The GP Blog

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Sporting Scandals

All good sport needs drama, but there have been dramatic events over the years which sport could do without.

Stories of scandal, corruption and villains have brought sporting heroes to their knees.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6227573.stm

For Richer For Poorer

It seems that inequality is greater now than it has been since the 1920s. There is a New Guilded Age of the rich in ever bigger mansions and the poor looking in through the gates.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6656923.stm

Coming Out

Homosexuality is one of the world's biggest taboos.

It has led to riots in Russia, huge splits in the Anglican Church, and was a large factor in the re-election of President Bush. Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe famously proclaimed that homosexuals were "worse than pigs and dogs."

Now in the first of two programmes, Clare English explores what it is like to be gay and asks why some societies are more tolerant than others.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6246332.stm

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Dear All,

Welcome!!!

I started this blog last year for my J1 students. On this blog, I mostly post links to interesting videos, podcasts, newspaper & magazine articles, web pages, online audio programmes etc that I come across for my students. When I have the time, I also try to add in my few cents worth.

If you explore the sidebar apart from a rich variety of links, you will also find hyperlinks to my GP & Lit wikis. It also has a link to my online sharing folder. If you have any notes, ppts or any other resources which you think is interesting or useful for GP or Lit students, please email me. I will upload it either on the GP online sharing folder or one of the two wikis (as appropriate) so that others can download and use them. (Please do keep in mind copyright issues.)

If you follow the GP & Lit wiki links, you will find that apart from resource pages I have also setup online discussion forums for these two subjects. The aim of these forums is to facilitate asynchronous online discussions (AODs). If you have any new topic threads to suggest, email me and I will create it on the forum for your class or group. (I will need forum moderators if this forum grows in future, so volunteers are most welcome).

The next thing I am looking forward to is podcasting. I will keep you updated once I get the hang of it. You can subscribe to my blog & wikis through email notification and RSS feed.

Since this project is still very much in its experimental stage, I welcome your great ideas & suggestions for improvements.

Cheers!!

Mr. Wangyal

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