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Basketball. Michael Jordan turns 50 on February 17. No better excuse than to show his 10 best dunks.
Football. Manchester City hope to capitalise on Manchester United's Champions League distractions by re-launching the defence of their English Premier League title, starting with Saturday's trip to Southampton. City's 2-2 draw at home to Liverpool last weekend enabled United to stretch their advantage at the top of the table to nine points, with only 13 games of the season remaining.
Golf. Australians Nicky Campbell, Tamara Johns and Sarah Oh shared the early clubhouse lead at the New Zealand Women's Open golf championship.The trio fired three-under-par 69 in the first round at Clearwater resort near Christchurch.
Football. AC Milan have attempted to smooth the waters following a racist comment made by club official Paolo Berlusconi by releasing a photo of him with Mario Balotelli. Berlusconi, the brother of former Italian PM and club president Silvio, made the terrible comment at a political meeting.
Tennis. Fresh off reaching the doubles final of the Australian Open, Australia will court a combination of youth and experience with its Fed Cup doubles pair, nominating debutante Ashleigh Barty and team stalwart Casey Dellacqua to take on reigning champions the Czech Republic. At 16, former junior Wimbledon champion Barty will be the youngest Australian Fed Cup player since Jelena Dokic in 1998, while 27-year-old Dellacqua's history with the national team stretches back almost seven years.
Basketball. Unless you are a beard lover, this could get ugly. Dallas Mavericks players have agreed to not shave until the team's record get back to a 50% win-loss record. At the moment they are 21-28. Add to that the fact Dallas aren't that good and this bet could see out the season. The next question is, if they finish they with a losing record, will the beards remain over the US summer?
Cricket. A brisk half century from Nic Maddinson has continued NSW's fightback on day three of the Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania at Bellerive.The Blues are 3-245 nearing lunch in reply to the home side's 6(dec)-425. Maddinson has 52 and reached his half century off just 68 balls.
American Football. How much grief is this guy gonna cop? Star running-back Alex Collins has finally signed a letter of intent to play college ball for Arkansas. The funny part is that news comes a day after he mum confiscated the contract because he didn't want her boy to leave home. Good luck son, you're gonna need it.
Basketball. More bad news for the Los Angeles Lakers. All-star forward Pau Gasol, who suffered a tear on the bottom of his right foot, will be out at least six weeks. Gasol flew back to Los Angeles, where he was examined by team doctors and a foot specialist who diagnosed him with a torn plantar fascia - the tissue under the arch of the foot. In 36 games this season, Gasol is averaging 13.4 points, eight rebounds and 3.6 assists.
UPDATE: Felix Hernandez is one happy man. The Seattle Mariners star has signed a US$175million deal to stay on the northwest. His old US$78million deal has is no more. Well done Felix.
Drugs in Sport/AFL. A number of Australian bookmakers have suspended betting on the opening match of the AFL season between Adelaide and Essendon.
The Bombers are currently under investigation by the AFL and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA) after earlier this week admitting to concerns over the use of supplements at the club.
That was followed by the release of the Australian Crime Commission report into drugs in sport in Australia on Thursday which described widespread doping and links to organised crime.
Drugs in Sport. Penrith general manager and Fairfax columnist Phil Gould has voiced concerns over the lack of detail in the ACC's report.
"This report is full of words like maybe, could be, suspected and potential," Gould told Channel Nine. "Nobody has been named, no club has been named and no sport has been named.
"At the moment everyone is guilty and I'm not sure, even if they find pockets of illegality, how you repair the integrity of everyone else who is in fact innocent."
Rugby. "He's pretty much your perfect human in terms of preparation and all-round bloke."
High praise indeed, but who was Brumbies captain Ben Mowen talking about this morning? Answers on a postcard...
Drugs in Sport. Gold Coast Titans chief executive David May says there is nothing to suggest a vial of liquid found hidden in a changing room at the team's home ground is linked to the NRL club.
May told the ABC the find involved a urine-filled jam jar, and the jar was at least five years old.
Cycling. Isle of Man cyclist Mark Cavendish bagged his third win in as many days on Thursday in winning the fifth stage of the Tour of Qatar to retain the overall lead.
The British rider, who is in his first season with Omega Pharma-Quick Step after a move from Team Sky, landed the penultimate stage -- 154km from Al Zubara Fort to Madinat Al Shamal -- in taking a sprint finish to edge out Yauheni Hutarovich of Belarus and Lithuania's Aidis Kruopis.
Golf. Russell Knox of Scotland leads after the first round of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in California. Knox carded a 64, one ahead of Greg Owen (Eng), Ryuji Imada (Jpn) and Scott Langley (USA).
Alistair Presnell, Jason Day, Matt Jones and Aaron Baddeley are the leading Australians with 68.
Cricket: NSW Blues have lost two early wickets on day three of their Sheffield Shield game against Tasmania at Blundstone Arena. Luke Butterworth claimed both David Dawson (75) and Tim Cruickshank (39) with the Blues 3-183 chasing Tasmania's 6(dec)-425.
Tennis. Rafael Nadal's knee held up for a third straight day, and if he keeps winning it will be getting double the workout over the weekend.
The Spaniard teamed with Juan Monaco to reach the doubles semi-finals in Vina Del Mar, Chile with a 6-2 7-6 (4) victory over Guillaume Ruffin and Filippo Volandri on Thursday.
Cricket. NSW, or should we say Melbourne Renegades, batsman Ben Rohrer has been named in Australia's Twenty20 squad to face the West Indies next Wednesday. Young quick Josh Hazlewood has also been picked in a squad that features no players in the Test squad that will tour India later this month.
Australia squad: George Bailey, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Ben Cutting, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Brad Haddin, Josh Hazlewood, Ben Laughlin, Clint McKay, Shaun Marsh, Ben Rohrer, Adam Voges
Drugs in sport. Gold Coast Titans chief executive David May says there's nothing to suggest a vial of liquid found hidden in a changing room at the team's home ground is linked to the NRL club.
May said he understood a single suspicious vial was found concealed in plumbing in the room at Skilled Stadium and it had been handed to Australian Sports Anti Doping Authority (ASADA).
The vial, reportedly containing urine, was found by police during a training exercise.
May says 45 teams have used the changing rooms at Skilled Park since the Titans were last there, including the 44 teams at the World Rugby Sevens series tournament.
May said he was not concerned that the issue could tarnish the team's reputation, but he was concerned about how it would be reported in the media.
"I know a lot of people will assume ... just because it is our home ground, will assume a linkage to us," he said.
"But ultimately I think this is an issue for broader sport."
Drugs in sport. New Zealand's close sporting ties with Australia has their Prime Minister John Key so concerned he will discuss the matter with Julia Gillard when the pair meet this weekend.
Drugs in Sport: Andy Parkinson, the chief executive of UK Anti-Doping, has warned the UK is "vulnerable to exactly the kind of threats" highlighted in an in Australian sport.
Parkinson stressed that there should be no complacency in the UK over the battle against such issues.
"This report reinforces a number of disturbing facts." he said. "It is vital that independent anti-doping organisations and professional sports administrators in particular work together to combat any potential use of performance-enhancing substances, developing effective prevention programmes to ensure a clean sport culture among players.
Rugby. The Melbourne Rebels have announced flanker Gareth Delve as their captin for 2013.
Baseball. Felix Hernandez could walk into Seattle Mariners training camp on Tuesday as the highest-paid pitcher in Major League Baseball, or he might not be there at all, according to US reports.
USA Today reported on Thursday that the 26-year-old Venezuelan has agreed to a seven-year deal worth $US175 million ($A170 million), which would be the richest contract in baseball history, while MLB.com reports that no such agreement has been made.
The newspaper said the deal would be finalised before the start of pre-season training, which for the Mariners will begin on Tuesday in Peoria, Arizona, when pitchers and catchers are due to report.
What kind of hockey? Canada's answer to cricket-loving John Howard.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has penned a tome on the history of hockey for hockey-mad Canadian voters that will hit bookstores later this year, his publisher announced Thursday.
The as-yet-untitled book tells "the intriguing, little-known story of the origins of professional hockey, where strong personalities and philosophies battled to define not only how the game would be played on ice, but by whom," said a statement.
Started during the 2006 election campaign that swept Harper's Conservatives to power, the book will be published by Simon & Schuster in Canada and the United States in November.
Harper had worked on it between campaign stops, jotting down ideas on scraps of paper.
Sports betting. Leading sports administrator Malcolm Speed says sports clubs cannot weed out criminal links to their organisations without police help.Speed, the executive director of the coalition of major professional and participation sports, says the introduction of State police integrity forces is long overdue.
The former head of the International Cricket Council said criminal identities linking themselves with teams and athletes are usually also sports fans and their backgrounds can't always be easily traced.
Speed said sports organisations have long been calling for police to assist.
Victoria already has a police integrity force in place and now other states will follow.
''Criminals don't come along with tattoos on their forehead telling us that they're criminals,'' Speed told ABC radio.
Rugby. Understated, yet stirring. The speech that British & Irish Lions assistant coach Jim Telfer gave his forward pack before the first Test against the Springboks in 1997 has become the stuff of legend. A youthful Martin Johnson and Lawrence Dallaglio being calmly told - with a few expleteives - that this match was their Mt Everest.
The Lions won the Test and went on to win the series.
Now Telfer and Tourism Australia have combined to tell Lions fans that the tour to Australia this year is their Everest.
AFL. Former AFL club president and Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has called for an immediate ban on the promotion of sports betting and a zero-tolerance policy on drugs in the AFL.
Kennett said he was not aware of a great deal of match-fixing in AFL, but he was worried by the clear influence of money and betting on sport. ''I have argued for a long time now, and I've written to federal members of parliament, I would like to see an immediate ban on the promotion of sports betting, the immediate ban throughout the country on sports betting,'' he told ABC 24.
Football. Paris Saint-Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti hinted that David Beckham could make his debut for the French capital club in the Ligue 1 game at Sochaux next weekend.
The veteran Englishman, who has signed a contract with the Ligue 1 leaders until the end of the season, will start working with the squad after the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Valencia next Tuesday.
Ancelotti left open the possibility that the former Manchester United, Real Madrid and Los Angeles Galaxy could then appear at the Stade Bonal on Sunday, February 17.''At the moment we have allowed him to stay in London. He has been working well and will continue to do so for the rest of this week,'' said the Italian coach.
Georgina Robinson: Rugby. The mooted return of former Wallabies halfback Luke Burgess has ruffled feathers in the ranks, with a former Rebels player condemning Melbourne for contemplating the signing and the Brumbies confirming their interest.
Drugs in sport. Importation of peptides has exploded with seizures up 255 per cent over the past year, according to the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA). ASADA chief Aurora Andruska says her organisation had been warning sporting bodies and codes that peptides were the ''new generation'' of performance-enhancing substance.
But even armed with intelligence on suspected users of peptides, Andruska conceded on Friday that target testing was unlikely to uncover users as only two laboratories worldwide can test for peptides.''We've been looking at the issue of peptides for some time,'' Andruska told the ABC.
Dominic Bossi: Football. Tom Rogic is yet to play for Celtic but he has already made it big in Asia. A group of Thai Celtic supporters who call themselves the "Thai Tims," comprised mostly of school children, have become the first fans to make a song for the Bhoy from Oz with their rendition of Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.
They group have included lyrics in their film clip in hope of it catching on at Parkhead.
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Football. Surely not, financial responsibility in the English Premier League? The EPL announced Thursday that clubs in English football's top flight faced a points deduction if they breached new spending controls due to take effect from next season.
The 20 clubs will not be allowed to make a loss above STG105 million ($A160 million) over the next three seasons, while from 2013-14 they must limit their player wage bills.
''If people break the 105m we will look for the top-end ultimate sanction range -- a points deduction,'' said English Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore.
Rugby. Scotland hooker Dougie Hall has lost his battle to be fit to face Italy in Saturday's Six Nations international at Murrayfield, the Scottish Rugby Union announced on Thursday.
Hall, who started in the 38-18 defeat by England last week, has failed to recover from a knee strain suffered at Twickenham.
Dominic Bossi: Football. Western Sydney Wanderers have continued to retain the core of their playing group after re-signing Italian defender Iacopo La Rocca for a further two years.
The 28 year-old is the second player in two days to sign on with the club after Youssouf Hersi agreed to terms on Wednesday.
Coach Tony Popovic said that La Rocca was reaching his prime which prompted the club to keep him until the end of the 2014/2015 season.
"Iacopo is very good on the ball and his distribution is a real asset of his and we feel that he can help us move forward in the near term and the long term," Popovic said.
Richard Hinds: The Australian Crime Commission's report into sports corruption is unflinching in its rhetoric. It evokes images of organised crime, match-fixing and, disturbingly, "drugs not approved for human use" encroaching upon our supposedly innocent past-times.
But one sentence that is neither sensational nor shocking will haunt administrators across the codes should the report's most serious claims be proven. It is the commission's answer to a key question – how had an insidious link between our major sports and organised crime been formed, and gone unbroken?
Peter FitzSimons: It was the moral equivalent of Australian sport - so recently strutting and strong - being suddenly backed into the corner ropes by a perfumed posse of small men in suits and well groomed women in power outfits and being pummelled to a bloody pulp in a few minutes.
Brad Walter: League. New NRL boss Dave Smith has assured the public that the overwhelming majority of players are not involved in the probe into drug use and match-fixing - but has vowed to catch those who are.
With Telstra warning it may reconsider its $150 million sponsorship and new media rights deal with the NRL if any substantial links between players or clubs and organised crime are proved, Smith's first week in the job has proved a baptism of fire.
And away we go .... Police have reportedly discovered vials of urine hidden in the plumbing at the home ground of an NRL club.
The discovery was made while police conducted a bomb-detection training exercise at Skilled Park in Robina, Queensland, the home ground of the Gold Coast Titans.
Ben Coady: Welcome to SportsDay Live. Can't promise that we'll have the bombshells of yesterday that followed the Australian Crime Commission report into Organised Crime and Drugs In Sport, but who knows? We'll be keeping you up to date with any developments, plus hopefully find a few stories that don't involve drugs or match-fixing.


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When most people get ready to travel and they need a place to stay they reach right for the hotel options in the area. The reason? They think that if they look at a bed & breakfast they will have to share a bath, they won't have any privacy, it's not accommodating to a business traveler and/or it will be like going to Grandma's house to sleep. Most of those people also think a hotel will be cheaper. I just returned from a business trip to Atlanta, Georgia and stayed at a Hyatt hotel. I received a conference "special rate" of $159 per night. I started looking around my room and comparing to the Jacuzzi suite at my bed & breakfast that goes for $165 per night on the same days of the week. I cannot understand why travelers flock to the hotels:
Hotel Daily Rate $159 ... Jacuzzi Suite at B&B $165...Comparable room at B and B $135
Hotel bed had a hard mattress ... Bed and Breakfast suite had pillow-top mattress
Breakfast at the hotel dining room ran $16-$25 ... BandB has complimentary breakfast buffet
Bottled water in hotel room $6 per bottle .... BandB has complimentary bottled water
Hotel had NO complimentary snacks ... BandB has homemade evening snack
Hotel charges for hot chocolate/popcorn....BandB has free hot chocolate/popcorn
Hotel offered shampoo, conditioner, lotion, soap & toothpaste...BandB offers shampoo, conditioner, lotion, soap, body scrub, make-up remover, herbal bath grains.
Hotel offered NO bed side chocolates....BandB offers bed side chocolates from local factory
Hotel charges for on site parking...BandB offers complimentary parking
Hotel charges for local phone calls....BandB offers complimentary local phone calls
Hotel charges $12 a day for internet ... BandB offers free WIFI
Hotel offers sitting in lobby, lounge or room at night....BandB has gardens, evening campfire, porch swings, glider rockers, rockers on the patio and view of countryside
Both places had Satellite TV
Both places had down alternative comforters
Both places had in-room coffee
I could easily see how a 2 night stay at a hotel could be padded with $150, or more, of add-on charges when a BandB stay can be so more comfortable and offer more personalized customer service.
I keep hearing news casts on TV telling people how to save money in this down economy, but I never hear them telling people to look at a BandB over a hotel to save on a weekend get away or vacation. Why is that?
This blog was written by Carol Steffey from Garden Gate Get-A-Way Bed & Breakfast in Millersburg, Ohio.
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Richard Cordray, New Mortgage Rules, and Bank Stocks: Should You Fret?
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So, it looks like the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is finally getting around to placing controls on mortgage lenders. According to the reports I've read this morning (Jan 10, 2013) the CFPB, led by former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, is planning a sweeping set of rules controlling the types of mortgage loans that will be allowable going forward.
Coming on top of yesterday's news that international bank regulators are working on easing bank requirements to improve loan capacity, it becomes sort of an interesting day for those with bank stocks in their portfolios. Trying to put together what it all means will be an interesting little analysis. But that's what I'm here for.
I don't think I necessarily have to cover the old ground about toxic mortgages. Here's a short primer, anyway. During the 2000s the mortgage lenders went nuts. All forms of new loans were created, or if not created, emphasized, that allowed people with less than good credit, and a doubtful ability to pay mortgages, to buy houses. That, combined with the lender's ability to shield themselves from the downside by packaging the loans and selling them to other banks, made for a mortgage climate that was more ruthless than any we'd seen. There was a disconnect between who profited from making the loan and who ended up holding the risk of the loan. A bunch of people got rich and, in the end, the economy got hammered. Thanks, guys.
But home loans have to happen. People want to buy houses so someone needs to pony up the dough. The new rules will help banks avoid the excesses of the past while providing stability for lenders and borrowers moving forward. Banks can't make crazy loans (such of my favorite, the NINJA loan. NINJA stands for No-Income-No-Job-or-Assets. Seriously, would you loan $10 to someone like that?) and buyers need to actually be able to pay for the loan. Crazy talk.
So the new rules are a compromise, banks are required to jump through more hoops while seeing more security in their loans. Borrowers can feel a bit more confident that, when a bank makes a loan, they know it will be paid back. It'll mean fewer loans to people at the low income level, and may harm home prices a bit, but that seems to me a small price to pay for stability in the mortgage banking sector.
So who benefits. Cui bono, to borrow the latin. Always ask who benefits from the actions of government. The major banking lobbyists were worried about Cordray being at the CFPB, I know that. But it looks to me like the screws aren't being tightened too much with these rules. So banks that have some money to loan, but have been leery of getting involved, can now commit to the new rules and move things forward. Here's a few:
Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC): Outside of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (more about them at a later time), Wells Fargo, with their cute little horses, was the top 2010 holder of mortgages with a bit less than 25% of the market. The firm has come through the downturn fairly well and is now positioned to move into the new rules with strength. I'd give buying some a serious thought. The stock is up for the last year significantly and the board more than doubled its dividend a while back.
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC): Look, BoA took a beating yesterday on the announcement that it's paying some billions in fines over mortgage issues it inherited in its acquisition of Countrywide. But remember two things, first, it inherited those issues – it didn't create them, and second, it had the cash on hand. That's not a sign of weakness. BoA is only a little behind Wells Fargo in market share, has the cash to make loans, and will enjoy the protection afforded by the new rules. Its stock has almost doubled in the last year, even with yesterday's bad news. Not much of a dividend, though.
U.S. Bank (NYSE: USB): A smaller player in the mortgage market. However, U.S. Bancorp has come through the market trouble well and has seen itself grow over the last five years. In 2010 the firm only held a bit under 3% of the mortgage market. I'd expect that to climb as the firm is capable of doing much more. There's a lot of room for growth in US Bank, it's up to them to make it happen. The stock is up more than 10% in the last year. I'll never argue with that.
SunTrust (NYSE: STI): Another smaller player in the market, SunTrust has been protected from the dislocations of the last few years through its focus on retail banking and servicing existing clients. With a 2010 mortgage portfolio of only $5.6 billion there's plenty of room for SunTrust to move into the market aggressively now that the path forward is clear. Its stock has climbed almost 40% in the last 12 months, too.
I realize I'm being contrarian, here. There's going to be a LOT of people on television yammering about how the banks are being unfairly constrained by these new rules. Idiot politicians (the vast majority) will either praise or condemn them, not out of any real knowledge but out of ideology. It's my opinion, though, that what mortgage lenders lose in freedom to make unrestricted loans will be more than offset by the protection gained from having clear, straightforward guidelines for their programs. It'll be worth looking hard at mortgage stocks again. I know I'll be looking into it.
More columns by Nate Wooley:
- Chuck Hagel and the Worry About Defense Stocks
- Dividend-Paying Companies: A Job Where You Don't Have to Work
- When to Assume More Investment Risk
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- Sterling Spencer
- Wichita, KS
- United States
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How might teachers implement sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube to engage students in their education?
Using today's social networking sites may be an excellent way to engage student in their education because students are already engaged in these sites. I could imagine a teacher taking video notes and then posting it to Youtube for the class.
The teacher may also make use of having a Twitter account. Instead of being forced to have all of the student's cell phone numbers, the students could just follow a teacher's classroom specific Twitter account. Using Twitter, the teacher could also post links to his/her Youtube videos.
This kind of thing could keep students thinking about school more.
What ways do you think teacher should implement social networking sites?
Mar 29 2012: I do not want to poo poo your idea .... but poo poo. These sites are filled with porn, or other distractions.that small minds that need to be focused on learning would stray to. I think that brick and mortar schools are necessary. I do however, see the on line for profit school and diploma mills as a major player in the near future. If we allow this use of the internet then we will have kids without original thought and electronic plegerism. All the best. Bob
Mar 30 2012: I agree. The internet is great as a giant encyclopedia, however, everything presented is suspect, the ideas are not vetted, the presentation sloppy, and the organization miserable. Frankly I wish somebody would convince me that our children would use the internet to educate themselves, become more involved, make a difference, learn something, become excited.
Because frankly, every time my daughter is supposed to be using the internet to look up resources for, say, the land formations of Southeast Asia, when I check on her an hour later, she is watching Taylor Swift on YouTube, Facebooking her friends about this Saturday's sales at the mall, and placing wii games into her Amazon shopping cart. As for the landforms of SE Asia? All she knows by now is that they get tsunamis.
However, it is possible that my daughter is completely unique, and that every other youngster uses the net and social networks to augment their education and coordinate their study teams, but for me, we as a human society have built all these nice toys that frankly seem to be beyond our maturity level to use with any degree of sophistication.
I love tech. I love devices, and Lord knows I love my internet, but I say let us stop this insistence that teachers bring tech into the clasroom in order to try to engage the students. It is pure pandering. It is essentially telling the students that they are too dumb to pay attention or that the teachers are unwilling to communicate human-to-human. Let's leave the classrooms as that one safe zone where students know that here they are expected to build focus,, concentration, cerebral synaptic connections though presentation and discussion of information. Kind of like a football practice field for the brain.
Apr 5 2012: I agree that the internet is extremely distracting; I have personally spent entire nights working on a project where at least half the time is spent adamantly getting nothing done. Teachers, however are just as prone to losing the attention of their students. I can testify that my fellow students and I get bored and nod off in the middle of upper level college lectures. Sugata Mitra has a talk involving a child-driven approach to education, where he found that if students are given the resources, they will take it upon themselves to learn, primarily out of curiosity.
Social media can be valid as an organization system, like blackboard, but it is not a practical method for teaching. There are resources available to get concepts across, but they must be rigidly built to maintain interest and still adequately cover the intended material. Simbio is a virtual lab program that I have used in several of my classes and it is easy to understand and does a great job of covering a wide array of ideas that lectures have difficulty with.
Interpersonal education and online teaching have their individual flaws, but both are far more useful than trying to teach through social media. The goal of teaching should be to spark interest for the students, and encourage them to seek out more information to build a solid knowledge base and hone skills.
Apr 5 2012: With all these various choices and different rsourcws, each with strengths and flaws, it almost makes me yearn for the time that exists only in history books: apprenticeships. One student to one teacher, learning a practical skill. Granted according to our complex social structure and emphasis on limitless possibilities it may seem dreadfully stilted, but at least they had focused students, teachers who knew the actual application of their subject, and the comfort of knowing exactly what you were doing with your life!
Apr 6 2012: You can rightly "poo-poo" the concepts when you measure them by your old-school traditions. However, since those days are gone, to poo-poo something out of gross generalisations kind of misses the point of how technology influences and changes practice in all sectors, education especially..
Apr 6 2012: It has nothing to do with old school standards,or gross generalizations. I am surprised that a teacher would not agree that a 14 year old when given access to the web would not check his facebook, e-mail, or even play a game when given the opportunity. There is always the student who may venture into porn either out of curousity or pure interest. As I have said and others agree above the class room should provide direction and focus. Just as a aside what are you, a teacher, going to say to the principal and the parents when you have the meeting over why little Johnny was found watching porn at home and tells his parents he found the site at school. Keep you resume updated. Game over. Bob
Apr 6 2012: You're right, we have to be very aware of that kind of behaviour and there is policy to follow.
Most of the problems occur at home or in areas other than school so locking them out or locking it down doesn't work.
Kids are on the internet and if they are prevented by rules at home then at some point they will be using it and probably unsupervised. Our job as educators is to educate not ban or prevent.
The world can be a nasty place but people have to grow up and learn how to conduct themselves appropriately. The internet is just another facet, albeit one that is accessible from an early age.
Don't forget all the brilliant content that is out there. We can't let fear dictate how and what we teach our kids.
Jon MinerMar 23 2012: Technology is great for increasing student involvement. Social sites are a waste of precious time and pose a serious distraction to students.
Technology can reinforce group cohesion when the group produces something using technology. Perhaps videos, slide shows, music, art, cartoons, and poetry are sll things that can use technology, some from conception to presentation.
We live in a media centric environment. Trying to teach without media is an indicator of poor community support. We have used media since film strips. Today students are producing movies.
Anything that can focus student attention on what is to be learned is great. Social sites that distract their attention should be avoided.
Mar 23 2012: I have a friend who is taking an english class. He just told me that they were reading Hamlet and that the teacher had all of the students create Facebook profiles for each of the characters. He also said that it was fun and seemed to engage much more of the class than usual because they could design the profiles to match the characters and their relationships. He also said that the reason he thinks it was working was because the teacher kept close supervision over the project.
So do you think that if social sites are at least used in the right way that they may be able to work for education?
In this way it is still dependent on the teacher to engage the class, and that should be their goal.
Apr 10 2012: The key to a successful application of a social site is indeed teacher supervision. But why add that burden to the teacher when it is not necessary to use the real social site. A virtual social site within the classroom would work and not tempt the students to 'check out' their friend's real social site while they were 'working' on the Hamlet profiles.
Students are very clever and have become expert at communicating via cellphone, iPad, and computer while they are supposed to be working. Adding another access portal to their repertoire only makes wasting time even easier. There are many ways to engage students without providing them more ways to goof off. I think teachers should be encouraged to find them and use them. Let's stay focused people.
Stuart Woods 10+Mar 22 2012: Hi Sterling, as a teacher I have strong views on this. All day we aim to get students to sustain a depth of engagement in a meaningful tasks which lead to learning. Now as a stimulus resource Youtube is excellent (I used it yesterday in a class on puppetry) but I truly believe that in it's current form Facebook and Twitter are a DISTRACTION to meaningful learning. Socialization is crucial of course to a child's development but purposeful learning in the classroom requires sustained concentration, something which doesn't come naturally when we compete with their limbic brain for their attention. Learning and ultimately fulfillment happens when we get in 'the zone' ,social networking can hinder possibilities of this. Social networking works best at break and lunch with actual REAL students and bite size bits of information are fine, but not for any length of time. I think there's room for these (and certainly a demand) in our society but I worry we are seeing the demise of thinking long (and slow) as it no longer (if it ever did) come naturally to many students...it's my job to champion it.
David Denton
John PennMar 22 2012: I don't think that a means of communication (like social media sites) necessarily creates engagement. It's engagement that causes communication.
People engage when they are interested. Almost everyone is interested in engaging with friends. Thats why they use social media sites.
So, it seems to me that the real question should be "How do we make education more interesting?"
Once it's interesting, people will want to talk about it, like we are, at this site.
Apr 10 2012: I am a teacher in the UK and I can imagine having a twitter based homework.
E.g. Homework (for 10 year olds) is to find different ways of starting sentences. Here's how the feed could go;
@Teacher: What different ways have you found to start a sentence using the books you're reading at the moment? #sentencestarters
@pupil1: "Books and paper everywhere, the room had been ransacked" #sentencestarters
@pupil2: "Looking into her eyes, his heart pounded." #sentencestarters
@pupil3: "Later that day, he realised he'd left his phone on the train." #sentencestarters
The teacher then gets into school and asks the pupils to summarise different ways to start sentences (looking at the feed on the smartboard of course!). So they say; "you can start with a noun, a verb or a time connective." (There's more I know). Then the teacher has a classroom activity ready to go where the children do this for themselves.
Later that year pupil 3 is having trouble with a writing homework, so logs on to twitter at puts in #sentencestarters to remind themselves of a way of improving their writing.
Homework without without paper or marking...
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Apr 7 2012: Agreed. Technology may help generate a new perspective allowing us new ways to think, but even so a new way of thinking is more important than new technology.
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." -Nikola Tesla
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research". - Albert Einstein
Mar 24 2012: We as a society have placed so much emphasis in this generation on trying to see what teachers can do to keep teachers engaged that I think it's time to turn the argument around and make this statement, if I may:
Instead of placing the emphasis on teachers to engage the students, why don't we focus on making students be engaging to their teachers?
I think that teachers won't tell you this (or maybe they will), but students these days, frankly seem to be boring. Students are crying out to be entertained because they are over stimulated, especially with social media. We as parents have been so preoccupied with calming our children since infancy with phones, net access, various bells and whistles, that we have never raised them to learn how to be still, to be quiet, to pay attention, to absorb, to wonder, to be contemplative, to listen for the magnificence that comes from the quiet, the unique, the minute, that secret space between moments when all ideas finally come together.
That said, I think social media is wonderful for communication, and sure, why not have the teacher have YouTube as a supplement, but they should not forget because there are still some parents out there (about 5, I think) who limit their tweens net access because while they SAID they were doing research online, they are actually grinding the chair to Nicki Minaj. just sayin'!
Mar 25 2012: Make that 6 parents.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I will say something else.....when my daughter was in 4th grade, and all the teachers in our school system got personal laptops, plus cell phones, then something amazing happened.................. teaching stopped!
All of the sudden, she was coming home, and I would have to teach her how to do her homework because her teacher had been glued to the computer all day.
Technology is wonderful, but, you really have to be careful with it.
Also, when smartboards were placed inside all the classrooms at my kid's school I remember hearing a parent say: "I wish instead they had brought in smart teachers".......There is no substitute for good teaching!
Technology and wesites, when used wisely, can bring enrichment to the learning experience.
This is my humble opinion.
Apr 8 2012: Much of what you have shared has happened to me as a teacher. I have never stopped teaching in the classroom but things like powerpoint and appropriate You TUbe and videos have helped me make a point on more levels than just auditory learning. We all remember a good movie in great detail and it has helped me bring history alive. Khan academy has helped a lot of my students with math homework as it gives them a review of the days lesson at a time convenient for them and their parents. My only regret is that parents some not all have turned to the internet as a baby sitter instead of getting into the work with their students. On the other hand I have students whose educational level exceeds their parents and the parents cannot keep the pace. Education is an interesting problem.
Apr 8 2012: Excellent insight...yes, I too have made wonderful use of the internet, and smartboards an khan academy.
There is nothing like visuals to supplement and complement learning.
I'll share a quick experience. When I was teaching about the Arctic and Antarctica, I found wonderful videos on youtube and played them for the students on the smartboard. It was like being in a movie theater.....their little eyes grew wide as they saw those two cold ends of our planet come to life.
Technology is wonderful, but like any other tool, you have to know how to use it properly with children.
And how sad that parents use the internet as a baby sitter.........well, not too long ago it used to be the tv..........I still prefer my kids to play, or read a book....but that's me.
Thanks James for your comment.
Mar 24 2012: Social media may be used as a mean of teaching but i belive that it could only work as an extracurricular activity. It would be better that moodle because Facebook, Tweeter and YT are more popular among young people. However, this may bring up a problem of procastination. Social media are very distractive so teenagers will be more eager to check out their friends new photos instead of completing teacher's task sent thorugh Facebook.
Brian CerdaMar 23 2012: First to the main point. I would keep in mind public opinion interacting with students on facebook may have negative consequences and unhappy parents overreacting to news stories. However, youtube is a different story. I believe every teacher should have video lectures available on youtube to either replace or supplement lectures. it s a better model to lecture in video where students can post questions as comments below and the teacher can clarify by responding. This frees up more time for actual problem solving and application of knowledge in class.
Secondly, John Penn, while i agree we should work to make things as interesting as possible. we have to except that if there is a list of curriculum to be taught every student will have a lack of interest in some fields. So it should be a two headed effort to both make things more interesting, and find ways to teach students about things they may not care about at all.
Vivek Trivedi 10+Mar 22 2012: In my personal view, it will be a strict NO NO, because it needs all the students genuinely interested in studies and any diversion online may ruin their interests. It is the duty of teacher to keep students engaged and completely involved as long as they are in the class. Those who are seriously into the topic are going to follow it anyways.
Mar 22 2012: It seems to me that, with advancing technology, it has been getting harder to engage students in class. The classroom hasn't made very many mind blowing changes while the world outside has. I would think it would make sense to inject school into the technologies that students are using because it will insert school into their distractions.
What methods do you think teachers should use to keep students engaged in class instead of using technology?
Stuart Woods 10+Mar 22 2012: I think teacher's should deploy timeless strategies such as imaginative and innovative ideas to deliver learning. This may, or may not mean using technology. A sense of fun and creativity is crucial (regardless of subject). Ultimately, if a teacher teaches from the heart about what they love, the students WILL be engaged. I truly believe this is the root of everything that happens in the classroom. It's the job of school leaders to make sure we recruit and retain the best, most caring and enthusiastic teachers for our students.
Mar 24 2012: I agree with you Stuart Woods ,the centrality of the teacher is undoubtedly the most important link between students and learning. No matter what the level of tecnical, trendy or new tools we may have they will be ineffective without a teacher who can capture the attention as well as hold the class together.
Mar 27 2012: Absolutely true. I think each of us can recall a certain teacher who stands out from the rest, either by a whacky personality, or more effectively, because of their passion for the subject of the teaching.
Yet, I will insist that we must also put the emphasis on teacheing ourselves and our children to be good students. No matter what great teachers we have, society along the way has decided that the entire emphasis should be placed on the teacher finding tools to engage the student, and that the student has zero responsibility to be actively engaged in the course material.
Zoe Takala
Mar 23 2012: The idea is wonderful, if we can really be sure that we can inject school into the technologies, but question is again the same, will it interest them? Stuart presented a beautiful description about teachers involvement from heart, which is missing at times, and only reason for students reluctance.
I will suggest you to introduce healthy competition among students to become more inquisitive about the subject.For example weekly quizzes; and try to maximize participation by rewarding even the weakest student during the process. Bringing healthy competition in and habit of appreciating even for little participation will encourage them to do more. In case it is already in practice, seek methods to improve this process.
Mar 24 2012: well, obviously that's again close to perfect idea, but again the feasibility of its implementation holds the key. It depends upon the number of students you are handling in the class, and is it possible for you to understand each one of them personally, if yes, then this is really a great thought!
Vivek Trivedi 10+Mar 23 2012: I completely understand your point, my only concern is, if they are not duly interested in the class, they may resort to other ways not to follow the curriculum. How will their online interest can be tracked? I mean how can we make sure, if they are seriously following the curriculum content? This is my only concern, if everything goes as planned, this is obviously one of the best way to keep them connected, but it has certain drawbacks, which needs to be addressed duly.
Mar 24 2012: You are debating about engaging students into curriculum but why don't we make them more, let's say, active. Facebook and Tweeter can also be used as assignments to complete. Why don't we make them put themselves into some fictional person shoes. They can write short essays, reviews and other staff which they must learn, just like writing in school. Blogs, Tweeter and Facebook accounts may be very engaging. In fact I believe such projects can make them want to develop them even after the assignments are completed. Such pupils will simultaneously take care after their personal account and project account. I think that they'll be very eager to get good grades by making such projects because it's simply natural for them to spend a lot of time using social media. They feel comfortable and safe so they may as well feel enthusiastic but that depends on individual student.
Apr 21 2012: Hi Virginia, the blog post is here.)) Shh it's a Secret. Facebook groups in the classroom http://www.sharonzspace.com/?p=810. My students are university students so we are using secret/closed groups so that their posts cannot be read by other classes or future employers outside of the group because they are close to the job market we wanted them to have a free space to think critically and experiment in English. If ou keep the settings as closed or secret it also doesn't go down their personal news feed, which is important for students to keep their credibility. Setting up a Facebook set up depends on the age of the students you are working with. Here are a few questions to consider:
1-What is the age of your students? Should you friend them or not? This is controversial. If they are under 18 friending them is problematic. The group structure allows both of you to participate without being friends with each other. They don't see your private life and you don't see theirs.
2-For this to work you would need to have a facebook account. If you don't want to be found on Facebook and be in this community as some of my collegues do not want to go on Facebook for their own reasons we have found a way to do this so they only use their account for work. You do sign up under your name, put minimal information and no photograph of your face. You choose an object or abstract picture. A friend of mine who does not use Facebook for his personal life has done this and it is difficult to find. He has been enjoying using facebook for education which has surprised him.)))
I hope that helps. If you have any more questions please feel free to ask.
Apr 19 2012: As a student myself, I can confirm that the use of social networking sites is more than just a 'want' now, it's developed into a habit. If you were to communicate as such through the means of social networking then it would portray the work as less 'work-like' and more of a casual thing to do. Implementing this, especially on the social network 'Facebook', would then alter the habit of using these sites into one in which the student can also be productive from.
On the other hand, social networking sites can create a large distraction for a student so then placing the work on these sites would give the students and excuse to go on them but productivity may not be increased by this. There is even a chance that the usage of these sites will increase and therefore distracting the student even more which is likely to reduce productivity.
Apr 16 2012: I'll tell you one thing they shouldn't do. They shouldn't go spending money on craptarded alternative sites built specifically for educational purposes unless said sites actually offer some functionality that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. don't already offer for free using accounts that students already have.
Also the world should embrace OpenID so that we're not having to create dozens of accounts to get stuff done
Apr 14 2012: I am a student.. so i do feel that these social ports play an important role for both the teacher and for students. Today it is happened to be students spending their most of time on Facebook or internet. so its like their thinking process or their creativeness is declining day by day.. as far as for me and my some friends before social ports and other stuffs came we used to try out some science experiments and used to create useful toys out of waste.. but later on it just got stopped because everyone started spending their free time on the social ports. And with this, teacher's old classroom started to be a boring waste of time. using the social ports or others wouldn't be an appropriate solution for this. because it has lots of distracting things in it. it would be like having a class in a mall ! for sure we need a place like social ports. but how it would be if we create a social hub for only education like a library. and it will suit as an appropriate place for taking a class..
Apr 11 2012: Hi Alex. Thanks for your response. I started my staff using twitter during staff meetings and other prof learning sessions. You need to create a # tag for the group. We have one for this year # staidans2012. Whenever we learn something staff are encouraged to tweet using the #tag eg. It might look something like this.....
#staidans2012. Great learning today. Teachers collaborating to plan challenged based learning for term two. Lots of good ideas shared.
I would do a similar thing with students. The tweets can be saved as a search for future reference thus providing a learning log.
Many of my teachers set up blogs for their students to share learning.
Hope this helps you. Let me know if I can assist further
Apr 8 2012: Anja - Thank you for your comments. I am not a teacher, but I work in the health field and I often see young and older patients who cannot afford health care, but are walking around with iphones, blackberries, ipads, etc. I completely agree with you that these social media sites have had some devastating effects on young people (Tyler Clementi, etc.) but it has to be acknowledged that they also have had a good impact in other ways. Social media sites are no fad; they are here to stay and if educators can use them to their benefit to teach, I support it. I do think that there should be some restrictions and limitations of these sites in school and at home for young children.
Elizabeth - I have never tweeted, but I assume the author of this thread was also implying to use these sites as educational devices since they are used so frequently. It is a good way to reach students since they are constantly using Twitter.
I think that the author is trying to come up with idea use these social media sites to benefit students. We all know the harm they can do as shown by recent studies, but it is a fact that they will not be disappearing any time soon.
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Apr 10 2012: Touche, although it is difficult to really compare social media and drugs/bullying/suicide whereas social media actually does benefit people.
I am simply making an observation that many people focus on their techie gadgets which feed social media over concern of their medical or oral health. It is unfortunate. Education is at the root of the problem.
Apr 8 2012: Technology is a wonderful tool to assist in learning and teaching. However, it will never replace the teacher as our profession is a relational business where the rapport between teacher and student so often makes a huge difference in the learning that occurs and in fact to schooling itself..
In saying that I believe that technology used responsibly by all concerned can be used very effectively by students and teachers of all ages.
Access to web 2.0 technologies creates a level playing field for students and schools from all socio economic strata,
Apr 7 2012: A young english friend of mine particpates via her school with a wonderful network called ePals. A partcicular school group with their teacher can select one of several study and research projects from a list and under supervision students engage with other individual students and school groups around the world on the same project. I think ePals might be very close to what you have in mind.
Apr 7 2012: Teachers are so fortunate to be able to incorporate technology into their teaching methods. What student these days doesn't own a laptop, ipod, or ipad? By engaging students with modern social media devices like Facebook, etc., teachers can better relate and more importantly get a point across to their students. Students younger and younger are more familiar with these social media sites and if a controversial topic or educational discussion was posted, teachers may find their students participating in discussion (rather than hand out a ditto and expect a written response). Rather than reject these social media sites in school, educators can use them to their benefit.
Apr 8 2012: Erica I am sold on twitter as a learning tool. I use it for professional learning journey of staff and can easily see how teachers can make use of this tool for their students.
As the tweets are limited in characters it forces users to be consise and crystallize their thoughts.
The different conversations can be saved which means students will have a record of their learnings
Apr 7 2012: Look at
Lotsa useful tools and recommendations on either of the sites.
Apr 6 2012: yes , of course it let the student more conneted , and more active on what happen in the class and update any thing by these kind of social media , and the ways that teacher should follow to let the student more active on how to present videos picture ,songs , play games , proverbs even to activate stuadent more and involved on what happen in general sense and even to understand the idea of the topic ...
Apr 6 2012: I've read through the discussion and it seems to me like a lot of the opinions are either for or against it - but I genuinely believe it is not a matter of whether or not students should be online because they already are. I just graduated high school last year and mobile internet, laptops, library computers, texting - we're already tweeting and facebooking 24/7 in and out of the classroom.
So I think the question is less about whether or not children should be doing it (because they are) - it's more a matter of whether we can direct them towards more efficient learning using a platform they feel much more comfortable using. If telling them today's science lesson will be carried through watching a youtube video and carrying out a discussion on TED it could have really positive outcomes from both sides ...
Apr 6 2012: Try using edmodo it's like facebook for school, it's free and has no advertising. I use it for my classes, students can ask questions, teachers can moderate comments in the settings so it is not a platform for bullying, can send in homework or assignments, you can post lessons, attach presentations, documents videos, links etc... You can even give access to parents so they can see what their child is doing in class. I find it especially useful for when students that are away sick or at sporting events, they can log on see the photos of what was written on the board, provide feedback and use it as a revision tool. It also a great way of keeping a register of what was covered with the class. There is also a free app so they can navigate to it quickly with their smart phones.
It allows you to also provide content that would normally be covered in class for them to read or watch at home and use the lesson to discuss the content and go into a deeper level of understanding.
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Apr 6 2012: Wrong format for education but a similar networking site specifically for ed would be great. These are called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or various other titles. Terrible terminology.
I have never seen the point or purpose for twitter. T-shirt sized status updates. Lame.
The huge, beautiful irony of "21st Century Learning" is that can be more accurately termed "eRote Learning". The fundamentals haven't changed but the "paper" is more expensive..
Mar 30 2012: wow i just found this great conversation, Sterling! Here's a link to today's TED blog posting about a project we're undertaking at the Cooper Union to use sites like TED in the classroom: http://blog.ted.com/2012/03/30/classes-to-the-masses-fellows-friday-with-nina-tandon/ would love to hear your thoughts!
Mar 30 2012: I think it boils down to how the younger generation feels about technology. If Tech continues to become more intertwined in all our lives, I don't think we would have any choice but to change the way and the channels in which we teach. This includes even children and teenage students.
Thank you for your time.
Mar 29 2012: u r so right abt d classroom not keepring pace wid d wrld outside an hw digitised r personal spaces hv become ..v r alwys connectd an cant wait 2 post /share/tweet ,real experiences r less an less riveting bcs d web is addicting,infrmativ,entertaining an yr vry own place in d sun no mattr if its tweeple or fb frendsfere,trending u tube hits ..i c dis at hm wid my girls an at school wid my students..nthing pins interest as easily as a dash of tech smthing new,u hv 2 cmpete wid all dis BUZZ in childrens' heads an v hv 2 cut a swathe thru all that ...teaching has 2 be transacted in a way dat students wnt 2 buy in..yr choice of words' insert school' is excellent...an continuing in d same vein i hv been visualising smthing similar...each topic is presented as a common thematic unit after which options to customise subsequent lessons, wrksheets can be done by smaller groups who inject/insert their likes an choices into d learning landscape. The teacher will have to cleverly steer content and not let it be diluted...successful lessons can go viral wid dat group getting hits an creds
Mar 30 2012: Christopher I agree with your point about the younger generation..but technology is already so entwined in our lives dont you think?so classrooms will have to align themselves with the times and ignite students' interest and meet the challenge of digi-things which vy for attention. And yes the teacher will have to know more ,teacher training will have to factor tech savvines using digital learning with imagination,humour and innovation. Technology it is being used in many schools,on TED as you say but is still avant garde at least not in India and most teachers are not clued in.


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Hundreds of artists across every genre and medium have threatened to retire, almost none have. In fact, Dave Chapelle's "mental breakdown that eventually became a de facto retirement" aside, I can't think of a single artist who's actually followed through on their retirement claims. In the last few years alone Lupe, Jay-Z, The-Dream and Eminem have all proclaimed that they were exiting the game for good; precisely 0.0% actually have. Be it the money, fame, creative desire or some combination of all three, no one just walks away from this life. No one. Expect, maybe, …
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Expect, maybe, Jazmine Sullivan, and that's a big maybe. Shortly after releasing her sophomore album Love Me Back, Jazmine tweeted "I promised myself that when it wasn't fun anymore i wouldn't do it. and here i am." Whether that was actually a retirement announcement or not, the media treated it as such, and by the next day the post had been deleted from her Twitter. If the young Philadelphia crooner was indeed considering an exit, it'd be understandable. Having first signed to J Records as a teenager, Sullivan's been dealing with industry politics and demands for her entire adult life. Even after a critically acclaimed debut album, even after pouring her soul into those tracks, she could be forgiven for feeling that the industry, and perhaps the fans, weren't truly reciprocating her love and affections. And why continue a broken, one-way relationship?
If she is indeed contemplating the end, music will be worse off for her absence. At her best Jazmine isn't simply good, she's stunning, and Love Me Back offers plenty of evidence. Without hyperbole I can say that 10 Seconds was one of my favorite r&b songs of 2010 (for the record, my pick for the best was Alicia Keys Un-thinkable). Aided by a perfectly compact concept, 10 Seconds finds Jazmine delivering the kind of virtuoso performance that only an elite few are capable of, packing an extraordinary amount of emotion and soul into barely three minutes. Say what you will, but that woman can f**king sing. But she's more than "just" a singer. More than any other song I've ever heard from her, Redemption is Jazmine as an artist as she delivers the kind of narrative, lyrical performance usually reserves for rappers. If I were to end this review now the fact that both 10 Seconds and Redemption are on the same album would be impressive enough, but from the retro Excuse Me to the pure ballad Stuttering, there's plenty to love.
Where Jazmine struggles on Love Me Back is in navigating the line between radio hits and those more classically soul offerings mentioned above. Certainly she's capable of melding her heavily gospel influenced voice to more mainstream tastes – previous singles Need U Bad and the defining Bust Your Windows were both hits – but I'm not sure if there's anything here with the appeal of those breakthroughs. Hold You Down is an instantly engaging joint with her mentor Missy's fingerprints all over it, it's a perfect balance of rap and r&b influences, but unfortunately that's about as good as it gets. Don't Make Me Wait is yet another essential Prince remake (we've been getting a lot of those lately) that reduces her to a breathy popstress and while Jazmine's much stronger on Love You Long Time, she feels vaguely uncomfortable on such marching, up-tempo production. Essentially, the failings of these songs is to confine her, and in doing so make her something closer to ordinary.
While the album will certainly lose the interest of casual fans for stretches, Love Me Back's highlights, like the perfectly executed duet with Ne-Yo, U Got On My Nerves, are enough to draw the careful listener close. Still, that ultimately means that if this is indeed Jazmine Sullivan's last album, she'll have walked away still having only fulfilled a fraction of per promise. If she can't truly figure out who she is as an artist, a journey that very few have completed (Mary J. Blige comes to mind), it's not unreasonable to think she has a classic album in her. Will she actually follow through with her ultimatum? History tells us no, but no one could listen to one of Love Me Back's closing tracks, Famous, a grippingly complex meditation on the pressures and desires that drive fame, and believe that she isn't seriously considering whether all of this is actually worth it. It might not be. Only Jazmine Sullivan can decide.
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