Setting up your Blog
1. Login to your school use e-mail account.
2. E-mail a blank e-mail to post@posterous.com
3. Wait for a reply (if you do not get a reply try again).
4. Click on "click here to set a password for the site" at the very bottom of the e-mail.
5. Change the first part of the url to your username (i.e. rsmar966). You must get this correct.
6. Save your changes.
7. E-mail me (richard_smart@hcpss.org) to tell me you are done.
8. Any time you wish to post to your blog send an e-mail from your school e-mail account to post@posterous.com. You can attach files, images, music or videos. It will format it all for you!
Here are the instructions posterous posts if it helps!
Spiritual Music
Objective
To explore the concept of spirituality by identifying spiritual elements in popular music.
Task
- Read the wikipedia definition of spirituality, and see if you agree...
- Listen to the radio and look through your music collection to see if you can find a track that has spiritual content.
- The only tracks you can't choose are those which are used for worship in a religion (ie Amazing Grace).
- Make a post on your blog including the name of the track, a link to the lyrics, or music (legal please) and a reflection explaining why you chose the music, and how the content is spiritual.
- I will play the best tracks in class
Here is last year's playlist. Feel free to use any of the tracks again!
- Love Is My Religion, Ziggy Marley
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, U2
- Beautiful Day, U2
- Waterfalls, TLC
- Walking With A Ghost, Tegan and Sara
- Dare You To Move, Switchfoot
- Meant To Live, Switchfoot
- Music Sounds Better With You, Stardust
- New Slang, The Shins
- Seasons Of Love, RENT Soundtrack
- Snow (Hey Oh), Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Paranoid Android, Radiohead
- House Of Cards, Radiohead
- Losing My Religion, R.E.M.
- Hallelujah, Paramore
- Meadows Of Heaven, Nightwish
- If Today Was Your Last Day, Nickelback
- On The Brightside, Never Shout Never
- Unwritten, Natasha Bedingfield
- Roll Away Your Stone, Mumford & Sons
- Wonder, Megan McCauley
- One Way, Levellers
- Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin
- Live Like We're Dying, Kris Allen
- When You Were Young, The Killers
- All These Things That I've Done, The Killers
- Welcome To Heartbreak, Kanye West
- Carry On Wayward Son, Kansas
- No Woman No Cry, Jonathan Butler
- Imagine, John Lennon
- Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
- Life Is Wonderful, Jason Mraz
- Wonderful World, James Morrison
- In My Head, india.arie
- Come Clarity, In Flames
- You Found Me, The Fray
- Someday, Flipsyde
- I Don't Know, Dredg
- Apollo-Gize (Fred Falke Rmx), Digitalism
- In This Life, Delta Goodrem
- Soul Meets Body, Death Cab For Cutie
- Marching Bands of Manhattan, Death Cab For Cutie
- I Hope I Become A Ghost, The Deadly Syndrome
- Speed Of Sound, Coldplay
- Don't Panic, Coldplay
- Strawberry Swing, Coldplay
- The Voice Within, Christina Aguilera
- Redemption Song, Bob Marley
- Lean On Me, Bill Withers
- Let It Be, The Beatles
- Here Comes The Sun, ] The Beatles
- My Girls, Animal Collective
- Jai Ho, A.R. Rahman
World Religions Blogs 2010/2011
Check out the new World Religions blogs for the 2010/2011 school year.
The links will become live as students begin writing :)
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World Religions Blogs 0910
Mr Smart's Spritual Song (& the Playlist)
My spritual song is Roll Away Your Stone, by Mumford and Sons. This is possibly my favourite song from the last year. I love the images of grace and the tortured nature of the singer's journey. Perhaps the most important part of it for me is that his journey is being worked out in debate with another person. Spirituality for me is about engaging with these big questions and doing so with other people. The most shocking thing about this track is that I never thought I would like country music... but I am claiming this isn't... it's London-Alt-Folk ;).
Thanks to all of you for posting your spiritual songs. Here are the tracks you can expect to hear this week. If you track is not here it means one of the following things: a) I couldn't find it b) it had explicit lyrics, or references to drugs/alcohol/etc.. c) I couldn't find a cheap enough version. Pester me if you want it to appear!
- Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
- Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin
- House of Cards - Radiohead
- Don't Panic - Cold Play
- Strawberry Swing - Cold Play
- Paranoid Android - Radiohead
- Here Comes the Sun - Beatles
- Let it be - Beatles
- Redemption Song - Bob Marley
- Wonderful World - James Morrison
- I hope I become a ghost - Deadly Syndrome
- Waterfalls - TLC
- Energy - Apples in Stereo
- Snow - Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Unwritten - Natasha Beddingfield
- Meadows of Heaven - Nightwish
- In my head - India Arie
- If today was your last day - Nickelback
- Speed of Sound - Coldplay
- Dare you to move - Switchfoot
- Roll Away Your Stone - Mumford & Sons
- This is your life - Switchfoot
