It's not often that you cheer at the end of a YouTube video clip, but cheer I did at the end of this one. I discovered this in the "featured video" section of the YouTube homepage as I was browsing through the site one day. (Btw, this is not the first time I have found gems in the featured video section.) I was intrigued by what I heard, and I was very inspired by the joyous interpretation of the piece, which I have known since I was young. But I have never heard it it done this way before. In the description, the authors wrote that this clip is from an award-winning documentary called "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", It adds that “this is the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently”, and that this video “is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe”.
I was thoroughly impressed by this unique kind of collaboration which transcends geographical boundaries, done with much love and facilitated by technology. I had a vague idea that this is teamwork at its purest and finest. So I thought that I will make this great video and the idea about teamwork the basis for a blog activity. Here's the video. The activity description follows.
Blog Idea:
Based on this video, students will embed the video into their own blogs and answer the following questions through a new posting.
· Do you like this video? Why?
· Do you think that this production is a good metaphor for teamwork?
Happy blogging :-)
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