Teach A Class

Teach A Class is an online non-profit that is trying to bring education to orphans around the world. Using modern technology, including skype and virtual classrooms, they are creating a team of everyday people with something to share; a guitar lesson, language classes, a bit about a new culture, or anything else to connect children that normally wouldn’t have these opportunities to the world.

Those lucky enough to have internet access regularly are saturated with learning possibilities; from learning new cultures to learning things via the internet. What if you can share basic knowledge with someone that normally wouldn’t have the opportunity to learn it?

http://www.teachaclass.org/

Wordle

This is a wonderful site that allows you to be creative while showing what you have learned. Wordle is a tool 
for generating “word clouds” from texts that you provide.The clouds give greater prominence to words that 
appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, 
layouts, and color schemes. See learning from another perspective.

(Image:  Techlearning)

A Trip of a Life Time

Wonderful trilogy of short films celebrating travel. '3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food'.

 If you just moved to Brazil and need some tips about pretty much anything - from language to cultural habits, 
places to go, entertainment guide, please contact us at info@gcpraxis.com or visit www.gcpraxis.com  
We are ready to do all this and much more.

Socio-Economical Differences in Brazil

Art Director Daniel Bronfen created images that represent the socio-economical differences between 
Brazilian regions. His work is based on the 2010 Brazilian Census.  If you just landed in Brazil, it´s worth
taking a look for a quick understanding of the expression ‘We have 5 different countries in Brazil'.

(Image: Maps of Net)

Visualy

Love infographics? Then you will probably adore this new infographic search engine.
Over 2000 infographics, all in one place.

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

"Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's 
style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way 
he has never done before - using augmented reality animation" 

(Picture: Jackarcher )

Rio 2016

Praxis is proudly ambiented in Brazil, and the Olympic Games will take place at the most beautiful city in the world.         So here is a quick peek of what to expect for the Olympics in Rio.

Praxis supports all foreigners that are interested in Brazil. For more, visit our page 

Watch Now

Watch now is both a resource for users and also a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos. 

Can Twitter Predict the Future?

"Internet forecasting: Businesses are mining online messages to unearth consumers’ moods—and even make market predictions"

Interesting article from The Economist.

Picture: @ngonews

 

Skype in the Classroom

Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms.

Photo: Uochi