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Britain's Favourite Supermarket Foods with Cherry Healey Series2 Episode2, July 2013, BBC1 London Synopsis We're used to hearing the bad news about the food we eat, but what's the good news? In this series, presenter Cherry Healey travels the length and breadth of Britain to discover whether science can unlock the hidden health powers of some of our favourite foods. With the help of scientists, dieticians and the Great British public, she finds out that there can be healthy secrets lurking in the most surprising places. In this episode, Cherry Healey tests the daily staples that may help with everything from our hearts to our teeth: coffee, chocolate, potatoes, cheese, curry and berries.

Cherry Healey: How to Get a Life Work & Play July 2012, BBC3 Synopsis Cherry Healey investigates why people work so hard and play so hard in a world that never switches off. When so many of us are working longer hours than ever before, how are we also partying as if our lives depended on it? And is it really making us happy or just stressed? Cherry meets a man who works 20 hours a day, a group of lads who regularly blow their weekly wages in one night and a single mum who holds down four jobs.

Cherry Healey: How to Get a Life How Prejudiced Are We? July 2012, BBC3 Synopsis Cherry Healey is on a quest to find out how prejudiced we are in today’s politically-correct world. Are we as open-minded as we like to think we are or are intolerance and bigotry still rife in the UK? She meets a female firefighter, a black ballet dancer, a wheelchair user and a victim of discrimination in the workplace to get a snapshot of modern Britain. Cherry spends time with those challenging stereotypes to find out how our preconceptions - and hers - have changed

What Makes a Masterpiece? January 2012, Channel 4, Science challenges art Synopsis Matthew Cain presents a three-part series exploring the world of art through ’neuro-aesthetics’, a field of scientific research that looks at how the brain processes art. In the third episode, Cain explores the world of visual art. The experiments throw up some surprising results about what we respond most strongly to, even casting Brit Art "enfant terrible" (terrible child) Damien Hirst in a different light.

Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook December 2011, BBC2 England Synopsis Emily Maitlis reports on life inside Facebook. In just seven years, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg went from college dorm to running a business with millions of users, and a value of many billions of dollars. His idea to ‘make the world more open and connected’ has sparked a revolution in communication, and now looks set to have a huge impact on business too. Featuring a rare interview with Zuckerberg himself, the film tells the story of Facebook’s creation, looks at the accuracy of The Social Network movie, and examines Facebook’s plans to use the personal information it has collected to power a new kind of online advertising.

Too Poor for Posh School March 2010, Channel 4 Synopsis Documentary following the journey of three boys as they undergo a relentless day of tests and interviews for a scholarship to London’s Harrow School, which normally charges as much as the average British salary per year in fees.

The Apprentice Series 4 Episode 10 (May 2008) Documentary Reality TV BBC1, London Synopsis With just six candidates remaining, the pressure is on to win and make it through to the penultimate task. Sir Alan gives the teams a choice of supercars and challenges them to rent them out to members of the public.

Here's a short audio tutorial by Marsha Chan about how to put comments on a student recording, using a microphone and computer software, in this case, the program "Audacity". Marsha Chan, from the Orals Skills & Technology EVO kindly shared this enhanced podcast: Title: Using Audacity to add comments on a student oral recording URL: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/166635 Here's what she said about it: "This enhanced podcast* describes how language teachers can import a student recording, record comments and corrections, export the file as an mp3, and teach listeners to hear one or both tracks" *Note: An enhanced podcast is one that features pictures. You'll need to watch it on the Ourmedia webpage or in iTunes to be able to see the pictures. (This text copied from a message from Graham Stanley)

Hi Geoff here! This post is about "blogging", or "web logging", or using a "web journal". What is a blog? A blog is just a web-page or set of web-pages that are published and presented in reverse chronological order, from the top of the page down. A blog could have one author, or shared authorship. It can include text, images, hyperlinks, and other types of media. For further info, see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog >. Some example blogs: Baghdad Burning OxBlog Veronica's Diary Is it difficult to start a blog? No, blogs are relatively easy to get to grips with in a very short time. to create a blog to change the design to maintain and archive old posts (normally done automatically) to add pages/posts, e.g. on a daily basis One really cool thing is that one can in many cases either compose posts on the Web, or in a desktop software program, or by emailing to an automated service. This ease of use of blogs makes possible Tim Berners-Lee...

Dear colleagues Here's a heads-up on a choice of 6-week long online professional development sessions, from the Electronic Village Online. It seems a genuine opportunity, with reputable session leaders from TESOL's CALL cadre. It's free, and you can participate from the comfort of your favourite computer location, at home or in school! Geoff Taylor Here follows a summary of the home page call for participation: Electronic Village Online Call for Participation Jan-Feb 2006 For six weeks, participants can engage with ESOL experts in collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions will bring together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by the four-day land-based TESOL convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas and themes of the convention or of professional interest in general. The sessions are free and open to all interested parties. You do not need to be a TESOL...

Hi, Geoff here. This entry is about podcasts for English language students, and teachers. (I've recently started listening to them a lot, and am very enthusiastic about them!) > What is a podcast? A podcast is an audio file that can be downloaded from the Internet and listened to on a PC or Mac, or copied to a personal digital music player, such as an iPod, or - depending on the model - a mobile phone. Generally, they are like short radio shows, produced by the BBC and other big audio content publishers, but also by thousands or tens of thousands of enthusiastic amateurs and independent publishers around the world. > What content can we hear in podcasts? A wide range of podcast subjects is available, including film reviews, comedy sketches, news and sports reports and current affairs discussions, to name just a few. There are educational podcasts - tutorials - aimed at a variety of technical and non-technical subjects, including English language learning. (See below for some...

Hello St Clare's, Oxford staff! This is a blog - a web log or web diary - for teachers and other staff at the Bardwell Road Centre, St Clare's, Oxford, to share teaching ideas, weblinks and other resources. Any and all of us can publish entries on it, at any time. If you have an idea or cool weblink for your colleagues, this could be a good way to share. It's all done in the web browser, so you don't need special software, and you can use a Windows PC or a Mac. Blogs are organised chronologically, with the latest entry appearing at the top of the page. Entries for each month are archived, typically by the month and year, so it should be easy to find information in earlier entries. You can easily join the blog team for this blog, the Bardwell Road Centre and add your own posts, sharing your ideas and findings. Send Geoff an email at gjtaylor99@yahoo.co.uk . Best wishes Geoff Taylor