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Special online YDC session 2006-2007 on water and HIV/AIDS
  


 

The Sound of our Water

Morocco
Jerada – Hay Ziani School:
- Teachers Mhammed Razougui, Mohammed Benabdelkrim with 4 students (14-16 years old)
- Website
- YDC Experience sharing 

  • La paix
    « La paix et la joie et la vie sont des mots liés avec l'existence d'eau avec densité. » (only in French)
  • Création
    « On essaie de distinguer l'état ou l'eau est en abondance et en état du manque d'eau. » (only in French)
    Beni Mellal – Moha-Ouhammou School
  • Planète malade
    « Déséquilibre par activités humaines : surexploitation, pollution, pompages, fuites, destruction forets, planète (chanteuse)appelle au secours!! » (only in French)

    • Brazil
    Bahia - Laboratory of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology and Audiovisual (LEAA/Recôncavo):
    - Teacher Francisca Marques with 10 students (10-18 years old)
    - Website 
    - YDC Experience sharing

  • Peace among the Nations
    “A collective song for the peace in the world.”
  • Iemanja Song
    “It is a prayer to Iemanja to protect the waters of the Paraguacu river.”
  • Canto para las Aguas
    “We mixed water samples collected during fieldwork and pieces of interviews with the poet Damario da Cruz and the candomble´s priestess D. Madalena (songs for the orixas Iemanja and Oxum).


    Sri Lanka
    Kandy - Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya:
    - Teacher Sudesh Mantillake with 10-20 students (20-25 years old)
    - Website 
    - YDC Experience sharing 

  • Pleasure
    “Many animals, including human beings love to play with water. People can forget problems; reduce stress when they play with water.”
  • Religious funeral custom
    “In this Buddhist custom people pour water into a cup until water goes out from that cup. Buddhist monks chant sutra during this.”
  • Deforestation
    “Water is a production of the Nature. People have to suffer once they destroy the harmoney of the Nature.”
  • Hungry Puppy
    “Everyone becomes hungry. Not only human but also animals struggle for their food. Successful and fortunate puppy was able achieve his goal.”
  • Fighting for Life
    “People fight for life. The life is useless without water. So people fight for water. Winners, as well losers need water.”


    • Egypt
    Alexandria - Bibliotheca Alexandrina:
    - Teachers Sherine Said, Eiman Elwazzan, Rawya Elfayoumi with 5 students (12-16 years old)
    - Website
    - YDC Experience sharing

  • Uses of water
    “Describing the daily uses of water, water tap, drinking water, rain, boiled water.”
  • Water everywhere
    “Water melody”
  • Water symphony
    “Describes the sound of water in a symphony and its exist in our life with music”

    • Tunisia
    Bizerte – Raouebi School:
    - Teacher Ahmed Nabli with 14 students (12-14 years old)
    - Website 
    - YDC Experience sharing 

  • Message
    « Il ne doit en aucun cas, être à l’origine de disputes et haines entre les habitants de cette mère nourricière = la terre. » (only in French)

    • Turkey
    Samsun – Samsun Anatolian High School:
    - Teacher Nilgun Arikan with 10 students (14-17 years old)
    - Website 

  • Rain Drops
    “We need to be respectful to mother nature. We hope rain drops would bring people together and create an awareness to this problem.”

    • Republic of Korea
    Seoul - Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture (Haja Center):
    - Teachers Baruch Gottlieb, Byung-Ki Song with 5 students (17-18 years old)
    - Website  , http://www.haja.net

  • Routine of Water
    “The students used their own field recordings to create this soundscape to convey the complexity of urban water, from drinking to toilets and back again.”

    • Germany
    Emmendingen - Gewerbliche und Hauswirtschaftlich-Sozialpflegerische Schulen Emmendingen School:
    - Teacher Carsten Münchenbach with 12 students (16-18 years old)
    - Website http://www.ghse.de
    - Your own "sound of our water" website

  • Rhythm of drops
    “The sound illustrates the statements and the pictures.”
  • Water_symphony
    “The word "water" in different languages is the connecting element.”
  • Underwater
    “Maria composed a rhythm that she called underwater, because it sounds like being underwater.”
  • Glass of water
    “Etienne composed a rhythm with some sound samples related to a glass of water.”
  • Water in 8 languages
    “Different students of our school saying the word water in their mother tongue. (in order: german-english-french-german-italian-turkish-german-crotian-polish-russian)
  • Dramatic drops
    “This was an example for rhythms, I composed for my students. The sound ends with a big thunder to make it more dramatic.”
  • Wassertechno
    “Freaky sound with whale, river, surfer on rock and a drop. This made a total crazy "Techno Mix."”
  • Water - Rhythm
    “Tobias composed a cool 3D-rhythm with the topic ocean.”
  • Water
    “Maike designed a website with statements, pictures and sounds of water. The sound illustrates the statements and the pictures.”
  • Water is everywhere
    “Niko designed a website with statements, pictures and sounds of water. The sound illustrates the statements and the pictures.”
  • Waterfall
    “Christian designed a website with statements, pictures and sounds of water. The sound illustrates the statements and the pictures. Please have a look at the website to understand the music.”


    • Austria
    Linz - Ars Electronica Center Georg von Peuerbach – Gymnasium SchoolKunstuniversitat Linz, Institute of Art Education
    - Teachers Gerid Hager, Wolfgang Schreibelmayr, Wolfgang Hoffelner with 15 students (11 years old)
    - Website1 ; http://www.georgvonpeuerbach.at ;  http://www.ufg.ac.at
    - Tracing water samples with wikimap 

  • Super cool
    “Emphasis on creating the rhythm out of different water-sounds the group had recorded before.”
  • CTTRwasserklaenge3
    "Different possibilities of how to use the recorded samples for creating a jolly piece.”
  • Wasser Beat
    “Blowing air into a glass of water at the cafeteria as a basic part to create an interesting rhythmic piece.”
  • Water Moves
    “Express and intensify the lively aspect of water by combining a lot of different types of water-sounds.”
  • Ahhhhh
    “Describing water the way we experience it in our lives; blue, white, clear, glimmering, shimmering, cooling and refreshing”

    • Republic of Moldova
    Chisinau - Multimedia Centre, Information Technology Centre ( Moldova State University):
    - Teachers Hanbecov Natalia, Drumea Dumitru with 10 students (9-21 years old)
    - Websites: http://water.md.iatp.md , http://water.usm.md , http://www.iatp.md/ajutor

  • Evolution
    “A way of hearing the evolution on Earth in the water style”
  • Etno
    “Etno song”
  • Dragostea mea
    “A holyday song by the river Nistru”
  • The river calls me
    “A song sang in Russian”
  • Cool Water Song
    “A song in Romanian language about cool water”

    • HIV and AIDS:

       

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    Special Session 2006/2007 for teachers and educators
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    "Building your own Creative Teaching Practise":
    The UNESCO DigiArts Team invites teachers and educators to participate in building their own creative teaching practises based on the Young Digital Creators (YDC) online learning platforms on the theme of Water and HIV/AIDS.

     


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    lineq.gif Karolina Kuba
    Wrocław, Poland
    23 Feb 2007 - School/center: EKOLA 
    monica.jpg Monica Fodor
    Tulcea, Romania
    23 Feb 2007 - School/center: Agricultural College "Nicolae Cornateanu" 
    georgyana.gif GeorgyAna Bunea
    Tulcea, Romania
    23 Feb 2007 - 
    jj.gif JJ, Toronto
    23 Feb 2007 - School/center: Central Community School 
    shery.gif Sherine Said
    Alexandria, Egypt
    23 Feb 2007 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina 
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