Discussion Club Schedule of November at the English Teaching Resource Center Kyiv-Mohyla AcademyFriday, November 2 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM: Envisioning Your Goals (The last Club of the series) For those who have attended the previous meetings of the series “Envisioning Your Goals” Moderator: Eve Smith, Senior English Language Fellow, U.S. Department of State The discussion group will complete the visualization posters. Friday, November 16 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM: TEDTalks’ Watching and Discussion: Elizabeth Gilbert Moderator: Eve Smith, Senior English Language Fellow, U.S. Department of State TED.com makes the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 1200 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences - the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer - TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, talks about maintaining and encouraging artists and their creative spirit in healthy ways, debunking the commonly held belief that artists must suffer to create great work. Friday, November 23 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM: TEDTalks’ Watching and Discussion: Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology Moderator: Eve Smith, Senior English Language Fellow, U.S. Department of State At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. Address: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy 2 Skovorody St. Building #3, Room #121 |
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