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One week's news in music video form

This looks like a great site for a learning center, "do now" or a "make your own rap" starter.

A rap of all the big news stories of 2012

A collection of maths and science rap videos aimed at secondary topics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Hilarious! I passed this along to my daughter-in-law, the high school bio and chem teacher.

"When they're not listening to their "rap" music or wasting time on their "Eye-Phones," millennials are finding other ways to differentiate themselves from past generations. Members of this generation, born between the early 1980s and early 2000s, are the first generation raised in a whirlwind of technological advances. They get flack for thinking differently, maybe being a little impulsive, maybe making more money, and maybe not. So how do you fare . . . do you think like a millennial? "

Carl Kasell raps about the debt ceiling!

"Incorporating the arts-rapping, dancing, drawing-into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels be more creative in their learning, finds a new study by Johns Hopkins University. The findings were published on Feb. 7 in Trends in Neuroscience and Education and support broader arts integration in the classroom."

This song gives students a mnemonic guideline, "POWER," to remember the steps to the writing process.

Our 6th grade collaborative project with a focus on global issues. We are looking for schools to join us with the hopes of working on some collaborative lyrics in Google Docs, remixing audio tracks shared between schools and possibly a skype session. We are running the project 5 times this year for 6 weeks at a time. Email me if you are interested i taking part at one point. jennifergarcia@abc-net.edu.sv