WWW.Where's that resource?: KFC lawsuit: crippling a young girl from salmonella

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KFC lawsuit: crippling a young girl from salmonella

I'm interested in following this law suit. Much of food poisoning happens in the home, however after walking into a KFC last week and seeing boxes of beverages sitting on top of the rubbish bin in plain view of customers, I wondered what was goinng on behind the sceens and I am not surprised that cases like this are occurring.

All food establishments have procedures to be adhered to, but as a chef I have observed and heard of many of these steps that are not followed. If outcomes are happening, much like what has happened to young Monika Samaan from eating a 'Twister' it makes you wonder where that food has come from, what processes the food has undergone and what are we actually putting in our mouths.

Global Community

The Wombat: This is a catchy flash video from many videos at Global MindShift.org

Blurb from the site: The wombat speaks, and he's smarter than you, so listen up! In less than a minute, this rapid-fire

animation tells you everything you need to know about how to get along on earth for the n

ext million years.

Andrews perspective on the world: here is a 15 year old boy with a skateboard, a Mohawk and a t-shirt that says life sucks.... however his trip to the principals office didn't get him into as much trouble as he though he would. RECOMMENDED!!!

The Bio-Daversity Code

The BioDaversity Code: this is an animation based on the Davinci Code is about the importance of the food web and it's human interaction and misuse. It is backed by the WWF and has a great deal of information behind the animation.

After watching the this animation I clicked on the learn more icon and found great presentations by Earthscope on important components that are associated with the web of life, they include :

• The big picture overview
• Global Warming
• Invasive species
• Amazon Rainforest
• Mangrove forests
• Coral Reefs

if you skip the presentation you are taken to a great deal of background information to support the presentation.

World Food Program: games

Food Force: This video game might be useful to introduce issues with hunger in the junior grades. It is a 227MB file so it may not be something for an entire computer lab, but you could use it as a reward for students that finish their work early...

Free Rice: is a vocab game that students could use in down time, or to increase their literacy skills instead of solitaire. For each answer you get right 10 grains of rice are donated through the UN World Food program to help hunger, so students are not only learning but assisting in the fight against starvation at the same time.

WFP also has a section particularly for students and teachers here. there are loads of resources for the classroom and would be a very useful web page for Qld Senior Geography unit- Feeding the Worlds People.

It is really important for students to gain an understanding of the perspectives and issues of others on a global scale, these games may be a starting point to aide and support deeper learning experiences.

Chris Jordan - Ted Talks

Chris Jordan is a large scale photographer, he's been able to demonstrate statistics of humans interaction with resources though images.

Fantastic resource in the classroom to allow students to think outside the box.

the inspiration of my blog

After hearing about blogs and wiki's all day, and not being able to attend Rebecca Nicholas' presentation, I just had to come home and check this out... I've been meaning to get it up and running for some time, but seeing Rebecca's blog was the push I needed, she has a fantastic blog and very informative for geographers and teachers in general, so check it out. Thanks Rebecca and happy blogging.