EAP. New Product. Chindogu web resources.

These web resources may vanish by this time next year, but in the meantime it might be fun to link to them from your Moodle course.

history of useless inventions
http://www.designboom.com/history/useless.html

Video
Chindogu Celebrating Weird Inventions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-0Xgx7GiYs

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Interactive Flash movie
Chindogu
http://website.lineone.net/~sobriety/

I know the Chindogu cards are fun, but perhaps they could be combined with this ‘reading’ activity? A possible lesson plan might be:1 Divide class into 5 groups, and assign a category of Chindogu to each group.

2 Within each group, each student chooses one invention.

3 Quickly read about the invention, and remember as much as they can.

4 Mixed-groups: exchanging information about the inventions they just read about.

Early days with Moodle, but this shows how I how wrote a lesson plan above the web page link. Click on this image to see how I included this resource into my Moodle course.