I received a post card advertisement last week from BlueNose Edutainment, sponsored by McDougal Littell with this website: www.BlueNoseEd.com and checked it out. This is a contest that calls for your students to submit their own lyrics, song ideas, or itnerpretaions to win some pretty good prizes. The site provides popular songs and standard-based lesson plans from McDougal Littell. While my cursory examination didn't make the site look as engaging for most of my students (appealed more to the Hannah Montana and clean-cut mainstream pop than to hip-hop), I'm still going to ask my students to take a look. Deadine for entries is May 15, 2008 with winners announced July 1.
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