Seminarium och föreläsningar som kan var intressanta - obs! på engelska!

If you're thinking about studying at a higher level after folkhögskola, or just fancy an intellectual challenge, consider attending one or more of the following FREE events.

1) Monday 18th January, 13:00-16:00, Södertörn University, Flemingsberg
Europe's Migration Crisis: Understanding National Responses, East and West

2) Monday 25th January, 18:00 - 20:00, Stockholm University
Richard M Stallman - For a Free Digital Society

3) Tuesday 16th February, 09:00 - 12:00, Slottsbacken 6 (Gamla Stan), Stockholm
Forum Syd Seminar: Anti-discrimination in Eastern Europe -  registration required!

I want to go - but not on my own! So if you're interested, let me know and we'll see if we can form a group to travel together/meet up and keep one another company.

If you need to miss lessons to attend, make sure you talk to your teachers.
School has SL cards to borrow if needed.

So, what do you say...







gordon.mcculloch@folkbildning.net

Time travelling with Google Street View

It's interesting when media draws attention to itself - like this:
Teletubbies - Laa Laa shows a film on her tummy screen

So I felt I had to share this experience of looking up a local hotel in Google Street View:



Swivel to the left and you'll see a restaurant. There's snow and ice everywhere and it looks pretty bleak.

Now try stepping forward into the car park...



It's the Google Streetview team setting up their equipment and planning their routes!

Much as I enjoy my job, it must be fun to work for Google. It has a certain mystique - almost like brain surgery...


Anyway, back to Årsta and if we move forward out of the car park and we see that the Google Streetview team have gone, but they've left behind a gift to the people of Årsta...



Google Street View has a history function - click on the date at the top left hand corner of a Street View page to reveal a timeline. Think what fun people will have with this function in a couple of hundred years!

In my lifetime, I look forward to doing this:



Dear students & colleagues, thank you for a great Michaelmas Term and look forward to seeing you on Monday 11th January for the commencement of Hilary Term in our English courses at Hagabergs folkhögskola.

Wonders of the Human Body

Here is the link to our presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e03t_A89SS3KLBrP5EHluuT4NAN3eZk7YMlopJaCaMo/edit?usp=sharing

Choose one part (or aspect) of the human body that you want to learn more about.

Read as much as you can around your subject.

Present the highlights of your research in the shared Google presentation above. Feel free to create extra pages. Include references to what you've read - think of this primarily as a reading exercise and then as a teaching exercise.

Some useful websites:

http://www.innerbody.com/

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body

Technology that is changing our lives

Today we watched this cool video:

We also learnt how to activate subtitles and transcripts in different languages for TED talks...

Inspired by Mr. Rosling (who incidentally has a problem pronouncing "chair" - making it sound like "share"), we settled on the following 2 questions:

What technology is changing your life the most?

What technology are you most thankful for?

Share your thoughts and pictures here:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qLnriHtGzvi_M4wKorPczIEbnNiaKKCPHAhqgOBOLc4/edit?usp=sharing

Week 48 - Learning the lessons of WW2

As I'm away on Monday, here are the rest of the parts of Timothy Snyder's essay that we've been studying over the past few weeks:

Hitler's world may not be so far away - parts 1-6

By now, most of you have read parts 1-3 and as you're reading more quickly, I decided to put up the rest of the article in one go - parts 4-6 are waiting to be read.

Other students are working on their alternatives to Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Inspired by Snyder, we've also begun to look at visions of the future. 

Here is the TED talk we looked at on Wednesday:

Timothy Snyder lecture

As we're in the middle of reading a rather complex essay by Timothy Snyder, you might be interested in the following lecture he gave in Ohio Wesleyan University in 2013: 

Snyder, T. “The Global Holocaust: the Central European Past and Our Future,” Ohio Wesleyan University,
30 January 2013. https://youtu.be/bkdcFWUOc10?t=10m56s

Worth watching for the extra light he sheds on the same subject. Also, the questions and discussion after the lecture are also really good: https://youtu.be/bkdcFWUOc10?t=1h5m16s

Thanks to Isa who shared this!