Serious Fun! Making Media to Study for SAT Exams
Mar. 9, 2009 I’ll admit I had my doubts.
When Jack at MIT told all of us on the Classroom 2.0 hub that BrainyFlix was asking kids to make viral videos for pass around fun about SAT vocabulary words my first thought was reminiscent of Cosby’s comedy monologue with Noah and the Ark, “Riiiiiiight.”
Even with cool prize payola (free iTunes download for every 5 referrals or submissions, $600 in grand prize money: $400 to the school/club and $200 for the student) most of the teens I’m around are running on empty and time-crunched, particularly those studying for SATs! I could see mobile prep or flashcards maybe, but figured kids wouldn’t have time to watch, much less PRODUCE vocab videos…or read through contest rules. Yay, I was wrong! I think even Jack was a bit surprised, as he said:
“We’ve got claymation, beat boxing, old home baby movies, a kid in a banana suit, digital animation, romance, horror, a kid in a taco suit, history lessons, Halo machinima, political activism, and of course… good ole fashion comedy sketches. We didn’t think we’d get so many so soon!”
BrainyFlix has 450 student videos submitted already…Can we make it 600 videos going FOR $600 by Monday, final submission day March 16? They’ve also just added a free visual learning tool in beta called ‘lolcabulary’ where kids make their own funny flashcards to match an image to a word and trigger word meaning and recall fast. I love the animal ones… (more…)
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