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Contextual English Camp: A

New Framework for

Planning When: Wednesday, September 18,

2013

Time: 18:00 Brasilia Time

Where: https://conx.state.gov/peru

Description: Ryan Brux, English

Language Fellow based in Tarapoto,

Peru, will look at s’more ways to ap-

proach intensive English camps, in-

cluding how to target specific lan-

guage goals using highly contextual-

ized and content-rich activities. This

webinar will look at different activi-

ties through a language lens, and offer

ideas for how conventional camp activ-

ities can be used to effectively target

specific language objectives.

Format: This program will be a live

video webchat in English.

Study in the USA: Fairleigh

Dickinson University

When: Thursday, September 19, 2013

Time: 09:00 Brasilia Time

Where: https://conx.adobeconnect.com/

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Description: Learn about how you

can study in the USA as an interna-

tional student! Join a live webchat

with Frank Bowman, Assistant Direc-

tor of International Admissions at

Fairleigh Dickinson University. He

will give a presentation and answer

your questions online about how to

apply to this school.

Format: This program will be a video

webchat in English. Please click on

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a ‘Guest’ to participate.

Strategies for Motivating

and Managing English

Language Learners When: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 Time: 19:30 Brasilia Time

Where: https://conx.adobeconnect.com/

chile

Description: Are you an English

teacher running out of ways to keep

your students engaged and excited

about the English language? If so,

U.S. Embassy Santiago invites you to

a series of live webchats on strategies

for motivating and managing English

language learners. Join experts Mar-

tha Epperson, an English Language

Fellow from the Universidad de Chile,

and Brad Horn of the State Depart-

ment’s Regional English Learning

Office in Santiago.

Format: This program will be a video

webchat in English.

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Helft, Miguel. How Youtube changes everything. Fortune, v. 168, Issue 2, Aug. 2013.

The article reports on the success of video streaming website YouTube in 2013, discussing how it is changing how viewers

consume video including television and movies. Topics include how the website allows users to develop short web series

that are more interactive than traditional television shows, how Internet company Google acquired YouTube in 2006, and

why many teenagers prefer Internet videos to television shows.

Faunce, Thomas. Powering the world with artificial photosynthesis: humans are learning to mimic plant pro-

cesses for producing sustainable energy. The Futurist, May-June 2013. Imagine all built structures--buildings, roads, bridges--capable of making their own hydrogen fuel by using sunlight to

split water. Imagine further that they can all absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen, turning it into food or ferti-

lizer. Such an engineering feat would be the very blueprint for a sustainable world. Human structures at last would pay

their own way in art ecosystem sense. More solar energy strikes the Earth's surface in one hour of each day than the ener-

gy used by all human activities in one year. World energy consumption is currently about 450 exajules per year (EJ/yr), or

125,000 terawatt hours.

Katel, Peter. Preparing for disaster: are “preppers” overstanding the risk of catastrophe? CQ Researcher, v. 168,

Issue 1, July 2013.

People getting ready for cataclysmic disasters by stockpiling food, water and, in many cases, guns are easy to dismiss as

alarmists. But a stream of natural and human-created disasters has made so-called “preppers” seem less eccentric and

more sensible. Even the Red Cross and government agencies recommend assembling emergency supplies and planning for

disaster. Some preppers go several steps beyond — building rural retreats, for example, where they would hole up if socie-

ty fell apart. To the more alarmed segment of the movement, a collapse of modern civilization is not so much a possibility

as a probability. Overall, though, even the “prepper” label signifies a more mainstream, less politicized approach than the

“survivalism” of the late 20th century. Meanwhile, politicians and scientists share some preppers' fears about the vulnera-

bility of the national power grid and other vital services.

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Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes. Limelight on mobile learning: integrating educa-

tion and innovation. Harvard International Review. v. 4, n. 34, Spring 2013. Mobile apps and tablets have assumed a prominent position in the landscape of

technology use in education and training, as anticipated by the EDUCAUSE

2012 Horizon Report. With mobile phone subscriptions totalling around six bil-

lion, and predictions that sales of tablets and e-book readers will increase sub-

stantially as prices continue to fall, mobile devices are rightly seen as a compel-

ling means of solving pressing global problems in education. Numerous success-

es have already been recorded. However, concurrently, the rise of social, round-

the-clock Internet activity supporting voluntary, loosely organized, informal

learning is posing significant challenges for traditional classroom-based educa-

tion as well as distance teaching.