You found this amazing blog – that’s a good start. To answer the question above:

No, we aren’t there yet.

This blog will be continued and updated whenever necessary to give you an idea of what happens in my English lessons. This may be an advantage if you just pretend to be attentive and want to have a little nip during school time. Then you’ll have to have a look at this amazing blog…

If you just want to get some ideas for topics, projects or are bored and do not know how to spend your leisure time in a more sociable way you are just as welcome.

For those who are fed up to turn the pages of their dictionaries, try the links below. They are for free and can save you a lot of time you could spend reading more interesting things or having a nice time with your friends.

http://dict.leo.org  or www.pons.de 

For monolinguistic matters you may find all you need at www.yourdictionary.com or www.m-w.com (Merriam Webster’s online dictionary). All these dictionaries are free; you do not have to pay for them.

For all those who have to do with chemistry there is a list of about 29 pages that can be found at  http://english-for-runaways.blog.com/useful-vocabulary/ . There you will find technical terms that are in some cases quite specific and not necessarily in your dictionary. I hope you’ll find everything you need.

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Hello again to the new term 2009/2010!

I hope you enjoyed the summer holidays and returned healthy and relaxed.

As the BBS Naturwissenschaften joined the project schools “Medienkompetenz macht Schule in Rheinland-Pfalz” (http://medienkompetenz.rlp.de/gehezu/startseite.html) there might be a project that deals with this topic this year or the next.

You all use media, especially the Internet, without even thinking about the implications, chances and risks. Normally the development that you undergo reaches the schools five to ten years later so that you are the ones who have profoundly more experience with these media than your teachers do. But experience without reflection is just doing things by halves. This is where the teachers can help to channel what you know already and try to make this information specifically accessible to others. This is just what the project tries to achieve: To gather relevant information and individual experience and share it with others who might benefit from it or just have the opportunity of personal exchange.

Furthermore the project tries among other things to improve the quality of the lessons by using new and varied media, offer further education, expand the protection of juvenile users, provide relevant soft- and hardware, and create projects together with external partners (http://medienkompetenz.rlp.de/10-punkte-programm.html ).

For all those who have problems with communities, mobbing on the Internet or addiction to online games try https://www.klicksafe.de/ to find help there.

In spite of swine flu, tests and bad weather I wish you a Merry Christmas and a jolly good time at home with your family. Those who have their final examinations right now…

… keep a stiff upper lip – it will all work out fine!!!

 Well, it took some time, but we finally finished our project about the Internet . We – that is the CTA 09 a who worked out some interesting topics. They bothered about different aspects of the Internet and did some research in order to give a brief survey of the topic of their choice to those who are not really at home in this field of the (still so-called) new media. They mixed information from school, books, the Internet (aha…) and their own experience and, as I think, really did a very good job. Of course this is an endless field, but we tried to figure out what is most useful for the group of people who are still at school and have to work with the Internet every day. The project is called

Lost in Digital Space?

Curious? Have a look at

http://digitalspace.blog.com .

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And remember: The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. (Alvin Toffler)