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Müzikte yükselen yeni dalganın sizi alıp götürmesine hazır olun

Dünya değişiyor, müzik de öyle... Artık yetenekli insanların ‘keşfedilmek’ için herhangi bir aracıya ihtiyacı yok. Sahneler, ama özellikle ‘bilgisayar ekranları’, ‘akıllı telefonlar’ çok genç sanatçılara emanet. Gazetemiz son dönemde bu isimleri artan bir dikkatle izliyor. Çoğunu sayfalarına taşıyor, manşete çıkarıyor. Hürriyet yazarı Kanat Atkaya geçen pazarki köşe yazısında taşları yerine oturttu: Bu müzikte ‘yeni bir dalga’ dedi. Hızını internet devriminden, gücünü baskı ve özgürlük duygularını bir arada yaşayan gençlerin isyanından alan bu ‘yeni dalga’yı mercek altına aldık. Müzisyenlerle konuştuk, konserlerini izledik. Yaklaşın, size umut ve ilham veren şeyler anlatacağız...

Ponza'dan özgür çocuklara çağrı

Son yıllarda ülkemizde fazlasıyla ısınmaya başlayan bağımsız müzik sahnesine heyecan verici yeni bir grup daha adım attı. Ponza, Haziran’da yayınlanacak olan 4 şarkılık Free Kids adlı EP’ye ait ilk ipucunu, aynı adı taşıyan şarkıları Free Kids’e çektikleri videoyu yayınlayarak müzik severlerle paylaştı.

4. Sınıf İngilizce 4. Ünite Free Time - Boş Zaman konu anlatımı

Boş zaman, okul ve iş saatleri dışında geçirilen zaman dilimidir. Boş zamanlarda en sık yapılan aktivelerin başında kitap okumak, televizyon izlemek, spor yapmak ve seyahat etmek geliyor. 4. sınıflar için ''4.Ünite Free Time - Boş Zaman'' konusunu örnek cümlelerle anlattık.

Vodafone foundation launches campaign to teach coding to Turkish children

Vodafone foundation launches campaign to teach coding to Turkish children

Dijital Oyun Tabanlı Öğrenme, Oyunlaştırma ve Angry Birds

Birkaç ay önce Türkiye Özel Okullar Birliği Derneği’nin aylık dergisi için 21. Yüzyılda Eğitim ve Türkiye: 28 Maddelik Bir Yol Haritası teklifi başlıklı bir yazı kaleme almıştım. (http://issuu.com/gokhanyucel/docs/turkozokbir) Dilim döndüğünce yeni dijital çağda eğitimin evrilmesi muhtemel noktalarına temas etmeye çalışmıştım.

Sıra dışı bir girişimci

Henüz ilkokulda olmasına rağmen aklı hep girişimcilikteydi. 9 yaşında anne ve babasını, satmak için solucan almaya ikna etmişti.

Nereye gitmeli

Zauber und Drama im Kino

Endlich ist es soweit. Diese Woche kommt der vorletzte Harry-Potter-Film in die Kinos. Aber nicht nur der Zauberlehrling ist Grund, um ins Kino zu gehen. Preisgekrönte gibt es diese Woche außerdem auf der Leinwand. Wir stellen euch die neuesten Kinohighlights vor, die am Donnerstag anlaufen.

İstanbul çok satıyor

Tabak çanaktan giyim kuşama, takıdan aksesuvara İstanbul’a doyduk. İstanbul 2010 Avrupa Kültür Başkenti projesi, piyasasını da beraberinde getirdi. Üzerinde İstanbul olan her şey kapış kapış gidiyor

Turkey and the US unites through love of countries

ISTANBUL - Even when looking over her shoulder at the Bosphorus from the Ritz Carlton, it isn’t farfetched for Mona Tekin Diamond to talk about connecting with housewives in Anatolian villages. ’I’m not talking about upsetting husbands or women’s ways of doing things,’but we can help make more of their skills through development,’ she says.

The Sadri Alışık Theater celebrates 11th anniversary

ISTANBUL - For almost a dozen years, the Sadri Alışık Culture Center has been providing education in cinema, narration and speaking, dubbing, authorship, conservatory exam preparation, singing and personal development and diction, plus acting

Summer heroes to invade movie theaters

LOS ANGELES - Starting May 1, barely a weekend will pass without another brawny special-effects extravaganza landing in theaters. Appropriately, summer starts with a couple of prequels such as 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine,' 'Star Trek,' 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,' 'Transformers,' Terminator: Salvation’ and ’District 9’

First lady jokes new puppy ’kind of crazy’

The first lady is spending a lot of time walking and training the 6-month-old Portuguese water dog who became a member of President Barack Obama's family. 'He loves to chew on people's feet,' Mrs. Obama divulged to more than 100 children invited to a program marking the annual Take Your Child to Work Day

Charming the prophets of spring

Like a miracle sprung from history and superstitions unfamiliar to me, one festival captures the sense of this country our son will always call home. Hıdrellez, the spring festival, takes place a week from this Tuesday.

Expat kids build schools, awareness

ISTANBUL - Expat students in Istanbul are starting dodge ball tournaments and hot dog stands to build schools for kids half a world away. Another group raised enough money, and books, to build a school library in İzmir that was completed this week. Dozens of projects are going on at the Istanbul International Community School where service learning is part of the curriculum

Children to learn chocolate tricks

ISTANBUL - The Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul is offering a chocolate-making course April 23, National Sovereignty and Children’s Day, for children ages 7 to 14.

Easter brunches and celebrations

ISTANBUL - For many, Easter represents long-held traditions of family gatherings, delicious food, the Easter Bunny and egg hunts. Several hotels are hosting Easter brunches bringing the holiday’s warmth to Turkey. This year Easter falls on Sunday, April 12.

Dodging riots and missiles to write warmly of Turkey

ISTANBUL - American goalkeeper Brad Friedel remembers his 16 months in Istanbul for the culture, the people, the çayÉ and a revolution of sorts. He calls Turkey’s fans the most passionate he has seen. ’The country is not there to adapt to you,’ says the former Galatasaray player who was pelted with coins and missiles. ’You are there to adapt to the country’

International local living

Tour flavor In Asia : Saturday, March 21 10:00-12:30 p.m. / Join the Istanbul Culinary Institute tour of Kadikoy market, famous for its vibrant colors and friendly merchants. The tour also winds through the local neighborhoods to stores to taste different foods and visit hidden parts of Kadikoy. Meets at front door of Haldun Taner Sahnesi. (0212) 251 2214 / 75 TL

No time for swaggering in front of the IMF

There was a time just a few years ago, when more than 50 percent of all the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, credits outstanding worldwide were held by Turkey. Some wags even joked that the IMF would have to change its name to the "Turkey-Africa Monetary Fund" in light of its fast-disappearing customer base.

Global paths cross freely with meet-up site

ISTANBUL - In a year and a half, the online community Internations has attracted some 90,000 people in 230 countries. Through its local Web page, more than 800 people have already found each other in Istanbul. The group’s next gathering is this Thursday in Beyoğlu

We don’t have a crisis, do we?

Even in Turkey, someone lighting himself on fire is not routine news. 45-year-old Abdülkadir Uçar parked his minibus in front of the Tekirdağ Governor’s Office. Locked himself in the car. Poured gasoline on his body. Put himself on fire.

Obama’s new boss: Generation Now

With my 19-month-old son Max Ali on my lap, I was trying to keep my tears from falling on his head. Obama had been president for a couple of minutes when I was overcome with a sudden optimism for the world my son will know.

Expats face teenage woes

ISTANBUL - Arriving from Canada, Dr. Ron Clavier reminds students, parents and educators last Wednesday that while views about sex, religion and politics might differ, ethics are constant and form the building blocks for raising teens who make parents proud.

Give me all your spoiled, narcissistic layabouts who can’t spell

Not long ago I had a letter from a young Turk. It was a job query like many I get from aspiring journalists. Perhaps I sensed a sense of humor on the part of the letter writer; perhaps I was just in a surly mood. In any event I responded:

Unforgettable stay at Mövenpick in Bodrum

ISTANBUL - Mövenpick Resort Bodrum, amid the blues, whites and bougainvillea purples of Bodrum and nestled in the rolling hills of Bitez, is offering special programs and packages for the New Year.

Help for expats addressing teenage woes

ISTANBUL - The expat community in Istanbul is invited to hear author Dr. Ron Clavier address teen behavior and strategies for making the adolescent years healthier and more productive on Wednesday, January 14. The presentation, "Teen Brain, Teen Mind", will look at the transition from the mind of a child to that of an adult. Clavier will engage the group in discussing the emotional challenges at the global, social, family and individual levels.

Laid up: Between whiskey and credit

Sometimes, like now, life lays us out flat. Ok, it’s not entirely my kid’s fault, but rather a few days of hauling his stroller around cold London, seeking remedy in a smiling Chinese woman with a sadistic massage technique and working late nights upon return. This morning without warning, buildings I didn’t know existed at the base of my back collapsed as I reached for the wet wipes.