknown city -provincial and clerical- the San Fermines found their most fervent supporter in the American writer Hemingway.
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  • The Sanfermines is a fiesta where no one is an outsider, everyone is equal and in which the festive spirit is never broken, centred around the people of Pamplona in the widest sense: all the people in the city during the always too short 204 hours of revelry, dancing, prayers and bacchanalian extravagance.
  • But the religious celebration is in perfect harmony with the cult of the bull -a symbolic animal- and with the cult of Bacchus, the god of wine -a drink which ¡s no less symbolic
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Not just the running of the bulls...
despina houck

Quinceanera Traditions, Sweet Sixteen Traditions - 0 views

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Spanish Culture

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  • The Quinceanera tradition celebrates the young girl(la Quinceanera), and recognizes her journey from childhood to maturity.The customs highlight God, family, friends, music, food, and dance.
    • despina houck
      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      See pgs. 238-239 in your textbook
  • The Quinceanera celebration traditionally begins with a religious ceremony. A Reception is held in the home or a banquet hall. The festivities include food and music, and in most, a choreographed waltz or dance performed by the Quinceanera and her Court.
  • It is traditional for the Quinceanera to choose special friends to participate in what is called the Court of Honor.
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  • The Quinceanera's Court of Honor can be comprised of all young girls (called Dama), all young men (called Chambelán or Escorte or Galán) or a combination of both..
  • The Quinceanera traditionally wears a ball gown, with her Court dressed in gowns and tuxedos.
  • There are many traditions throughout the quinceanera celebration. One of the most popular is the Changing of the Shoes. The father or favored male relative ceremoniously changes the young girl’s flat shoes to high heels. This is a beautiful symbol of the Quinceañera’s transformation from a little girl to a young lady.
  • At the reception, there is always the toast to the Quinceanera, known as the brindis
  • At the church ceremony, a special Kneeling Pillow, sometimes personalized with the Quinceañera’s name, is placed in position for the young girl to kneel on during the ceremony
  • The Quince Años is a glorious celebration that remains a cherished and honored tradition.
  • A Quinceañera is the Hispanic tradition of celebratinga young girl's coming of age - her 15th birthday.
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Coming of age
L Butler

Argentina People - 0 views

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argentina culture

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  • Unlike the people in other areas of Hispanic America, Argentines are mostly of European origin.
  • Between the 1850s and 1940, more than 3.5 million immigrants arrived in Argentina, about 45 percent of them from Italy and 32 percent from Spain. Prior to the 1960s, substantial numbers also came from Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Poland, Russia, Wales, the middle East, and Japan. Spanish is the official language and is spoken universally, but a number of Argentines also speak English, Italian, German, French, or Native American languages (Guarani, Quechua, Mapuche, etc.). Despite the mix of ancestries and languages, Argentines are fiercely nationalistic.
  • Approximately 90 percent of the population is nominally Roman Catholic.
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  • They place a premium on not offending.
  • Argentines can express their concern for others with gauchadas, Gaucho-like acts of generosity, such as going out of one's way to help someone else solve a problem.
  • Argentines place a high value on individuality. One of the most vibrant symbols of the past which is supposed to represent the national character is the Gaucho -that near-mythical legendary historical plainsman who is independent, brave, athletic, a bold warrior, loyal, and generous. The Gaucho is the idealized version of a complex historical figure who has become etched into the Argentine consciousness.
  • Argentines are generally well informed about politics and economic policies, and they take great interest and pride in discussing them.
L Butler

Hispanic Holidays | NRCS - 0 views

www.de.nrcs.usda.gov/...majorholidays.html

holidays culture

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  • May 5 Cinco de Mayo (Mexico). Commemorates de victory of Mexican forces over the French army at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla, and in other parts of Mexico. It is also celebrated in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population. It is not, as many people think, Mexico’s Independece Day, which is actually September 16.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 05 Aug 11
       
      The short explanations will help to defeat some of the misconceptions. Students don't believe me when I say Cinco de Mayo isn't a big deal - but they might understand more if they see it elsewhere.
  • This list is designed to reflect the major holidays and celebrations of the Spanish-speaking countries.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 05 Aug 11
       
      This list is detailed and does provide examples from each of the countries that speak Spanish.
  • L Butler on 05 Aug 11
     
    List of holidays in Spanish-speaking countries by month - with a short description of what they are celebrating.
despina houck

Treasures from the Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia - 0 views

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Colombia Culture

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      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      Please reference pg. 356 in your textbook
  • The Gold Museum, part of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, preserves and protects this fabulous cultural legacy. The most important museum of its kind anywhere, Museo del Oro showcases the work of ancient peoples who believed gold is the materialization of the life-giving energy from Father Sun.
  • The Museo del Oro in SantaFé de Bogotá, Colombia, offers a splendid presentation of more than 33,000 items of gold and emeralds and other precious materials crafted in pre-Hispanic times.
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  • Only twenty people are allowed in at a time.
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Museum of gold
despina houck

Plaza Mayor - Salamanca, Spain - 0 views

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Spanish Culture

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  • Not only is it one of the city's most beautiful locales, but it is also considered among the most beautiful plazas in all of Spain.
    • despina houck
      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      My favorite plaza mayor in all of Spain. I lived in Salamanca for 5 months.
  • Much of the daily and night life of Salamanca takes place in the Plaza Mayor.
  • Small boutiques and trinket shops line the inside of the Plaza and continue out onto the streets directly outside the walls.
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  • Because eating is an important aspect of Spanish culture, restaurants and cafes are prevalent in the Plaza Mayor.
  • Also, in the evenings, musical groups, called "Tunas," play in the outside seating areas of the restaurants.
  • Also in the Plaza is a small pharmacy. Visitors should be aware that it is not like a typical drugstore in the United States. Instead, almost all of the products and items are behind the counter and customers must ask the clerk for assistance.
  • The town hall of Salamanca is also located in the Plaza Mayor.
    • despina houck
      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      It's beautiful!
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    My favorite plaza mayor.
Vw Prof

Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, University of Maryland, Presentation A... - 0 views

www.oit.umd.edu/...itlabstracts2008.html

article engineering educationRef web2.0

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  • Engineering Education in the Age of Web 2.0—Explorations Through iMechanica.org Teng Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering Web 2.0 refers to a collection of second generation Web services, such as blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, and Really Simple Syndicates (RSS) feeds. While the first generation Web (Web 1.0) is about linking information available online, Web 2.0 emphasizes online collaboration and sharing among people. These new Web services bring up new opportunities to innovate how we conduct research and education. We report the preliminary explorations of engineering education exploiting Web 2.0 services, through iMechanica (http://imechnica.org).
  • Vw Prof on 15 Feb 09
     
    Contains list of presentations of a conference that includes information and link for web 2.0 in engineering education
despina houck

Parque del Retiro, Madrid - 0 views

www.aviewoncities.com/...parquedelretiro.htm

Spanish Culture

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  • The Parque del Buen Retiro is the most popular park in Madrid. It can get crowded during weekends when many Madrilenian families go for a stroll in the park and street musicians, sidewalk painters, fortune tellers, jugglers and street performers animate the crowd.
    • despina houck
      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      As seen on our video series in class.
  • The Retiro Park was created as a royal park; it belonged to the Real Sitio del Buen Retiro palace. In 1632, the palace was built by King Philips IV as a retreat for the Royal family.
  • Of the original palace, only two buildings survived, the rest was destroyed during the Napoleonic wars.
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  • The most important item in the collection is the sword of El Cid or La Tizona. Not really weaponry, but another notable item on display is the cross that Columbus took with him to the New World. The other surviving building is the Casón del Buen Retiro, a museum with a collection of 19th and 20th century paintings, including works by Joaquín Sorolla.
  • Close to the northern entrance of the Parque del Retiro is a large artificial lake, the Estanque del Retiro. Here you can rent a rowing boat, especially popular during weekends
  • More to the south is another, much smaller lake. At the edge of the lake is a beautiful glass building, the Palacio de Cristal.
  • Another feature of the park is the Rose Garden, the Rosaleda. And possibly the most remarkable feature of the Retiro Park is one of its statues, El Angel Caído. It is dedicated to Satan, possibly the only such statue in Europe.
  • The Retiro Park is located east of the city center, not far from the Prado Museum
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Park in Madrid
L Butler

Boxing, fading in U.S., stirs pride in Mexico - Sacramento Bee - 1 views

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sports mexico

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  • Boxing has faded in the United States, eclipsed by extreme ultimate fighting, hurt by a lack of homegrown heavyweight stars and banished to small audiences on television pay-per-view. But south of the border, the sport remains hugely popular, aired almost every Saturday evening on national television. Bouts draw steady ratings, and top boxers claim masses of followers.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 04 Aug 11
       
      This is so true. Boxing in the United States is confined to pay-per-view bouts. The majority of the matches - one of the fighters has a Spanish last name. That is evidence that boxing is alive and well in Mexico.
  • Soccer may be Mexico's national sport, but boxing speaks to the never-give-up grit and warrior spirit that Mexicans say date to Aztec times.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 04 Aug 11
       
      Interesting comparison to their Aztec heritage.
  • "Soccer and boxing: These are the two favorite sports of Mexicans,"
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  • "We have more than 100 world champion boxers in our history. … People say, 'Boxing is what brings us glory, so let's support boxing.' "
  • Sweat, perseverance and a desire to climb out of poverty are on display, as one might expect. A few retired fighters evince an air of sadness, and their stories of fortunes earned and squandered also don't surprise.
despina houck

Bilbao - 0 views

www.guggenheim.org/bilbao

Spanish museum

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      despina houck on 15 Feb 09
       
      See pg. 45 in your textbook. Visit the online collection link and check out the awesome pictures. This museum is even more breathtaking in person.
  • Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently celebrated a decade of extraordinary success on October 19, 2007. With close to ninety exhibitions and over ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao forever changed the way the world thinks about museums, and it continues to challenge our assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.
  • The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection has a unique, yet complementary, identity from the collections at the other Guggenheim institutions, featuring works by some of the most significant artists of the second half of the 20th century:
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  • Arcos Rojos
  • In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao commissioned French artist Daniel Buren to create a site-specific work that uses the La Salve Bridge, located next to the museum.
  • Cy Twombly (b. 1928) is one of the most relevant and influential artists working today.
  • Arcos Rojos makes the structure of the La Salve Bridge a more visible and inviting entrance to the city center. 
  • despina houck on 15 Feb 09
     
    Museum
HSD Elementary

The Access Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8 - Virtual Reality and Comput... - 0 views

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  • Many people associate virtual reality and computer simulations with science fiction, high-tech industries, and computer games; few associate these technologies with education.
  • Computer simulations and virtual reality are potentially powerful learning technologies by themselves, offering teachers a means to concretize abstract concepts for students and provide them with opportunities to learn by doing what they might otherwise encounter only in a textbook.
  • Computer simulations are computer-generated versions of real-world objects (for example, a sky scraper or chemical molecules) or processes (for example, population growth or biological decay). They may be presented in 2-dimensional, text-driven formats, or, increasingly, 3-dimensional, multimedia formats. Computer simulations can take many different forms, ranging from computer renderings of 3-dimensional geometric shapes to highly interactive, computerized laboratory experiments.
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  • The ability of these technologies to make what is abstract and intangible concrete and manipulable suits them to the study of natural phenomena and abstract concepts, “(VR) bridges the gap between the concrete world of nature and the abstract world of concepts and models (Yair, Mintz, & Litvak, 2001) .
  • virtual reality and computer simulations offer benefits that could potentially extend across the entire curriculum
  • The multisensory nature can be especially helpful to students who are less visual learners and those who are better at comprehending symbols than text.
  • HSD Elementary on 16 Feb 09
     
    Discussion of simulations as tools for learning.
Mrs Huber

Bill of Rights for Kids - 0 views

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Constitution social_studies bill of rights education

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  • Bill of Rights for Kids to Understand Following are the ten amendments that are in the Bill of Rights:
    • Mrs Huber
      Mrs Huber on 27 May 10
       
      I like that this is in kid friendly language.
  • Mrs Huber on 27 May 10
     
    Bill of Rights
HSD Elementary

Which Wiki is Right for You? - 5/1/2007 - School Library Journal - 0 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...CA6438167.html

wikis library web2.0

shared by HSD Elementary on 16 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Decide ahead of time if you want to participate in a free wiki hosting site, pay a subscription cost to a provider to host your wiki, or set up the wiki yourself using your own server.
  • PBWiki is free for 10 MB of storage files and attachments, three professional CSS designs, unlimited page revisions, no advertisements, free backup of current versions, and a secure login system.
    • HSD Elementary
      HSD Elementary on 16 Feb 09
       
      I like that there are no ads!
  • PBWiki has been listening to educators. An ad-free wiki can be requested by simply clicking the settings link and designating the wiki for educational use.
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  • storage allocations within the free package are filled
  • PBWiki deserves an A
  • 2 GB of storage
  • In January, Wikispaces began a free Plus Plan for K-12 teachers to encourage them to experience wikis. Now Wikispaces is giving away 100,000 free K-12 Plus wikis. That includes all the features and benefits that normally cost $50 per year.
  • flexibility and user-friendly
  • embedding a podcast or a streaming video can easily provide users with a one-stop access point for information or resources
  • awkward for new users
  • WikiSpaces deserves an A+
  • free of charge and provides for unlimited storage, bandwidth, and users
  • resembled a Web page rather than a wiki
  • With 24 different templates to choose from, this wiki provides a unique opportunity to create a dynamic and interesting site
  • advertisements
  • Wetpaint deserves an A
  • HSD Elementary on 16 Feb 09
     
    Even though this article is dated, it gives a great comparison of available wiki sites.
Vw Prof

web2 Tools - 0 views

www.internet4classrooms.com/web2.htm

web2.0 reference list tools

shared by Vw Prof on 15 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Beware: Some of the storage tools may have inappropriate things stored on them since they are free for public usage. If you use these, please put a link to go directly to your own personal area, instead of the main site. Some of these may also be blocked by your school filters. These tools are for teacher usage and classroom accounts so that it can be monitored, not for individual students.
  • Vw Prof on 15 Feb 09
     
    list of lots of web 2.0 tools used in education NEED TO HIGHLIGHT
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