From Feature Shoot:
Shot over a period of 18 months, Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s project Toy Stories compiles photos of children from around the world with their prized possesions—their toys. Galimberti explores the universality of being a kid amidst the diversity of the countless corners of the world; saying, “at their age, they are pretty all much the same; they just want to play.”
The Pew Forum has put out an interesting article on the Global Religious landscape which, as a Geography teacher at a Catholic school, I find extremely useful. There are some useful visuals in the form of maps and graphs and, on the whole, it’s interesting reading.
Quiet at the back: classrooms around the world – in pictures
The Guardian website has published this interesting photoset: “from the Russian pupils in Prada to the Nigerian children who sit four to a desk, photographer Julian Germain takes us on a journey around the world’s classrooms”. I want to use it either to discuss culture in Social Studies, demographics in Geography or institutions in Sociology. It is just really cool! It also reminds me of this photoset published a while back by The Telegraph.
Destroy racism.
This is amazing. I love when art goes right for the jugular of a critical social issue.
Startling images connect banning same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships to the nation’s history of racial segregation.
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Made this a bit under a year ago. The results are less hardcore at the moment, but it’s still pretty flesh coloured.
All results from the first page or results.
-jethroq
We looked into Google and Google has looked into us.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls8hxsoYTW1qa0uujo1_r1_500.jpg)
A letter 17 year old Zooey Deschanel wrote to the editors of Vogue. Vogue ended up publishing the letter.
(Source: respectisbeautiful, via positivelypersistentteach)
Goodbye y13s
The y13s last day is today. They all dressed in green and mucked up the whole school during lunch. As this is my first job, I haven’t had to say goodbye to a group before. They are half my teaching load!
Today we had food, lots of it, and then some of them gave me thank you gifts. It was entirely unexpected and very kind. One girl got me stickers which I LOVE. I give stickers out to all my classes, regardless of age, for good behaviour/work ethic and only 3 students have ever refused the power of the sticker. So, it was exciting to receive thank you gifts, it was even more exciting to receive thank you gifts which meant something. Good luck in the future y13s!
