Posted March 19th, 2011by Caleb MacdougallNo Comments »
Next Saturday, March 26th visit New York Film Academy Union Square Screening Room to catch the winning submissions of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s nationwide Youth Free Expression Film Contest.
The event, which will include films from Reelworks, Global Action Project, and live special guest performers, is being listed as one of the Best Free Events in New York by AM New York. The above image comes from Hare Tactics: When Free Speech Goes Too Far by Aaron Dunbar. (Saturday 3/26, 4:30 p.m., FREE, NYFA screening room, 100E 17th St., ncac.org/film-contest, 212-807-6222 ext. 107)
This is purely a vanity posting and possibly demonstrates how traditional media (newspapers, magazines etc.) still have a pretty strong hold on my consciousness. Many of my virtual colleagues are featured with regularity in magazines, quoted in articles, featured in television segments but it is a real rarity for me and perhaps befits my station in life. My opinion was sought a little while back for a piece in Adelaide’s The Independent Weekly and then late last year, I was contacted by an editor at Australian Teacher Magazine to contribute to a small column feature called Q & A for their monthly ICT In Education section. I almost forgot about it until an email arrived from the same magazine plugging something else and triggered my memory and sent me looking online to see if I’d made “the big time”.
It’s in the February edition and below is a screen grab of the column. I’ve then
Posted March 1st, 2011by Charlotte DraperNo Comments »
Have you heard the one about the $5 foot-long?
Its not a joke. Its an interview question for a summer internship at Capital One, the kind of question thats supposed to test a candidates problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Such questions are becoming increasingly common—and bizarre—as more employers and recruiters try to detect those qualifications that cant be spelled out on even the most handsomely typeset resume.
Career counselors often tell you to prepare concise responses for conventional questions like What are your strengths, or Where do you see yourself in five years? But for the unconventional ones, like these compiled by online job community Glassdoor.com, all we can say is, expect the unexpected. And
Posted March 1st, 2011by Caleb MacdougallNo Comments »
Ever dreamt of directing music videos for MTV and VH1?
At New York Film Academy’s One-Week Music Video Camp students have the opportunity to direct, produce, film and edit a stylistic music video in one week using live artists.
In Summer 2010, students collaborated with New York City artists including pop breakout Official Hank. O
Posted February 26th, 2011by Sofia HelpmanNo Comments »
Image by chausinho via Flickr
If you are very familiar with the English language already, and you want to make a self-practice on how good you are in its pronunciation, then I would recommend you to use tongue twisters.
I’m sure you’re familiar with this. If not, you will love to know what this is and what it does to you! If we will define it, a tongue twister is a phrase in any language, particular to English, that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly. In other words, the terms are creatively made with patterned similarity and rhyme. Let’s take this tongue twister for example:
rally lorry , lorry rally
This may sound so easy when one just read it with their eyes. But i
