Thursday, March 25, 2010

You Tube video "Gotta Keep Reading" w/comments



I came across this You Tube video when I heard on the news a middle school did a video to promote reading using a very recent mega hit pop song. Ocoee Middle School in Florida did a parody of the Black Eyed Peas mega hit "I Gotta Feeling". Apparently the school got the idea after hearing the Black Eyed Peas sing their song on Oprah's recent kickoff to her new TV season. In what's called a Flash Mob Dance the audience participates in the singing of the song. Back to the school, they changed the title of the song to "Gotta Keep Reading", with the melody being "Gotta keep reading cuz’ this book's gonna’ be a good book." They do a great version of the Flash Mob Dance. Their version of the song mentions ideas like "turn off the TV", "collaborate", "graduate", "reading...smart", "entertained" "feed your brain", etc. This is a really neat video...it's about kids using multimedia to promote reading to other kids (viewers of the video). It's about collaboration, inspiration, and teamwork. Brilliant idea and it's fun to watch! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did...

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