I'm looking for a collaborator with audio-video presentation skills, plus (ideally) environmental awareness and Spanish language or Latin American interests. The project is to produce environmental educational music videos. Details below this colorful banner.
Venezuelan professor Adolfo Cardozo is a remarkable friend and colleague. A singer and songwriter, he has recorded 3 CD's, more than 30 original songs, that teach environmental principles. They are in Spanish, of course, but easily translated into English. The main personality in the songs is
La Doctora Gallina (Doctor Chicken), a fanciful mother hen that takes her baby chicks on field trips.
What's more, for each CD there is a colorful book with stories, song lyrics, and coloring-book pictures for every song! What's even more, all the songs, the lyrics, and the coloring-book pictures are available FREE, online, at his website and at mine.
Find three examples (audio, lyrics and graphic) here, then go below the curlicue...
If this grabs you, then I invite you to grab the files from the internet, and go to work. I envision the song as sound track, and the lyrics in SPANISH and in ENGLISH as subtitles or scrolling. Images, additional slides or video clips relevant to the lesson, would be scattered through the presentation.
Teachers all across the Spanish-speaking world will use these presentations with students at all levels. Furthermore, teachers in the US and the English-speaking world will use them for teaching Spanish language and social sciences, as well as environmental education. (I know it works, I've used them myself, as a substitute teacher of Spanish.)
No doubt your first thought is "do you have a budget?" Well, yes, a tiny budget. Harping for Harmony Foundation will pay $150 for a good working presentation, a proof of concept. Then we'll talk money. (Readers can help grow the budget with a donation to Harping for Harmony Foundation
I could go on, but please go to harpingforharmony.org, maybe subscribe, maybe make a donation. I go by arper on DKOS, but my real name is John Lozier, and I call myself a harper for harmony (get it?? arper!!). Email me at jl@harpingforharmony.org. I discovered the folk harp on a trip to Venezuela, in 1991. I was so captivated that I started Harping for Harmony Foundation, dedicated to promoting harmony and community, locally and Globally, through harp music.
(You didn't know about Latin American harp traditions? Check my website here and here.)