YouTube was were I looked to find a fun video to promote reading... and I found a TERRIFIC video by Ocoee Middle School. The school's principal and reading coach decided to bring the students and technology together while promoting reading at the same time. The result was getting the entire middle school to rewrite the lyrics of the Black Eyed Peas song "I Gotta Feeling" to "Gotta Keep Reading" (with permission from the Black Eyed Peas) and then created a music video to go along with the song.
This URL address will take you to the WESH TV (Orlando, FL) news article that interviewed the Ocoee Middle School staff and students about the inspiration for the project and the making of the music video (12/11/09):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYrkgFpzUjY
Here is the finished product (1/26/10):
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