Author: Paco Polit

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: George Miller violará tus sentidos

  "Guau". Con tan sucinto resumen verbal y apenas aire en los pulmones te dejan ciento veinte minutos al lado de George Miller en uno de los mayores espectáculos cinematográficos de la última década. "Mad Max: Fury Road" es la hostia en verso. La polla con cebolla. No...

About Edmodo

"You should take a look at this network, Edmodo. It's Facebook, but dedicated exclusively to educational purposes" Say what!? Indeed, Edmodo has become quite an interesting tool in the last couple of years. It was created in 2008 with Facebook as a template on which it would...

Game on!!!

I’m quite biased when discussing this issue: games in the classroom may be the BEST, o one of the most useful techniques to engage and motivate students, especially when tacking particularly tricky contents. I loved when my teachers used ‘classics’ such as The Hangman or...

La Era de Ultrón: el villano era el ‘hype’

  ¿Se nos ha ido de las manos el 'hype'? No me malinterpreten: "Los Vengadores: La Era de Ultrón" es una película entretenidísima. Dos horas y media de festín visual salpimentado con escenas intimistas y la obligatoria disertación esporádica para hacer avanzar la trama. Pero, tras el...

Station 6: Words hurt, education soothes

Bullying is, undeniably, one of the worst problems a teacher may encounter during school hours. It’s a disgrace, a shameful affaire that should be tacked by students, parents and teachers alike, promoting zero tolerance towards the bully and total support towards the victims of these...

Avengers: Age of Cheat-Day

Remember how ‘cheat-days’ are used scarcely when trying to stay fit or lose some pounds? Well, researching and writing down stuff towards the Master’s Final Project has a similar ring to it, therefore ‘cheat-days’ need to be enjoyed in order to keep a good pace...

Station 5: Apocalypse Now

The work in Station 5 involved discussing an apocalyptic scenario where Humanity was wiped out and only a select group of people would survive by recluding themselves in a deserted island in the Pacific. The original group of chosen ones was made up of twelve...

TFM aka. Time Failure Mode

Time constraints are awful. See, my job schedule spans the whole week: journalism daily, radio broadcasting, TV appearances occasionally, a weekly rant to be published each Thursday… and football and basketball games being broadcasted live each Saturday and Sunday. Add the Master’s lengthy classes, five hours...

The technical (dirty) details: less is more

Time to start digging up those fantastic voice samples performed by the students of Practical English in the Juan de Garay highschool. It has been actually quite engrossing hearing them thoroughly and finding out how many subtle (and not so subtle) changes took place between...