An example made for fun just after the Web 2.0 workshop. For more visual and textual detail, click on the picture.
Used Beth‘s camera to take the shot, downloaded it from her memory stick, and Virak directed me to the computers CityLink had wired up. Managed to upload it just before the start of the ‘Khmer or English’ debate. (You can see David Sasaki’s profile of the day here, & my growing link list here.)
(New to blogging? Don’t forget to tag your photos, videos, and posts with the “cloggersummit2007 ” tag as I’m doing below. Then you can go to http://technorati.com/tag/cloggersummit2007 and see what everyone else has said!)
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No, it’s just Mongkol taking pictures of his food. So naturally, I take a picture of him taking a picture, with my new camera phone.
Mongkol is back from the “Mekong Delta Blues” tour for a brief visit. Ordinarily he is studying in the States, calling Boston home. But in USA and the UK, translating Khmer is a relatively rare job skill! So he got to accompany Kung Nei and his student on a unique trip. It was great to catch up with him and hear his travel tales. Alas, he won’t be able to join the upcoming blogger meeting.
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When this movie appeared on the DVD racks I was happy to give it a look. There is a whole genre of ‘Teacher improves tough class’ films, from ‘Stand and Deliver’ all the way back to ‘The Blackboard Jungle’.
This film though, takes place at Wilson High School in Long Beach which had a fair number of Khmer students. (Cambodians are mentioned once, if I recall correctly.)
In a nutshell: skip the film, read the book.
The journal entries are the most powerful parts of the story, and I would have preferred to see a television series with an ensemble cast showing the growth and development of the class – focusing in turns on the individual stories of the students.
Instead, the movie reworks portions of the true story and uses the teacher as its main character (hard to avoid) and the stories take more of a back seat. Much of the real story (like the class raising money to meet war survivor Zlata Filipovic) wasn’t able to be included in a feature-length movie.
If I had my way, The Freedom Writers book would be translated into Khmer. It’s about young people dealing with poverty, violence, gangs, sexual abuse, drug addiction. And many overcome these problems by developing their writing skills as a team – a story that would sound saccharine if it wasn’t true.
The fact that it is, and that the Freedom Writers Foundation continues to make change today, makes for a great, inspiring read. Sure, the ‘Teacher saves unteachable class’ story IS a bit of a genre. But as one of my professors liked to say, there’s often a basis in fact for what might first appear to be cliché.
http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org
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តើអ្នកមាន weblog ដែរឬទេ?
យើងខ្ញុំកំពុងស្វែងរក blogger ខ្មែរចំនួន ៥០ នាក់ ដើម្បីចូលរួមសិក្ខាសិលារបស់យើងខ្មុំ។
www.cloggersummit.net
អ្នកមិនចាំបាច់ចេះនិយាយភាសាអង់គ្លេសក៏បានដែរ។ ការបកប្រែនឹងមានផ្តល់ជូន។
(យើងខ្ញុំសូមអធ្យាស្រ័យ ដែលសិក្ខាសិលានេះរៀបចំឡើងនៅខណះម៉ោងសិក្សា និងម៉ោងការងាររបស់លោកអ្នក)។
សង្ឃឹមថា នឹងបានជួបលោកអ្នកឆាប់ៗនេះ។
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out
១ ខ្ញុំធ្វើការសាកល្បង ជាមួយនឹងច្បាប់ដើមនៃឃ្លានេះ។
២ អត្ថបទកាសែត ភ្នំពេញផូស (Phnom Penh Post)
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Or the abbreviated equivalent. A handful of high tech gear is all you need to be a one man band.
At Sala Arts. As promised, DJ Sdey delivered a great set that I caught on tape.
Lately I’ve spotted him guesting on various Rasmey Hang Meas tracks but he’s dropping a new album in a few months. All new, all Sdey.
Previous episodes: http://del.icio.us/slugdog/HipHop
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