Hi everyone!  If you find any resources or tools that are related to things we are talking about in class, please post them here as a comment. Feel free to send appropriate YouTube videos, websites, images, (maybe even memes), anything you find that is related to what we're doing or have done in the classroom. Make sure to put a brief description connecting your contribution to what we do in class. Looking forward to seeing what we can come up with!
Ms. Youssef
3/18/2012 04:25:42 am

I'll start us off! Since we read and discussed Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden" way earlier in the year AND you all have been talking about the #Kony2012 campaign, here's an article that brings the two together...

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/african-critics-of-kony-campaign-hear-echoes-of-the-white-mans-burden/

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Ms. Youssef
3/18/2012 04:53:47 am

Speaking of the White Man's Burden, check out this soap ad from 1890 ... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/1890sc_Pears_Soap_Ad.jpg

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Ms. Youssef
3/18/2012 06:07:06 am

Related to the poem, "Departmental" by Robert Frost; we talked about the crazy super-efficiency of ants. Here's a brief clip from the podcast mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO94UM9809g

Here's the link to the whole podcast (titled Emergence): http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/14/

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Mohammad Siddiqui
4/22/2012 12:08:26 pm

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/552983_287178674697356_1421403216_n.jpg

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