Singer Amy Grant's father has dementia and she put out a warm YouTube video called Amy Grant's Three Caregiving Tips here. Very nice.
Author Linda Born is one of the first books I reviewed here. Now Linda has just announced her YouTube videos on her book and I went there and subscribed. Two videos are out and my subscription will alert me by email when more are out.
Week One: Hold to Hope
Week Two: Steps to Take As a New Caregiver
This promises to be a great series. Thanks, Linda.
One video here is on Alzheimer's Coaching and Remembering4You. I got that link on Joe's blog and I was the first to subscribe on YouTube.
But wait! I am now on YouTube!!!!
I write on the board
MC AC raps at the end of good classes.
Yes, I now have a new YouTube channel for my raps thanks to my Alabama high tech family. Nine raps were video taped several months ago and are coming out this summer on three YouTube videos (three raps per video).
When do I rap? For several years I have practiced my raps during the last five minutes at the end of every on-task class when I susbsitute teach in middle school and high school. It takes sometimes months to write a rap and currently I am working on more raps. Right now there is a wonderful YouTube commercial for the raps of MC AC The Rap Lady.
How was this name chosen? My niece and nephew decided on this name. I guess MC is for Ms. Carol and AC is for Aunt Carol. They have always referred to me as AC.
How did I have time to do this video? I don't. My family are producing them and they are doing a very professional job with these videos.
How does a senior citizen get into rappping? When I wrote Getting Off the Niceness Treadmill, I put a poem on social media in the ninth chapter and found I could "rap" it. I have added lines to that rap as more social media have come out. Then I started writing more raps so I would have more material when I substitute. The benefit for being good all class period is that Mrs. Johnson (AKA MC AC now) will rap.
Students I substitute teach for keep teaching me what works and what doesn't work in a rap and so I keep adapting and improving my raps. Friday one high school girl said she was stopping being a bully because of one of my raps. Her friend said she no longer is a drama queen because of my "Use Your Mind, Not Your Emotions" rap. Especially now at the end of the school year it helps to have this aid for keeping control, although I wish our tax refund had come and I didn't feel I have to substitute teach now. We will be so poor if that tax refund doesn't come soon! IRS what are you doing? Just testifying in Congress???
Do I study other rappers? No. Sometimes I explain it is a poem if students say it is not really a rap. I go for entertainment and also a message in many of the raps. It's a quick way to leave a legacy as evidenced by my feedback last Friday.
So where is this YouTube channel? There is a tab at the top of this blog that directs you there and it is below. My nephew has photographic credits and my niece and her husband are producing the videos. Go there now and subscribe so you can hear and see all my raps for the 2013 season.
Carol
MC AC The Rap Lady
Thanks, Carol. Headed to Youtube now to watch your raps--btw, great outfit with the red blouse and gray jacket, very sharp.
ReplyDeleteLinda, so glad you are doing this YouTube series. I subscribed and have been learning from you. You look sharp on YouTube. I have no control over how I will look on YouTube because my family are putting it together. Wish I had lost more weight! Oh well!
DeleteSo cute! I didn't see an actual rap but it looks like your premiere will be in June. I'll be back! :-)
ReplyDeleteYep! The movie previere is up with over 600 views and over 30 subscriptions. I too am waiting with bated breath for the raps to come out and meanwhile writing more raps for 2014.
DeleteI found out that MC stands for "emcee" or the person with the microphone; it has come to mean a rapper. What do I know! I do not study other rappers.
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