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Bangles by Manic Monday

Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream

I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream

But I can't be late 'cause

then I guess I just won't get paid

These are the days when you wish your bed was already made.

It's just another manic Monday (oh-woe)

I wish it were Sunday (oh-woe)

'Cause that's my Funday (oh-woe)

My I don't have to runday (oh)

It's just another manic Monday.

Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine

And if I had an air-o-plane, I still couldn't make it on time

'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear

Blame it on the train but the boss is already there.

It's just another manic Monday (oh-woe)

I wish it were Sunday (oh-woe)

'Cause that's my Funday (oh-woe)

My I don't have to runday (oh)

It's just another manic Monday.

All of my nights why did my lover have to pick last night

to get down (last night, last night)

Doesn't it matter that I have to feed the both of us, employment's down

He tells me in his bedroom voice:"C'mon feal the noise" (ba ba ba baaaa)

Time, it goes so fast (when you're having fun).

It's just another manic Monday

I wish it were Sunday

'Cause that's my Funday

My I don't have to runday

It's just another manic Monday

I wish it were Sunday

'Cause that's my funday

My I don't have to rundayIt's just another manic Monday.

T S Eliot Reading The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock

In A Mirror Darkly - Avenger's Last Stand

The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret

Everybody has a secret!

Todos tenemos nuestros secretos, miedos, frustaciones siempre escondidas porque qué pasaría si se supiera.

Bueno siendo sinceros podría pasar que tuviéramos que cambiar, dejar de sentir verguenza o incluso asumir que somos imperfectos, miedosos, incongruentes y que debajo de las muchas máscaras que nos ponemos está el verdarero yo, I, Me o myself.

Y NO QUIERE MIRARSE AL ESPEJO.

Ese gran desconocido que sólo se asoma cuando soñamos dormidos o despiertos.

Estos chicos tienen unas letras geniales.

Me recuerdan a The Fray con su canción "100 ways to save a life".

I have stopped the video to read the secrets.

Have you done the same?

If you haven´t done it, just try.

Willow

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Wives and Daughters Episode 1 Part 1 / 8

No conocía el libro pero me ha encantado la versión de la BBC del año 1999, Wives and Daughters, creo que el próximo verano leeré algo de Elizabeth Gaskell. Los personajes femeninos de sus libros parecen mujeres de verdad aunque hayan tenido que vivir en otra época. Me encanta Margaret de North and South, no se calla y dice lo que piensa. Se enfrenta a los convencionalismos y no ve una barrera entre las diferentes clases sociales,pues simpatiza y se identifica con los obreros, los pobres, los huérfanos. Cuando sus contemporáneas sólo piensan en casarse, ella busca algo más. Preocuparse por temas sociales es más divertido que hablar de telas para vestidos o de cintas para adornar sombreros. Margaret es ejemplar y valiente. La Inglaterra del norte le produce repugnancia al principio pero descubre que idealizar la campiña del sur o demonizar una zona industrial y comercial como Milton es simplificar mucho la realidad. A good read indeed.

LEARNING WITH COMPUTER GAMES

No deja de sorprenderme

como las TIC están en las aulas en US.

En este video vemos a alumnos de un instituto de

secundaria de NY que no juegan sino

que crean sus propios juegos de ordenador.

Algo para pensar.

SOMETHING TO REFLECT UPON

Han incluído en su programación curricular

el uso de las nuevas tecnologías

y sus alumnos no parecen aburrirse.

¿Cuándo haremos lo mismo

en España?

"The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,....
Profesores aportando saliva

e institutos aportando

aulas, pizarras y tiza.

Somos muy modernos,

casi del siglo XIX.

ARE WE DOING WELL?

NO, WE ARENT.

North and South - Proposal Scene

Elizabeth Gaskell was born on 29 September 1810 in London. She was brought up in Knutsford, Cheshire by her aunt after her mother died when she was two years old. In 1832 she married William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father. After their marriage they lived in Manchester with their children. Elizabeth Gaskell published her first novel, Mary Barton , in 1848 to great success. She went on to publish much of her work in Charles Dickens s magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round . Along with short stories and a biography of Charlotte Brontë, she published five more novels including North and South (1855) and Wives and Daughters (1866). Wives and Daughters is unfinished as Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly of heart failure on 12 November 1865.
About the book:
Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbours, and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light.
Extract from Elizabeth Gaskell’s letter to her friend Emily:
‘I’ve got to (with Margaret – I’m off at her following your letter) when they’ve quarreled, silently, after the lie and she knows she loves him, and he is trying not to love her; and Frederick is gone back to Spain and Mrs Hale is dead and Mr Bell has come to stay with the Hales, and Mr Thornton ought to be developing himself – and Mr Hale ought to die – and if I could get over this next piece I could swim through the London life beautifully into sunset glory of the last scene. But hitherto Thornton is good; and I’m afraid of a touch marrying him; and I want to keep his character consistent with itself, and large and strong and tender, and yet a master . That’s my next puzzle. I am enough on not to hurry’ (L321)
Elizabeth Gaskell began to feel that the story was not good enough and not her own. She told Dickens: ‘I dare say I shall like my story, when I am a little further from it; at present I can only feel depressed about it, I meant it to have been so much better.’ Later on, she softened towards the novel realising that the time restraints and other pressures of writing for a serial might have in fact been useful to the story’s development: ‘Now I am not sure if, when the barrier gives way between 2 such characters as Mr Thornton and Margaret it would not go all smash in a moment, – and I don’t feel certain that I dislike the end as it now stands.’
Extracts from Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow (Faber, 1993), p.366 – 368

Hard Times ~ Charles Dickens
Tess of the d’Urbervilles ~ Thomas Hardy (link to reading guide)
The Mill on the Floss ~ George Eliot
Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen
Elizabeth Gaskell ~ Jenny Uglow (Faber, 1993)

Better together by Jack Johnson

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Do I need a blog in my professional life? Yes , I do.

¿NECESITO UN EDUBLOG EN MI VIDA? DO I REALLY NEED A BLOG AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING MY TEACHING EXPERIENCE?

Creo que es una herramienta interesante que podría utilizar mejor si aprendiera a sacarle partido.
La verdad es que como estudiante, las fotocopias y la máquina de escribir Olivetti eran las herramientas básicas. Y aunque sabíamos de los derechos de autor muchas veces nos encontrábamos que los libros de consulta estaban descatalogados o simplemente no se prestaban en las bibliotecas. No podíamos comunicarnos con los profesores de forma muy asidua. Y muchas veces nos enterábamos de cosas por el boca a boca.
Mucho ha llovido desde nuestros años de instituto y facultad. Antes no teníamos ni móvil, ni ordenador con tratamiento de texto, ni pen-drives, ni internet, ni i-books, ni e-mails, ni blogs, ni chats,ni aulas virtuales, ni periódicos digitales, ni páginas web,ni podcasts, ni playlists, ni MP3´s, ni MP4´s, ni firma digital, ni google, ...Por lo que es evidente que como estudiantes procedemos de la era anterior, en cambio como profesores tenemos alumnos que ya han nacido en este mundo digital. Es obvio que no podemos vivir en el pasado y renegar amargamente, porque como otros muchos contemporáneos pensemos que no hay nada como hojear un libro o recorrer una biblioteca buscando ese ejemplar que necesitamos.
Seguir usando fotocopias en blanco y negro cuando en multimedia podríamos encontrar actividades mucho más interactivas simplemente no es pedagógico ni práctico. Desde ahora deseo experimentar un cierto rejuvenecimiento interior, un florecimiento de la curiosidad que me lleve a empaparme de lo nuevo sin olvidar de donde vengo. No aceptar las nuevas herramientas que pone la tecnología a nuestro alcance es querer volver al cuaternario y esperar nuestra desaparición en silencio. La ignorancia en la que vivía hace un mes ya no me sirve como excusa. Ahora cerrar los ojos, me hace pensar en que no hay peor ciego que el que no quiere ver que el futuro ya está aquí.
Thank you Manuel. Thank you Alberto.