Richard's Basic Speech class, in Brooklyn, NY, Thanks Geoff's General English class in Oxford, England.

This Pod/blog/webcast Thanks Podomatic For Allowing Us To Share Positive Stories Where There Are Real People Making Miracles Real! Elizabeth Rose - Storyteller Par Excellence: http://www.storycast.biz/index.php/2006/01/02/young-at-heart/ http://www.wgbh.org/pages/pri/spirit/2005index.html#112 "Tricksters" On "Sound & Spirit" informs Elizabeth's Storytelling. Elizabeth's storytelling is so very special to me, because 30 minutes into her storytelling at http://www.storycast.biz above, she tells the West African folk tale, "The Gift of a Cow Tail Switch," which one of my East Harlem, Survey of Human Communication students told after finding out about this West African folk tale thanks to Heather Forest's wonderful story plot summary here: http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/stories/gift.html Here goes this Harlem student retelling the story Heather Forest summarizes above, and which Elizabeth Rose so eloquently and masterfully shares 30 minutes into http://www.storycast.biz/index.php/2006/01/02/young-at-heart/ http://www.profgreen.tv/Mack.ram ("The Gift of a Cow Tail Switch") An Iranian Fundamentals of Speech 1 student shares her moral on two ways to stay warm here: http://www.profgreen.tv/Shahla.ram My request to Elizabeth Rose is that she share her own version of the Jack Tale, "Hardy Hardhead" so beautifully illustrated here, for my Voice and Diction students at: http://www.profgreen.tv/HardyHardhead.html . In the meantime, my http://www.profgreen.org site is migrating/propagating to a new server where you will again be able to hear "Hardy Hardhead," if you haven't heard it already. Of Course, We All Know The Jack Tale, "Jack and The Beanstalk," on the podcast site for EFL/ESL students found here: http://www.e-poche.net/conversations/ (Who Knows What You'll Find At The "Story Spieler Podcast" Here: http://radio.weblogs.com/0143840/ ) Meanwhile, http://www.folkalley.com is my Thank you, to All Who Tune In Here. For example, learn the History of the Banjo Here: http://www.unctv.org/webcast/music/fw_thebanjo.html And at the Following Web-URL, the Origin of The Blues: http://www.unctv.org/webcast/music/piedmontblues.html "Piedmont Blues: North Carolina Style" As well as, "The Lost Art of Hollerin'," at the following web address: http://www.ibiblio.org/hollerin/hollerin.htm While my Fundamentals of Speech 1/Non-ESL students, learn about the Venezuelan and the Puerto Rican cuatro even in relation to the African origins of the banjo described by the first video above from http://www.unctv.org: http://www.profgreen.tv/ScottSpi.ram : The Venezuelan And The Puerto Rican Cuatro. Meanwhile, my students and I are looking forward very much to improving the audio this coming week using an M-Audio Preamp, described by the following website, here: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MobilePreUSB-main-1.html Along with a Samson C03 Condenser Microphone described here: http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1663 Last May, before I had equipment stolen, you can hear the difference in audio here where you may watch an appreciation dedicated to students I teach: http://www.profgreen.tv/Flashpoint2005.ram The following, on the contrary, makes use of the camera-microphone built into the Logitech Fusion Camcorder pictured, here: http://tinyurl.com/b56ks where, Milton and Karina, from Guatemala on Friday, Feb. 24, after they enjoyed Geoff Taylor's Bardwell Road Centre podcast episode, offered the following advice to the English Language students in Oxford, England: #1. http://www.profgreen.tv/MiltonandKarina.ram Where Milton and his wife also dedicated to Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, the following "Salsa Rai," a song in Arabic and Spanish: http://profgreen.tv/SalsaArabe2004.ram Meanwhile, download your "Salsa Rai," Cellphone Ringtone, here;-) http://content.beltonen.nl/Ringtones/YuriBuenaventura-SalsaRai16_sp.wav Of course, if any of my students, or anyone else can tell me more about "Salsa Rai" or share interests they have, different from this music, this is what I found out about, "Salsa Rai:" http://faudel.calabashmusic.com/ And, if you Really Want to See, El Profe Verde (that's me) dance, well, just sing-a-long here! http://profgreen.tv/PlenaLibre2003.html In Honor of the Bardwell Road Centre Students, pictured, here: http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com/entry/2006-02-16T08_37_29-08_00 Three more Friday morning Voice and Diction students from Sunset Park, add their voices in acknowledgment of the Oxford English Language students, and the third student only authorized an audio recording for her greeting, so the link for her audio greeting is found just below the first one, of the video, here: #2. http://www.profgreen.tv/Indira1.ram (Feb. 24, 2006) #3. http://www.profgreen.tv/AudioOnly.html (Feb. 24, 2006) Our previous video greeting, to England, included a Farewell to the student from Togo, West Africa, whose name is, Folly, and for whom, a Dominican student in my class, who owns a restaurant, and cooks marvelously, offered us the delicious treat video-recorded here, in honor of Folly's transfer to a site at the college nearer to where he lives. (He had to commute two hours each way to get to Sunset Park.) Here is that video greeting to also Thank Geoff's General English class in Oxford, England, where we tried to send the exquisite smells of the Dominican cuisine, here: #4. http://www.profgreen.tv/FarewellToFolly.ram (Feb. 21, 2006) With luv 2 All from Brooklyn, and, most especially, to England! The following video/podcast for tonight's episode features Maria, the restaurant owner, who hosted the farewell dinner for "Folly," (the West African, from Togo, who speaks French and Mina.) It was recorded on Feb, 21, 2006. As we watched and analyzed this last video #5 below, in class tonight, we became aware not only of the omission of past tense forms, .... we discussed a whole host of non-verbal aspects, which will make it possible for us to continue studying, still further, the complexity of the Speech Communication process itself, as we each of us find ways to impact positively on one other, as students too, improve their performance in speech as well. Thus, here goes the video for tonight's podcast episode for which you need only click on the green button with the white arrow, at the bottom of this episode, if the following, broadband video, will not work here: #5. http://www.profgreen.tv/MariaMar2006.ram (Feb. 21, 2006) The Podcasting - ELT 2006 Yahoo Group will continue to be an incredible asset precisely because of criteria set forth by research and studies like those of the British Council where the pdf of the study of the state of English, commissioned by the British Council, found at: http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-englishnext publishes research that will indeed impact tremendously on each of our skills and abilites as professionals to reach and teach through solid communication as teachers and learners interested in the process of communication.