Posts Tagged ‘ 21st Century ’

Actualités: Inauguration of Google’s new headquarters in Paris

December 6, 2011
By Rachel
Google Press Conference December 6, 2011, Paris

Film: Visite inaugurale du nouveau siège de Google France Google France opened a new headquarters in Paris today – an event which, interestingly, merited a press conference with none other than President Sarkozy and Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt. Given the rocky relationship between the technology behemoth and France, it was indeed, as Sarkozy put it...Read more »

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Where is French really spoken? Mapping Twitter use by language

November 9, 2011
By Rachel
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Map enthusiast Eric Fischer has shared a wonderful language-mapping image via his Flickr stream.  It is a map of Twitter use by language. There is some overlap in color key, so you have to deduce whether Twitter users are using French or Malay, but nonetheless this is a pretty cool visualization of language. If...Read more »

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Using Film Shorts in Class: Paris je t’aime

November 7, 2010
By Rachel
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Sometimes the objectives of a course require the viewing of a full-length film in class. For example, in a writing class I have used La Fille sur le pont (1999) and Vipère au poing (2004) as the basis for an assignment on writing a critical review. But in the language classroom, where it’s more...Read more »

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Articles on Contemporary France

October 25, 2010
By Rachel
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It was recently brought to my attention that the journal Modern & Contemporary France is offering articles for free. Many of the subjects are relevant for a course in French civilization, post-revolutionary French history, or literature. In preparing for a civilization course I’ll be teaching in the spring, I was particularly drawn to the following...Read more »

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Le Parkour

June 10, 2010
By Rachel
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Online Sources: Interview with David Belle, Parkour’s inventor, on ParkourFrance Parkour Blog with an article about David Belle you can download New Yorker article on Parkour from 2007Read more »

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