Comments on: Google Street View

By: Jamie Keddie

Jamie Keddie — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:03:06 +0000

Thank you Seda
Don’t be tentative about making changes – that’s what it’s all about. I would never expect any teacher to follow the plan exactly. In fact, I probably like you way better!
Good luck and let me/us know how you get on
Jamie :)

By: Seda Oz

Seda Oz — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:18:12 +0000

Hello,
Thank you for sharing this great lesson plan.
I haven’t tried it yet though it seems a lot fun.
The only thing is I’m planning to change the process a little.
After describing couple of the pictures to my students as an intro, I will ask them to pick up one – without actually seeing the picture – and describe it to the others. I hope it works ok.

By: Jamie Keddie

Jamie Keddie — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:16:54 +0000

Hello Hanna
I like your variation. Thank you for sharing.
Hope all is well in Poland!
Jamie :)

By: Hanna

Hanna — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:34:48 +0000

Hi Jamie,
Thanks for this lesson plan. I used it couple of days ago with my group of IT specialists. I was looking for sth ‘light’ as an end-of-semester activity and it worked very, very well :) They had super-funny ideas working out the connection between the photos. I asked them not to write anything while listening to the descriptions but ‘allowed’ them to write one, characteristic word or phrase just to remember the order of the photos and help them to recall the language. As a follow up, I showed them more images and we were thinking up good/funny titles for them. Great fun :)

By: Jamie Keddie

Jamie Keddie — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:28:08 +0000

Thank you Darsiman
I really appreciate your nice comment
Jamie :)

By: Darsiman Marsudi

Darsiman Marsudi — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:03:07 +0000

I love spending my time reading the content in this great website. It’s so cool and inspiring. Thank you so much

By: Jamie Keddie

Jamie Keddie — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:52:01 +0000

Hello Stephen
Are you referring to the term ‘artfag’. It was new to me. From Urban Dictionary:

n.1) an art student fully immersed in the art school culture, i.e. dressing in all-black or the trendiest rummage sale attire, listening to music only played on college radio, and referring to obscure artists or writers constantly

2) one who uses “artistic” to explain dubious decisions or behaviors
That art fag welded a high-heel to an umbrella and ran around the Village all day in the rain.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=art+fag
Jamie :)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:58:57 +0000

I tried dictating the URL to the students to research in our computer lab on their own to find a couple images they thought were interesting and to work out their captions. Too bad about the “unfortunate” name of Mr Rafman’s website! =S

By: Jamie Keddie

Jamie Keddie — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:06:18 +0000

Hello Maria

The best thing to do is to look at it on Amazon. Do you know the ‘Look inside’ function? Well, that will allow you to read some of it and get a feel. You can see some of the activities in this way. here is the link:

http://goo.gl/sxvWX

And if you like it, you can get it from Amazon, order it in a bookshop or buy it from Oxford:
http://goo.gl/ZR3kE

Hope you like it!
Jamie :)

By: ParaskevopoulouMaria

ParaskevopoulouMaria — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:36:30 +0000

I will inform you Jamie as soon as I will try the specific lesson plan..Could you please tell me a few words about your book ‘Images’? What is it about and where can I find it? thank you in advance..
Maria