RTÉ Archives - The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

On 9 November 1989, after 28 years, the Berlin Wall came down. RTÉ Archives looks back at life on both sides of the Berlin Wall in the mid-1960s.

In this extract from RTÉ current affairs series ‘Sixty Five’, John O’Donoghue reports from Communist East Berlin.

From the Brandenburg Gate, O’Donoghue reports on the divide between East and West Berlin, the changes that have taken place since the end of World War Two, and life in the East.

This episode was first broadcast on 21 October 1965.

Source: rte.ie

Lesson plans from Google

‘Did you know that Google offers a sortable library of lesson plans [including by age of student] that are free to download and use? It’s part of the company’s big push into education and involves thousands of free lesson plans just waiting for you to try out.’

andersoncountylibrary:

Andersonsclib: ‘Cheat Sheets’ for free lesson plans from Google http://t.co/ihJEaX5l

via http://bit.ly/pjlY0n

National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000-word (approximately 175-page) novel by 11:59:59 PM on November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.

Kevin Barry featured in the New Yorker

The fundamental human truth underpinning “Ox Mountain Death Song” is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down… . I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now, precisely, every morning, when I emerge from my own lair. It’s more than an expression of physical weariness—it’s an aching of the soul. Even the groans get passed down.

Check the catalogue : http://goo.gl/KAxjt

(via DLR Libraries’ twitter)

Source: twitter.com

Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities

The focus of this event is to engage academia, industry, cultural institutions and public bodies to identify the key research challenges in digital humanities, and to further build the academic-industry partnerships that will enable adoption of digital humanities skills, technologies and tools. This focus will extend to the innovative use of digital humanities technologies in the public sector demonstrating social benefit, such as the digitisation of the Irish census and the use of open linked public data.

bookish: mcnallyjackson: Happy Michael Crichton Day everyone! Crichton would have turned 70 today. Go out and celebrate the man. Teach someone something incredibly interesting through the medium of relentless action and heart-pounding suspense. Bookish collages are the best. We’re a day late! Check the catalogue for his books : http://goo.gl/w4u47
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bookish:

mcnallyjackson:

Happy Michael Crichton Day everyone!

Crichton would have turned 70 today. Go out and celebrate the man. Teach someone something incredibly interesting through the medium of relentless action and heart-pounding suspense.

Bookish collages are the best.

We’re a day late!

Check the catalogue for his books : http://goo.gl/w4u47

Source: mcnallyjackson