Santa Claus

You can plot your life by the four stages of Santa Claus:


You believe in Santa Claus.
You don’t believe in Santa Claus.
You are Santa Claus.
You look like Santa Claus.


Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas Lottery

Here is a short video about the Spanish lottery 'El Gordo'... If you  struck gold, congratulations!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12057708


And here is a lucky couple's reaction after winning a 'few' million pounds:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8516448.stm

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish you merry Christmas and a prosperous 2011 with a very traditional Christmas carol:

The Digital Story of Nativity

How social media, web and mobile tell the story of the Nativity.
Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon...

Do schools kill creativity?

If you have 20 minutes to spare and are interested in education, as I know you all are, watch this video by Sir Ken Robinson. He argues that education, as we know it, really stifles our children's creativity and abilities.

The secrets of success

Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.

Changing Education Paradigms

Oriol sent me this link and I thought I would share it with you. If you have some time, watch it and maybe we can discuss it in class. It raises some disturbing issues about education and it provides some serious food for thought on this subject... Enjoy!


 

 
 
 
 
For more information about Sir Ken Robinson follow the link: http://www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson.html

Interview with John Negroponte

Here is the link to the interview with former US ambassador John Negroponte.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/9240355.stm

Wikileaks

Here is a link to an interview with Julian Assange, creator of wikileaks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11047811

and for more information about wikileaks,you can check out this BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10757263