Top 10 Thanksgiving movie scenes

Thanksgiving is a long way off now, but at the time of this celebration Time magazine published an interesting slideshow presenting their choice of the top 10 Thanksgiving movie scenes. The scenes featured belong to these movies:

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Home for the Holidays
Broadway Danny Rose
The Blind Side
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Funny People
Pieces of April
Scent of a Woman
The Ice Storm
Grindhouse

Unfortunately, some of the scenes have been removed from YouTube for copyright claims. Still, you are left with a few of them to enjoy and to bring back memories of Thanksgiving.

Our motivations

What drives us to do the things we do?
Do you feel more motivated by reward or by punishment?
Which factors contribute to a better performance in the workplace?

This RSAnimate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.



You can read a transcript of the talk here.

Try something new for 30 days

Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.

Matt Cutts is an engineer at Google, where he fights linkspam and helps webmasters understand how search works.

Living life conjoined

Watch this video from The New York Times on two US siamese sisters and answer the questions below about it.

WHO are Krista and Tatiana Hogan?
WHERE do they live?
WHERE did a documentary about them in their early years air?
WHEN did their mother discover she was carrying conjoined twins?
HOW do doctors think one twin with her eyes covered is able to “see” what the other twin is looking at?
WHAT is the twins’ relationship like?
WHY did the parents decide early on not to do a surgical separation?
WHY are there concerns about Tatiana’s heart?
WHY do you think their mother is so determined to make their lives “as normal as possible”?

You can read the related article here and a slideshow here.

A brief history of time

A brief history of time is a BBC interactive which tries to explain the world's time zones through slideshows and videos.

History of the Internet

Have a look at this The Guardian slideshow, which throws some light on the way the Internet started and how it developed to its present day state.

The slideshow is very comprehensive and detailed, and it allows us to choose the year we want to focus on, starting in 1969 until 2009.

There is a short comment in each of the entries, and some of them come together with videos with interviews and lots of links to delve deeply into the topic.

Ashleigh McIvor

Ashleigh McIvor discusses her athletic experiences in this presentation and how they led up to her gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She advises focusing not on the end result, but the journey it took to get there.

Guides to Global Issues

The Council on Foreign Relations offers a number of interactive guides to contemporary global political and economic issues. There are twenty-three guides in the collection ranging from nuclear energy to the Iraq War or the economic crisis and climate change.

The guides are divided into chapters containing videos, graphics, text, and timelines. Consequently, each guides makes an in-depth and detailed study about each of the issues.

H/T to Free Technology for Teachers.