Thing 10

Here is a link I found for the Fifty States song I learned in fifth grade, and absolutely loved...then and now!



This song was taught to me in fifth grade and I never forgot a word of it. In fact, I have sung the song in my head a few times when I needed to run through the fifty states for trivia questions. I think that songs are an excellent way to learn things and have actually been wanting to find it for my classroom. I was thrilled when I found it on YouTube. It didn't occur to me to look there to use in the classroom.

Though I could embed a video in my blog, I was unable to download a video to my computer. I tried all of the different third party sites mentioned on the 23 Things website. I also tried finding different videos on YouTube, thinking that maybe that was the problem. I tried from my computer, and when it prompted me to download Java (which I thought I had already), I did that. I even borrowed Diane's computer to try downloading because she had successfully downloaded a video to it. When I tried the different sites, the same page kept popping up, that said something about YouTube not allowing videos to be downloaded, but that I could use their special bookmarklet to try. Since bookmarklets didn't seem to work in earlier things, and because I was unsure whether or not it wasn't safe, I didn't do that. I am able to embed videos, and I understand how to download videos at all of the sites, so I still feel that I am educated in this Thing. Hopefully, these sites are cleared up soon so that we can all use them again.