MusicAtAmbrit has left a new comment on your post "Tamaki Int. - Cultural Festival Montage":
Hi, Tamaki! Thanks for teaching us the Sasa! We are performing it this Thursday at our annual Dance Festival in Rome, Italy. Our students love it! Warm regards from us all at Ambrit Rome International School
This message is a post from material that my old class completed last year, as we did a series of lessons about 'How to Sasa' to perform a Samoan Sasa (slap dance). I'm not a Samoan - I'm a palangi (European) teacher. The site isn't active any more. I've never had any contact with the school who left the comment. As I stated when I started writing this, I've never been to Italy. None of last years class would really have known anything about Italy, but they have taught them something - and students learning from their work, who have never met them have taken part of their culture (in this case Samoan) and are performing it on the other site of the world.
That's a huge head trip.
I just think to me this email underlines the power of the internet of Web 2.0 technologies that students from 2008 can have such an affect. The work they created last year is still a resource for people around the world to use. That students who have found it online have learnt from it and are using it at a festival in Italy.
I know the students would be very proud. I know I am, and this email is probably one of the most positive things that I will receive this year.
Myles Webb/NZ Waikato (formerly tamakitoday from tamakitoday.blogspot.com)
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