So, we now have my original "Parts of Speech" music video:
However, you will now also see (at the end of the video) that I have added 3 new versions! First of all, we have the "eduoke" version (education + karaoke... I'm always trying to coin new terms or revive old ones, ok?!). In the eduoke version, you can see the lyrics as you watch the video. It should help any student to understand everything I sing as well as study the grammatical rules embedded in the song:
I also now have a version that I like to call "cloze captioned" (I think this term will catch on!). In this version of the song, you still have the karaoke facet, but key terms have been deleted from the lyrics. This practice, known as a "cloze" activity, will allow students to think critically about what term is missing and why it makes sense in that space. They will also be challenged to slowly, but surely, memorize the song, and subsequently, the grammatical rules concerning the way we use nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the English language in the case of this song:
Finally, I have the "lyric free and vocally yours" version (this new term doesn't quite flow off of the tongue as easily... but I like it... so, there). It's pretty self-explanatory if you ask me. In this version, you can hear the instrumental version of the music. My vocals have been removed and the lyrics (those of which were an overlay on the original video) have also been omitted. This, in a way, is the big test (but a fun one)! What have students remembered? What are they still unsure of? Can they "show what they know?" This is the video that will help us find out:
The plan is to make these versions of each music video I do. The music video for "Dangling Participles" is now in the making and the lyrics for "Sentence," describing the possible uses of the four main sentence types, are complete (recording still needs to happen though). I'm excited to see where this goes. I hope you are, too.
Finally, I have the "lyric free and vocally yours" version (this new term doesn't quite flow off of the tongue as easily... but I like it... so, there). It's pretty self-explanatory if you ask me. In this version, you can hear the instrumental version of the music. My vocals have been removed and the lyrics (those of which were an overlay on the original video) have also been omitted. This, in a way, is the big test (but a fun one)! What have students remembered? What are they still unsure of? Can they "show what they know?" This is the video that will help us find out:
The plan is to make these versions of each music video I do. The music video for "Dangling Participles" is now in the making and the lyrics for "Sentence," describing the possible uses of the four main sentence types, are complete (recording still needs to happen though). I'm excited to see where this goes. I hope you are, too.
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