{"id":48302,"date":"2014-12-17T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=48302"},"modified":"2014-12-17T12:21:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:21:27","slug":"the-elements-in-this-piece-provide-a-recipe-for-maximum-engagement-weird-al-yankovics-word-crimes-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/12\/17\/the-elements-in-this-piece-provide-a-recipe-for-maximum-engagement-weird-al-yankovics-word-crimes-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The elements in this piece provide a recipe for maximum engagement: Weird Al Yankovic&#8217;s &#8220;Word Crimes&#8221; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Educators and trainers take note!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nTake a moment to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic&#8217;s &#8220;Word Crimes&#8221; video.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Then take a moment to reflect about the elements that &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; and Jarrett Heather used in this piece&#8230;what comes to your mind?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Educators &amp; trainers -- take a moment to review Weird Al Yankovic's Word Crimes video!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48304\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WierdAls-WordCrimes-2014.jpg\" alt=\"WierdAls-WordCrimes-2014\" width=\"613\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WierdAls-WordCrimes-2014.jpg 613w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WierdAls-WordCrimes-2014-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For me &#8212; and regardless what you think of his music here &#8212; &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; and Jarrett have come up with a solid piece of pedagogy here.\u00a0 In fact, this could be a fun intro piece to several classes out there!<\/p>\n<p>I say this because it&#8217;s a clever, fun way to introduce and discuss grammar. It illustrates some examples of the sorts of mistakes we make in our use of language and words, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>but it does so via the creative use of animation, music, video, social media, text, graphics and more!\u00a0 <em>Folks (of all ages!) will find themselves learning while they&#8217;re having some fun.\u00a0<\/em> This playful use of multimedia gets your attention.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 In fact, for me, the elements in this piece provide a recipe for maximum engagement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educators and trainers take note! Take a moment to check out &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic&#8217;s &#8220;Word Crimes&#8221; video.\u00a0 Then take a moment to reflect about the elements that &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; and Jarrett Heather used in this piece&#8230;what comes to your mind? &nbsp; &nbsp; For me &#8212; and regardless what you think of his music here &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,271,141,264,23,182,405,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attention","category-creativity","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-graphics","category-multimedia","category-new-media-literacies","category-play","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48302"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48309,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48302\/revisions\/48309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}