{"id":1686,"date":"2010-01-04T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:14:39","slug":"rap-your-way-to-a-better-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/inspiration\/rap-your-way-to-a-better-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rap Your Way to a Better Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually to all sorts of better learning.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the premise behind these guys who started <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flocabulary.com\/\">Flocabulary<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They use hip-hop to improve scores in vocabulary, reading, writing, math and social studies.<\/p>\n<p>By engaging kids in a medium they think is cool, learning suddenly becomes fun.<\/p>\n<p>And kids do seem to have an uncanny ability to memorize song lyrics (even when they have trouble memorizing basic times tables).<\/p>\n<p>Check out this introductory video.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_bVctQpKK2I?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_bVctQpKK2I?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a great idea with a lot of potential to help people (not just kids) remember all sorts of messaging.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Keep reading \u00bb --><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve mentioned it before in <a href=\"http:\/\/brandtwist.com\/?p=35\"><strong>Name That Tune<\/strong> <\/a>my post on Sonic Branding, but I don&#8217;t think enough brands take advantage of the power of music in their messaging.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my point of view. What&#8217;s your twist?<br \/>\nWhat do you think of Flocabulary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually to all sorts of better learning. That&#8217;s the premise behind these guys who started Flocabulary. They use hip-hop to improve scores in vocabulary, reading, writing, math and social studies. By engaging kids in a medium they think is cool, learning suddenly becomes fun. And kids do seem to have an uncanny ability to memorize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,63,37,148],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-creativity","7":"category-innovation","8":"category-inspiration","9":"category-verbal-identity"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16573,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/16573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}