Wow of the week - 22.10 - Racism in football

Dear all

 

This week the WOW of the week questions the problem of Racism in Football.

 

It might be worth starting with a discussion about what Racism and Discrimination means. Have any students seen it in sport?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/19974394 - news report on the racial incident in England's under 21 game last week.

Discuss - is Football a more racist sport than others? How do we know? Why might we think it is?

What is being done to stop racism in football?

http://www.kickitout.org/ - the official website to get rid of racism in football.

Explore the web page and the various campaigns.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/20025598 

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20001544- Rio Ferdinand's decision not to wear a 'kick it out' T shirt.

Discuss - Was Rio F right to decide not to wear the T-shirt? Should he be disciplined or is he making a valid point?

 

Does it shock you that in today's world racist attacks and events like occur in big sporting events televised around the world?

 

 

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Realtime Board - Collaborative Online Brainstorming

Realtime Board is a new online tool for hosting online, collaborative brainstorming sessions. Realtime Board provides a blank grid on which you can type, draw, and post pictures. You can connect elements on your boards through a simple linking tool. The boards that you create on Realtime Board can be shared publicly or privately. To help you communicate with your collaborators Realtime Board has a chat function built into every board.

 

RealtimeBoard (Eng) from RealtimeBoard on Vimeo.

You can use Realtime Board by creating an account on the site. You can also use Realtime Board by signing in with your Google or Facebook account. 

 

 

Applications for Education
Realtime Board could be a great tool for students to use to work together to generate mind maps or to plan a project.

Stop Frame Animator - Create Stop Motion Videos

Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Creating your animated stop motion video is a simple drag and drop process on Stop Frame Animator.

To get started creating your stop motion video select a background scene then drag your characters into place. While you have nine background scenes to choose from, the only characters you can use are wooden manikins. You can position the manikins' arms and legs in every scene. After choosing your scene and characters you can add some other props like chairs and beach balls. And if you want you can add sound effects and music to your video by selecting them from the Stop Frame Animator gallery.

 

 

Stop Frame Animator productions cannot be saved locally, but they can be saved online if you create an account. You can share your productions by emailing them to friends.

Applications for Education
If you're looking for a different way for your students to create short stories, have them try Stop Frame Animator. The challenge of using Stop Frame Animator is getting students to tell stories without using words. This process will require students to make careful selection of props and sound effects.

Thanks to Nathan Hall for sharing Stop Frame Animator with me.