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Post by Holst on Aug 4, 2012 11:42:24 GMT -5
Lynne, it is a tremendous amount of work that you do with this project. You are putting me to shame as a teacher. I need to do more of this type of group creativity project (music teacher here). Students will learn way more than doing these productions than any standardized test can assess. I see a lot of creative teaching like this, especially in the lower grades. Then in high school kids in my neck of the woods still get a lot of traditional teaching that was the basis of my education decades ago. Unfortunately, it sounds like most colleges still adhere to the lecture/discussion format--the easiest type of teaching in my opinion.
Okay, so now I'm in a full panic thinking about everything I have to do before school starts. It's not just stuff for school, but all the other things in my life that I can't seem to do during the school year. I took 2 full weeks off from thinking about school to flail during Queen + AL. It was wonderful.
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Post by lynne on Aug 4, 2012 15:14:47 GMT -5
Lynne, it is a tremendous amount of work that you do with this project. You are putting me to shame as a teacher. I need to do more of this type of group creativity project (music teacher here). Students will learn way more than doing these productions than any standardized test can assess. I see a lot of creative teaching like this, especially in the lower grades. Then in high school kids in my neck of the woods still get a lot of traditional teaching that was the basis of my education decades ago. Unfortunately, it sounds like most colleges still adhere to the lecture/discussion format--the easiest type of teaching in my opinion. Okay, so now I'm in a full panic thinking about everything I have to do before school starts. It's not just stuff for school, but all the other things in my life that I can't seem to do during the school year. I took 2 full weeks off from thinking about school to flail during Queen + AL. It was wonderful. Remember when Adam made his " prepare, create, love" statement? Ever since, it stays with me and inspires my teaching efforts. It really is the perfect philosophy and practice for teaching! I have enjoyed being able to have time to enjoy Adam this summer, too, and still get to sleep a bit, lol. I start back Monday with a full week of meetings and then have students on the 13th. This year we will have iPads in our classroom and apple TV with our classroom projection system, so I am already trying to figure out cool new things to do using ipad technology in my classroom. I wish I knew as much as some of you do! If any of you have suggestions or ideas, do your part for education and PM me, lol. Also, if you know of any apps, I'd love to hear of them. Linda I'm with you. Taking things apart is one of my favorite ways to learn --to explore and to understand and to mimic and to rearrange to come up with new and/or different/better creations. It is also a gift to just be able to experience art entirely in the moment without losing any part of the experience to analysis. I often feel pulled between the two sides and the discussion always brings up heated debate when we are in my poetry unit, lol, even amongst my 8th graders! As far as Adam goes, seeing him perform live keeps me gloriously in the moment and outside of my head. Maybe that is one of the things that drives me to see him again and again whenever I have the chance.  |
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Post by mahailia on Aug 4, 2012 16:39:05 GMT -5
Hello fellow Gardeners.................
I have been trying to catch up on this thread, and have read all but the middle 5 or 6 pages. I am really enjoying all the beautiful thoughts and images here.
I have found something I want to share:
This is a music fountain in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. I don't recognize the music, but it is an amazing display. If you pay attention, you will see the moon in the background, and it is occassionally pierced by the spray of the fountain, it is so beautiful!
(ETA: music is Sound System, by Trinity, or Trinity, by Sound System, not sure which is the title of the song)
Somewhere back a few pages yall were talking about what Adam has brought to your lives, Mika's post in particular about his "Big Year" comes to mind.
This YT link was sent to me by my 16 yr old Ukrainian pen pal, and she will be going to visit the fountain next week. She and I have been corresponding with each other weekly for more than 2 years. When we first started writing each other, she could write only very short sentences that barely made sense. Now she is writing full descriptive paragraphs with very few grammatical errors.
I met her on the AdamLambertNetwork (Adamholics Anonymous), where she asked me if I would help her learn English. I don't know why she picked me, I think she was just reaching out to people on that site, and I was responsive to the idea of writing to her. She is obviously an Adam fan, and went to the Kiev concert to see him. However, more often than not, we talk about everything but Adam.
My friendship with this young girl from Ukraine has been wonderful, and has brought me great joy in seeing her progress from barely able to write a sentence in English to her present fluency. As we write back and forth, I correct her errors, and explain some of our slang term meanings, and also tell her things about the US that I think she might find interesting. She tells me about her school, she is a musician and singer attending an Arts College in Lviv, and about her friends, family and travels, and we also talk about movies and music in general. And, she sends me beautiful pics of flowers and sweet messages for my birthday, Mother's Day, and International Women's Day (which I didn't even know about). We have also exchanged info on our different cultural traditions for holidays, such as Christmas, New Year's, Easter, etc.
I always look forward to hearing from her, and when I get busy and don't respond to her mails, she worries if I am OK. She is a sweet and intelligent young girl, and I would never have known her, or been able to help her if it weren't for our mutual love of Adam.
Thanks, Adam!
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Post by lynne on Aug 4, 2012 17:03:54 GMT -5
Mahallia. I love your video and your story! Adam has touched so many of us in such real and unexpected ways. Amazing and powerful!
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Post by ame on Aug 4, 2012 17:26:43 GMT -5
Dear Atops, I'm very very thankful for this place and I'd like to share a lifetime experience with you all. However, I'm sure I'm not such a good poet as many of you, I have to say, that all this place helps me a lot even though maybe some people out of this forum could characterize it only as an Interactive World that has nothing to do with reality. What a fault it is. If there weren't some people I'd be truly lost in my sorrow and deprived of any joy.
I'm sorry but my post won't be all about Adam. Unfortunately I have not been so lucky as many of you and I must tell you something, I have never seen him perform live. You ask how is that even possible? It's easy, I live faaaar away from America and don't have enough money to travel to see him. Maybe one day, I'm not losing hope.
It is said that only when in need you find out what's the true friendship about. It's such a truthful saying. Thanks to my crisis I found here many true friends. And I'm grateful for that. You know, it's easy to make friends when you're easy-going and happy but much more difficult when you feel blue and have huge troubles.
And now on a different note. Not so long ago I found out that I invested much energy and effort into something which prob wasn't right for me. At first I was wtf?, How could this happen to me? But now I'm thinking a lot about what to do next and coming to a conclusion, that the failure is something I should be grateful for because although it sucks so much, there's no pain in life that couldn't be healed and sometimes slaps make you open up your eyes. Sounds absurd, doesn't it?
I can't tell you about my experiences from the concerts or MG because I haven't been to any but I've learnt two things which are probably the most important in life: Live for the moment and Never give up. And I hope I'll keep on following on them because that's the way I wanna live my life, Idk if it's the right path to go but it will be my own path....
Yes, I sometimes ask the life but maybe the answer is simple> Never give upon your dreams.... I'm sure Adam is the right example to follow on my way to transformation.
Special thanks to my dear friends> juniemoon, lynne, Linda G and all others who helped me when I needed it the most. I'll never ever in my life forget what you've done for me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2012 0:15:23 GMT -5
LindaG, I really enjoyed your essay In Defense of the Critic. It made me think some more about what I wrote yesterday. I'm going to continue to use Phelps as an example because it makes it less emotional than writing about Adam, less likely to obscure the meaning or seem that I am criticizing someone on this board -- which I am not.
I find that I don't mind if someone knowledgable offers analysis. In the case of swimming, the TV commentator Rowdy Gaines is an extremely knowledgable championship swimmer and a gold medalist himself. When he says that if only Phelps had extended his big toes or whatever, it might be annoying, but it is also interesting and educational. He knows what he is talking about and he truly loves the sport.
What I can't stand is when sportscasters demand that the athletes account for themselves ("So, only a silver in that one event, Michael? What happened?") or crab that somehow the "show" went off script, or lament that the person might have a life that does not revolve around entertaining us.
I liked Phelps' response to a question about "looking more human this time around" -- I've always been a human.
ame, I used to think that the Internet was an "unreal" world. Then I discovered that many human connections could be made with people all over the world, as mahailia wrote. Usually these are good, occasionally bad, but very real indeed.
I do believe that our setbacks lead us to know ourselves better. The struggles in life lead to self-knowledge. I have a good friend and neighbor in her 80s. Years ago she told me "40 is prime time" and now I know what she meant. When I was younger I didn't understand myself. It's still a journey but a more interesting one now that I have at least a few things figured out. LOL.
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Post by melliemom on Aug 5, 2012 7:06:52 GMT -5
Dear Atops, I'm very very thankful for this place and I'd like to share a lifetime experience with you all. However, I'm sure I'm not such a good poet as many of you, I have to say, that all this place helps me a lot even though maybe some people out of this forum could characterize it only as an Interactive World that has nothing to do with reality. What a fault it is. If there weren't some people I'd be truly lost in my sorrow and deprived of any joy. I'm sorry but my post won't be all about Adam. Unfortunately I have not been so lucky as many of you and I must tell you something, I have never seen him perform live. You ask how is that even possible? It's easy, I live faaaar away from America and don't have enough money to travel to see him. Maybe one day, I'm not losing hope. It is said that only when in need you find out what's the true friendship about. It's such a truthful saying. Thanks to my crisis I found here many true friends. And I'm grateful for that. You know, it's easy to make friends when you're easy-going and happy but much more difficult when you feel blue and have huge troubles. And now on a different note. Not so long ago I found out that I invested much energy and effort into something which prob wasn't right for me. At first I was wtf?, How could this happen to me? But now I'm thinking a lot about what to do next and coming to a conclusion, that the failure is something I should be grateful for because although it sucks so much, there's no pain in life that couldn't be healed and sometimes slaps make you open up your eyes. Sounds absurd, doesn't it? I can't tell you about my experiences from the concerts or MG because I haven't been to any but I've learnt two things which are probably the most important in life: Live for the moment and Never give up. And I hope I'll keep on following on them because that's the way I wanna live my life, Idk if it's the right path to go but it will be my own path.... Yes, I sometimes ask the life but maybe the answer is simple> Never give upon your dreams.... I'm sure Adam is the right example to follow on my way to transformation. Special thanks to my dear friends> juniemoon, lynne, Linda G and all others who helped me when I needed it the most. I'll never ever in my life forget what you've done for me.  |
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Post by ame on Aug 5, 2012 7:16:23 GMT -5
Dear Atops, I'm very very thankful for this place and I'd like to share a lifetime experience with you all. However, I'm sure I'm not such a good poet as many of you, I have to say, that all this place helps me a lot even though maybe some people out of this forum could characterize it only as an Interactive World that has nothing to do with reality. What a fault it is. If there weren't some people I'd be truly lost in my sorrow and deprived of any joy. I'm sorry but my post won't be all about Adam. Unfortunately I have not been so lucky as many of you and I must tell you something, I have never seen him perform live. You ask how is that even possible? It's easy, I live faaaar away from America and don't have enough money to travel to see him. Maybe one day, I'm not losing hope. It is said that only when in need you find out what's the true friendship about. It's such a truthful saying. Thanks to my crisis I found here many true friends. And I'm grateful for that. You know, it's easy to make friends when you're easy-going and happy but much more difficult when you feel blue and have huge troubles. And now on a different note. Not so long ago I found out that I invested much energy and effort into something which prob wasn't right for me. At first I was wtf?, How could this happen to me? But now I'm thinking a lot about what to do next and coming to a conclusion, that the failure is something I should be grateful for because although it sucks so much, there's no pain in life that couldn't be healed and sometimes slaps make you open up your eyes. Sounds absurd, doesn't it? I can't tell you about my experiences from the concerts or MG because I haven't been to any but I've learnt two things which are probably the most important in life: Live for the moment and Never give up. And I hope I'll keep on following on them because that's the way I wanna live my life, Idk if it's the right path to go but it will be my own path.... Yes, I sometimes ask the life but maybe the answer is simple> Never give upon your dreams.... I'm sure Adam is the right example to follow on my way to transformation. Special thanks to my dear friends> juniemoon, lynne, Linda G and all others who helped me when I needed it the most. I'll never ever in my life forget what you've done for me. Mellie, I skipped you in my thanks. Sorry sweetie :-[  |
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Post by melliemom on Aug 5, 2012 7:35:23 GMT -5
Mellie, I skipped you in my thanks. Sorry sweetie :-[ AWW no need for thanks... So happy you're moving forward with renewed positivity.. Makes me feel HAPPY :wub: |
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Post by Alison on Aug 5, 2012 10:32:58 GMT -5
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