{"id":1048,"date":"2008-12-08T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T04:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2013-09-01T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T02:22:10","slug":"prop-8-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1048","title":{"rendered":"Prop 8: The Musical!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/1littlefish.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/prop-8-musical.html\" target=_blank>One Little Fish<\/a> comes a very funny, very timely video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"464\" height=\"388\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.ordienetworks.com\/flash\/fodplayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"key=c0cf508ff8\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"464\" height=\"388\" flashvars=\"key=c0cf508ff8\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" quality=\"high\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ordienetworks.com\/flash\/fodplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;width: 464px;\"><\/div>\n<p>More information about the project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28055296\/\" target>here<\/a>.  The video has received over 1 million hits, spreading awareness about an important issue, and making a powerful statement about activism in the information age.<\/p>\n<p>My organization just held an event today that had 7th grade students giving persuasive PowerPoint presentations on current events issues ranging from gun control to the death penalty.  I served as emcee, and had a lot of fun riling up the students about speaking out on issues and taking an active part in their democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps for the next round we should consider using video.  I&#8217;m already planning a project with students to create Public Service Announcements about environmental issues.  Creating current events PSAs in social studies class seems like the logical next step.  I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: In the post, I said that the video has received over 1 million hits.  Actually, the video topped 1 million views <em>on its first day<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via One Little Fish comes a very funny, very timely video: More information about the project here. The video has received over 1 million hits, spreading awareness about an important issue, and making a powerful statement about activism in the information age. My organization just held an event today that had 7th grade students giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,41,48,9,46,20,100,101,13,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humor","category-information-literacy","category-music","category-politics","category-religion","category-social-justice","category-social-studies","category-teaching-matters","category-technology","category-video","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}