Samsung Everyone’s Invited

We all, as students, have been in the situation in which the teacher take our phone just because it ringed or just because we were looking at the hours. The incontestable truth is that teachers don’t understand that smartphones, tablets and even laptops are objects to which we become attached and make our academic life much easier. A smartphone’s agenda can easily be used to tell us after the class is over which is the homework or warn us that in the next week there is an exam and is time to start studying for it.

Computers and tablets can be used to replace notebooks, we save paper and their memory and easy utilization help to organize all the files from school, and this way we wouldn’t have to buy new notebooks in each school term. Paper sheets will continue to be used  for homework and to prove that this was done by us. There will still be paper consumption, but will be much more reduced that the current one. Bottom line: we go through all this and in 10 years our children will continue with the same problem. Is it really? Sorry but the answer to those problems is already being solved and the answer is in the head of Heyon You, a cooperator with the brand we choose: Samsung. But there’s no need to be sad, because very soon you too will be able to enjoy this technology.

Since we are aware the people’ needs, and not helping students to go against teacher’s decisions, we are developing a system to make both students and teacher’s life more easy. Worksheets transferred to students in real time, the possibility for the teacher to check on what each students is doing in the class. Tecnology that will be available to the hole world and everyone. Rogue students that will stop hiding their phones and use them by shaping them to their wrist as the device change and adapt to the students needs. A future were anti-tech teachers will incentivize it’s use through smartphone and tablets, which will be used by the teachers themselves on the long class meetings, and completely eliminating the necessity of photocopy worksheets for the class on the next day.

Samsung, in the past, in the present and in the future.

English Project

Hello eavesdroppers, as usual one more weekend one more post. This week we have the presentations about the final project work of the third term. So this week our boss (teacher) said to do this post talking about what we think that would be the best project.

So in our mind the best project was the project of Kcénia and Alexandra. They gave us very good reasons to the choice of their theme, the hippies and Woodstock would is an easy theme to talk about and very good choice to the decade that they will talk about. Even with games we think will be an easy way to captivate our attention instead of a 45 minutes powerpoint presentation seems like a nightmare, since in the final 20 minutes everybody will be sleeping. We have already agreed they have really thought about what they will do in each part of the the presentation since they have even gave us the detailed time of that each part of work will take.

Thank you, and a have nice weekend everyone.

The Yoruba

The Yoruba are a ethnic group with their own language, and are from West Africa mainly Nigeria. They use music on special occasions in life such as religious festivals, royal occasions and entertainment.

Their music is played basically with Dundun ( a typical drum of West Africa ), the voice of the singers and the clapping of their hands, sometimes metal bells and wind instruments are used, performing a very simple but very specific music. The singing is rather caracteristic as well, the words must be pronounced in a appropriate tone, in order to the speech be understood with the correct meaning of the words.

Yoruba's popular music originated a style in the 20's called Juju, and it's well know in Nigeria. Juju comes from the traditional Yoruba's music played with drums, but evolved into a dance music which is played by a large group of people in circle, with guitars and drumming. Singing is also a major part of Juju and their lyrics are inspired in Yoruba's poetry, proverbs, praise songs and musical character of the languange.

The Yoruba's music as originated many other genres such Highlife, which combines the african sounds, with western music and jazz instruments, Sakara is Yoruba's music with islamic influences and the singing made by present day singers, although the theme of the remains the same; Agidigbo is a piano based Yoruba music and also uses in conjuction with a bell and a typical Dundun.

Yoruba music as originated a large number of musical genres, and probably even some contemporary music that we listen .

The Song with a message that no one discover (or yes) in the english class

So dear colleagues, teacher and some others eavesdroppers of this fantastic blog, we want to start this first post of 2012 by wishing you a good year. We hope that you have received the gift that you want in Christmas, if you haven't received what you want, well something wrong you should have done during the last year.

Then as people often say " New year, new life" and to begin we change our old headphones for a new headphones in design to save energy.

But as always a task must be done, the same task of all the weeks talk about something related to the English class, well this week we don't have any reason to complain becaus our amazing teacher gives us a list of songs to chose one and talk about it. Forget it, you all know it, you all probably must have that to do it.

So to begin as obvious we have chosen the song "It´s a new day" from that wanna be, the Will.i.am.

The song "It´s a new day" talks as we said in the class about the raise of Barack Obama to the place of president of the U.S.A.

Since 1609 until 1807 that black people were taken to be slaves in the U.S.A. ,that person and their succeding generations was discriminated, until in 1963 Martin Luther king say "I have a dream". Since the death of Matin Luther King the mentality change but the Negro never had the same opportunities in live that the white persons. So the time passes and in 2008 a black men becomes the first black president of the U.S.A. With this achieved a new world of opportunities was opened to black people because 500 years later a black person had the same opportunity as a white person. So in november7, 2008 the album of Will.i.am was launched and the third track was " It's a new day".

"It's a new day" talks about the day when Barack Obama reached to the place of President of the  U.S.A and it was a achieved to all the mix of races in the U.S.A not only to black person but to all persons who lives there, something that happened after a long battle for the rights of all the races.

I went asleep last night
Tired from the fight
I've been fighting for tomorrow
All my life
Yea I woke up this morning
Feeling brand new
'Cause the dreams that I've been dreaming
Have finally came true

It's a new day
It's a new day
It's a new day
It's a new day
It's a new day

It's been a long time coming
Up the mountain kept runnin'
Souls of freedom kept hummin'
Channeling Harriet Tubman

Kennedy, Lincoln, and King
We gotta invest in that dream
It feels like we're swimming upstream
It feels like we're stuck inbetween
A rock and a hard place,
We've been through the heartaches
And lived through the darkest days

If you and I made it this far,
Well then hey, we can make it all the way
And they said no we can't
And we said yes we can
Remember it's you and me together

I woke up this morning
Feeling alright
I've been fightin' for tomorrow
All my life
Yea, I woke up this morning
Feeling brand new
Cause the dreams that I've been dreaming
Have finally came true

It's a new day
(it's a new day)
It's a new day
(it's a new day)
It's a new day
It's a new day!

It's been a long time waitin'
Waiting for this moment
It's been a long time praying
Praying for this moment

We hope for this moment
And now that we own it
For life I will hold it
And I ain't gonna let it go

It's for fathers, our brothers,
Our friends who fought for freedom
Our sisters, our mothers,
Who died for us to be in this moment

Stop and cherish this moment
Stop and cherish this time

It's time for unity
For us and we
That's you and me together

I woke up this morning
Feeling brand new
Cause the dreams that I've been dreaming
Have finally came true
Yea, I woke up this morning
Feeling alright

'Cause we weren't fighting for nothing
And the soldiers weren't fighting
For nothing
No, Martin wasn't dreaming for nothing
And Lincoln didn't change it for nothing
And children weren't crying for nothing

It's a new day
It's a new day
A new day
It's a new day
It's a new day!

Will.i.am (William James Adams Junior also known as Zuper Blahq) was born at March 16,1975 in Los Angeles  it is a rapper, DJ, singer, actor and a music producer. His best performances are related to the band BLACK EYED PEAS.