1. MC's set up with a short video explainer that the students and I will make. It will be along the lines of the trailer, but with Ss’ involvement. We’ll shoot footage for that on Thursday.

(10 min at most in 602)

2. The break out sessions where each group has 15 min (45 total in the lounge):

a. 3 to spare for shuffling

b. 4 per student to show off their research, which can include interaction with media or with the guests.

3. The mingle (in 602/ the lounge):

The final part of our class will be 20 minutes of mingling and interacting with the sites and students.

So: I set aside from 2:30 until 3:40-50 (roughly the class’ end time). That should be an hour and ten (to fifteen) minute long event give or take.

A reminder of how to generate your FINAL EXAM (for 11/19)

The academic word list (AWL) and your lists:

Practice and demo page for your project

Transition to Nausicaä and reading strategies

We have been reading about Chernobyl, but now will switch to a fantasy about the end of humanity. It is the year 3,000 and humans have wiped out most of the world through nuclear and other types of war and environmental disasters.

All that remains are small pockets of civilization, including The Valley of the Wind, the one place where the wind and the sea allow for cleaner living. This small city-state, and its brave princess struggle to survive in this dangerous dystopia.

Steps to success:

Get the book if you haven't yet. Note that PDF copies are available, but possibly illegal (I recommend the book/download at your own risk)
Day one's goal is to p.45
Skim and scan to meet this goal
- Skimming is a speed reading strategy that focuses on key words and faster reading. The gist of the story is more important that every word and detail
- Scanning is a faster way of looking for important points. In an academic text it would mean reading the headings, or searching for relevant images or diagrams to understand the organization of the chapter and then find important details. In manga, you can scan by looking for major action images or longer sections of text and then skim those longer dialogues.

4. Do not forget about vocabulary. Let one of your reading partners record words to ask Christopher and words to add to your spreadsheet.

Listening options:

Vocabulary from the final episode of Chernobyl!

These are the words from the final episode of the miniseries that we watched in class (HBO's Chernobyl). Please put at least 15 of them onto your:

vocabulary sheet!

Possible words:

Coefficent
reactivity
Steam
oxygen
hydrogen

Your Groups:

a note on how groups were chosen...

Reality: Juri, Emma, Cayla, Jung Bae

Fantasy: Haitao, Esther, Camille, Chan

Alternatives: Alex, David, Kelly , Chelsea

Now your job is to choose the remaining roles

And to refine your category into a topic or topics

that you can all work on!

Roles:

Designers and Meeting managers are fixed. Choose Editor/Project manager

Building your sites

For much, much more on this, check here: tinyurl.com/tech10gs

Build ONE site per group

Share that site with each other and

Christopher (nazzaroc@newschool.edu)

This video shows how to begin

A perfect example (or nearly so)

please use only your NEW SCHOOL email for this project

Your choice of topic matters!

By telling me your choices on the discussion board you help me select the groups.

Please see the images below to remind you of the choices which were broadly:

Environmental Realities: current events

or historical problems such as oil spills or Fukushima

Environmental Fantasies: such as dystopias (Nausicaä/Blade Runner)

or Utopias (check out this podcast: Nice Try)

Environmental Alternatives: immediate choices to do better now.

Solar/Wind/safer nuclear/geothermal/tidal/water power

This is for the vocabulary of void and exit, transit, orbit

Also: Onieda (see this podcast!)

Your three choices: Reality, Fantasy and Alternatives

Also, alternatives and fantasies are listed in this picture

A longer view of the board. It reminds us:

Choice 1 is Reality and is about history or current events
Choice 2 is Fantasy and is about u/dystopias
Choice 3 is about Alternatives such as:

Here are some historical and current pollution problems:

Nuclear disasters and bombs
Oil spills, seepage, and leakage
CO2 pollution from fossil fuel use = warming
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) = acid rain
Diseases caused by pollution:

So: your choice of topic matters! Tell me by 10/11

on the discussion board and you will help me (and Tamara) select the groups.

The choices:

Environmental Realities: current events or historical problems such as oil spills or Fukushima
Environmental Fantasies: such as dystopias (Nausicaä/Blade Runner) or Utopias (check out this podcast: Nice Try)
Environmental Alternatives (immediate choices to do better now): Solar/wind/nuclear/geothermal/tidal/water power

Flashcards and Testing!

As it says in the photo, our midterm will be 50% vocabulary test (from your flashcards @ cram.com

And 50% chart, like your personal google sheet, where you must fill in the forms for 10 of the words that I will choose from your personal sheet.

The steps to making your cards are below:

Steps for making flash cards (there are 10ish):

Use the TEST Copy of your sheet that we made in class.

Make sure that there are only 3 columns: word | translation| definition

If you want your answers to be the translation, make the second column the translation column:

like this: word | translation | definition
The google translate formulas (copy and paste this, and drag it down over the whole column to translate everything) are:
=(googletranslate (A2, "en", "ko") for Korean
=(googletranslate (A2, "en", "zh-cn") for Chinese

Go to cram.com

1.SIGN IN with google (your New School account only, please)

2.Choose: "create new set" (see image below)

3. Name your cards

4. Access Google Drive (see below)

5. Confirm your new school account! (see below)

Step 5, a closer look:

• I know you already signed in

• Do it again to link your google sheets

• make sure you choose the New School account!!

• Your TEST copy should be what you select. It should have 50 words and three columns:

word | translation | definition

Or it won't work

Step 6:

Choose your TEST copy

Your google sheets should be automatically linked as long as you signed in twice!

two possible errors:

1: whoops! THIS IS BAD. Go back to your test copy and make sure there are only 3 columns:

word | translation | definition

2: The second error is fine. Just push ok. No worries.

Step 7: preview your sheet

Make sure that your 3 columns look ok, check that there are 50 words, then click IMPORT DATA.

If there are only 10 words, make sure you are signed in

Step 8: preview your cards/

Step 9: Final step: Finish & Create Set

Make sure that your 2 cards show the English and your language OR the definition

Remember column 2 from your TEST copy sheet = the answer card (right side)

When you click Create Set, you will be done (see below for the final results) DO NOT CANCEL!

Note: If there are extra or mistaken cards you can delete them like this:

Finally, the results, your cards:

NOW STUDY!

Week 4, class 7: technical vocabulary and trip to NYPL

Episode 4 vocabulary

Many technical details: more to be revealed in the next episode, The Trial

Add these to your spreadsheets!

Control rods + video explanation*

Humiliation/ate/ed (V3/past participle)

Naive (look for the noun form)

Conviction (definition 2)

Pointlessness (check the adjective form)

Idealistic

*The video is complex. Watch at 3/4 speed! Also it starts when the control rods are explained. For a more detailed explanation see this: more complex video.

Our trip to Jefferson Market Library

Did you know it was a courthouse? (See below, last picture)

Some of us got library cards!

We read our books with the library patrons in the reading room!

And we raced the hell out of there! No one even waited for me to check out my books. 3:45 = DONE ;P

Week 4, class 6: settling into routines

Things to take note of:

Always check the calendar page for more information

We checked in with the calendar to see what is going on. Here are some dates that are important:

Thursday 9/26: Trip to Jefferson Library (last trip for FVR)
MIDTERM! Tuesday October 8th.

Some vocab from today:

You may want to add these words to your vocabulary sheets:

Also: see the homework page to keep up to date on all assignments. Your vocab sheets will be graded on 9/25.

If you missed a class, be sure to do the work from that day!

Breaking News!*

HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ takes the limited series category.

“Chernobyl” won for best limited series, along with awards for writing and directing. CreditMike Blake/Reuters

In the [best] limited series category, HBO’s “Chernobyl,” about the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster in the Soviet Union, edged [beat] Netflix’s “When They See Us,” a series from the filmmaker Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five, who were wrongfully convicted and sent to prison as teenagers for the 1989 rape and assault of a jogger in New York City.

“Chernobyl,” which appeared on HBO last spring without much fanfare, became an unlikely critical darling. It won a total of three Emmys on Sunday: Craig Mazin, the show’s creator, took the award for best writing, and it was honored for directing as well.

With the Emmys’ habit of rewarding the same shows in drama, variety and comedy year after year, the limited series category has become the ceremony’s most intriguing. With little chance of winning in other major series categories, Netflix was holding out hope that it would prevail with DuVernay’s show...

...Beneath the competition between “When They See Us” and “Chernobyl” in the limited series category was the heated Emmys rivalry between HBO and Netflix. HBO took the crown this year, earning 34 Emmy wins compared to Netflix’s 27.

* this was also from Tamara ;)

From Tamara:

Your listening and speaking teacher is keeping an eye on this class and will even visit us early in October!

She sent on these interesting photos, related to our class, and an article about reading's amazing benefits:

The Children of Chernobyl affected by Cancer.

Brothers? Did one get cancer while one was spared?

The Children of Chernobyl affected by Cancer.

This is a photo taken in 1996. Did this child get to grow up?

Learning to read boosts the visual brainHow does learning to read change our brain? Does reading take up brain space dedicated to seeing objects such as faces, tools or houses? In a functional brain imaging study, a research team compared literate and illiterate adults in India. Reading recycles a brain region that is already sensitive to evolutionarily older visual categories, enhancing rather than destroying sensitivity to other visual input.

Class 5: No board pics, but plenty of books!

We visited two stores:

Alabaster Books
The Strand

Don't forget about the fashion section! There are plenty of beautiful and interesting books there!

This is a very large graphic novel section, and the Young Adult section. Both are on F2 of The Strand.

The children's section is HUGE! Plus there are books here that would suit any level of student!

Class 4: vocabulary in high gear!

If you would like to add these words to your spreadsheet, do it! And see the board pics here.

These, and other, medical terms do not need to be perfectly understood! Even the character from the comic doesn't understand what the doctor is saying in the shot from this phone! (see below):

Proper nouns matter!

Remember what I said in class about my listening to Japanese podcasts: "I may not understand everything, but I know the topics because of proper nouns." The weather is about place names. Politicians names signal political news. Proper nouns, like the names in the picture, tell you the who and where of what's happening in the book. They are not "vocabulary" per se, but they are still important.

On materials: see diamond for more on carbon forms.

We discussed...

• the exclusion zone

"What is the cost of lies?" - Valeri Lagosov

Here the cost is lives lost to cancer as the evacuation (or exclusion) zone should be 200km, whereas the Soviet Russian government only evacuated 30km of area at first. Why did they lie?