Speech by Hillary R. Clinton

Clinton demands "human rights" for women

(for analysis and practice)

KONY 2012

This is a movie about justice, about compassion, and about the power of the media which does not depend on whether you own your own radio or TV station.

KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

Science and Technology

If you are interested in a really long timeline of inventions, have a look at the list at the Encyclopedia Britannica website:

Timeline of Groundbreaking Inventions

Garbage Warrior

(Tipp von Jochen Lüders)

Charles Dickens 200 - congratulations!

It's Charles Dickens's 200th birthday today - he was one of the most successful and influential authors of the 19th century. The power of his stories and his characters is still visible today, for example from the sheer fact that so many films have been made of his novels. The most famous are probably these three:

• Oliver Twist
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations

I can recommend all three of them.

Saving the Planet

Have a look at this little booklet of online links and information. Which of these items do you find most interesting and/or informative? Use the comments to voice your view.

If you want it bigger than in this embedded version below, go to there: Saving the Planet.

Mündliche Partner-/Gruppenprüfung

Here is the link I promised to post last time - it will take you to a PDF file at the site of the "ISB" (Staatsinstitut für Schulqualität und Bildungsforschung, München), which is responsible for developing most of the guidelines and test formats that we have to deal with. The file contains two pages, the first one of which gives you the rubric of criteria in combination with a description of what kind of performance earns you how many points; the second page is a form to be filled by the examiners during (and after) the exam.

Bewertungsraster Abiturprüfung: Mündliche Teilprüfung