Showing posts with label Edupunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edupunk. Show all posts
Friday, October 27, 2017
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Tina Turner & David Bowie -Tonight (Private Dancer Tour 1985)
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of hits including "River Deep, Mountain High" and the 1971 hit "Proud Mary". With the publication of her autobiography I, Tina (1986), Turner revealed severe instances of spousal abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split and subsequent 1978 divorce. After virtually disappearing from the music scene for several years following her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career, launching a string of hits beginning in 1983 with the single "Let's Stay Together" and the 1984 release of her fifth solo album Private Dancer.
Her musical career led to film roles, beginning with a prominent role as The Acid Queen in the 1975 film Tommy, and an appearance in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. She starred opposite Mel Gibson as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, and her version of the film's theme, "We Don't Need Another Hero", was a hit single. She appeared in the 1993 film Last Action Hero.
One of the world's most popular entertainers, Turner has been called the most successful female rock artis and was named "one of the greatest singers of all time" by Rolling Stone. Her combined album and single sales total approximately 180 million copies worldwide. She has sold more concert tickets than any other solo music performer in history. She is known for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, career longevity, and widespread appeal. In 2008, Turner left semi-retirement to embark on her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. Turner's tour became one of the highest selling ticketed shows of 2008-2009.[8] Turner was born a Baptist, but converted to Buddhism and credits the spiritual chants with giving her the strength that she needed to get through the rough times.
(extract from Wikipedia 2011)
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Michael Bublé - Save the Last Dance for Me
You can dance every dance with the guy
Who gives you the eye, let him hold you tight
You can smile every smile for the man
Who held your hand 'neath the pale moonlight
Who gives you the eye, let him hold you tight
You can smile every smile for the man
Who held your hand 'neath the pale moonlight
But don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin', save the last dance for me, mmm
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin', save the last dance for me, mmm
Oh, I know that the music's fine
Like sparkling wine go and have your fun
Laugh and sing but while we're apart
Don't give your heart to anyone
Like sparkling wine go and have your fun
Laugh and sing but while we're apart
Don't give your heart to anyone
But don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin', save the last dance for me, mmm
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin', save the last dance for me, mmm
Baby, don't you know I love you so?
Can't you feel it when we touch?
I will never, never let you go
I love you, oh, so much
Can't you feel it when we touch?
I will never, never let you go
I love you, oh, so much
You can dance, go and carry on
Till the night is gone and it's time to go
If he asks, if you're all alone
Can he take you home, you must tell him, no
Till the night is gone and it's time to go
If he asks, if you're all alone
Can he take you home, you must tell him, no
'Cause don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arm's you're gonna be
So darlin', save the last dance for me
And in whose arm's you're gonna be
So darlin', save the last dance for me
'Cause don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arm's you're gonna be
So darlin', save the last dance for me, mmm
And in whose arm's you're gonna be
So darlin', save the last dance for me, mmm
Save the last dance for me, mmm, mmm
Save the last dance for me, mmm
Save the last dance for me
Save the last dance for me, mmm
Save the last dance for me
Songwriters
POMUS, DOC / SHUMAN, MORT
POMUS, DOC / SHUMAN, MORT
Read more: The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
HALINA'S LEARNING, TEACHING AND MUCH MORE....: Songs toTeach English and More
HALINA'S LEARNING, TEACHING AND MUCH MORE....:
Songs to Teach English and More: Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics Don McLean's Vincent (Starry,Starry Night) Almost all images created by...
Songs to Teach English and More: Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics Don McLean's Vincent (Starry,Starry Night) Almost all images created by...
Monday, September 29, 2014
U2 - One/Unchained Melody (Sydney 1993) - with lyric subtitles
Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you
Now you got someone to blame
You say
One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
It's one love
We get to share it
It leaves you baby
If you don't care for it
Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's too late
Tonight
To drag the past out
Into the light
We're one
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
We hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One
One
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Tina Turner - Help [Official Live Video 1984]
When I was younger,
So much younger than today
I never needed anybody's
Help in any way
But now those days are gone
I'm not so self assured
Now I find, I've changed my mind
I've opened up the door
So much younger than today
I never needed anybody's
Help in any way
But now those days are gone
I'm not so self assured
Now I find, I've changed my mind
I've opened up the door
Chorus:
Help me if you can,
I'm feeling down
And I do, appreciate you being round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me
Help me if you can,
I'm feeling down
And I do, appreciate you being round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me
And now my life has changed
In oh so many ways
My independence seems to vanish in the haze
But every now and then
I feel so insecure
I know that I just need you
Like I've never done before
In oh so many ways
My independence seems to vanish in the haze
But every now and then
I feel so insecure
I know that I just need you
Like I've never done before
Read more: John Farnham - Help Me If You Can Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Monday, September 1, 2014
Halina's Webinar August 30th 2014
Presentation is about my
presence online and Sessions on WizIQ. Therefore,
I would like to take advantage of VC’s tools and have a genuine contact with
participants. I will try dynamically engage attendees in discussion. Consequently,
they should be ready to use microphones and webcams because communication in
the chat box is not authentic enough for me.
Edupunk
Interview
VC
Classes on WizIQ
Promotional
Meetings
Social
Media
Blogs
Friday, August 29, 2014
Karaoke English... Why?
What is Edupunk?
Edupunk is a group of counter culture teachers and students that offer experimental classes centered around Fluent Spoken English on WizIQ. More topics will be added over a period of time. Right now, there are about 6 such classes every week (or 25 classes a month) and all focus on improving Spoken English of learners. Of these 6 classes, 2 of them are beginner level, 2 of them intermediate level and 2 of them advanced level. Each of these classes use non-traditional teaching methods like songs, plays, jokes, role plays etc.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Monday, August 11, 2014
Edupunk and student centred learning.
George Machlan
http://www.wiziq.com/myeslfriends
We do not need "them", we only need each other.
This group of pilgrims called "The Edupunk" are seeking a new paradigm for online learning. We hold to several core principals:
1. All can teach, all should teach
2. Mistakes and willing to risk mistakes are much prefered over the false goal of perfection.
3. Fun activities and gaming are not only more engaging, they are the key to a sustainable model for learning... anything.
4. Live interaction and group activities create the basis for deep and experiential learning.
5. Accountability and competition is the basis of our community. We build and only associate with leaders who can recognize that they and every member have knowledge to share.
http://quickshout.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/edupunk-and-student-centred-learning.html
Edupunk is a term that was first coined by Jim Groom, an instructional technologist working at the University of Mary Washington and it is a reaction against the attempts of corporate interests and commercialism to reframe learning into commercially defined products and applications.
Edupunk encourages more of a student centred and ‘do it yourself’ approach to the use of technology in education - student centred because it focuses on using the tools and applications students will need and use in their everyday lives, and these are very unlikely to be interactive whiteboards and learning management systems, and ‘do it yourself’ because it relies on the teacher to assess the needs of the students and work with them to develop materials and activities that will broaden their understanding and use of these tools and help them to apply them to learning.
Of course this puts a considerable burden onto teachers and demands that they broaden their knowledge of technology and develop the ability to utilise an ever widening range of tools to help students achieve their learning goals.
In the training work that I do with teachers around the world I try to focus on a very broad range of tools and web based applications, so much so that I’m often asked, ‘Well isn’t there one tool or one place we can go that can do all this?’ but I’m sad to say that I don’t think there is a ‘one tool’ solution and I’m not really sure that there should be.EDU (Education)
+ PUNK ( a non-traditional attitude)
= EDUPUNK
Edupunk English is the current course offering by George (the author of this blog) at WizIQ http://www.wiziq.com/myeslfriends
an online learning portal. The main goals of this course are:
1. English Fluency
2. Affordable
3. Interesting & fun
4. Friendly
English fluency, particularly in spoken English, has become one of the biggest needs world-wide. At Edupunk English, we will focus primarily on activities that will challenge and grow your ability to speak comfortably. There are no secrets in our methods. The more you talk, the better you will become both at speaking clearly and without effort (fluency). George is not a traditional “teacher," rather he is an accomplished coach and encourager. A constant focus on technique and practice will produce results that no amount of traditional classes will give.
Affordable… Value in online lessons is viewed in many ways. We at Edupunk English know that most students need to be very cost conscious in today’s tough world economy. To find out more about the costs, please visit the “Join Us” tab at the top of this page. Note that if you pause the mouse over that tab you will also see some sub-pages for those who need financial help.
Interesting ( = fun), why? Because any learning system, to be sustainable, must be enjoyable. Very few of us can develop the sustained effort and disciplined study to achieve success in an abstract subject area like English for the sake of English alone. Unless you happen to be an English teacher, English is not one of your “fun” activities. Only by finding a vehicle for your learning of English can we hope to make learning of English truly painless and “easy”. That is why, even in our more traditional areas like grammar, we find ways to make it interesting and even fun with games.
Friendly, yes friendly! Your American coach George is not interested in being a respected, all-wise professor for you to worship and lookup to. He is a fun-loving person who happens to be a native speaker. The best relationship for learning is to become partners and co-discoverers of the world by exploring English together. This play is not without goals; rather it will be a joint discovery of many areas that we both find interesting. If we can do this together, as equals, we both are empowered in our future endeavours. If we keep up the traditional model of all-knowing teacher and submissive student, only one of us are empowered (the teacher), and the student will always have to depend on others to meet their goals in life. So, let’s be friends and accountable to each other in our mutual path for English fluency.
Follow us on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/myESLfriends ) for course updates and blog posts about this English course. NOTE: if you click “like” on the page, you will see the updates on your wall and be notified of free classes if you do not join the paid course.
http://www.wiziq.com/myeslfriends
We do not need "them", we only need each other.
This group of pilgrims called "The Edupunk" are seeking a new paradigm for online learning. We hold to several core principals:
1. All can teach, all should teach
2. Mistakes and willing to risk mistakes are much prefered over the false goal of perfection.
3. Fun activities and gaming are not only more engaging, they are the key to a sustainable model for learning... anything.
4. Live interaction and group activities create the basis for deep and experiential learning.
5. Accountability and competition is the basis of our community. We build and only associate with leaders who can recognize that they and every member have knowledge to share.
http://quickshout.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/edupunk-and-student-centred-learning.html
Edupunk is a term that was first coined by Jim Groom, an instructional technologist working at the University of Mary Washington and it is a reaction against the attempts of corporate interests and commercialism to reframe learning into commercially defined products and applications.
Edupunk encourages more of a student centred and ‘do it yourself’ approach to the use of technology in education - student centred because it focuses on using the tools and applications students will need and use in their everyday lives, and these are very unlikely to be interactive whiteboards and learning management systems, and ‘do it yourself’ because it relies on the teacher to assess the needs of the students and work with them to develop materials and activities that will broaden their understanding and use of these tools and help them to apply them to learning.
Of course this puts a considerable burden onto teachers and demands that they broaden their knowledge of technology and develop the ability to utilise an ever widening range of tools to help students achieve their learning goals.
In the training work that I do with teachers around the world I try to focus on a very broad range of tools and web based applications, so much so that I’m often asked, ‘Well isn’t there one tool or one place we can go that can do all this?’ but I’m sad to say that I don’t think there is a ‘one tool’ solution and I’m not really sure that there should be.EDU (Education)
+ PUNK ( a non-traditional attitude)
= EDUPUNK
Edupunk English is the current course offering by George (the author of this blog) at WizIQ http://www.wiziq.com/myeslfriends
an online learning portal. The main goals of this course are:
1. English Fluency
2. Affordable
3. Interesting & fun
4. Friendly
English fluency, particularly in spoken English, has become one of the biggest needs world-wide. At Edupunk English, we will focus primarily on activities that will challenge and grow your ability to speak comfortably. There are no secrets in our methods. The more you talk, the better you will become both at speaking clearly and without effort (fluency). George is not a traditional “teacher," rather he is an accomplished coach and encourager. A constant focus on technique and practice will produce results that no amount of traditional classes will give.
Affordable… Value in online lessons is viewed in many ways. We at Edupunk English know that most students need to be very cost conscious in today’s tough world economy. To find out more about the costs, please visit the “Join Us” tab at the top of this page. Note that if you pause the mouse over that tab you will also see some sub-pages for those who need financial help.
Interesting ( = fun), why? Because any learning system, to be sustainable, must be enjoyable. Very few of us can develop the sustained effort and disciplined study to achieve success in an abstract subject area like English for the sake of English alone. Unless you happen to be an English teacher, English is not one of your “fun” activities. Only by finding a vehicle for your learning of English can we hope to make learning of English truly painless and “easy”. That is why, even in our more traditional areas like grammar, we find ways to make it interesting and even fun with games.
Friendly, yes friendly! Your American coach George is not interested in being a respected, all-wise professor for you to worship and lookup to. He is a fun-loving person who happens to be a native speaker. The best relationship for learning is to become partners and co-discoverers of the world by exploring English together. This play is not without goals; rather it will be a joint discovery of many areas that we both find interesting. If we can do this together, as equals, we both are empowered in our future endeavours. If we keep up the traditional model of all-knowing teacher and submissive student, only one of us are empowered (the teacher), and the student will always have to depend on others to meet their goals in life. So, let’s be friends and accountable to each other in our mutual path for English fluency.
Follow us on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/myESLfriends ) for course updates and blog posts about this English course. NOTE: if you click “like” on the page, you will see the updates on your wall and be notified of free classes if you do not join the paid course.
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