Link New York City and Bejaia City by YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE song!

Hi Students and Teachers,

I wanna show you the way how our Blog is growing up, this last times the students from NYC and Bejaia City are really connected by using many different kind of projects and activities, I really appreciate all job made by students. 

Thanks a lot  for sharing them with us.

For this, please see the example bellow to understand and enjoy more.

Level 4 NYC: Performing You Are My Sunshine

Video: Level 4 NYC Performs You Are My Sunshine



Reflecting on the Performance

From Madjid (by email to Eric): "I was seeing the You Are My Sunshine video too many times and I do like it so much because simply was a great moment in a beautiful song and I saw when we were signing in the beginning some student were shy and I try to help them to be natural and feel as you are signing alone to your self."

From Eric (email response to Madjid): I think there is something great about this performance.  Every student is singing, and even the most shy students look like they are having fun.  For me, that is the greatest accomplishment of this performance.  Every student became comfortable enough to sing a song in English.  And everyone (including me) was comfortable enough to make mistakes, and smile about the mistakes.  Being comfortable to make mistakes is SO important for learning. When I see everyone reading and singing, I am filled to the top with happiness!"

Thanks to Madjid: I could not have recorded this song without your help.

And thank you to the students in Level 4, who trusted me to try another crazy experiment. 


About the Recording
Madjid recorded this video with a digital camera.  We also recorded separate audio tracks using a cell phone and laptop.  I mixed the audio tracks in Audacity, to improve the sound.  I used iMovie (Mac) to edit the video, add titles, and include my combined audio track. I don't think the video editing needed to be as complicated as this, but I wanted to practice using iMovie, and I wanted to see if I could combine Audacity and iMovie.

-Eric, NYC