CNN Postings : Study: Blacks more likely to be killed by cops than whites

One study found that blacks age 15-19 are shot and killed by police at a rate 21 times higher than whites. We've seen many news about black people who'd killed by policemen.

We have to think about this matter seriously. Is it related to remaining racism in America?
I think it is.

I'm subscribing a podcast : CNN Student News

With my iPhone I can easily downroad and watch new episode uploaded day by day.
I have been using this tool for about three years.
I started to subscribe this podcast when I was freshman in my college.
Sadly, I didn't have much time to listen it, because of busy daily life.....
It's not same with CNN News Clips, but it is made with more easy English than real CNN clips.
It's made for middle or high school students who are really interested in current issues, especially in global issues.
I heard that there are many teachers using this podcast for classroom time.
I think this podcast is really good for my English learning, because my English level is not that high.
Also as I mentioned, I'm really interested in global issues, so I uploaded so many CNN news clips about global issues, about North Korea, ISIS, etc.
This podcast shows one issue briefly, so you don't have to have deep knowledge about the subject.
You don't have to be suppressed by difficult matters and words. It's pretty easy to understand.
I recommend this podcast, it's really excellent listening tool for you!

Storyline Online : Storytelling site for kids

I recommend you to visit one interesting and useful storytelling site for kids.
If you want to give chance to read English book to your kids, why don't you use this site,
especially they feel boring to read texts....
Moving inllustrations and great storytellers' lively voices won't make them bored.
Here is the address : http://www.storylineonline.net/
Here is one story "Romeow & Drooliet" read by Haylie Duff.   

About "Webquest"

"A webquest is an assignment which asks students to use the World Wide Web to learn about a specific topic. A good webquest makes learning interesting for your students. Beyond that, however, several other factors make webquests a powerful learning tool. (From Webquest 101 )"

Here I upload one webquest from http://zunal.com/, famous webquest site.

http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=228060

It's title is "Physical Fitenss"

It has several steps : This is "TASK" part

Students will be divided up into groups of three and each be given a different role in the group, but each group member will help the other members with each other뭩 roles so everyone gets the same experience as the everyone else. First, role one will have the students look at the sites given at different information about physical fitness. Second, the student will gather that information and create an outline for the third student. Lastly, the third student will create the power point. Each group will give a presentation at the end of the week, which will give the students three days to complete it in class. The presentation should be 8-10 min of good research. http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/health/ Centers for diesease control and prevention offers a wide variety of information that will help you achieve and answer any questions that may be troubling to you. Some of the resources that you will find on this website are....  Data and Statistics Diseases and Conditions Emergencies and Disasters Environmental Health Healthy Living Injury, Violence and Safety Life Stages and Populations Travelers' Health Workplace Safety and Health http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/publications/teachingTools/whyPE.cfm "Healthy People � Physically Educated and Physically Active!" AAHPERD is the largest organization of professionals involved in physical education, physical activity, dance, school health and sport, all specialties related to achieving an active, healthy lifestyle. Its mission is to advance professional practice and promote research related to health and physical education, physical activity, dance and sport by providing its members with a comprehensive and coordinated array of resources, support and programs to help practitioners improve their skills to further the health and well being of the American public. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_education General information about physical education or any subject is always on Wikipedia. Be careful, some teachers take Wikipedia for granted and believe it is unreliable because it can be edited by anyone. Wikipedia is a good site to gain general knowledge about a subject. use this as your last source for last minute, hard-to-find research. http://www.pecentral.org/ PE Central is a site that has a lot of information for teachers and students. This site will be a great tool in assisting you in answering your questions and helping your research greatly. PE Central has different ideas and information that helps anyone in finding ideas for physical activity, and they have different activities that help for success. http://www.veanea.org/home/1000.htm Virginia Education Association has a great article that stresses the importance of physical activity. This article is a great key point that will help your project with credible research and answers. http://shine.yahoo.com/back-to-school/why-kids-physical-education-203900739.html This article on Yahoo.com is just an article that talks about why kids need physical education as a learning tool. Also, the article talks about how physical activity stimulates the brain to remember more and prepare the brain for mental tasks. http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/middle/wood/7%20reasons%20why%20PE%20is%20important%2011%2009.htm Yet another article that explains why Physical education is important to not only the body but in mind function as a whole. The article gives seven reasons on why physical education is important to students. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/staying-active-full-story/ Coming from Harvard, it must be good. Benefits of physical activity research by students at Harvard, School of Public Health, tells more reasons of why physical activity is important to not only students but in adults as well. http://www.phitamerica.org/Benefits_of_Physical_Activity.htm PHIT America is a cause and campaign dedicated to increasing physical activity and fitness to improve the health of America. While the name PHIT sounds like FIT, it also has another meaning. PHIT stands for Personal Health Investment Today. They feel we must invest in fitness and sports activities today to improve the health of Americans. How will this PHIT into your presentation? Here is "PROCESS" part You and your group need to find out what your favorite part of gym class was/still is. What were your likes/dislikes, favorite sport/activity that you participated in class? List and create a short paper.   Day 1   Welcome to the class and a short introduction to the assignment. Students will be placed into groups with their individual roles. We will move to the computer lab and each student will sit with their assigned group with access to their own computer. Students will go to the website http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=228060 Students next will individually read the Introduction. After reading the Introduction students will discuss how they can work successfully as a team to accomplish this project. Student then will begin by looking at the their assignment. Students can, if they want, write down notes or questions. Before the end of the hour, have students share as a team what they have discovered. Start researching for your project.  Day 2       1.     Start the day by connecting with your groups onwhat you know. 2.           Figure out what you are about to learn and whatyou want to know about physical education. 3.            Write down questions that pertain tophysical education.   4.            Use the websites that I have given you toanswer these questions.   5.             Be ready with unanswered questionsthat you can either talk to me or your group about. Day 3 1.           Connect with your groups and find out what eachperson knows or hasfound out in yesterday homework. 2.           Organize your material and start working on yourpresentation. 3.           Continue asking questions and finding newinformation that may be interesting to your classmates. 4.           If you have any questions try to look them up,if not then ask me for help.   Day 4 1.           Meet with your groups one last time to answerany questions that you still haven't figured out. 2.           Put the finishing pieces of your projecttogether including your summary and who is going to present what piece. 3.           We will start presentations according to groupnumber.

CNN Postings : Nicaragua's first lending library

This clip is about Jane Mirandette and about her inspiration for Nicaragua's first lending library for schoolchildren. This is really impressive video clip.

She says "My passion is that everybody can access information they need, libraries are available to them, books are available, computer sills language skills driving schools. It goes on and on. There's so much that we can do."

Tasks in Class : I created Treasure Hunt (Reading Activity) : Do you know PIXAR?

My TH topic is animation

This reading activity is aimed at middle school second graders who are in low-intermediate reading level. I considered level of vocabulary and structural complexty of sentences in the webpage, and found that they were in pretty easy level.

The objectives of this activity are developing students' scanning, summarizing, inferencing skills in reading.


Website link : http://www.pixar.com/about/

 

Quenstions :

 1. what did happen to PIXAL in 1986? (summarizing)

 2. Which film was accompanied by short film "Geri's Game" (scanning)
 3. Why your creative ideas can't be accepted by Pixar? (inferencing)

 4. Who do you think will probably be the main character of one of upcoming firm
     "Inside Out" (Inferencing)

 5. Which film won "Oscars for Best Original Song" for "We Belong Together" (Scanning)

Tasks in Class : Treasure Hunt activity : Jackie Chan and Chinese New Year Drawing Contest

August 21, 2014 Design a Buddy Bear Contest Winners Chosen Jackie took some time out of his busy schedule to select the winners for the Design a Buddy Bear Contest! There were so many designs this year and Jackie was impressed with the creativity of his fans. Three winners from each age group have been selected. (Prizes kindly sponsored by the United Buddy Bears in Berlin). Click here to see the winners. (Prizes will be sent out to winners very soon!)   August 4, 2014 The Design a Buddy Bear Contest has officially ended! Wow! The team at JC Kids Corner is totally overwhelmed with the number of entries received over the weekend. Please give us a little time to process and update the Buddy Bear Contest page. All entries will be posted over the next couple of days, and winners will be selected by Jackie and his staff very soon. Thanks again to everyone who participated in this contest. Jackie is looking forward to judging your lovely designs.   July 21, 2014 What a busy weekend we've had at the kids corner with lots of new Buddy Bear Designs being emailed to us! Click here to see all the beautiful designs so far!   July 7, 2014 We received a couple of lovely Buddy Bear designs over the weekend! Click the bear below to see the designs so far!   Click here if you'd like to enter your Buddy Bear design!!   July 1, 2014 Design a Buddy Bear Contest! The annual Design a Buddy Bear Contest is back again!! Get ready to design a Buddy Bear and enter the draw to win some wonderful prizes. For more details on how to enter, click the image below. Entries close on August 02, 2014.   February 28, 2014 Chinese New Year Contest Winners Announced! Jackie has selected the Chinese New Year Contest winners for this year. Click here to see who won!   February 20, 2014 More Entries - Chinese New Year Contest Click here to see the latest updated entries for the Kids Corner Chinese New Year - Year of the Horse contest. We received many lovely drawings this year and Jackie was so impressed with his creative fans, he chose 20 drawings that he liked most and will be sending them a special prize for the Chinese New Year Contest. Winners will be announced soon!   January 30, 2014 CNY Year of the Horse Contest Entries Check out some of the latest Chinese New Year - Year of the Horse Drawing Contest entries! Click here for more information on how to enter.   January 27, 2014 Chinese New Year Drawing Contest We are having another wonderful contest to celebrate the Year of the Horse, 2014. Click the horse below for more information. This year is extra special because Jackie is also born in the Year of the Horse. So, don't forget to enter because Jackie will be judging the contest. Remember, only ONE entry per person!   United Buddy Bears Update A couple of weeks ago, we received some wonderful news from the United Buddy Bears Team in Berlin. A historical mark was reached in November 2013 where over EUR 2 million (around USD $2.7 million) has been raised for children in need! Congratulations to the United Buddy Bears! Jackie has been a supporter of the United Buddy Bears. In 2004 when the Buddy Bears were visitors in Hong Kong, Jackie handed over 3 cheques with a total amount of around €450,000 to the Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF, Community Chest of Hong Kong, and the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation on the day of the opening of this global project. The United Buddy Bears continues to travel the world, and this year will visit Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro for three months from April 2014. (Click here to read more about the United Buddy Bears)   January 26, 2014 Chinese New Year Drawing A BIG THANK YOU to Petra for sending us another wonderful coloring project for the Chinese New Year of the Horse. Click on the picture to download a printable black and white version that you can color!