Beyond MySpace: Other Social Networks
First of all, I loved TeacherPop network. This place is not just another educational website created for teachers, but it is a “local” one. It is great to have a place where you can keep in touch with your classmates and talk about topics related to the teaching profession with teachers from here. I think this alone is already ideal.
Of the social networks listed here I liked Open Source Food because of the beautiful pictures accompanying the recopies. I still prefer YouTube for recipies though. For example, I search for “Puerco asado” in Open Source Food and found two recipes, while YouTube returned too many to count and these were actual footage of people cooking the “Puerco asado”.
What I found interesting that I may use later is TeacherPop itself. Not only to get ideas from other teachers but also to communicate with my classmates after the class is over, and to comunicate with colleagues. Hopefully they are also planning to come back to TeacherPop after this class is over.
I was aware of social networks because I’ve been a member of “Secretos de Cuba”. This is an online community of the Cuban exile. I’ve been posting on this site for a couple of years (in Spanish). Please don’t try to translate their posts with an online translation tool… what you get is a horrible version of what is actually written there.
I decided to translate a song by Wylli Chirino, a Cuban singer in Miami, which defines the Cuban community in the US and especially in this Cuban network. I could not find a translation on the internet and even the lyrics that I found in Spanish were incorrect to some degree.
Wylli Chirino – Ya viene llegando (It is coming)
When I was just a kid back in the Antilla
My father dressed me as a sailor
I had to navigate 90 miles
And start my life as a foreigner
Fleeing the sickle and the green olive
Running away from this absurd ideology
Because I never wanted to be an appetizer
Of hatred, resentment and apathy
In the case I brought a hummingbird
Martí‘s book, a dream and a Danzón
Beny Moré came as stowaway
Next to The Matamoros and Cumin
I also brought a palm tree and a hut
And even “Pinar Del Río” I relocated
To my humble place of accommodation
Around the Twelve Avenue of the Southwest
Eh, eh….
Thus began the hard reality, Oh God!
Of anyone who throws himself into the “maroma”
To survive outside their own language
Their customs and identity
And what needed to happen, happened
From my new city I took its coat
Because resignation is a loyal friend
Of man when has to migrate
And despite the distance and the attack
Of a rigid almanac, I live with the luck
To feel Cuban to the death
And to be a lover of liberty
Now that my people lives hopeful
I feel inspired and I’m singing a Son
Announcing to all my brothers
Our day is already coming
Oh, oh
It is coming
Oh, oh
It is coming
And everyone is waiting
It is coming
Ay, beautiful and exquisite Cuba
It is coming
Because we are people who go singing
It is coming
I want to see my flag flying, Cuba is waiting for us
I will sing my song from my heart
It is coming
In the gazebo in “Consolación's Park”
It is coming
Every day I love you more my beautiful Cuba… I love you more
It is coming
From San Antonio to Maicí, for Maceo and for Martí
Ya viene llegando
Nicaragua
FREE!
Colombia
FREE!
Hungary
FREE!
Czechoslovakia
FREE!
Romania
FREE!
East Germany
FREE!
CUBA
FREE!
It is coming
It is coming
It is coming
It is coming
It is coming
It is coming
It is coming
When I was just a kid back in the Antilla
[Cuba is the biggest island of the group called the Antillas and located in the Caribean Sea]
Fleeing the sickle and the green olive
[The communist flag hammer and sickle and the green olive is Castro’s uniform]
Martí’s book, a dream and a Danzón
[José Martí was a Cuban poet and patriot. A Danzón is type of Cuban music or rhythm]
Next to The Matamoros and Cumin
[Cuban musicians]
I also brought a palm tree and a hut
[The Palm Tree is in the official Cuban shield. Cuban country-people live in huts made out of palm trees]
And even “Pinar Del Río” I relocated
[Pinar del Río is one of the old six Cuban provinces where Wylli Chirino is from]
Comment to Dr. Wall post on TeacherPop:
Absolutely yes! The problem is that I cannot play anything from YouTube in my school. There must be a way around this and I think I have the solution. I will embed the YouTube videos that I want to watch in my Windows Live site. I am not sure this will work but it may, so I will check it out. If you know of any solution to this problem please let me know. As I explained in my 23 Things blogs I have been using YouTube to learn stuff for a while now and I have found very good videos about Algebra that I would like my students to watch. Right now I am using videos from http://www.learner.org/index.html. This website has tons of good educational videos, but it is limited to the website creators’ vision. I think YouTube is better because anyone can post on it; but a section just for educators would be even better.
I noticed that your link was not a YouTube link but a tinyurl.com link. Is this a useful thing? This website says that the url created this way will never brake. Is this true? If it is true – how do they do it?
Ridelto
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tinyurl.com just shortens your link so you don't have a url that is two lines long in your post. I'm not sure about the never breaking part...
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