Kreatives Schreiben & Textgestalten

Sie möchten gerne kreativ schreiben und den Text auch gestalten - eventuell auf einem Tablet?

                                                   A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose

Der Kurs bietet Anregung zum Schreiben kurzer Texte (Gedichte, ganz kurze Prosa) und zeigt Möglichkeiten, diese auch zu gestalten. Dies kann mit traditionellen Mitteln geschehen, wir wollen aber auch die Möglichkeiten von Tablets (mit Apps) oder dem Computer ausprobieren.

Voraussetzungen für das kreative Schreiben gibt es keine! Tablets (iPad oder andere), Smartphones oder Laptop bringen Sie zum Kurs, falls sie diese einsetzen möchten.

Der Kurs ist auch offen für TeilnehmerInnen, die Technik nicht nutzen möchten.

Ab 6 TN

Referentin:                 Ellenruth Molz, M.A., Alzenau 

           

Teilnahmegebühr:      siehe Martinushaus Programm

Zeit:                            Mittwoch, 18.30 – 20.00 Uhr, 5x

Termine:                    15.10./12.11./10.12./21.01.2015./25.02.2015

Anmeldung:                Martinushaus Aschaffenburg

                                   http://www.martinushaus.de/index.php?id=74

Literaturkurs "Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit"

Anläßlich des Todes des großen Schriftstellers und Nobelpreisträgers Marquez im April dieses Jahres, besprechen wir ein Hauptwerk des Kolumbianers.

Wir treten ein in eine phantastische Welt, beschrieben in grandioser Sprache und mit gewaltigen Bildern ausgeschmückt - Marquez' Version des 'Magischen Realismus' -

"jenes Changieren zwischen Wirklichkeit, Phantastik, Traum und Mythos" (Die Zeit).

                                  

Kursmaterial:              Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit

                                   Übersetzer: Curt Meyer-Clason

                                   Fischer TB  neue Ausgabe Mai 2014,  9,95 Euro.

                                   ISBN-13: 9783596162505

Referentin:                 Ellenruth Molz, M.A., Alzenau 

           

Teilnahmegebühr:      siehe  Martinushaus Programm

Zeit:                            Mittwoch, 10.15 – 11.45 Uhr, 5x

Termine:                    08.10./05.11./03.12./14.01.2015./11.02.2015

Anmeldung:               Martinushaus Aschaffenburg

                                 http://www.martinushaus.de/index.php?id=27&Veranstaltung=Gabriel%20Garcia%20Marquez:

How to be polite

Watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RD04jS1Iy0E1I&v=04jS1Iy0E1I

Why the kids of Asian immigrants excel – and what it teaches us about stereotypes

In Canada, statistics show that second-generation children of immigrants outperform their native-born peers. But that’s not the full story. Some ethnic groups do very well when it comes to education attainment and professional occupations, while others struggle. Why do kids with parents from places such as China often top the achievement lists?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/study-stretches-past-tiger-mom-theory-to-probe-student-success-among-ethnic-groups/article17923536/#dashboard/follows/ 

Ten words to cut from your writing

As Mark Twain famously wrote, “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” His point? Strong writing is lean writing.
When you want to make your writing more powerful, cut out words you don’t need – such as the 10 included in this post:
1. Just: The word “just” is a filler word that weakens your writing. Removing it rarely affects meaning, but rather, the deletion tightens a sentence.

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-tools/top-tens/ten-words-to-cut-from-your-writing/article17856428/#dashboard/follows/

Swedish city embarks on 6-hour workday experiment

Gothenburg's public sector employees will have their working hours reduced while being kept on the same pay in effort to create a healthier, happier and cheaper workforce 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/10754656/Swedish-city-embarks-on-6-hour-workday-experiment.html 

 

5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think

http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/5-examples-of-how-the-languages-we-speak-can-affect-the-way-we-think/

Coming and Going

I heard a Brazilian iron-ore magnate speaking on a BBC news program about how he had become so rich, and he said that at one point “the price of iron ore came from $10 a ton to $180 a ton.” I realized that there was a subtle mistake in English usage here: Even if the price is still $180 now, we do not say that the price came from $10 to $180; we say the price went from $10 to $180. But why?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/02/19/coming-and-going-2/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en 

My life in London's houseboat slums

Where do you live if you cannot afford London's soaring rents? I took the only home I could find: a tiny, mouldy room in a freezing barge on the Thames. And there are many desperate people in the same situation

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/23/london-houseboat-slum-rents-barge?CMP=fb_gu 

12 Hilariously Revealing U.S. Maps You Won’t Find in a Textbook

http://time.com/10850/12-hilariously-revealing-u-s-maps-you-wont-find-in-a-textbook/

10 Very Useful, Specific Words That Don’t Exist In English

But they should

Have you ever tried to express a complicated feeling or situation, but just couldn’t find the word you needed? Sometimes English just kind of falls flat when you need a really specific but succinct way to describe something.
This infographic shows 10 words that exist in other languages that we totally wished existed in English too.

http://time.com/14894/10-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-infographic/ 

Little Kids Aren’t Impressed with Rotary Phones

To these kids’ credit, they all recognize that what they’re looking at is a phone of some type. They don’t, however, know it’s called a rotary phone. Many of them don’t know how to dial with it. Most of them have no concept of the busy signal. Some get duped into trying to explain how to send a text message from a rotary phone.
Watch and feel old. Or young. Choice quote from one of the kids: “This was awesome like 20 or 10 years ago, and look how technology advanced! Now people don’t even know what this is!”

http://time.com/16120/kids-rotary-phones/ 

London's best walks

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/10615191/Londons-best-walks.html

Is social networking making us stupid?

In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface scientists have found that whilst mass connectivity through social media and the internet makes us look smarter it might be making us stupider.

https://royalsociety.org/news/2014/social-network-stupid/?LangType=2057

How Skype Is Sabotaging Your Long Distance Relationship

An hour into Her I was a mess. Though many have complained that they found it hard to empathize with the human-operating system relationship the movie depicts, I found the film all too real because it embodied the worst parts of a long distance relationship. From the little miscommunications that come from not being able to see your partner’s face to struggling to overcome the impossibility of physical intimacy to the panic that strikes when a call goes unanswered — they were all familiar problems.

http://time.com/7195/how-skype-is-sabotaging-your-long-distance-relationship/ 

What Students Think About Using iPads in School

All 870 students at Hillview Middle School in Menlo Park, Calif. will soon have school-issued iPads that they can use both at school and at home. The school has slowly rolled out the program over the past three years, trying to work out the kinks before issuing the expensive devices to every student. Before students can take the devices home, they’ll have to take a course to get their “digital driver license,” which includes digital citizenship and learning their way around the device.
Eighth grade students at Hillview have had their iPads since the beginning of the school year. Read more on how teachers are using the devices in class so far and their hopes for the future. Here, they weigh in on how the devices change what happens in class, how they think about learning and how they organize their school work.

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/02/what-students-think-about-using-ipads-in-school/

From hoodies to goodies: today's teenagers have the makings of model citizens

Contrary to the negative media portrayals, a new study shows young people are part of a caring-sharing generation
Good news, for those of you who had lost hope in modern society. According to a report by the thinktank Demos today's teenagers – or youth, as certain newspapers prefer to dub them – far from being antisocial hoody-clad riot-mongers, are actually highly concerned with social issues, keen to volunteer, and take fewer drugs and drink less alcohol than previous generations. This had led to someone who clearly has no real-life experience of the teenage psyche labelling them "Generation C" (C for citizen). Cool.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/16/hoodies-goodies-teenagers-makings-good-citizens-young?CMP=fb_gu

In pictures: London street scenes then and now

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/10660481/In-pictures-London-street-scenes-then-and-now.html?frame=2833744&page=1

Who's the most significant historical figure?

From Leonardo da Vinci to Einstein, and Shakespeare to Stephen King, two data analysts have ranked the most significant people in history – do the results seem right?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/30/whos-most-significant-historical-figure?CMP=fb_gu

The 10 strangest musical instruments

The cat piano, the ice trumpet, the road that plays Rossini ... Trevor Cox picks the world's weirdest tools for making music

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/21/10-strangest-musical-instruments?CMP=fb_gu