When we watch the Olympics we are AMAZED at the feats of athletic prowess--as we should be! It is easy to see modern accomplishments and be awed by how far athletes have come since the first Olympics. Watch this cool video that compares all 100 Yard Dash winners since the 1800's: NYTimesEveryMedalist100yarddash. Share your thoughts on what this interactive infographic reveals. Are you surprised by what is shown or not? Explain why!
Look at this Infographic on a Flipped Classroom. Do you think this is a good idea? Would it work in a place like Central High School? http://<a href="http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/" ><img src="http://knewton.marketing.s3.amazonaws.com/images/infographics/flipped-classroom.jpg" alt="Flipped Classroom" title="Flipped Classroom" width="600" height="2831" /></a> <p>Created by <a href="http://www.knewton.com/" >Knewton</a> and <a href="http://columnfivemedia.com/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://columnfivemedia.com/']);">Column Five Media</a></p> <p> According the UK's Guardian, "pundits in the United States are being urged to line up on one side or other this summer: Is the American novel finally dead or not?" Controversial critic Lee Siegel, called "a famous sock puppet" by the online Gawker.com, wrote a piece for the New York Observer declaring that the American public no longer talk about novels and that this creative form, once so full of fire, has lost its spark forever."For about a million reasons," Siegel claimed, "fiction has now become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers. For better or for worse, the greatest storytellers of our time are the non-fiction writers." Is the American novel dead? Is the novel still an important force in culture? Should we still be studying novels? Or is Seigel right, the best stuff really is non-fiction? |